France
People of this nationality
René Massuet
1666 – 1716
philologist
Fanny Gelis
b. 1977
rugby union player
Jacques Goddet
1905 – 2000
journalist
Philippe Hurault de Cheverny
1579 – 1620
Latin Catholic priest
Lucien Rebuffic
1924 – 1997
basketball player
Philippe Aurox
b. 1957
bobsledder
Antonin Trilles
b. 1983
association football player
François Provost
1638 – 1702
André Chouraqui
1917 – 2007
writer
Paul-André Doyen
1881 – 1974
military personnel
Gilles Rémy
b. 1959
businessperson
Georges Vacher de Lapouge
1854 – 1936
anthropologist
André of Brienne
1135 – 1189
politician
Antoine Cornic
b. 1980
sailor
Alain Dejammet
b. 1936
diplomat
Dimitri Roditchev
b. 1963
physicist
Joseph Weismann
b. 1931
writer
Jacques Haïk
1893 – 1950
film producer
Georges Picquart
1854 – 1914
politician
Auguste Prévot-Valéri
1857 – 1930
painter
Nadia Barentin
1936 – 2011
actor
Marie Cantagrill
b. 1979
violinist
Thierry Bernard-Gotteland
b. 1974
artist
Anne-Marie Devreux
b. 1952
sociologist
Gilbert Itzicsohn
b. 1944
ice hockey player
Guillaume Kasbarian
b. 1987
politician
Yassine Bahassa
b. 1992
association football player
Charles Rozoy
b. 1987
Para swimmer
Alain Porthault
1929 – 2019
rugby union player
François de Créquy
1625 – 1687
military personnel
Aziz El Khanchaf
b. 1977
association football player
Antoine de Créqui Canaples
1531 – 1574
Catholic priest
Pierre Hornus
1908 – 1995
association football player
Jeannette Laot
1925 – 2025
trade unionist
Radomir Pavitchevitch
1908 – 2005
military personnel
André Servier
1876 – 2000
opinion journalist
Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges
1773 – 1838
conductor
Amélie Trayaud
1883 – 1963
politician
Jonathan Béhé
b. 1989
association football player
Jean Henri Hassenfratz
1755 – 1827
chemist
Estelle Perrossier
b. 1990
athletics competitor
Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquière, Marquis de La Jonquière
1685 – 1752
sailor
Charles de Monchy d'Hocquincourt
1599 – 1658
soldier
Anne-Lise Coste
b. 1973
artist
Jean Racine
1639 – 1699
playwright
Constantin Henriquez
1880 – 1942
association football player
Grégory Mallet
b. 1984
swimmer
Marcel Uderzo
1933 – 2021
penciller
Eugène-Léon Vivier
1817 – 1900
horn player
Baptiste Canelhas
b. 2000
association football player
Louis Dutens
1730 – 1812
writer
Ugo Crousillat
b. 1990
water polo player
Anthony Bancarel
b. 1971
association football player
Mickaël Nade
b. 1999
association football player
Andrée Lavieille
1887 – 1960
painter
Amandine Leynaud
b. 1986
handball player
Ismaïl Seydi
b. 2001
association football player
Jacques Boudin de Tromelin
1771 – 1842
military officer
Benoît Perthame
b. 1959
mathematician
Patrick Degorce
b. 1969
business executive
Florence Hartmann
b. 1963
journalist
Nicolas Peschier
b. 1984
canoeist
Franck Balandier
1952 – 2020
writer
Sylvain Girard
b. 1972
ice hockey player
Bertall
1820 – 1882
photographer
Elizabeth Beers-Curtis
1847 – 1933
Luc Barthelet
b. 1962
chief executive officer
René-Michel Slodtz
1705 – 1764
sculptor
Hippolyte Ganneron
1792 – 1847
politician
Denis Tristant
b. 1964
handball coach
Charles Dobzynski
1929 – 2014
poet
Bernard Perret
b. 1933
alpine skier
Yves Hayat
b. 1946
plastic artist
Gérald Baticle
b. 1969
association football player
René Fenouillière
1882 – 1916
association football player
Camille du Gast
1868 – 1942
nurse
André Randall
1893 – 1974
actor
Jérémie Porsan-Clemente
b. 1997
association football player
Claude Pierrat
b. 1963
cross-country skier
Adam Mokoka
b. 1998
basketball player
Ludovic Oucéni
b. 2001
athletics competitor
Yann Bonato
b. 1972
basketball player
Charles Joubert de la Bastide, marquis de Châteaumorand
1650 – 1722
military officer
Frédéric Johais
b. 1980
racing driver
Véronique North-Minca
b. 1953
diplomat
Réda Rabeï
b. 1994
association football player
Nicolas-Edme Rétif
1734 – 1806
novelist
Armelle
b. 1969
actor
René Besserve
1883 – 1959
painter
Thierry Mayer
b. 1971
economist
Sandra Delannoy
b. 1974
politician
Johan Audel
b. 1983
association football player
Henri Frey
1847 – 1932
military officer
Antoine Costa
1884 – 1971
artistic gymnast
Sylvain N'Diaye
b. 1976
association football player
Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
b. 1959
neuroscientist
Léa Bidaut
1908 – 1996
cook
René Sudre
1880 – 1968
science journalist
Georges Perec
1936 – 1982
film director
Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc
1712 – 1775
Christian nun