France
People of this nationality
Ambroise Tardieu
1788 – 1841
cartographer
Jean-François Bazin
1942 – 2020
journalist
Horace Finaly
1871 – 1945
banker
Léon Messagé
1842 – 1901
sculptor
Victor Gauthier
1837 – 1911
paleontologist
Florian-Jules-Félix Desprez
1807 – 1895
Catholic priest
Jean-François Gilles Colson
1733 – 1803
painter
Laurence Bataille
1930 – 1986
psychoanalyst
Jacques Pinsum
1760 – 1808
Officer of the French Navy
Jacqueline Duhême
1927 – 2024
writer
Bernard de Nonancourt
1920 – 2010
entrepreneur
Jean-Michel Henry
b. 1963
fencer
Éric Jourdan
1930 – 2015
writer
Yves Dechezelles
1912 – 2007
jurist
Émilien Pacini
1810 – 1898
writer
Georges Meuris
1907 – 1984
association football player
Georges Poujouly
1940 – 2000
actor
Carole Lucarelli
b. 1972
tennis player
Gabriel Taschereau de Baudry
1673 – 1755
politician
Christophe Oriol
b. 1973
sport cyclist
Hélène Ruiz Fabri
b. 1960
university teacher
Nicolas Mougin
b. 1979
inline skater
Bernard of Trilia
1240 – 1292
theologian
Jeanne de Laval
1433 – 1498
queen consort
Myriem Foncin
1893 – 1976
librarian
Jean-Luc Thérier
1945 – 2019
rally driver
Léon Dufour
1780 – 1865
entomologist
Claude Mondésert
1906 – 1990
translator
Marie Oteiza
b. 1994
modern pentathlete
Christian Aaron Boulogne
1962 – 2023
photographer
Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy
1755 – 1809
chemist
Gedefroy de Bar
Catholic priest
Élisabeth Revol
b. 1979
mountaineer
Alix Bressant
1838 – 1909
actor
Simon-Michel Treuvé
1651 – 1730
Catholic theologian
Louis Jean Girod
1856 – 1922
politician
Jessica Chamba
b. 1981
consultant
Cyril Jeunechamp
b. 1975
association football player
Clarence Nyipie
b. 1999
association football player
René-Georges Gastellier
1741 – 1821
politician
Jean Prodromidès
1927 – 2016
composer
Maurice Meunier
1890 – 1971
association football player
Ingrid Thobois
b. 1980
children's writer
Félix Delamarche
1779 – 1835
geographer
Stanley Joseph
b. 1991
pole vaulter
Miquèu Tronc
writer
Yvan Erichot
b. 1990
association football player
Mathurin Crucy
1749 – 1826
architect
Albert Léon Guérard
1880 – 1959
literary scholar
Adrian Gouffier de Boissy
1479 – 1523
Catholic priest
Camille de Tournon-Simiane
1778 – 1833
politician
Félix Bonnat
1921 – 2013
bobsledder
Eugène Meyer
b. 1801
inventor
Véronique Cortier
b. 2000
computer scientist
Jean-François-Bertrand Delmas
1751 – 1798
politician
Hippolyte Langlois
1839 – 1912
politician
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte
1815 – 1881
politician
Ivica Todorov
b. 1950
association football player
André Tabet
1902 – 1981
screenwriter
Philippe Clément du Vuault de la Valrennes
1647 – 1707
captain
Émilie Lerou
1855 – 1935
writer
Moussa Ahmed Idriss
1933 – 2020
politician
Joseph-Désiré Court
1797 – 1865
painter
Yoann Langlet
b. 1982
association football player
Émilien Viennet
b. 1992
sport cyclist
Charles Jeantaud
1840 – 1906
design engineer
Carla Leite
b. 2004
basketball player
Odile Schmitt
1960 – 2020
actor
André François-Poncet
1887 – 1978
politician
Stefan Wul
1922 – 2003
novelist
Catherine Goldstein
b. 1958
mathematician
Vladimir Slepian
1930 – 1998
painter
Joseph Breitbach
1903 – 1980
journalist
Pierre Salmon
b. 1350
writer
Pierre Jouguet
1869 – 1949
hellenist
Charles-Edouard Bouée
b. 1969
businessperson
Alicia Aylies
b. 1998
model
Emile Armet de Lisle
1853 – 1928
chemist
Michel Armand
b. 1946
chemist
Jean-Claude Mailly
b. 1953
trade unionist
Marie-Rose Tessier
1910 – 2026
Marc Michel
1929 – 2016
actor
Paul Vermeulen
1938 – 2024
sport cyclist
Étienne Chouard
b. 1956
blogger
Amokrane Ould Aoudia
1924 – 1959
lawyer
Sébastien Charnoz
b. 1974
university teacher
Raoul Girardet
1917 – 2013
historian
Jean-Joseph Rupert
1938 – 2013
rugby union player
Bouchard-Chanteraux
1802 – 1864
zoologist
Albert Doja
b. 1957
anthropologist
Franck Fisseux
b. 1985
archer
Claude Colombo
b. 1960
association football referee
Nicolas Tikhomiroff
1927 – 2016
photographer
Louis Huvey
1868 – 1954
painter
Gérard Solvès
b. 1968
tennis player
Calbo
1972 – 2026
rapper
Jeanne Toussaint
1887 – 1976
jeweler
Blandine Bitzner-Ducret
b. 1965
athletics competitor
Djamel Ainaoui
b. 1975
amateur wrestler
Joëlle Timsit
b. 1938
diplomat