France
People of this nationality
Pierre Philippeaux
1754 – 1794
politician
Simon Munyutu
b. 1977
athletics competitor
Bertrand Kaï
b. 1984
association football player
Jean Michel
1949 – 2025
politician
Édouard Mazères
1796 – 1866
writer
Jacques-Olivier Paviot
b. 1976
association football player
Apopie Lusamba
b. 1985
handball player
Paulette Libermann
1919 – 2007
mathematician
Paula Jacques
b. 1949
radio producer
Julien Vidot
b. 1982
racing driver
Bruno Lanvin
b. 1954
researcher
Abel Goumba
1926 – 2009
politician
Claude Issorat
b. 1966
athletics competitor
Charles Fries
b. 1962
diplomat
Matthieu Lagrive
b. 1979
motorcycle racer
Jean Hyacinthe Vincent
1862 – 1950
university teacher
Denys Puech
1854 – 1942
sculptor
Jean-Pierre Dufresne
b. 1945
athletics competitor
Suzanne Chaisemartin
1921 – 2017
organist
Jean-Pierre Maurin
1822 – 1894
violinist
Guillaume Malbecque
1400 – 1465
composer
Olivier Zahm
b. 1964
editor
Jean Pierre Capron
1921 – 1997
painter
Christine Albanel
b. 1955
politician
Adèle Duchâtel
1782 – 1860
Claude Bourdin
1943 – 2025
politician
Guy Friedrich
1928 – 2021
association football player
Jacques Madubost
1944 – 2018
sport shooter
Léonard Morel-Ladeuil
1820 – 1888
sculptor
Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle
1710 – 1791
mathematician
Jean Keller
1905 – 1990
middle-distance runner
Laurent Sempéré
b. 1985
rugby union player
Émile-Justin Menier
1826 – 1881
politician
Kevin Sommer
b. 1989
association football player
Méhée de La Touche
1762 – 1826
diplomat
Alexandre de Villeneuve
1677 – 1756
composer
Henri of Lorraine, Count of Brionne
1661 – 1712
aristocrat
Jean-Christophe Bouet
b. 1983
association football player
William Sery
b. 1988
association football player
Sylvie Yvert
b. 1964
writer
Jean Marot
1619 – 1679
architect
Jean-Alexandre Talazac
1853 – 1892
opera singer
Sixtus of Reims
presbyter
Jean Troisier
1881 – 1945
physician
Gérard Granel
1930 – 2000
linguist
Bernard Laporte-Fray
b. 1956
entrepreneur
Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol
1829 – 1870
journalist
Robert Défossé
1909 – 1973
association football player
Jean de Maleplane
1907 – 1978
racing automobile driver
Joseph Michel
1821 – 1885
politician
Kévin Aubeneau
b. 1989
association football player
Pierre Jacquinot
1910 – 2002
physicist
Marc Burty
1827 – 1903
composer
Alexis Debat
b. 1977
consultant
Georges Friedel
1865 – 1933
mineralogist
Germaine Brée
1907 – 2001
university teacher
Pierre Fourmanoir
1924 – 2007
agronomist
Théophraste Renaudot
1586 – 1653
journalist
Léonor Serraille
b. 1986
screenwriter
Antoinette de Maignelais
1434 – 1470
aristocrat
Jules Lefèvre-Deumier
1797 – 1857
writer
Guillaume Cossou
b. 1979
karateka
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
1792 – 1870
poet
Pierre Alphonse Laurent
1813 – 1854
mathematician
Gaëtan Deneuve
b. 1985
association football player
Robert Lefèvre
1755 – 1830
painter
Maëlle Garbino
b. 1996
association football player
Émilie Guerel
b. 1983
politician
Paul Gavarni
1804 – 1866
caricaturist
Edgar Brandt
1880 – 1960
industrialist
Thomas Monconduit
b. 1991
association football player
Maurice Mességué
1921 – 2017
writer
Jules Drach
1871 – 1949
mathematician
Antoine André Louis Reynaud
1771 – 1844
mathematician
Armel Hostiou
b. 1976
film director
Alain Bernheim
1931 – 2022
pianist
Bastien Coriton
b. 1981
politician
Georges Rochegrosse
1859 – 1938
painter
Gilles Jalabert
b. 1958
amateur wrestler
Henri Maréchal
1842 – 1924
composer
Shana Chossenotte
b. 2005
association football player
Armand Jung
1950 – 2019
politician
Austrebertha
630 – 704
nun
Esther Duflo
b. 1972
economist
Clotilde Hesme
b. 1979
actor
Cédric Hervé
b. 1979
sport cyclist
Michèle Kahn
b. 1940
writer
Dan Nguyen
b. 1982
engineer
Bernard Helffer
b. 1949
mathematician
Auguste Jean Ameil
1776 – 1822
military officer
Lamine Ba
b. 1997
association football player
Erik Desmazieres
b. 1948
printmaker
François Raguenet
1660 – 1722
art historian
Didier Gallet
b. 1945
rower
Jérôme Charvet
actor
Abraham-Louis Breguet
1747 – 1823
watchmaker
Charles Loupot
1892 – 1962
poster artist
Annie Soisbault
1934 – 2012
racing automobile driver
Jean-Pierre Pichard
1945 – 2021
teacher
Julia Daudet
1844 – 1940
writer