France
People of this nationality
Claire Duhamel
1925 – 2014
actor
Jean-Michel Cadiot
1952 – 2020
politician
N'Golo Kanté
b. 1991
association football player
Mary of Avesnes
1280 – 1354
aristocrat
Dominique Bedel
b. 1957
tennis player
Charles Schillings
b. 1966
disc jockey
Préville
1721 – 1799
stage actor
Suzanne Saïd
1939 – 2024
classical philologist
Jean-Christophe Gay
b. 1962
geographer
Fernand Samuel
1862 – 1914
theatre director
Célestin Delmer
1907 – 1996
association football player
Camille Lou
b. 1992
singer
Wenilo
presbyter
Hugh X of Lusignan
1185 – 1249
Alain Pasquier
b. 1942
art historian
Francisque Gay
1885 – 1963
politician
Martin Loeb
1959 – 2025
film actor
Ladislas Kijno
1921 – 2012
painter
Alexandre Bisson
1848 – 1912
screenwriter
Claude Peter
1947 – 2022
basketball player
Élisabeth Riffiod
b. 1947
basketball player
Nathalie Hervé
b. 1963
figure skater
Olivier Bonnaire
b. 1983
sport cyclist
Romain Thomas
b. 1988
association football player
Audrey Moores
b. 2000
researcher
Philippe de Nanteuil
1210 – 1269
composer
Alphonse Louis Théodore de Moges
1789 – 1850
Officer of the French Navy
Polydore Roux
1792 – 1833
naturalist
Vincent Paronnaud
b. 1970
screenwriter
Pierre Thiriet
b. 1989
racing driver
Sirima
1964 – 1989
singer
Jean-Marie le Guillou
b. 1941
sailor
Julien Freund
1921 – 1993
philosopher
Gérard Dagon
1936 – 2011
pastor
Bertrand Landrieu
1945 – 2019
official
Marguerite Gachet
1869 – 1949
art model
Armand Avril
1926 – 2025
painter
Nicolas Colombel
1644 – 1717
painter
Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet
1731 – 1797
printmaker
François Vallier
1900 – 1992
cross-country skier
Jacques Panciatici
1948 – 2024
rally driver
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
1753 – 1809
inventor
Romain Poite
b. 1975
rugby union match official
Félix Gaudin
1851 – 1930
stained-glass artist
Robert-Aglaé Cauchoix
1776 – 1845
optical engineer
Cédric Jiménez
b. 1976
film director
Jean-Louis Rapnouil
b. 1966
athletics competitor
Popeck
b. 1936
actor
Auguste Haouissée
1877 – 1948
theologian
Alain Caillé
b. 1944
sociologist
Jean Joire
1862 – 1950
sculptor
Julien Guibert
b. 1984
politician
Alice Dannenberg
1861 – 1948
painter
Ophélie Claude-Boxberger
b. 1988
middle-distance runner
Bénédicte Pételle
b. 1971
teacher
Jean-Pierre Yvaral
1934 – 2002
painter
Hakim Hamech
b. 1993
Thai boxer
Bruno Loscos
b. 1975
short-track speed skater
Julien Lanoë
1904 – 1983
writer
Louis de Lavau
Catholic priest
Alfred Léon Lemercier
1831 – 1900
lithographer
Charles Bossut
1730 – 1814
mathematician
Gilbert Py
1933 – 2021
opera singer
Hugo Magnetti
b. 1998
association football player
Jean de la Vega
writer
Pierre Bensusan
b. 1957
jazz musician
Lina Dachary
1922 – 1999
opera singer
Florian Jouanny
b. 1992
sport cyclist
Joseph Hackin
1886 – 1941
archaeologist
Léna Grandveau
b. 2003
handball player
Daniel Béguin
b. 1951
politician
Marius Cazeneuve
1839 – 1913
adventurer
Christiane Marchello-Nizia
b. 1941
medievalist
Victor Ruprich-Robert
1820 – 1887
architect
Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui
1798 – 1854
economist
Roland Martin
1912 – 1997
art historian
Victoire Conen de Saint-Luc
1761 – 1794
painter
Henri Gauban
1874 – 1958
sport cyclist
Dominique Alderweireld
1949 – 2026
procurer
Louis-Benoît Picard
1769 – 1828
librettist
Nicole Tourneur
1950 – 2011
writer
Michel Rateau
1938 – 2020
composer
Alexia Barlier
b. 1982
actor
Daniel Chalonge
1895 – 1977
astronomer
Hugo Descat
b. 1992
handball player
Michel Berthaud
1845 – 1912
photographer
Alphonse Jolly
1810 – 1893
librarian
Claude-François Clicquot
1762 – 1801
musical instrument maker
Said Ibrahim Ben Ali
1911 – 1975
politician
Émile Waldteufel
1837 – 1915
conductor
François Bellugou
b. 1987
association football player
Pierre Hermé
b. 1961
pastry chef
Hélène Huby
b. 1978
entrepreneur
Michel Palmié
b. 1951
rugby union player
Geneviève Hidden
1926 – 2016
physician
Radulphe
b. 1100
monk
André Le Troquer
1884 – 1963
politician
Maria Francisca of Savoy
1646 – 1683
royalty
Fernand Oury
1920 – 1998
teacher
Jean-François Berruyer
1741 – 1804
military personnel