France
People of this nationality
Claude Vincendeau
b. 1954
sport cyclist
Jean Chaufourier
1679 – 1757
painter
Jean Ricardou
1932 – 2016
writer
René Ildefonse Dordillon
1808 – 1888
Catholic priest
Claire Hédon
b. 1962
journalist
Léon Ehrhart
1854 – 1875
composer
Marc Chirik
1907 – 1990
politician
Laurent Cazenave
b. 1978
racing driver
Stéphane Baudu
b. 1965
politician
Yazid Mansouri
b. 1978
association football player
Pierre Nougaro
1904 – 1988
actor
Ernoul
1150 – 1300
chronicler
Emmanuelle Alt
b. 1967
journalist
Lionel Barthez
b. 1967
tennis player
Louis Cazal
1906 – 1945
association football player
Matthew, Count of Foix
1363 – 1398
aristocrat
Zina Brozia
1876 – 1958
opera singer
Gilberte Roca
1911 – 2004
politician
Igor-Alexandre Nataf
b. 1978
chess player
Junior Assoumou
b. 1995
association football player
Melchior de Vogüé
1848 – 1910
travel writer
Jean-Pierre Munch
1926 – 1996
sport cyclist
Alexandre Louis Bertrand Robineau, dit de Beaunoir
1746 – 1823
playwright
Marie-Dominique Aeschlimann
b. 1974
politician
Jean-Paul Roux
1925 – 2009
historian
Jacques Coursil
1938 – 2020
jazz trumpeter
Virginie Cueff
b. 1988
sport cyclist
Anne Bachelier
b. 1949
artist
Irène Popard
1894 – 1950
choreographer
Raymond Thomas
1931 – 2002
athletics competitor
John I of France
sovereign
Robert Brugère
1903 – 1933
sport cyclist
Pierre Péron
1905 – 1988
painter
Arnold Dolmetsch
1858 – 1940
luthier
Gaston-Robert, Marquis de Banneville
1818 – 1881
diplomat
Olivier Pastré
b. 1950
economist
Gilles Guérin
1611 – 1678
sculptor
Agnès Thurnauer
b. 1962
artist
Maurice Couyba
1866 – 1931
chansonnier
Paul Denis
b. 1899
sport cyclist
Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis
1788 – 1856
military personnel
Corine Franco
b. 1983
association football player
Emmanuel Bricard
b. 1966
chess player
Louis Henri Nicot
1878 – 1944
sculptor
Patrice Maurel
b. 1978
association football player
Arnaud Amalric
1160 – 1225
Catholic priest
Jean Bretagne Charles de La Trémoille
1737 – 1792
feudatory
Francis Szpiner
b. 1954
lawyer
David Magnier
b. 1972
politician
Adolphe Bühl
1878 – 1949
mathematician
Louis Jacquinot
1898 – 1993
politician
Constant Plessis
1890 – 1930
flying ace
Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur
1740 – 1815
politician
Éliane Thibaut-Comelade
1928 – 2021
cook
Jean Feyte
1903 – 1996
film editor
Boris Lipnitzky
1887 – 1971
photographer
Jean-Julien Lemordant
1878 – 1968
painter
Oboy
b. 1997
rapper
Pierre de Bar
1101 – 1253
diplomat
Saïdou Bokoum
b. 1945
playwright
Janine Connes
1926 – 2024
astronomer
Marie François Rouyer
1765 – 1824
military personnel
Léon Teisserenc de Bort
1855 – 1913
meteorologist
Roland Ferrandi
b. 1958
composer
Charles Marchetti
1942 – 2018
association football player
Marguerite Gurgand
1916 – 1981
writer
Emmanuel Petit
b. 1970
association football player
François de Vaux de Foletier
1893 – 1988
archivist
Maurice Jacquel
1929 – 2004
amateur wrestler
Jean Grou
1731 – 1803
writer
Lucien Jusseaume
1851 – 1925
painter
Henri Achille Zo
1873 – 1933
painter
Jean Tartier
1942 – 2025
pastor
Gill Dougherty
b. 1961
singer
Françoise Gouny
1925 – 2009
fencer
Étienne Durand
tennis player
Jean-Michel Sanejouand
1934 – 2021
painter
Éric Gautier
b. 1961
cinematographer
Françoise de Foix
1495 – 1537
lady-in-waiting
Alexandre Portier
b. 1990
politician
Pierre Rosenstiehl
1933 – 2020
mathematician
Jean Nicolle
1614 – 1650
painter
André Peloffy
b. 1951
ice hockey player
Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert
1750 – 1780
poet
Ernest Gillet
1856 – 1940
composer
Philippe Baradel
1938 – 2009
cross-country skier
Louis Renou
1896 – 1966
Indologist
Jean-Marc Jafet
b. 1956
composer
Odette Drand
1927 – 2019
fencer
Paul Iribe
1883 – 1935
poster artist
Pascale Got
b. 1961
politician
Jean-Armand du Peyrer
1598 – 1677
soldier
Jacques Cujas
1522 – 1590
jurist-consultant
Jean Séguy
1925 – 2007
sociologist
Oscar Desaulty
association football player
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
1815 – 1891
sculptor
Michel Combes
b. 1962
entrepreneur
Isabel Maxwell
b. 1950
businessperson
Pascale Guédot
b. 1960
architect
Benoit Dunoyer de Segonzac
b. 1962
bassist