France
People of this nationality
Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy
1821 – 1904
archaeologist
Charles Lemaresquier
1870 – 1972
architect
Léonce Cohen
1829 – 1901
composer
Madeleine Henrey
1906 – 2004
writer
Raoul Anglès
1887 – 1967
politician
Chrétien de Troyes
1135 – 1181
writer
Léonin
1135 – 1201
composer
Lionel Causse
b. 1971
politician
Jean-Louis Nicolas
b. 1942
mathematician
Stéphane Beaudet
b. 1972
politician
Lenny Vallier
b. 1999
association football player
Albert Londe
1858 – 1917
photographer
Guyart des Moulins
1251 – 1322
monk
Hervé Jacquet
b. 1939
mathematician
Maurice Bellonte
1896 – 1984
aircraft pilot
Émile Louis Picault
1833 – 1922
sculptor
Jean Boyer
1901 – 1981
association football player
Hermeline Malherbe-Laurent
b. 1969
politician
Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord
1820 – 1890
Yosha Iglesias
b. 1987
chess player
Jérôme Souchier
1508 – 1571
Catholic priest
Jean-Luc Coatalem
b. 1959
writer
Hugo Videmont
b. 1993
association football player
Claude Durand
1938 – 2015
editor
Jean-Baptiste Guégan
b. 1983
singer
Auguste Meyer
1893 – 1984
cyclist
Chana Orloff
1888 – 1968
sculptor
Christophe Horlaville
b. 1969
association football player
Émile Fabre
1869 – 1955
playwright
François Marie Suzanne
1750 – 1813
sculptor
Francis I of France
1494 – 1547
painter
Georges-François Hirsch
b. 1944
consultant
Jacques Brunet
1901 – 1990
banker
Nicolas Guigon
b. 1980
pole vaulter
Léon Comerre
1850 – 1916
painter
Pierre Huard
1901 – 1983
physician
Nina Khada
b. 1991
film director
Nicéphore Niépce
1765 – 1833
physicist
Alexandre Lauvergne
b. 1972
canoeist
Youri Djorkaeff
b. 1968
association football player
Dan Serfaty
b. 1966
entrepreneur
Jacques Guillaume Legrand
1743 – 1807
architect
Jacques Livage
1938 – 2025
chemist
Jean Chantavoine
1877 – 1952
musicologist
Edmond Dame
1893 – 1956
amateur wrestler
Kévin Théophile-Catherine
b. 1989
association football player
Claude François Ferey
1771 – 1812
military personnel
Alain Lacouchie
1946 – 2023
illustrator
Charles Clappier
b. 1867
fencer
Gilles Rossignol
1942 – 2021
writer
Aldo Crommelynck
1931 – 2008
printmaker
Julie Goïorani
b. 1988
handball player
Jean Rougerie
1929 – 1998
actor
Joseph Monier
1823 – 1906
engineer
Charles-Henri Flammarion
1946 – 2020
publisher
Franck Piccard
b. 1965
alpine skier
Ludovine de La Rochère
b. 1971
communications manager
Angélique Gérard
b. 1975
businessperson
Anne Brenon
b. 1945
novelist
Michel Cournot
1922 – 2007
film critic
Julien Fourgeaud
1980 – 2014
inventor
Jeanne-Pernette Schenker-Massot
1761 – 1828
watchmaker
Marie Payet
b. 1992
beauty pageant contestant
Delphino Moracchini
1846 – 1903
magistrate
Marcel Bénabou
b. 1939
writer
Bibienne Pellegry
1899 – 1989
swimmer
Cédric Villani
b. 1973
mathematician
Pascal Gnazzo
1920 – 2019
sport cyclist
Hugh of Fleury
1100 – 1135
historian
Christophe Remy
b. 1971
association football player
Anne-Suzanna Fosther-Katta
b. 1998
athletics competitor
Raphael Bretton
1920 – 2011
art director
Rose-Marie Piacentini
b. 1938
swimmer
Jules Carpentier
1851 – 1921
engineer
Pierre Bourguignon
1630 – 1698
painter
Philippe Delaye
b. 1975
association football player
André Wilms
1947 – 2022
stage actor
Louis Parrot
1906 – 1948
poet
Frédéric Gaillard
b. 1989
association football player
Matthieu Bataille
b. 1978
judoka
Antoine Anfré
b. 1963
diplomat
George Montbard
1841 – 1905
painter
Pierre-René Rogue
1758 – 1796
presbyter
Yassin Moutaouakil
b. 1986
association football player
Paul-Henri Rebut
b. 1935
physicist
Christian Metz
1931 – 1993
sociologist
Michel Sapin
b. 1952
politician
Laurent Prades
b. 1968
tennis player
Angelo Colinelli
1925 – 2011
sport cyclist
Anne Vernon
b. 1924
actor
Joseph of Lorraine, Count of Harcourt
1679 – 1739
aristocrat
Émile Aillaud
1902 – 1988
architect
Ethel Léontine Gabain
1883 – 1950
painter
Grégor Marchand
1968 – 2023
archaeologist
Louis Abel Beffroy de Reigny
1757 – 1811
playwright
Germaine Roger
1910 – 1975
actor
Charles Auger
1640 – 1705
colonial administrator
Borlet
composer
Pierre de Gondi
1533 – 1616
Catholic priest
Laurent Simutoga
b. 1987
rugby union player