France
People of this nationality
Maurice Déribéré
1907 – 1997
chemical engineer
Godefroy Engelmann the Elder
1788 – 1839
lithographer
Jean-Christophe Bette
b. 1977
rower
Anatole Delassus
b. 2001
kayaker
Fabrice Ehret
b. 1979
association football player
Jean Umansky
b. 2000
audio engineer
Duran Sartre de Paernas
composer
Eva Bester
b. 1985
journalist
Colette Marchand
1925 – 2015
ballet dancer
Alain Etchegoyen
1951 – 2007
philosopher
Alexandre Maspoli
1875 – 1943
sculptor
Caroline Montigny-Rémaury
1843 – 1913
pianist
Anne Antoine, Comte d'Aché
1701 – 1780
military officer
Francis Moze
b. 1946
musician
Jean François Langlois
1808 – 1858
sailor
Guillaume Dequaire
b. 1990
association football player
Antoine Cresp de Saint-Césaire
1731 – 1782
Officer of the French Navy
Lehit Zeghdane
b. 1977
association football player
Gustave Quinson
1868 – 1943
playwright
Kenny Foray
b. 1984
motorcycle racer
Thierry Robert
b. 1977
politician
Ruben Amar
b. 1974
film director
Maurizio Lazzarato
b. 1955
sociologist
Gaël Pencreach
b. 1977
athletics competitor
Eugène Nicolaï
1885 – 1958
association football player
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
1737 – 1813
botanist
Julien Barbier
1869 – 1940
architect
Bastian Kersaudy
b. 1994
badminton player
Romane Bruneau
b. 1996
association football player
Jean-François Boisard
1762 – 1821
poet
Nicolas Bernier
1664 – 1734
composer
Sofiane Pamart
b. 1990
pianist
Michel Boulnois
1907 – 2008
organist
Conan I of Rennes
aristocrat
Pierre Basile
b. 1200
military personnel
André Rochon-Duvigneaud
1863 – 1952
ophthalmologist
Dounia Abdourahim
b. 1992
handball player
René Drouart de Bousset
1703 – 1760
organist
Frédéric Benoît Victoire Jullien
1785 – 1825
military personnel
Victor Scherrer
1943 – 2022
industrialist
Pierre Jean Robiquet
1780 – 1840
chemist
Michel Duran
1900 – 1994
actor
Francis Dreyfus
1940 – 2010
record producer
Roger Quilliot
1925 – 1998
politician
Guiday Mendy
b. 1986
basketball player
Ernest Denis
1849 – 1921
historian of Eastern Europe
Ludovic Quistin
1984 – 2012
association football player
Pierre de Breville
1861 – 1949
composer
Zadoc Kahn
1839 – 1905
rabbi
Alain Geismar
b. 1939
politician
Louis Gallois
b. 1944
manager
Germaine Dieterlen
1903 – 1999
anthropologist
Philippe Perrin
b. 1964
visual artist
Louis Betbeder Matibet
1901 – 1986
chess player
Gaston Ernest Liébert
1866 – 1944
diplomat
Georges Vérez
1877 – 1933
sculptor
Jean Jacob
1669 – 1790
Pierre Carcavy
1600 – 1684
mathematician
André Lannoy
b. 1945
association football player
Bernard Vera
b. 1950
politician
Salah Bakour
b. 1982
association football player
Benedict Joseph Flaget
1763 – 1850
Catholic priest
Jean-Baptiste Hus
1736 – 1805
actor
Raphaëlle Tervel
b. 1979
handball player
Fernand Léger
1881 – 1955
painter
Octavien de Saint-Gelais
1468 – 1502
poet
André-Jean-François-Marie Brochant de Villiers
1772 – 1840
geologist
Alexandre Albouy
b. 1979
rugby union player
Thierry Groensteen
b. 1957
writer
Jean-Yves Li Waut
b. 1978
association football player
Jean-Marie Laclavetine
b. 1954
publisher
Louis-Paul-Armand Simonneaux
1916 – 2009
Catholic priest
Chafik Najih
b. 1983
association football player
Robert Doisneau
1912 – 1994
photographer
Lucien Métivet
1863 – 1932
painter
Marcel Galey
1905 – 1991
association football player
Suzanne Girault
1882 – 1973
politician
Quentin Fillon-Maillet
b. 1992
biathlete
Albert Rigolot
1862 – 1932
painter
Jean Félix-Tchicaya
1903 – 1961
politician
Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux
1802 – 1841
physician
Jean Harouard de Suarez d'Aulan
1900 – 1944
businessperson
Bryan Dabo
b. 1992
association football player
André Wilmart
1876 – 1941
linguist
André Chauvet
b. 1878
sport shooter
Guy Delcourt
b. 1958
publisher
Frédéric Pietruszka
b. 1954
fencer
Fabrice Jeandesboz
b. 1984
sport cyclist
Jean-Marc Thibault
1923 – 2017
actor
Nelly Ramassamy
b. 1983
artistic gymnast
Mike Downey
b. 1959
film producer
Alfred N. Duffié
1833 – 1880
military officer
Louis Gillet
1876 – 1943
art historian
Magali Noël
1932 – 2015
stage actor
Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest
1784 – 1838
zoologist
Xavier Coppolani
1866 – 1905
colonial administrator
Georges Duval
1772 – 1853
playwright
Hervé Bourges
1933 – 2020
journalist
Vincent Laurini
b. 1989
association football player
Hassen Chalghoumi
b. 1972
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