France
People of this nationality
Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac
1806 – 1880
politician
Pierre-Vincent Dombidau de Crouseilles
1751 – 1823
Catholic priest
Albert Samain
1858 – 1900
poet
Marie-Hélène Descamps
1938 – 2020
politician
Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly
1691 – 1750
philosopher
Christophe Laigneau
1965 – 2011
association football player
Jules Perret
gymnast
Marie-Claude Beaudeau
b. 1937
politician
Christophe Ott
b. 1983
association football player
John Marie Laval
1854 – 1937
Catholic priest
Richemont-Banchereau
1612 – 1670
playwright
Dominique Forlini
1924 – 2014
sport cyclist
Ludovic Lemoine
b. 1986
fencer
Louis Antoine de Poirot
1735 – 1813
linguist
Hamadou Karamoko
b. 1995
association football player
Jean Rigaud
1912 – 1999
painter
Hervé Le Treut
b. 1956
climatologist
Ishak Belfodil
b. 1992
association football player
Roger Richebé
1897 – 1989
film director
Isabelle Dinoire
1967 – 2016
dressmaker
Nicolas Aissat
b. 1980
athletics competitor
Pierre Marchand
1948 – 1980
fencer
Jean-Luc Montama
b. 1956
karateka
Hyacinthe Besson
1816 – 1861
painter
Yves Pajot
b. 1952
skipper
Jules Dumont
1888 – 1943
French resistance fighter
Dominique Klinnik
b. 1965
bobsledder
Jacques Thubé
1882 – 1969
sailor
Michel Beissière
b. 1948
rower
Marc Geujon
b. 1974
trumpeter
Jacques de Châtillon
1256 – 1302
politician
Laurane Picoche
b. 1985
athletics competitor
Grégory Carmona
b. 1979
association football player
Jean-Antoine Houdon
1741 – 1828
sculptor
Jules Chéret
1836 – 1932
painter
Avni Arbaş
1919 – 2003
painter
George Psalmanazar
1679 – 1763
writer
Jean-Marie Rausch
1929 – 2024
politician
Ilan Halevi
1943 – 2013
journalist
Thimothée Lo-Tutala
b. 2003
association football player
Marie Bochet
b. 1994
Para alpine skier
Anne Cheng
b. 1955
sinologist
Fabrice Desvignes
b. 1972
chef
Amédée Gastoué
1873 – 1943
composer
Marie Guyart
1599 – 1672
nun
Albert Bourlon
1916 – 2013
sport cyclist
Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy
1756 – 1791
memoirist
Camel Meriem
b. 1979
association football player
André Laclôtre
1871 – 1945
painter
Michelle of Valois
1395 – 1422
Jean-Claude Suaudeau
b. 1938
association football player
René de Naurois
1906 – 2006
botanist
Baptiste Thiery
b. 2001
pole vaulter
Gaston Paris
1903 – 1964
photographer
Gérard Macé
b. 1946
poet
Laurent Eynac
1886 – 1970
politician
Emma Riff
b. 2000
modern pentathlete
Charles Laurent
1856 – 1939
diplomat
Yonis Njoh
b. 2004
association football player
Nastassja Martin
b. 1986
anthropologist
François Debré
1942 – 2020
journalist
Hervé Riel
fisher
Jean-François Varlet
1764 – 1837
politician
Louis Billot
1846 – 1931
university teacher
Stan Fougeroud
b. 1991
association football player
André Chalmel
b. 1949
sport cyclist
Eble IV of Ventadorn
Natan Jurkovitz
b. 1995
basketball player
Françoise Leclerc
dressmaker
Laurent Croizier
b. 1975
politician
Félix Gaffiot
1870 – 1937
philologist
Billal Sebaihi
b. 1992
association football player
Monika Fiafialoto
b. 1965
athletics competitor
Richard de Saint-Laurent
1200 – 1260
writer
Éric Danty
1947 – 2020
association football player
Alexandre Mendy
b. 1983
association football player
Georges Rolland
1852 – 1910
geologist
Emma Boynet
1891 – 1974
pianist
Edgard-Raoul Duval
1832 – 1887
politician
Suzanne Bachelard
1919 – 2007
linguist
Pierre Garat
1919 – 1976
official
Robin Leproux
b. 1959
businessperson
Marie Pasteur
1826 – 1910
chemist
Édouard Sulpice
b. 1993
actor
Jean Tran Thanh Van
b. 1936
physicist
Antoine Gouy
b. 1980
actor
César Povolny
b. 1914
association football player
Théo Ndicka
b. 2001
association football player
Peter I
1311 – 1356
military personnel
Charles d'Orbigny
1806 – 1876
entomologist
Maxime D'Arpino
b. 1996
association football player
Jean-Hans Fourneaux
b. 2003
ice dancer
Claude Bodin
b. 1952
politician
Robin Legendre
b. 2002
association football player
Guy-Patrick Sainderichin
1950 – 2025
screenwriter
Adolphe Bitard
1837 – 1888
journalist
Ramond de la Croisette
1796 – 1849
playwright
Gilles Pagnon
b. 1984
rugby union player
Maurice Agulhon
1926 – 2014
historian
Brice Cognard
b. 1990
association football player