List of foreign-born French people

This is a list of notable French people who were born outside present-day Metropolitan France or Overseas France.

A

 * Vincent Aka-Akesse – wrestler, born in N'zi-Comoé, Côte d'Ivoire
 * Manuel Anatol – footballer, born in 🇪🇸 Irun, Spain
 * Anggun – singer-songwriter, born in 🇮🇩 Jakarta, Indonesia

B

 * Édouard Balladur – former Prime Minister of France, born in 🇹🇷 Izmir, Turkey
 * Mansour Bahrami – tennis player, born in Arak, Iran
 * Carla Bruni – model, singer, former first lady of France, born in 🇮🇹 Turin, Italy

C

 * Jacques Cheminade – politician, born in 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina
 * Frédéric François Chopin - composer and virtuoso pianist, born in 🇵🇱, Żelazowa Wola, Poland
 * William Christie – musician, born in 🇺🇸 Buffalo, New York, United States
 * Carlos Curbelo – footballer, born in 🇺🇾 San José de Mayo, Uruguay
 * Marie Curie – physicist, chemist, born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland

D

 * Vencelas Dabaya – weightlifter, born in 🇨🇲 Kumba, Cameroon
 * Dalida – singer, born in Cairo, Egypt
 * Fatou Dieng – basketball player, born in 🇸🇳 Kayar, Senegal
 * Didier Drogba – footballer, born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

E

 * Patrice Evra – footballer, born in 🇸🇳 Dakar, Senegal

G

 * Greg – cartoonist, born in 🇧🇪 Ixelles, Belgium
 * Élisabeth Guigou – politician, born in 🇲🇦 Marrakesh, French Morocco (now Morocco)

H

 * Anne Hidalgo – Mayor of Paris, born in 🇪🇸 San Fernando, Spain

J

 * Eva Joly – politician, born in 🇳🇴 Grünerløkka, Oslo, Norway
 * Lloyd Jones – ice skater, born in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

L

 * Pierre Lellouche – politician, born in 🇹🇳 Tunis, French Tunisia (now Tunisia)
 * Axelle Lemaire – lawyer and former politician, born in 🇨🇦 Ottawa, Canada; mother is French

M

 * Jean-Luc Mélenchon – politician, born in Tangier International Zone (now Tangier, Morocco)

P

 * Fleur Pellerin – politician, born in 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea
 * Carlo Ponti – film producer, born in Magenta, Lombardy, Italy

R

 * Ségolène Royal – politician, born in Dakar, French West Africa (now Senegal)

S

 * Igor Stravinsky – composer, born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (now Russia)

T

 * Kenzō Takada – fashion designer, born in Himeji, Hyōgo, Japan

V

 * Najat Vallaud-Belkacem – politician, born in 🇲🇦 Bni Chiker, Morocco
 * Manuel Valls – former Prime Minister of France, born in 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Spain

Y

 * Rama Yade – politician, born in 🇸🇳 Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal

Z

 * Zhang Chongren – artist and sculptor, born in Xujiahui, Shanghai, China