France
People of this nationality
Eugène Frouhins
1888 – 1966
actor
Aurelian of Réôme
800 – 850
musicologist
Robert de La Rochefoucauld
1923 – 2012
French resistance fighter
Véronique Brouquier
b. 1957
fencer
Nicolas-Henri Tardieu
1674 – 1749
engraver
Brune Poirson
b. 1982
politician
Chilla
b. 1994
singer
Jacques-Charles de Fitz-James
1743 – 1805
military officer
Jean Mignon
printmaker
José Marajo
b. 1954
athletics competitor
Ellen Andrée
1856 – 1933
stage actor
Anthony Rouault
b. 2001
association football player
Lekain
1729 – 1778
stage actor
Lucienne Jourfier
1923 – 2017
opera singer
Yasmine d'Ouezzan
1913 – 1997
cue sports player
Jean-Paul James
b. 1952
Catholic priest
Pierre-Nicolas Brisset
1810 – 1890
painter
Remi Dujardin
b. 1997
association football player
Christophe Dussart
b. 1976
association football player
Jean Roque
1880 – 1925
painter
Anne Demerson
1786 – 1872
actor
Raphaël Pujol-Siwane
b. 1984
triathlete
Solange Sanfourche
1922 – 2013
resistance fighter
Charles Domergue
1914 – 2009
speleologist
René Urtreger
1934 – 2026
jazz pianist
Camille Van Marcke
b. 1884
sport cyclist
Anne Serre
b. 1960
writer
Louis Guingot
1864 – 1948
painter
Henri Stoffel
1883 – 1972
racing automobile driver
Alfred Agache
1843 – 1915
painter
Jean Bagot
1591 – 1664
writer
Alain Escoffier
1949 – 1977
political activist
Pierre Colombier
1896 – 1958
film director
Adrien Barthe
1828 – 1898
composer
Stéphane Sarrazin
b. 1974
rally driver
Laurent Hilaire
b. 1962
artistic director
Hugh I, Count of Rethel
1040 – 1118
aristocrat
Thérèse Liotard
1949 – 2026
stage actor
Gaston Moch
1859 – 1935
linguist
Ennemond Gaultier
1575 – 1651
composer
Jean-Marc Calvet
b. 1965
artist
Darius Paul Dassault
1882 – 1969
military personnel
Claude Domeizel
b. 1940
politician
Marien Leschi
1903 – 1971
French resistance fighter
Jean Boinebroke of Douai
1201 – 1285
politician
René-Jean Chauffard
1920 – 1972
actor
Benoit Clair
b. 1953
journalist
Jean Delobel
1933 – 2013
politician
Jean-Baptiste du Plessis d'Argentré
1720 – 1805
Catholic priest
Geoffrey I of Villehardouin
1169 – 1229
Francis Blanche
1921 – 1974
actor
Vincent Clerc
b. 1981
rugby union player
Samuel Rousseau
1853 – 1904
composer
Benoît Hamon
b. 1967
politician
Josiane Zerubia
b. 1957
computer scientist
Paul Sibra
1889 – 1951
painter
Bernard Vallée
1945 – 2021
fencer
Julia Chanourdie
b. 1996
rock climber
Paul Schützenberger
1829 – 1897
chemist
Frédéric Langrenay
1899 – 1985
athletics competitor
Marie Orensanz
b. 1936
artist
Georges Charachidzé
1930 – 2010
linguist
Eye Haidara
b. 1983
film actor
Jean Courtial
1903 – 1966
physician
Jean Le Mercier
politician
Thibault de Montaigu
b. 1978
journalist
Auguste Duméril
1812 – 1870
entomologist
Théodore Monod
1902 – 2000
explorer
Jacqueline Roque
1926 – 1986
choreographer
Suzanne Buisson
1883 – 1944
politician
Saïd Hamich
b. 1986
film director
André Zoete
b. 1931
amateur wrestler
Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène
b. 1947
mathematician
Désiré Georges Jean Marie Bois
1856 – 1946
botanist
Gabriel Tissot
1886 – 1983
Catholic priest
Stéphanie Michelini
actor
André Grisoni
1886 – 1975
politician
Christian Faure
b. 1954
film director
Charles Rihoux
b. 1998
swimmer
Jean-Charles Cazin
1841 – 1901
painter
René Auguste Constantin de Renneville
1650 – 1723
writer
Stéphane Besle
b. 1984
association football player
Charles Oudinot
1791 – 1863
politician
Marcus Child
1792 – 1859
businessperson
Julien Perrin
b. 1985
association football player
Paul Louis Poty
1889 – 1962
ornithologist
Jackson Chanet
b. 1978
boxer
Jacques Dejean
1919 – 2013
violinist
Serge Letchimy
b. 1953
politician
Emmanuelle Debever
1963 – 2023
actor
Nicolas Planque
b. 1976
rower
Emmanuel Louis Nicolas Viollet-le-Duc
1781 – 1857
poet
Charles Léon Godeby
1866 – 1952
painter
Louis Couty
1854 – 1884
physiologist
Marie-Catherine Girod
b. 1949
pianist
Jean-Pierre Mourer
1897 – 1947
politician
Nicolas Hénard
b. 1964
skipper
Jean-Vincent Verdonnet
1923 – 2013
poet
George Albert Bazaine-Hayter
1843 – 1914
military personnel
Pierre Uytterhoeven
b. 1925
screenwriter