France
People of this nationality
Adolphe Favre
1808 – 1886
writer
Emmanuel Françoise
b. 1987
association football player
Marcel Barbu
1907 – 1984
politician
Gérard Le Lann
b. 1943
computer scientist
Jean-Louis Giraud-Soulavie
1751 – 1813
diplomat
Louis-Joseph d'Herbomez
1822 – 1890
Catholic priest
Sara Mortensen
b. 1979
actor
Nicolas Dumont
b. 1991
field hockey player
Véra Sergine
1884 – 1946
actor
Bernard Le Coq
b. 1950
stage actor
François de Bassompierre
1579 – 1646
diplomat
Bryan Bergougnoux
1983 – 2026
association football player
Édouard Thomas Burgues de Missiessy
1756 – 1837
Officer of the French Navy
Louis Maigret
1500 – 1558
linguist
Michel Boujenah
b. 1952
comedian
Marie Jules César Savigny
1777 – 1851
botanist
Jean Ledoux
1935 – 2019
rower
Catherine of Cleves
1548 – 1633
aristocrat
Camille Chat
b. 1995
rugby union player
Bernard Laporte
b. 1964
rugby union player
Jean Vatout
1791 – 1848
politician
Victor Pierre Le Gorgeu
1881 – 1963
politician
Jacques de Solleysel
1617 – 1680
writer
Estevan Peléè
b. 1981
association football player
Daniel Costantini
b. 1943
handball coach
Henri Martin
1895 – 1969
physician
Marc Ducret
b. 1957
jazz guitarist
Jean-Louis Murat
1952 – 2023
musician
Henri Laverne
1868 – 1901
sailor
Jérôme Commandeur
b. 1976
actor
Anne Fagot-Largeault
b. 1938
university teacher
Pierre Frank
1905 – 1984
politician
Fatiha Ouali
b. 1974
athletics competitor
Aline Hanson
1949 – 2017
teacher
Robert Estienne
1503 – 1559
printer
Sophie Béjean
b. 1964
economist
Alfred Joseph Naquet
1834 – 1916
chemist
Charles Poerson
1609 – 1667
painter
Timothée Picard
b. 1975
university teacher
Paul Lafargue
1842 – 1911
journalist
Elisa Tovati
b. 1976
actor
Jean Monnier
1924 – 1995
ski jumper
Patrick Remy
b. 1954
association football player
Albert Libertad
1875 – 1908
journalist
Loup Diwan Gueho
b. 2004
association football player
Henri Bouchard
1875 – 1960
sculptor
Jean-Étienne Guettard
1715 – 1786
curator
Jean-Gilles Hnamuko
b. 1996
association football player
Véronique Vincent
1957 – 2025
musician
Charles de Courcy
1834 – 1917
playwright
Marcel Amont
1929 – 2023
actor
François Hanriot
1759 – 1794
orator
Lisandru Tramoni
b. 2003
association football player
Charles Eschard
1744 – 1810
painter
Constantin Pecqueur
1801 – 1887
economist
Étienne Ficquet
1719 – 1794
printmaker
Claude Fleury
1640 – 1723
church historian
Abdelhamid El Kaoutari
b. 1990
association football player
Simon Simon-Auguste
1909 – 1987
painter
Marcel Maréchal
1937 – 2020
actor
Matthieu Bareyre
b. 1986
film director
Jean-Claude Ellena
b. 1947
perfumer
Alphonse Bichebois
1801 – 1850
draftsperson
Bruno Magras
b. 1951
politician
Marine Ménager
b. 1996
rugby union player
François Véron
1575 – 1649
writer
Antoine La Vallette
1708 – 1767
missionary
Can Akkuzu
b. 1997
table tennis player
Joseph Lavallée
1747 – 1816
journalist
Alain Caussade
b. 1952
rugby union player
Grégoire Margotton
b. 1969
journalist
Renée du Bec-Crespin
1614 – 1659
aristocrat
Nicolas Barone
1931 – 2003
sport cyclist
Madeleine Attal
1921 – 2023
actor
Vincent de Paul
1581 – 1660
Catholic priest
Laurent Guimier
b. 1971
journalist
Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys
1743 – 1795
art collector
Emmanuel Benbihy
b. 1969
film producer
Xavier Armange
b. 1947
illustrator
Jean-Pierre Sarrazac
b. 1946
playwright
Philippe Édouard Foucaux
1811 – 1894
linguist
Germaine Poinso-Chapuis
1901 – 1981
politician
Ferdinand Buisson
1841 – 1932
politician
Fernand Besnier
1894 – 1977
sport cyclist
Cyril Holtz
b. 1968
re-recording mixer
Paulin Riva
b. 1994
rugby union player
Louis Pauly
1906 – 1992
sailor
Guy Ravier
1937 – 2023
politician
Johan Branger
b. 1993
association football player
Jean Grémillon
1902 – 1959
film director
Mourad Boudjellal
b. 1960
entrepreneur
Yola d'Avril
1906 – 1984
actor
Félix Martin
1804 – 1886
historian
Anthony Floch
b. 1983
rugby union player
Henri Tesi
b. 1903
sport cyclist
Hélène Frankowska
b. 1950
mathematician
Fulgence Raymond
1844 – 1910
neurologist
Anne-Marie Minvielle
1943 – 2019
journalist
Pierre Lalouette
1711 – 1792
physician
Jérémie Romand
b. 1988
ice hockey player