France
People of this nationality
Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
1814 – 1874
archaeologist
Jean-François Revel
1924 – 2006
journalist
Francis Carmont
b. 1981
mixed martial arts fighter
Michel Déon
1919 – 2016
writer
Louis Rollet
1895 – 1988
painter
Nicolas Felix Vandive
1710 – 1792
court clerk
Mickaël Tavares
b. 1982
association football player
Isabelle Arvers
b. 1972
art critic
François Partant
1926 – 1987
economist
Jean-Pierre Urkia
1918 – 2011
Catholic priest
Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve
b. 1954
neurologist
Edmond Haraucourt
1856 – 1941
writer
Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch
1862 – 1908
journalist
Alain Ferry
b. 1939
writer
Ali Sami Yachir
b. 1985
association football player
Jeanne Jégou-Cadart
1801 – 2000
painter
Marcellin Desboutin
1823 – 1902
painter
Jean Michel Diot
b. 1959
chef
Nora Leksir
b. 1974
athletics competitor
Jacques Friedel
1921 – 2014
physicist
Oumar Ngom
b. 2004
association football player
Pierre Chevalier
1915 – 2005
film director
Raoul Le Mouton de Boisdeffre
1839 – 1919
military officer
Dominique Lauvard
b. 1949
artistic gymnast
Nicolas Forissier
b. 1961
politician
Philippe Jaenada
b. 1964
writer
Frédéric Erin
b. 1980
athletics competitor
Caroline De Haas
b. 1980
activist
Gwendal Peizerat
b. 1972
ice dancer
Bob Maloubier
1923 – 2015
military officer
Marie-Ève Lacasse
b. 1982
writer
Jean Baptiste Antoine Auget de Montyon
1733 – 1820
politician
Michel Aupetit
b. 1951
Catholic priest
Joseph François Salomon
1649 – 1732
composer
Charles Magnin
1793 – 1862
linguist
Thierry Rocher
1959 – 2025
playwright
Louis Martinet
1814 – 1895
painter
Louis Paulhan
1883 – 1963
aircraft pilot
Mathéo Jacquemoud
b. 1990
ski mountaineer
Antoine Dénériaz
b. 1976
alpine skier
Jonathan Famery
b. 1988
association football player
Arthur H
b. 1966
singer
Marceline Hecquet
1850 – 1950
writer
Florence Devouard
b. 1968
agricultural engineer
Édouard Chavannes
1865 – 1918
translator
Daniel Grenon
b. 1948
politician
Jean-Armand de Joyeuse, Marquis de Grandpré
1631 – 1710
military personnel
Alain de Benoist
b. 1943
philosopher
Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux
1857 – 1944
writer
François Picard-Destelan
1909 – 1983
military personnel
Farès Bousdira
b. 1953
association football player
Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway
1648 – 1720
diplomat
Antoine-Fortuné Marion
1846 – 1900
botanist
Jérôme Hergault
b. 1986
association football player
Georges Fouré
1843 – 1902
philatelist
Paul Auguste Danguy
1862 – 1942
botanist
Lidwine
1960 – 2025
comics artist
Roland Lacombe
1938 – 2011
sport cyclist
Jeanne Bosc
1865 – 1954
painter
Philippe Prieur
b. 1960
association football player
Nicolas Michelin
b. 1955
architect
Renzo Wéjième
b. 1999
association football player
Ferdinand Joseph Georges Alexandre Clauzade
1914 – 2002
lichenologist
Karim Boudjema
b. 1988
association football player
Alain-Fabien Delon
b. 1994
actor
Jean-Baptiste Pierazzi
b. 1985
association football player
Paul-Loup Sulitzer
1946 – 2025
businessperson
Germain David-Nillet
1861 – 1932
painter
Robert Paturel
b. 1952
boxer
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
1785 – 1845
physicist
Sébastien Huyghe
b. 1969
politician
Angel Grimoard
1320 – 1388
Catholic priest
Gustave Léon Niox
1840 – 1921
military officer
Anne Poussard
1622 – 1684
lady-in-waiting
Coralie Demay
b. 1992
sport cyclist
Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine
1714 – 1773
aristocrat
J.D. Jackson
b. 1969
basketball coach
Diadié Diarra
b. 1993
association football player
Félicien-César David
1810 – 1876
composer
Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul
1754 – 1807
politician
Pierre Pinson
b. 1980
researcher
René Dary
1905 – 1974
stage actor
Élisabeth de Gramont
1875 – 1954
salonnière
Christine Loir
b. 1977
politician
Fernande Sadler
1869 – 1949
painter
Alexandre Ricard
b. 1972
businessperson
Maurice Hauriou
1856 – 1929
university teacher
Franck Venaille
1936 – 2018
poet
Henri Le Breton
1928 – 2022
politician
Princess Xenia Andreevna Romanovsky
1919 – 2000
Jean Richard
1921 – 2001
television actor
Auguste Geffroy
1820 – 1895
historian
Jacques Senard
1919 – 2020
diplomat
Michel Liénard
1810 – 1870
sculptor
Yann Godart
b. 2001
association football player
Thierry Rupert
1977 – 2013
basketball player
Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert
1858 – 1945
composer
Lou Roy-Lecollinet
b. 1996
actor
Hervé This
b. 1955
physical chemist
Olivia Merilahti
b. 1982
singer