France
People of this nationality
Jean-Baptiste Biot
1774 – 1862
mathematician
Émile André
1871 – 1933
architect
Alain Duhamel
b. 1940
journalist
André Cayatte
1909 – 1989
writer
Séverine Beltrame
b. 1979
tennis player
Jean-Yves Leloup
b. 1950
writer
Jean Joseph Victor Génissieu
1749 – 1804
politician
Frédéric Thomas
1814 – 1884
official
Jacques Vaché
1895 – 1919
writer
Mademoiselle La Grange
1639 – 1727
actor
Auguste Nourrit
1805 – 1853
actor
Caroline Receveur
b. 1987
blogger
Marcel Mayer
1918 – 2011
sculptor
Jean Debuf
1924 – 2010
weightlifter
Nathalie Goulet
b. 1958
politician
Jean Louis Companyo
1781 – 1871
physician
Jean-Pascal Fournier
b. 1972
illustrator
Paul Romand
1930 – 2011
biathlete
Stéphanie Arricau
b. 1973
golfer
Evrard Wendenbaum
b. 1979
explorer
Amanda Lear
b. 1939
painter
Sébastien Balibar
b. 1947
physicist
André Guillaumin
1885 – 1974
botanist
Benjamin Lang
b. 1987
rower
Olivier Hay
b. 1986
professional gamer
Stéphane Pedrazzi
b. 1978
journalist
Jacques Joseph Moreau
1804 – 1884
psychiatrist
Augustin Renaudet
1880 – 1958
historian
Christine Bonfanti-Dossat
b. 1956
politician
René Carmille
1886 – 1945
military personnel
Évelyne Sullerot
1924 – 2017
sociologist
Jean-Michel Salanskis
b. 1951
mathematician
Maurice Renard
1875 – 1939
writer
André Vantomme
b. 1948
politician
Pierre Garnier de Laboissière
1755 – 1809
politician
Clémentine Autain
b. 1973
politician
Paule Desjardins
1929 – 2007
singer
Nicolas Penneteau
b. 1981
association football player
Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont
1711 – 1780
journalist
Louis Adolphe Bonard
1805 – 1867
Officer of the French Navy
Henri Jean
b. 1954
official
André Briend
b. 2000
nutritionist
Anahide Ter Minassian
1929 – 2019
historian
Alain Cortes
b. 1952
modern pentathlete
François Barrême
1638 – 1703
mathematician
Manchu
b. 1956
illustrator
Alix Collombon
b. 1993
tennis player
Raymond I Trencavel
1130 – 1167
feudatory
Adele of Bar-sur-Aube
1010 – 1053
Alphonse Margailland
1909 – 1989
rower
Georges Tournay
b. 1960
association football player
Éric Prié
b. 1962
chess player
Émile Zermani
1911 – 1983
association football player
Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès
1767 – 1846
grammarian
Alfred Delauney
1830 – 1894
painter
Pierre de Corneillan
1300 – 1355
warrior monk
Vincenzo Aiutino
b. 1970
serial killer
Yves Guéna
1922 – 2016
politician
Roger Faligot
b. 1952
journalist
Valérie André
1922 – 2025
military physician
Hervé Couffignal
1965 – 2017
rugby union player
Pierre-Henri Azagoh
b. 1998
rugby union player
Alexandre Marty
1894 – 1918
flying ace
Alexey Lushnikov
b. 1966
film director
Éric Weil
1904 – 1977
philosopher
Alessandro Cagliostro
1743 – 1795
physician
Claude Galopin
engineer
Alexandre Guilmant
1837 – 1911
composer
Léandre Griffit
b. 1984
association football player
Séverine Gipson
b. 1970
politician
Stéphane Mallarmé
1842 – 1898
poet
Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou
938 – 987
aristocrat
Jérôme Alonzo
b. 1972
association football player
François Dauverné
1799 – 1874
trumpeter
Anfane Ahamada
b. 2002
association football player
Jean-Yves Hugon
1949 – 2026
politician
Georges Monca
1867 – 1939
actor
Chrétien-Siméon Le Prévost d'Iray
1768 – 1849
poet
Henri de Castellane
1814 – 1847
politician
Éric Sitruk
b. 1978
association football player
Jean-Jacques Naudo
1959 – 2026
rugby league player
Claude-Charles Bourgonnier
1858 – 1921
painter
Georgette Leblanc
1869 – 1941
opera singer
Gausbert Amiel
troubadour
Julien Raimond
1744 – 1801
essayist
Daniel Lacambre
cinematographer
Félix Julien
1884 – 1915
association football player
Justin Marie Jolly
1870 – 1953
physician
Serge Leveur
b. 1957
athletics competitor
Olivier Schultheis
b. 1965
conductor
Imbert de La Platière
1516 – 1567
military officer
Greta Vaillant
1942 – 2000
novelist
Monique Sené
b. 1936
physicist
André Lochon
1932 – 2014
water polo player
Izis Bidermanas
1911 – 1980
photographer
Alexandra Lemoine
b. 1928
artistic gymnast
Jean Cavaillès
1903 – 1944
philosopher
Charles Otzenberger-Detaille
1881 – 1944
Malik Zidi
b. 1975
actor
Eugène Vaillé
1875 – 1959
historian