France
People of this nationality
Jean Prat
1923 – 2005
rugby union player
Jean-Baptiste Michonis
1735 – 1794
police officer
Achille Laviarde
1841 – 1902
adventurer
Olivier Mellano
b. 1971
guitarist
Bernard Courtois
1777 – 1838
chemist
Josy Koelsch
1926 – 1985
canoeist
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine
1762 – 1853
architect
Barbara Pompili
b. 1975
politician
Paul Boudot
1571 – 1635
Catholic priest
Théodose Du Moncel
1821 – 1884
physicist
Ninon Vallin
1886 – 1961
opera singer
Serge Adda
1948 – 2004
businessperson
Etienne Pellot
1765 – 1856
privateer
Henri Borlant
1927 – 2024
physician
Pierre Gattaz
b. 1959
businessperson
Jean Foyer
1921 – 2008
politician
Lucien Lévy
1892 – 1965
physicist
Gaston Bélier
1863 – 1938
organist
Michel Robbe
b. 1946
actor
Louis Le Barbenchon
1911 – 1980
production designer
Daniel Velasques
b. 1943
athletics competitor
Caroline Baldin
b. 1993
ice hockey player
Guy Thomas
1934 – 2020
poet
Nick Pugh
b. 1967
artist
Eric Barclay
1894 – 1938
actor
Noémi Reclus
1828 – 1905
school teacher
Marc-André Cratere
b. 1973
fencer
Sophie Doin
1800 – 1846
novelist
Bernard Hours
b. 1956
businessperson
Maurice Denamur
1895 – 1957
sport cyclist
Robert Dieudonné
1879 – 1940
journalist
Harry Fragson
1869 – 1913
singer
Aline Heitaa-Archier
b. 1961
school teacher
Régis Rey
1929 – 2022
ski jumper
Valérie Rouzeau
b. 1967
poet
Jeanne Guiot
1889 – 1963
engineer
Joseph-François Lafitau
1681 – 1746
anthropologist
Diane de Poitiers
1499 – 1566
lady-in-waiting
Suzanne Raeth
1905 – 2001
competitive diver
Louis de Rigaud de Vaudreuil
b. 1728
Officer of the French Navy
Maurice Najman
1948 – 1999
journalist
Philippe Oddo
b. 1959
banker
Mireille Havet
1898 – 1932
writer
André Sicard
1915 – 1973
long-distance runner
Noël Amenc
1889 – 1955
sport cyclist
Mathieu Bosredon
b. 1990
sport cyclist
Pierre Suard
1934 – 2025
engineer
İpek Kaya
b. 1994
association football player
Didier Truchot
b. 1946
businessperson
Claude Lamour
b. 1969
sport cyclist
Christine Gouze-Rénal
1914 – 2002
film producer
Henry Wilfred Brolemann
1860 – 1933
myriapodologist
François Cusset
b. 1969
historian
Martine Clémenceau
b. 1949
singer
Claude Simpol
1666 – 1711
painter
Henri Buguet
1761 – 1835
painter
Marguerite Perier
1646 – 1733
nun
Denise Paulme
1909 – 1998
anthropologist
Armand Dorville
1875 – 1941
art collector
Jules Baroche
1802 – 1870
lawyer
François Adrien Boieldieu
1775 – 1834
opera composer
Georges Jourdan
1872 – 1944
fencer
Lucie Julia
1927 – 2023
writer
Marc Vampa
b. 1946
politician
Jean I de Foix-Grailly, Earl of Kendal
1425 – 1485
aristocrat
Jacques-Théodore Saconney
1874 – 1935
photographer
René Pellat
1936 – 2003
astronautical engineer
Pietro Colletta
1775 – 1831
historian
Laurent Delahaye
b. 1977
racing driver
Theo Raymond
b. 1991
association football player
Liliane Ackermann
1938 – 2007
writer
Luc Montagnier
1932 – 2022
biologist
Roger Tellart
1932 – 2013
radio producer
Jacquet de Berchem
1505 – 1565
composer
Athéna Locatelli
b. 1991
ice hockey player
Jean-François Salvard
1530 – 1585
theologian
Jean-Baptiste Say
1767 – 1832
economist
David Romann
b. 1970
volleyball player
Justine Lerond
b. 2000
association football player
Mireille Perrier
b. 1959
actor
Sofian El Moudane
b. 1994
association football player
Georges Cuvelier
1896 – 1974
sport cyclist
Antoine
b. 1944
singer
Pascale Petit
b. 1953
poet
Marcel Jousse
1886 – 1961
anthropologist
Alfred Ernout
1879 – 1973
classical philologist
Jonathan Géry
b. 1986
politician
Abel Albert
1873 – 1919
rugby union player
Ernest Christophe
1827 – 1892
sculptor
Jacques Sautereau
1860 – 1936
croquet player
Naïma Moutchou
b. 1980
politician
Émile Pouget
1860 – 1931
journalist
Émilie de Beauharnais
1781 – 1855
lady-in-waiting
Jean-Paul Goux
b. 1948
writer
Didier Lapeyronnie
1956 – 2020
sociologist
Mardochée Valabrègue
1852 – 1934
military personnel
Gustave Paul Cluseret
1823 – 1900
military officer
Georges Ferdinand Bigot
1860 – 1927
illustrator
Willa of Tuscany
912 – 970
Jean-Georges Willmar
1763 – 1831
politician