France
People of this nationality
François Chevalier
1893 – 1983
sport cyclist
Gabriel Dussurget
1904 – 1996
art director
Marcel Dalmas
1892 – 1950
architect
Émile Camuset
fashion designer
Athanase de Mézières
1719 – 1779
explorer
Ignace Tax
1909 – 1977
association football player
Geoffrey of Auxerre
1115 – 1188
theologian
Éric de Montgolfier
b. 1946
magistrate
Orazi
1906 – 1979
painter
Charles Louis Philippot
1801 – 1859
artist
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin
1763 – 1829
chemist
Marie-Claire Carrère-Gée
b. 1963
politician
Claudine LeRoux
b. 1964
canoeist
Hervé Piccirillo
b. 1967
association football referee
René Petitbon
1902 – 1965
official
Jean Auguste Margueritte
1823 – 1870
military personnel
Roger Cayrel
1925 – 2021
astronomer
Valérie Tasso
b. 1969
writer
Louis Joseph d'Albert d'Ailly
1741 – 1792
chemist
Jimmy Nirlo
b. 1988
association football player
Silene Edgar
b. 1978
teacher
Alain Deloche
b. 1940
surgeon
Agénor de Gramont
1851 – 1925
Fred
1931 – 2013
comics artist
François Sarhan
b. 1972
composer
Paule Tricheux
1880 – 1960
anarchist
Clément Oubrerie
1966 – 2026
artist
Roger Louret
1950 – 2023
theatre director
Catherine Néris
b. 1962
politician
Henriette Negrin
1877 – 1965
fashion designer
Auguste Walras
1801 – 1866
economist
Rémi Boutillier
b. 1990
tennis player
Patrick Biancone
b. 1952
horse trainer
Jules Troubat
1836 – 1914
editor
Pierre Magnon
b. 1996
association football player
Michel Dieulafoy
1762 – 1823
librettist
Louis Viardot
1800 – 1883
literary critic
Camille Le Joly
b. 1992
athletics competitor
Jean Fabre de La Martillière
1732 – 1819
politician
Émile Pagie
1883 – 1937
sport cyclist
Léon Bonnery
1894 – 1969
sport cyclist
Cédric Collet
b. 1984
association football player
Jérémy Lelièvre
b. 1991
athletics competitor
Ghislaine de Polignac
1918 – 2011
fashion designer
Christiane Mancini
1887 – 1946
stage actor
Alain Berton
1912 – 1979
chemist
Henriette Louise de Bourbon
1703 – 1772
nun
Isaia Cordinier
b. 1996
basketball player
Philip the Bold
1342 – 1404
military personnel
Arpik Missakian
1926 – 2015
journalist
Michel Sardaby
1935 – 2023
jazz pianist
Émile Marchoux
1862 – 1943
physician
Emmanuel Bondeville
1898 – 1987
radio personality
Gerald Quennet
b. 1973
association football player
Albert Schatz
1879 – 1940
historian
Édouard Brandon
1831 – 1897
painter
Étienne François Geoffroy
1672 – 1731
chemist
Jean-Jacques Uhrich
1802 – 1886
military personnel
Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński
1776 – 1853
mathematician
Jean-Paul Marat
1743 – 1793
politician
Irène Tolleret
b. 1967
politician
Théo Schaub
b. 2000
athletics competitor
Jean Bergonié
1857 – 1925
physician
Jean Pierre de Caussade
1675 – 1751
Catholic theologian
Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon
1646 – 1730
military personnel
Marie-Rose Astié de Valsayre
1846 – 1915
women's rights activist
Émile Deutsch de la Meurthe
1847 – 1924
industrialist
Auguste Ottin
1811 – 1890
sculptor
Baptiste Anziani
b. 1990
association football player
Lucien Herr
1864 – 1926
political activist
Pierre Alexandre
1922 – 1994
anthropologist
Charles Deulin
1827 – 1877
journalist
Odo, Count of Nevers
1230 – 1266
feudatory
Louis Carrogis Carmontelle
1717 – 1806
painter
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot
1727 – 1801
architect
Edmond Astruc
1878 – 1977
painter
Richard Anconina
b. 1953
actor
Maëva Squiban
b. 2002
sport cyclist
Audrey Bergot
b. 1985
tennis player
Aurore Clément
b. 1945
stage actor
Nicolas Cordier
1567 – 1612
sculptor
Jean Anastasi
1935 – 2020
sport cyclist
Gaston Paris
1839 – 1903
philologist
Quentin Rakotomalala
b. 2003
synchronized swimmer
Henri-André Legrand
1896 – 1985
writer
Marthe Delpirou
1900 – 1945
lawyer
Frederick Schmidt
b. 1984
actor
Anna Rajecka
1754 – 1830
painter
Yiqing Yin
b. 1985
fashion designer
Morvan Lebesque
1911 – 1970
journalist
Jean-Yves Lechevallier
b. 1946
sculptor
Georges-Ernest Coquart
1831 – 1902
architect
Titaua Peu
b. 1975
novelist
Robert-Guillaume Casadesus
1878 – 1940
actor
Kévin Olimpa
b. 1988
association football player
Jean-Pierre Bacri
1951 – 2021
screenwriter
Léon de Janzé
1848 – 1910
sports executive
Suzanne Chanteau
b. 1952
Aimé Martin
1782 – 1847
literary scholar
Kevin Lele Sadjo
b. 1990
boxer