France
People of this nationality
Cédric Avinel
b. 1986
association football player
Émile Michelet
1867 – 1935
sailor
Thomas Chabrol
b. 1963
actor
Jean Matton
1888 – 1917
flying ace
Bernard Forest de Bélidor
1698 – 1761
engineer
Gilles I Aycelin de Montaigut
1252 – 1318
Catholic priest
Jean Le Sueur
1910 – 1969
tennis player
Jean Micault
1924 – 2021
classical pianist
Jacques Lataste
1922 – 2011
fencer
Dorothée Dupuis
b. 1980
exhibition curator
Louis Pierre Manuel
1751 – 1793
politician
Xavier Galezowski
1832 – 1907
ophthalmologist
Sofian Kheyari
b. 1984
association football player
Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre
1633 – 1678
organist
Bertrand VI de La Tour d'Auvergne
1417 – 1497
Philippe Meyer
b. 1969
politician
Jean-Athanase Sicard
1872 – 1929
neuroscientist
Jean-Michel Grobon
1770 – 1853
painter
Olivier Martinez
b. 1966
association football player
Michel de Sallaberry
1704 – 1768
naval officer
Nicolas Démoulin
b. 1979
politician
David Amiel
b. 1992
official
Éric Martin
b. 1959
association football player
Anne de La Vigne
1634 – 1684
poet
Sophie Troc
alpine skier
Samuel Garcia
b. 1975
association football player
Léopold Sabatier
1877 – 1936
politician
Christophe Euzet
b. 1967
politician
Bruno Franz Leopold Liebermann
1759 – 1844
Catholic theologian
Ketti Gallian
1912 – 1972
actor
Charles Pierre Chapsal
1787 – 1858
politician
Jordan Lefort
b. 1993
association football player
Didier Bigo
b. 1956
political scientist
Zuzana Navarová
1959 – 2004
composer
Philippe Verdier
b. 1968
journalist
Frédéric Bouraly
b. 1960
actor
Gérard Rondeau
1953 – 2016
photographer
Robert Marichal
1904 – 1999
archivist
Avigdor Arikha
1929 – 2010
painter
Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins
1400 – 1472
politician
Auguste Clément Gérôme
1857 – 1919
military personnel
François Lelord
b. 1953
writer
Yvon Goujon
b. 1937
association football player
Ophélie Gaillard
b. 1974
cellist
Jacques Tiné
1914 – 2008
diplomat
Oscar Poigny
1849 – 1899
choreographer
Roger Paris
1929 – 2019
canoeist
Charles Okala
1910 – 1973
politician
Pierre-Henri Teitgen
1908 – 1997
judge
Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue
b. 1953
researcher
Philippe Chéry
1759 – 1838
painter
Gérard Thiélin
1935 – 2007
sport cyclist
Vincent Péricard
b. 1982
association football player
Marie-Joseph Pernock
1897 – 1975
politician
Paul Gauguin
1848 – 1903
painter
Hubert Latham
1883 – 1912
aircraft pilot
François-Xavier Dillmann
b. 1949
Scandinavian studies scholar
Joseph Philippe de Clairville
1742 – 1830
botanist
Catherine Clément
b. 1939
writer
Jean Laudet
1930 – 2025
canoeist
Clara d'Anduze
1200 – 1244
trobairitz
Jean Christophe Averty
1928 – 2017
singer
Michel Graillier
1946 – 2003
jazz musician
Louis Geoffroy
1803 – 1858
writer
Augustin Berque
b. 1942
orientalist
Stany Coppet
b. 1976
actor
Louis VII of France
1120 – 1180
sovereign
René Bouscat
1891 – 1970
military personnel
Henri B. Kagan
b. 1930
chemist
Corinne Le Poulain
1948 – 2015
actor
Abdellah Béhar
b. 1963
athletics competitor
Pierre Pouchot
1712 – 1769
military personnel
Simon de La Brosse
1965 – 1998
actor
Jean-Louis Dupont
b. 1956
rugby union player
Nadine Deleury
cellist
Pierre André Prévost de La Prévostière
colonial administrator
Arnaud Henriet
b. 1972
actor
Jausbert de Puycibot
troubadour
Rosalie Lamorlière
1768 – 1848
domestic worker
Vincent Pilloni
b. 1982
mathematician
Louis Ellies Dupin
1657 – 1719
historian
Pierre d'Ornellas
b. 1953
Catholic priest
Romain Teulet
b. 1978
rugby union player
Pierre Brunet
1908 – 1979
coxswain
Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira
b. 1961
mathematician
Julie Zenatti
b. 1981
singer-songwriter
Caroline Kauffmann
1840 – 1926
women's rights activist
Jean Degros
b. 1939
basketball coach
Karim Dahou
b. 1982
association football player
Sandrine Mathivet
b. 1968
association football player
Aloïs Charrin
b. 2000
sport cyclist
Rigord
writer
Claude Geffré
1926 – 2017
professeur des universités
Léo Schnug
1878 – 1933
painter
Natalie Nougayrède
b. 1966
journalist
Guy Seyve
b. 1942
sport cyclist
Thierry Thulliez
b. 1973
jockey
Erwin Koffi
b. 1995
association football player
Jean-Max Tixier
1935 – 2009
poet
Victor Zvunka
b. 1951
association football player