France
People of this nationality
Jean-Pierre Chazal
1766 – 1840
politician
Charles Pidjot
1962 – 2012
politician
Akli Tadjer
b. 1954
writer
Sabin Berthelot
1794 – 1880
botanist
Jean-Marie Cadieu
b. 1963
rugby union player
Pierre Charles Pouzet
1766 – 1809
military officer
David Ferrère
b. 1974
association football player
Charles Lucet
1910 – 1990
diplomat
Auguste Louis Jules Millard
1830 – 1915
physician
Bernard Parmegiani
1927 – 2013
composer
Pierre Salvi
b. 1948
cross-country skier
Arnaud de Salette
1540 – 1579
poet
Philippe Georget
b. 1963
writer
Solange de Ganay
1902 – 2003
ethnologist
Camille Ferdinand Dreyfus
1849 – 1915
politician
Francine Weisweiller
1916 – 2003
patron of the arts
Jean-Baptiste Baudoin
1831 – 1875
presbyter
Jules Lapierre
b. 1996
cross-country skier
Mathieu Jaboulay
1860 – 1913
surgeon
Céline Carzo
b. 1972
singer
Fabrice Lepaul
1976 – 2020
association football player
Gaston Serpette
1846 – 1904
conductor
Julien Kerneur
b. 1991
kitesurfer
Mathieu Hanotin
b. 1978
politician
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton
1716 – 1800
physician
Claude Carra Saint-Cyr
1760 – 1834
military personnel
Anne Fontaine
b. 1959
film director
Silas Billong
b. 1974
association football player
Éric Claudon
b. 1961
biathlete
Michel de Castelnau
1520 – 1592
diplomat
Charles of Lorraine, duke of Mayenne
1554 – 1611
aristocrat
Liudolf of Lotharingia
1000 – 1031
feudatory
Irène Mélikoff
1917 – 2009
linguist
Ernest Paul
1881 – 1964
sport cyclist
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
1716 – 1795
anthropologist
Nicolas Peifer
b. 1990
wheelchair tennis player
Sandrine Gruda
b. 1987
basketball player
Jean Fournier
1914 – 2003
sport shooter
Abbas Fahdel
b. 1959
film director
Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe
1913 – 1998
sociologist
Jean-Adam Guilain
1680 – 1800
composer
Jean-Pierre Lacroix
b. 1960
diplomat
Steve Furtado
b. 1994
association football player
Louis de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire
1778 – 1854
diplomat
Roger Bontemps
1468 – 1540
poet
Dominique Senequier
b. 1953
businessperson
Pierre Étaix
1928 – 2016
actor
Jacques Canivet
artisan
Bruce Heard
b. 1957
board game designer
Léon Émile Clément-Thomas
1840 – 1925
colonial administrator
Vincent Hervouët
b. 1957
journalist
Léon Reinach
1893 – 1944
composer
Pascal Bidégorry
b. 1968
navigator
Louis Auguste Blanqui
1805 – 1881
philosopher
Yvonne Hagnauer
1898 – 1985
teacher
André Villiers
b. 1954
politician
Marguerite Perrou
1915 – 2013
sprinter
Jean-Marie Vianney
1786 – 1859
Latin Catholic priest
Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard
1540 – 1562
poet
Jeanne Deroin
1805 – 1894
journalist
Jules Carvallo
1820 – 1916
civil engineer
Hélène Conway-Mouret
b. 1960
politician
Alexandre Michaud de Beauretour
1771 – 1841
military personnel
Michèle Le Dœuff
b. 1948
philosopher
Madeleine Angélique de Neufville de Villeroy
1707 – 1787
salonnière
François Joseph Paul de Grasse
1722 – 1788
military personnel
Jacques Higelin
1940 – 2018
singer
François Boucher
1885 – 1966
curator
Mélonin Noumonvi
b. 1982
amateur wrestler
Jean Worms
1884 – 1943
actor
Marie-Clémence Paes
b. 1959
film producer
Sebastien Stella
b. 1971
film director
Bernard Lemoux
1942 – 2026
business executive
Othon Friesz
1879 – 1949
painter
Jules-François-Paul Fauris de Saint-Vincens
1718 – 1798
magistrate
Désiré Ferry
1886 – 1940
politician
Eugenius Roche
1786 – 1829
journalist
Nicole Riche
1925 – 1990
film actor
Louis de Courcillon
1643 – 1723
cleric
Marc Isambard Brunel
1769 – 1849
engineer
Joseph Altuzarra
b. 1983
fashion designer
Amaury Guichon
b. 1991
pastry chef
Romain Combaud
b. 1991
sport cyclist
Francis Fontan
1929 – 2018
cardiologist
Alice Field
1905 – 1969
actor
Dominique Boschero
b. 1934
actor
Christian Guiberteau
b. 1968
sport cyclist
Marie-Guite Dufay
b. 1949
politician
Élisabeth di Chimay
1926 – 2023
biographer
Diane Bertrand
b. 1951
film director
Charles Antoine Lemaire
1800 – 1871
botanist
Benoît Simian
b. 1983
politician
Theodore Tilton
1835 – 1907
journalist
Arthur de Salins
1857 – 1936
military personnel
Christophe Lejeune
b. 1969
politician
Leslie Kaplan
b. 1943
novelist
Marie-Louise Girod
1915 – 2014
organist
Sandrine Piau
b. 1965
opera singer
Aristide Delannoy
1874 – 1911
painter
Antoine Mariotte
1875 – 1944
conductor