France
People of this nationality
Pierre Grelot
1917 – 2009
Catholic priest
Louis Cartier
1875 – 1942
jeweler
Brasco
singer
Thomas Sébillet
1512 – 1589
linguist
Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay
1626 – 1685
explorer
Philippe de Gaulle
1921 – 2024
politician
Pierre Pascallon
1941 – 2026
politician
Tatiana Leskova
b. 1922
ballet dancer
David Berty
b. 1970
rugby union player
Michel-Joseph Maunoury
1847 – 1923
military officer
Charles-Étienne-François Ruty
1774 – 1828
politician
Cédric Beal
b. 1986
rugby union player
Pierre Trémaux
1818 – 1895
architect
Jean-Baptiste Chaudié
1853 – 2000
colonial administrator
Richard Pottier
1906 – 1994
film director
Joachim Joseph André Murat
1828 – 1904
politician
Auguste-Rosalie Bisson
1826 – 1900
photographer
Henry Valbel
1885 – 1956
actor
Jacques Gouin de Beauchêne
1652 – 1730
explorer
Jean-Pierre Babelon
1931 – 2024
historian
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon
1490 – 1527
military personnel
Anne-Emmanuelle Augustine
b. 2001
handball player
Louis Legendre
1752 – 1797
politician
François Vallé
1716 – 1783
explorer
Armand Seguin
1869 – 1903
painter
Célia Aymonier
b. 1991
cross-country skier
Bernard Maurey
b. 1948
mathematician
Paul Knochel
b. 1955
chemist
Jean-Louis Forain
1852 – 1931
painter
Gérard Pommier
1941 – 2023
Professeur des universités – Praticien hospitalier
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1881 – 1955
paleontologist
Fernand Decanali
1925 – 2017
sport cyclist
Christian Honegger
b. 1946
field hockey player
Marcel Duchamp
1887 – 1968
actor
Raymond Sentubéry
1901 – 1981
association football player
Hippolyte Renaud
1803 – 1873
journalist
Gwendolyn Lemaitre
b. 1986
sailor
Jean-Pierre Christin
1683 – 1755
astronomer
Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
1862 – 1913
screenwriter
Charles Michels
1903 – 1941
politician
Philippe-Ernest Legrand
1866 – 1953
hellenist
Xavier Phelipon
b. 1959
sailor
Madame Herbault
modiste
Henri Bouvier
b. 1901
swimmer
Jean Bertrand Féraud
1759 – 1795
politician
Cédric Vallet
b. 1971
cross-country skier
Daniel Huck
1948 – 2026
jazz musician
Marie-Louise Meilland
1920 – 1987
rose breeder
Alphonse Arzel
1927 – 2014
politician
Mathieu Scalet
b. 1997
association football player
Axel Reymond
b. 1994
swimmer
Paul Chemetov
1928 – 2024
architect
Majolus of Cluny
910 – 994
Catholic monk
Joseph-François Lambert
1824 – 1873
diplomat
Michel Poivert
b. 1965
art historian
Françoise Vergès
b. 1952
political scientist
Marion Allemoz
b. 1989
ice hockey player
Léon Couturier
1842 – 1935
painter
Roger Bellon
b. 1953
composer
Guillaume Gille
b. 1976
handball player
Cyrille Monnerais
b. 1983
sport cyclist
Arnould Galopin
1863 – 1934
writer
Eugène Bozza
1905 – 1991
conductor
Louis de Boullogne
1654 – 1733
painter
Edmond Marin la Meslée
1912 – 1945
aircraft pilot
Selma Alaoui
b. 1980
actor
Félix Desportes
1763 – 1849
politician
Pauline-Marie-Elisa Thys
1835 – 1909
composer
Henri Lavorel
1914 – 1955
film director
Fernand Cornez
1907 – 1997
sport cyclist
Édouard Bureau
1830 – 1918
physician
Jean-Marc Ferreri
b. 1962
association football player
Élisabeth-Claire Tardieu
1731 – 1773
printmaker
Joseph Vallot
1854 – 1925
botanist
Jean-Luc Houssaye
canoeist
Jean de Poitiers, Seigneur de Saint Vallier
aristocrat
Jean-Hubert Gailliot
b. 1961
writer
Fabienne Ficher
b. 1966
sprinter
Rodolphe Dareste de La Chavanne
1824 – 1911
legal historian
André Stil
1921 – 2004
writer
Marie Mariterangi
1926 – 1971
singer
Marie-Noémi Cadiot
1828 – 1888
sculptor
Andy Timo
b. 2004
rugby union player
Alpha Oumar Djalo
b. 1996
judoka
Lionel Péan
b. 1956
skipper
René Pourrière
playwright
Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert
1773 – 1847
botanist
Fabrice Vandeputte
b. 1969
association football player
Jean-Baptiste Cléry
1759 – 1809
valet
Pierre Drancourt
b. 1982
sport cyclist
Georges Diebolt
1816 – 1861
sculptor
Gaston Poulet
1892 – 1974
conductor
Laurent Estadieu
b. 1975
sport cyclist
Roland Tomb
b. 1958
Bioethicist
Charles Antoine Manhès
1777 – 1854
military officer
Anne Michaut
b. 1972
kayaker
Françoise Mézières
1909 – 1991
kinesiotherapist
Joan Chemla
b. 1984
screenwriter
Anne Le Helley
b. 1971
skipper
Fernand Carton
1921 – 2019
linguist