France
People of this nationality
Boris Deugoué
b. 1985
association football player
Paul Joseph Jamin
1853 – 1903
painter
Nicolas Chalon du Blé
1652 – 1730
diplomat
Hervin Ongenda
b. 1995
association football player
Jules de Saint-Pol
1810 – 1855
military officer
Gaspard André
1840 – 1896
architect
Léo Hamon
1908 – 1993
politician
Émile Vernet-Lecomte
1821 – 1900
painter
Emmanuel Goffi
b. 1971
philosopher
Gustave Garrigou
1884 – 1963
sport cyclist
Vital de Blois
1150 – 1200
writer
Jean Kaltenbach
1927 – 2021
politician
Claude Malhuret
b. 1950
politician
Félix Regnault
1863 – 1938
anthropologist
Charles Waddington
1819 – 1914
philosopher
Luis Alejandro Berthier
1753 – 1815
sculptor
Tarik Belmadani
b. 1987
amateur wrestler
Ludovic Hubler
b. 1977
explorer
Patrice Bessac
b. 1978
politician
Pascale Braconnot
climatologist
Anastasia Griffith
b. 1978
actor
Stanislas
b. 1972
singer
Guillaume Depardieu
1971 – 2008
actor
Gil Avérous
b. 1973
politician
Axel Camblan
b. 2003
association football player
Childeric Muller
b. 1963
television presenter
Guillaume Pianelli
b. 1998
association football player
Louis Gassion
1881 – 1944
circus performer
Émile Georget
1881 – 1960
sport cyclist
Lucienne Bréval
1869 – 1935
opera singer
Guy Tachard
1651 – 1712
mathematician
Georges Leroux
b. 1907
artistic gymnast
Yohan Bocognano
b. 1990
association football player
René Grillet de Roven
b. 1700
watchmaker
Bertrand Lançon
b. 1952
historian
Philippe Ciais
b. 1966
physicist
Joachim Bouvet
1656 – 1732
cartographer
Étienne Pasquier
1905 – 1997
cellist
Etteilla
1738 – 1791
writer
Jean-Baptiste Marie Fouque
1819 – 1880
painter
Gaston Henry-Haye
1890 – 1983
businessperson
Jacqueline Cohen
1933 – 2025
translator
Gary Hunt
b. 1984
competitive diver
Gilbert Amy
b. 1936
composer
Paul Liégeois
b. 1650
painter
René François Rohrbacher
1789 – 1856
historian
Sylvie Lainé
b. 1957
science fiction writer
Samuel Neva
b. 1981
association football player
Tristan Bernard
1866 – 1947
journalist
Jules Jeanneney
1864 – 1957
politician
Esitele Fuluhea Lakalaka
activist
Jacques de Bernonville
1897 – 1972
military officer
Ronan Labar
b. 1989
badminton player
Arnaud Spire
1939 – 2022
journalist
Lucas Tauzin
b. 1998
rugby union player
Bernard Barsi
1942 – 2022
theologian
Sophie Gail
1775 – 1819
composer
Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud
1766 – 1833
politician
Jean Bounine-Cabalé
1923 – 2007
engineer
Raymond Molinier
1904 – 1994
politician
Jean Jacques Bret
1781 – 1819
mathematician
Alfred Leblanc
1869 – 1921
balloonist
Marc Pessin
1933 – 2022
printmaker
Jeanne Brousse
1921 – 2017
French resistance fighter
Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon
1765 – 1844
politician
Pierre Lazareff
1907 – 1972
journalist
Adelheid von Rothschild
1853 – 1935
philanthropist
Nicolas de Blégny
1652 – 1722
physician
Daniel Boulud
b. 1955
chef
Marie-Madeleine d'Houët
1781 – 1858
nun
Léon Xanrof
1867 – 1953
chansonnier
Alexandre Marcel
1860 – 1928
architect
Jean-Clément Martin
b. 1948
historian
Richard Tardy
b. 1950
association football player
Jean Zuber
1773 – 1852
industrialist
Jean Aubert
1894 – 1984
engineer
Lilian Nalis
b. 1971
association football player
Francis Galtier
1907 – 1986
sprinter
Axel Kahn
1944 – 2021
geneticist
Jean de Breteuil
1949 – 1972
playboy
Jean Antoine Arthur Gris
1829 – 1872
botanist
Victor Aviat
1982 – 2025
conductor
Loïc Jacquet
b. 1985
rugby union player
Francis Charmes
1848 – 1916
politician
Jean de Haute-Seille
1184 – 1212
writer
Ziad Majed
b. 1970
political scientist
Émile Bénard
1844 – 1929
architect
Petelo Vikena
b. 1943
military personnel
Henri Bonzano
1903 – 1995
rower
Jeanne Favret-Saada
b. 1934
anthropologist
Jordan Amavi
b. 1994
association football player
Christine Buci-Glucksmann
philosopher
Katell Gélébart
b. 1972
artist
Robert Carricart
1917 – 1993
stage actor
Kenny de Schepper
b. 1987
tennis player
André Deed
1879 – 1940
actor
Pierre Quesnay
1895 – 1937
economist
Georges Vigarello
b. 1941
historian
Robert Solé
b. 1946
journalist
Philippe-Laurent Roland
1746 – 1816
sculptor