France
People of this nationality
Pierre Bardin
1590 – 1635
writer
Yvon Ledanois
b. 1969
sport cyclist
Margit Otto-Crépin
1945 – 2020
dressage rider
Jeanne Hébuterne
1898 – 1920
painter
Emo de Medeiros
b. 1979
artist
Roger Naviaux
1926 – 2016
entomologist
Jacques Moreau
1933 – 2017
politician
Marguerite de Carrouges
1362 – 1419
Jean-Pierre Balligand
b. 1950
politician
Petrus Comestor
1100 – 1179
historian
Georges Danton
1759 – 1794
lawyer
Basile Saune
1887 – 1918
flying ace
Cédric Di Dio Balsamo
b. 1994
ice hockey player
Ismaël Bullialdus
1605 – 1694
astronomer
Pierre Lang
b. 1947
politician
Théo Pionnier
b. 2002
association football player
Pierre Guillaume
1940 – 2023
publisher
Jean-Baptiste Molinié
1880 – 1971
military personnel
Alfred Michiels
1813 – 1892
historian
Brandon Domingues
b. 2000
association football player
Alexandra David-Néel
1868 – 1969
explorer
Julien Denis
1886 – 1914
association football player
Patrick Ottmann
b. 1956
association football player
Elohim Rolland
b. 1989
association football player
Li Shuang
b. 1957
painter
Armand Penverne
1926 – 2012
association football player
Émile Espérandieu
1857 – 1939
archaeologist
Ulysse Bozonnet
1922 – 2014
biathlete
Nane Germon
1909 – 2001
actor
Pierre-Antoine Mongin
1761 – 1827
painter
Laurent Mottron
b. 1952
psychiatrist
Charles Louis Bernard de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville
1770 – 1846
politician
Sylvestre de Laval
1570 – 1616
theologian
Henri Bouchot
1849 – 1906
library curator
Franck Dépine
b. 1959
sport cyclist
Michel Chasles
1793 – 1880
mathematician
Pascal Hérold
b. 1949
film producer
Laïka Fatien
b. 1968
singer
Madeleine Patin
1640 – 1682
writer
Gérard Lelièvre
b. 1949
athletics competitor
Bilal Benkhedim
b. 2001
association football player
Joseph-Anne de Valbelle de Tourves
1648 – 1722
jurist
Pierre Édouard Frère
1819 – 1886
painter
Antoine Henri Grouvelle
1843 – 1917
entomologist
Aïssat Idir
1915 – 1959
trade unionist
Pierre de Nesson
1384 – 1401
poet
Jean-Marie Charpentier
1939 – 2010
architect
Hélène Surgère
1928 – 2011
actor
Mohamed Amine Essahel
b. 2003
association football player
Bernard Planque
1932 – 2016
basketball player
Kamran Shirazi
b. 1952
chess player
Henri Sellier
1889 – 1924
association football player
François-Claude-Bernard-Louis de Chauvelin
1716 – 1773
diplomat
Nicolas Ray
b. 1981
politician
Claude Louis d'Espinchal, marquis de Massiac
1686 – 1770
politician
Henri II de Montmorency
1595 – 1632
politician
Yamna Oubouhou
b. 1974
marathon runner
Guy Abeille
b. 1950
economist
Paul-Marie François Rousset
1921 – 2016
Catholic priest
Auguste Mermet
1810 – 1889
composer
Charles Schlumberger
1825 – 1905
corps of armament
Bernard Chenot
1909 – 1995
politician
Marcelline Pauper
1666 – 1708
nun
Marcel Courthiade
1953 – 2021
linguist
Marcel Griaule
1898 – 1956
anthropologist
François Le Gouz, sieur de La Boullaye (1623-1667)
1623 – 1667
ambassador
Nicolas-Louis d'Assas
1733 – 1760
military officer
Christian Lardé
1930 – 2012
flautist
Suzanne le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau
1782 – 1829
celebrity
Auguste Laurent Boulard
1852 – 1927
painter
Emmanuelle Monet
b. 1953
singer
Cosmo Vitelli
b. 1974
disc jockey
René Quinton
1866 – 1925
biologist
Franz Pleyer
1911 – 1999
association football player
Catherine Greiner
1956 – 1994
pornographic film actor
Médoune Gueye
b. 1982
association football player
Maurice Bambier
1925 – 1994
politician
Michel Schifres
1946 – 2025
journalist
Claude de La Châtre de La Maisonfort
1536 – 1614
military personnel
Yannick Jauzion
b. 1978
rugby union player
Georges Tainturier
1890 – 1943
fencer
Michel Poncet de La Rivière
1671 – 1730
Catholic priest
Robert Martens
1899 – 1987
sport cyclist
Félix Deschange
1832 – 1916
politician
Paul Heitz
1923 – 1999
rower
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
b. 1961
politician
Yvette Grimaud
1920 – 2012
classical composer
Édouard Stephan
1837 – 1923
astronomer
Nicolas Grenon
1375 – 1456
composer
Florence Giolitti
b. 1966
athletics competitor
Robert Ménard
b. 1953
journalist
Elia Frosio
1913 – 2005
sport cyclist
Jean Canavaggio
1936 – 2023
biographer
Émile Bongiorni
1921 – 1949
association football player
Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux
1740 – 1817
diplomat
François Gravel
b. 1968
ice hockey player
Jacques Philippe de Choiseul-Stainville
1727 – 1789
Remy Arnod
1926 – 2020
alpine skier
Jean-Jacques Reboux
1958 – 2021
editor
Jean-François Honoré, baron Merlet
1761 – 1830
lawyer