France
People of this nationality
Germaine de Staël
1766 – 1817
writer
Nicolas Poussin
1594 – 1665
painter
Émile Wickersheimer
1849 – 1915
politician
Renatus Andrieux
1742 – 1792
cleric
Kévin Estre
b. 1988
racing automobile driver
Martine Sarcey
1928 – 2010
film actor
Paul Chevandier de Valdrome
1817 – 1877
painter
lungskull
2006 – 2026
rapper
Bohemond I of Antioch
1054 – 1111
feudatory
Patrice Ségura
b. 1961
association football player
Pablo Daniel Magee
b. 1985
writer
Vincent Talio
b. 1981
association football player
Didier Detchénique
b. 1972
athletics competitor
Benoît-Joseph Marsollier
1750 – 1817
speleologist
Marie of Armagnac
aristocrat
Alain Paul Lebeaupin
1945 – 2021
theologian
Lucas Dolega
1978 – 2011
photographer
Lucien Napoléon Bonaparte-Wyse
1844 – 1909
engineer
Thomas H. Robbins, Jr.
1900 – 1972
military officer
Maxime Poisson
b. 1973
association football player
Raoul Coutard
1924 – 2016
cinematographer
Alfred Lagache
1889 – 1971
carom billiards player
Louis Chedid
b. 1948
singer
Jordan Pefok
b. 1996
association football player
David Hotyat
b. 1972
Federico di Sanseverino
1475 – 1516
Catholic priest
Sébastien Érard
1752 – 1831
entrepreneur
Uri Dadush
economist
Pierre-Jean Peltier
b. 1984
rower
Jean Ferry
1906 – 1974
writer
Jean Dell
b. 1961
stage actor
Hervé Dagorne
b. 1967
track cyclist
Maboula Soumahoro
b. 1976
essayist
François Clouet
1510 – 1572
painter
Bryan Passi
b. 1997
association football player
Gabrielle de La Tour
1420 – 1474
aristocrat
Pascal Delannoy
b. 1957
Catholic priest
Richard Samuel
b. 1952
official
Hugues Destrem
1754 – 1804
politician
Ivan Smagghe
b. 1971
disc jockey
Robert de Lasteyrie
1849 – 1921
politician
Peire de Maensac
troubadour
Jules Hochet
1813 – 1867
businessperson
Léon Ortiz
1868 – 1955
anarchist
Gustave Naudin
1890 – 1978
flying ace
Sarah Ousfar
b. 1993
basketball player
Philippe Katerine
b. 1968
actor
Jean-François Bachelot
b. 1977
tennis player
Pierre-Louis Lions
b. 1956
mathematician
Iradj Gandjbakhch
b. 1941
physician
Paulin Brune
b. 1946
politician
André Potocki
b. 1950
lawyer
Nicolas Jean Baptiste Poilly
1712 – 1780
copper engraver
Jean Vigo
1905 – 1934
film director
Cédric Pemba-Marine
b. 1983
politician
Nadia Essayan
b. 1957
politician
André Tronc
1929 – 2025
curler
Antonio de Almeida
1928 – 1997
conductor
Agathe de La Fontaine
b. 1972
actor
Luc Crispon
b. 2000
rower
Laurent Mazaury
b. 1965
politician
Maurice Bompard
1857 – 1935
painter
Leeroy
b. 1978
artist
Jeanne Crassous
researcher
Jacques Pourtau
b. 1935
amateur wrestler
Marco Heinis
b. 2003
Nordic combined skier
Kofi Yamgnane
b. 1945
politician
Adrien Demont
1851 – 1928
painter
Roseline Ngo Leyi
b. 1993
handball player
Philippe Plisson
b. 1951
politician
Pierre Bérard
b. 1991
rugby union player
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Tyrbas de Chamberet
1779 – 1870
military physician
Myriam David
1917 – 2004
psychoanalyst
Nicolas Mathieu
1640 – 1706
parson
Paul Vigouroux
1919 – 1980
writer
Nelly Garnier
b. 1985
adviser
Joseph Laniel
1889 – 1975
politician
Waldeck Rochet
1905 – 1983
politician
Raymond Plaza
b. 1932
sport cyclist
Bill GB Pallot
b. 1964
art historian
Simon Vouet
1590 – 1649
painter
Jean-Pierre Marcon
b. 1949
politician
Sophie Lacaze
b. 1963
composer
Georges Colomb
1856 – 1945
botanist
Saadi Lahlou
b. 1960
social psychologist
Maxim Saury
1928 – 2012
clarinetist
Janine Merrey
1902 – 1985
actor
Karol Kniaziewicz
1762 – 1842
diplomat
Patrick Journoud
1964 – 2015
athletics competitor
Jean-Philippe Grandclaude
b. 1982
rugby union player
Marcelle Tiard
1861 – 1932
Esperantist
Pierre Bonnard
1867 – 1947
painter
Édouard Hesling
1869 – 1934
politician
Geneviève Huriet
b. 1927
children's writer
Sylvain Guillot
b. 1972
jockey
Delphine Wespiser
b. 1992
model
Philippe Capdenat
1934 – 2025
composer
Catherine Benguigui
b. 1964
actor
Jean Germain Drouais
1763 – 1788
painter
André Bayssière
b. 1943
sport cyclist