France
People of this nationality
Laurent Tobel
b. 1975
figure skater
Just Songeon
1880 – 1940
writer
Jacques Montet
1722 – 1782
chemist
Claire Simon
b. 1955
film director
Yvette Duval
1931 – 2006
historian
André Tiraqueau
1488 – 1558
magistrate
Konrad Valentin von Kaim
1737 – 1801
military officer
Laetitia Salles
b. 1982
rugby union player
Jacques Jaubert
b. 1957
anthropologist
Yann Mabella
b. 1996
association football player
Charles Chaumet
1866 – 1932
politician
Dylan Batubinsika
b. 1996
association football player
Louis Floch
b. 1947
association football player
Willy Rozier
1901 – 1983
actor
Joachim Francois Philiberto de Feisthamel
1791 – 1851
lepidopterist
Firmin Pauloin
1876 – 1940
sport cyclist
Jacques Clinchamps de Malfilâtre
1732 – 1767
poet
Guillaume Le Bé
1525 – 1598
type designer
Guillaume-François Colson
1785 – 1850
painter
Sacha Boey
b. 2000
association football player
Robert Didier
1885 – 1977
entomologist
Jérôme Monod
1930 – 2016
politician
Pierre Pendaries
1894 – 1987
flying ace
Nicolas Roze
1675 – 1733
ship-owner
Benoît Paturel
b. 1994
motocross rider
Célian Pouzelgues
b. 2003
rugby union player
François Paris
b. 1961
composer
Henri-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force
1582 – 1678
military personnel
Gilles Doucende
b. 1977
association football player
Oklou
b. 1993
singer
Alfred Louis Delattre
1850 – 1932
archaeologist
Philippe Violeau
b. 1970
association football player
Jacques Charrier
1936 – 2025
film actor
Patrick Vallée
b. 1962
association football player
Jean Martin
1927 – 2020
classical pianist
Martial Borye Desrenaudes
1755 – 1825
politician
Pierre-Édouard Stérin
b. 1974
businessperson
Jean Robin
1921 – 2004
association football player
Louis Rostollan
1936 – 2020
sport cyclist
Peire Pelet
troubadour
Michel Philippot
1925 – 1996
composer
Gilles de Corbeil
1140 – 1224
physician writer
Jean-Pierre Mignard
b. 1951
jurist
Émile Erckmann
1822 – 1899
writer
Ariane de Rothschild
b. 1965
banker
Claire Lecat
b. 1965
judoka
Jean Briane
1930 – 2021
politician
Maurice Lecoq
1854 – 1925
sport shooter
Marie Jaëll
1846 – 1925
composer
Émilie Georges
b. 2000
film producer
Martial Singher
1904 – 1990
opera singer
Pauline Ménard-Dorian
1870 – 1941
salonnière
Xavier Vallat
1891 – 1972
journalist
Gérard Edelinck
1640 – 1707
graphic artist
Olivier Coipel
b. 1973
comics artist
Christophe Payet
b. 1940
politician
Pouvanaa a Oopa
1895 – 1977
politician
Louis Aimé Japy
1839 – 1916
painter
Alain Siritzky
1942 – 2014
film producer
André Coyne
1891 – 1960
civil engineer
Jeanne-Philiberte Ledoux
1767 – 1840
painter
Jean Malaurie
1922 – 2024
physicist
Laure Savasta
b. 1974
basketball player
Audrey Lamy
b. 1981
actor
Emmanuel Ngom Priso
b. 1984
athletics competitor
Maël Lebrun
b. 1991
basketball player
Pierre Lafitte Ithurralde
1901 – 1985
linguist
Claude Evrard
1933 – 2020
actor
Pierre Beuffeuil
b. 1934
sport cyclist
Kséniya Moustafaeva
b. 1995
rhythmic gymnast
Mélanie Disdier
b. 1974
politician
Yanis David
b. 1997
athletics competitor
Françoise Henneron
b. 1948
politician
Rabii Doukkana
b. 1987
athletics competitor
Joachim Roncin
b. 1976
art director
Louis Saint-Calbre
1912 – 1970
athlete
Isabelle Guérin
b. 1961
choreographer
Jacques Mathou
b. 1953
actor
Hélène Lefebvre
b. 1991
rower
Henri Antoine Jacques
1782 – 1866
botanist
Paul Boyer
1861 – 1952
photographer
Charles Liénard de l'Olive
1601 – 1643
squire
Stanislas Rigault
b. 1999
political activist
Gaston Lesturgeon
1936 – 2003
judoka
David Gérard
b. 1977
rugby union player
Johanna Rolland
b. 1979
politician
Sylvie Tolmont
b. 1962
politician
Lou Barin
b. 1999
freestyle skier
Marcel Boulestin
1877 – 1943
chef
Germaine Pichot
1880 – 1948
dancer
Gaston Ducayla
1898 – 1986
amateur wrestler
Jean Bottéro
1914 – 2007
historian of religion
Elisabeth Sadoulet
1945 – 2025
economist
Thierry Repentin
b. 1963
politician
Benoît Payan
b. 1978
politician
Maurice Laisant
1909 – 1991
poet
Tania Palumbo
screenwriter
Dominique Escande
b. 1948
nuclear physicist
Marthe Bacal
1931 – 2024
physicist
Louis Koeltz
1884 – 1970
military officer