France
People of this nationality
Edouard Lanteri
1848 – 1917
sculptor
Pierre de Troyes, Chevalier de Troyes
1645 – 1687
military personnel
Jean-François Xavier Noguès
1769 – 1808
politician
Pascal Deguilhem
b. 1956
politician
Isabella of Bourbon
1437 – 1465
René Cavally
1870 – 1946
athletics competitor
Jean-Baptiste de Valbelle
1627 – 1681
privateer
Patrice Pavis
b. 1947
writer
René Quillivic
1879 – 1969
sculptor
Élisabeth Le Port
1919 – 1943
school teacher
Jean-Victor Hocquard
1910 – 1995
musicologist
François de Pierrefeu
1891 – 1959
engineer
Alexander Zelkine
1938 – 2022
singer
Mimosa Echard
b. 1986
contemporary artist
Tony Duvert
1945 – 2008
writer
Thomas-Claude Renart de Fuchsamberg
1642 – 1700
naval officer
Manu Lann Huel
1949 – 2026
poet
Marie Roze
1846 – 1926
opera singer
François Lepenant
1893 – 1984
sport cyclist
Léon Augustin Lhermitte
1844 – 1925
painter
Henri Chaput
1857 – 1919
physician
Guillaume de Rochefort
1433 – 1492
Gilbert Dalleu
1861 – 1931
actor
Sacha Petshi
b. 1992
association football player
Sylvie Canet
b. 1953
swimmer
Henri Amazouze
1937 – 2020
canoeist
Alex Courtes
b. 1953
film director
Raphaël Colantonio
b. 1971
video game developer
Bertrand Collomb
1942 – 2019
businessperson
Paul Riant
1836 – 1888
medievalist
Robert de Lenoncourt
1450 – 1532
Catholic priest
Anselm de Guibours
1625 – 1694
heraldist
Rudy Barbier
b. 1992
sport cyclist
Renaud Dion
b. 1978
sport cyclist
Louis-Édouard-François-Desiré Pie
1815 – 1880
Catholic priest
Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet
1761 – 1834
diplomat
Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld
b. 1985
writer
William Pinchon
1175 – 1234
canon
Ludovic Bruni
b. 1976
guitarist
Jean-Michel Tessier
b. 1977
sport cyclist
Jean-Baptiste-Boniface de Fortis
1763 – 1848
jurist
Alexandre-Dominique Denuelle
1818 – 1879
painter
Eugène Dieudonné
1884 – 1944
anarchist
Pierre Parisot
1697 – 1769
missionary
Caroline Tresca
b. 1959
actor
Henri Louveau
1910 – 1991
engineer
Pierre Viala
1859 – 1936
pathologist
François Bon
b. 1953
translator
Roger Closset
1933 – 2020
fencer
Tony Moulai
b. 1976
triathlete
Freddy Kemayo
b. 1982
kickboxer
Jean-Pierre Franque
1774 – 1860
painter
Aimery IV of Thouars
1024 – 1093
feudatory
Léa Khelifi
b. 1999
association football player
Mateata Maamaatuaiahutapu
b. 1968
politician
René Charlet
1903 – 1971
bobsledder
Wilfried Moimbé
b. 1988
association football player
Antoine-Laurent Baudron
1742 – 1834
composer
Philippe Étancelin
1896 – 1981
racing automobile driver
Bernard Fraisse
b. 1956
businessperson
Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville, Marquis de Denonville
1637 – 1710
explorer
Jean-Marc Mormeck
b. 1972
boxer
Édouard Mathé
1881 – 1932
actor
Stéphanie Gibaud
b. 1964
press agent
Ambroise Dubois
1542 – 1614
painter
Nicolae Gropeanu
1863 – 1936
painter
Eugène Petit
1839 – 1886
painter
Côme Ledogar
b. 1991
racing automobile driver
Clotilde Dissard
1873 – 1919
journalist
Molière
1622 – 1673
playwright
Eudes Rigaud
1200 – 1275
diplomat
Marc Kravetz
1942 – 2022
war correspondent
César Chiffre
b. 1991
film director
Ferdinand Charles Léon de Lasteyrie
1810 – 1879
politician
Yvon Petra
1916 – 1984
tennis player
Jean-Paul Hanquier
b. 1953
canoeist
Jean-Baptiste van Loo
1684 – 1745
painter
Jeanne Benameur
b. 1952
writer
Blaise Matuidi
b. 1987
association football player
Gérald Merceron
b. 1973
rugby union player
Jules Senard
1800 – 1885
politician
Marie-Adélaïde de La Touche-Limouzinière
1760 – 1794
counter-revolutionary
Loic Wakanumuné
b. 1985
association football player
Christophe Maraninchi
b. 1983
association football player
Jean-Baptiste Duvergier
1792 – 1877
politician
Patrice Verchère
b. 1973
politician
Lolita Chammah
b. 1983
actor
Didier Bourrier
1955 – 1987
sport cyclist
Francesco Zola
1796 – 1847
engineer
Lisandro Cuxi
b. 1999
singer
Matt Fax
b. 1996
disc jockey
Fabien Bossy
b. 1977
association football player
Yvonne Yma
1887 – 1959
film actor
Jean-François Caron
b. 1957
politician
Charles of Lorraine, Count of Marsan
1648 – 1708
aristocrat
Olivier Baudry
b. 1970
association football player
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou
b. 1967
mathematician
Pierre Adolphe Chéruel
1809 – 1891
historian
Louis-Léon Cugnot
1835 – 1894
sculptor
Luc Villalonga
b. 1970
association football player