France
People of this nationality
Émile Renouf
1845 – 1894
painter
Maurice d’Ocagne
1862 – 1938
mathematician
René Clermont
1921 – 1994
actor
Antoine Garaby de La Luzerne
1617 – 1679
poet
Jules Gérard
association football player
Benoît Delépine
b. 1958
actor
Anne de La Roche-Guilhem
1644 – 1710
novelist
Séverine
b. 1948
singer
Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain
1707 – 1778
politician
Jeanne Olivier
1764 – 1787
actor
Arnaud Joyet
b. 1974
actor
Frédéric Goupil-Fesquet
1817 – 1881
watercolorist
Joseph Hellegouarc'h
1920 – 2004
classical philologist
Christine Kelly
b. 1969
journalist
Clara Chassaniol
b. 1993
politician
Camille Bière
1889 – 1969
sport cyclist
Eustache le Peintre de Reims
composer
Jean Besson
b. 1948
politician
Georges Loinger
1910 – 2018
French resistance fighter
Baldric of Dol
1050 – 1130
writer
Laurie Saulnier
b. 1995
association football player
André Boucourechliev
1925 – 1997
composer
Florence Miailhe
b. 1956
film director
Guillaume Schiffman
b. 2000
cinematographer
Alma
b. 1988
singer
Joseph Henri Ferdinand Douvillé
1846 – 1937
paleontologist
Isabella of Valois, Duchess of Bourbon
1313 – 1383
aristocrat
Louis Chevalier
1921 – 2006
racewalker
Dominique Mocka
b. 1978
association football player
Pascal Mons
rugby league player
Jack Abeillé
1873 – 1939
painter
Mercadier
soldier
Claudia Moatti
b. 1954
historian of classical antiquity
Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau
b. 1901
actor
Rita Strohl
1865 – 1941
pianist
Blanche Selva
1884 – 1942
pianist
Sandra Forgues
b. 1969
kayaker
Sophie Vouzelaud
b. 1987
beauty pageant contestant
Jean-Louis Gagnaire
b. 1956
politician
Benoît Duteurtre
1960 – 2024
radio producer
Nicolas de Besse
1320 – 1369
Catholic priest
Marie-Hélène Mathieu
b. 1929
special education teacher
Béatrice Ardisson
1963 – 2026
composer
Joseph d'Honon de Gallifet
1650 – 1706
colonial administrator
Émile Baraize
1874 – 1952
Egyptologist
Camille Senon
1925 – 2025
employee
Claire Huchet Bishop
1898 – 1993
librarian
Robert Kechichian
b. 1946
film director
Eleejah Inisan
b. 2008
tennis player
Pierre Joly
b. 1946
tennis player
Anne Desclos
1907 – 1998
writer
Vincent Fournier
b. 1970
photographer
Henri Charlier
1883 – 1975
painter
Alphonse Bellier
1886 – 1980
auctioneer
Charles Philibert de Lasteyrie
1759 – 1849
printer
Jean-Pierre Schosteck
b. 1942
politician
Mathilde Géron
b. 1986
sailor
Pierre Laroche
1902 – 1962
screenwriter
Jean-Pierre Rocroi
scientist
Dubosq
1863 – 1946
sailor
Jean Marsan
1920 – 1977
screenwriter
Marie Bonaparte
1882 – 1962
psychologist
Lucien Thévet
1914 – 2007
horn player
René Bergès-Cau
1949 – 1983
rugby union player
Daniel Claudon
b. 1943
biathlete
Michel Leblanc
b. 1959
ice hockey player
Arnaud Margueritte
b. 1973
association football player
Christiane Collange
1930 – 2023
journalist
René Joffroy
1915 – 1986
anthropologist
André Morel
1884 – 1961
racing automobile driver
Pierre Bénard
1898 – 1946
journalist
Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan
1814 – 1897
botanist
Serge Riaboukine
b. 1957
actor
Yan Pei-ming
b. 1958
painter
Gabriel Voisin
1880 – 1973
engineer
Auguste Chauveau
1827 – 1917
physiologist
William VII of Chalon
Lionel Ray
b. 1935
poet
Renée Gary
film editor
Arnaud Robinet
b. 1975
politician
Eliska Vincent
1841 – 1914
women's rights activist
Albert Hassler
1903 – 1994
speed skater
Eberhard of Béthune
1150 – 1212
linguist
André Soltner
1932 – 2025
chef
Olympia Mancini
1638 – 1708
lady-in-waiting
François Laroche
1775 – 1823
politician
Emmanuelle Assmann
b. 1974
fencer
Margot Laffite
b. 1980
television presenter
Marc Garanger
1935 – 2020
photographer
Nicolas Bergasse
1750 – 1832
politician
Gilbert Lavoine
1921 – 1965
boxer
Charles Rostaing
1904 – 1999
linguist
René Belletto
b. 1945
writer
Henri Pinguenet
1889 – 1969
painter
Moïse Lévy de Benzion
1873 – 1943
businessperson
Fabien Lefèvre
b. 1982
canoeist
Colette Cusset
b. 1944
botanist
Benjamin Brière
b. 1985
blogger
Ethan Dumortier
b. 2000
rugby union player
Jean Pierre Mégnin
1828 – 1905
entomologist