France
People of this nationality
David Blondel
1590 – 1655
theologian
Antoine Furetière
1619 – 1688
polygraph
Jacques Gaillard
b. 1950
ski jumper
Monique Piétri
1945 – 1993
swimmer
Pierre Bodard
1881 – 1937
painter
Gérard DuBois
b. 1968
illustrator
Juline Fayard
b. 2003
tennis player
Georges Pauget
b. 1947
banker
Eugène Criqui
1893 – 1977
boxer
Samir Belloumou
b. 1994
association football player
Vitalien Laurent
1896 – 1973
historian
Yasmina Omrani
b. 1988
athletics competitor
Agnès Laurent
1936 – 2010
actor
Mathilde Raclot
1814 – 1911
nun
Jean-Pierre Élissalde
b. 1953
rugby union player
Pierre de Roquefeuil-Montpéroux
1735 – 1789
Officer of the French Navy
Michel Roger
b. 1949
university teacher
René A. Carmona
b. 1947
mathematician
Nicolas Edet
b. 1987
sport cyclist
Henri Texier
b. 1945
composer
Julien Chaisse
b. 1976
commercial lawyer
Laure Thibaud
b. 1978
synchronized swimmer
Jean-Marie Périer
b. 1940
photographer
Antoine Digonet
1763 – 1811
military personnel
Marie-Louise Carven
1909 – 2015
art collector
Tommy de Jong
b. 1987
association football player
Georges Pitoëff
1884 – 1939
actor
Marion Chevrier
b. 2001
alpine skier
Marc Monnet
b. 1947
composer
Antoine Arnauld
1612 – 1694
theologian
Jacques Follorou
b. 1967
journalist
Dominique Agostini
b. 1989
association football player
Anna Mahé
1882 – 1960
school teacher
Jérémy Hélan
b. 1992
association football player
Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet
1801 – 1880
politician
Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet
1757 – 1797
politician
Armand Doria
1824 – 1896
art collector
Sébastien Japrisot
1931 – 2003
screenwriter
Coco
b. 1982
cartoonist
Michel Ettore
b. 1957
association football player
André Le Gal
1946 – 2013
writer
Boris Way
b. 1991
disc jockey
Raymond Galle
1913 – 2003
actor
Jean-François-Albert du Pouget de Nadaillac
1818 – 1904
anthropologist
Ivète Piveteau
b. 1901
pianist
Marjorie Noël
1945 – 2000
singer
Amin Cherni
b. 2001
association football player
Michel Bégon de La Picardière
1667 – 1747
colonial administrator
Michel Bréal
1832 – 1915
linguist
Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel
1795 – 1868
pastor
Guillaume Quesque
b. 1989
volleyball player
Maurice Fontaine
1919 – 2015
politician
Napoléon Bessières
1802 – 1856
politician
Sandrine Musso
1973 – 2021
anthropologist
Jean Dembarrère
1747 – 1828
politician
Paul Sollier
1861 – 1933
psychologist
Albert Fert
b. 1938
physicist
Lilian Silburn
1908 – 1993
philosopher
Émile Jung
1941 – 2020
cook
Jaime Semprun
1947 – 2010
linguist
Antoine Sfeir
1948 – 2018
journalist
Sabine Thillaye
b. 1959
business executive
Nicolas Antoine
1602 – 1632
pastor
Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine
1400 – 1453
feudatory
Lysiane Rey
1922 – 1975
actor
Antoine de Silly
1540 – 1609
military officer
Léontine Zanta
1872 – 1942
journalist
Isaac Kitrosser
1899 – 1984
photojournalist
Antoine Joujou
b. 2003
association football player
Florent Perradin
b. 1992
association football player
Malika Tahir
b. 1976
figure skater
Jean-Jacques Beineix
1946 – 2022
film director
Felise Vahai Sosaia
b. 1999
athletics competitor
Albert Houtin
1867 – 1926
historian
Raymond Oliver
1909 – 1990
chef
Stéphane Masala
b. 1976
association football player
Guillaume Veau
composer
Henri Stempffer
1894 – 1978
entomologist
Georgios Candilis
1913 – 1995
architect
Jean-Antoine Morand
1727 – 1794
architect
Félicité Pricet
1745 – 1794
Pierre Dejussieu-Pontcarral
1898 – 1984
military personnel
Gabriel Adrien Robinet de Cléry
1836 – 1914
jurist
Gaston Bonheur
1913 – 1980
journalist
Mathieu Moreau
b. 1983
association football player
Léon Gaston Genevier
1830 – 1880
botanist
Maturin Le Petit
1693 – 1739
missionary
Emmanuel Guérin
1884 – 1967
sculptor
Hélène Studler
1891 – 1944
French resistance fighter
Paul Mauriat
1925 – 2006
conductor
Almire Gandonnière
1814 – 1863
librettist
Julien Gorius
b. 1985
association football player
Christophe Samson
b. 1984
rugby union player
Jean-Claude Berrouet
winegrower
Florian Genton
b. 1981
journalist
Alexandre Renoir
b. 1974
painter
Germain Quériau
1790 – 1850
choreographer
Aurore Mongel
b. 1982
swimmer
Maxime Rodriguez
b. 1975
composer
Olivier Grossetête
b. 1973
visual artist