France
People of this nationality
Éric Biau
b. 1964
canoeist
Pierre Loutrel
1916 – 1946
gangster
Isidore Finance
1848 – 1918
painter and varnisher
Auguste Champetier de Ribes
1882 – 1947
jurist
Paul Faure
1916 – 2007
archaeologist
Georges Poitou
1926 – 1989
mathematician
Adam Billaut
1602 – 1662
poet
Octavian Morariu
b. 1961
rugby union player
Michel Étienne Descourtilz
1775 – 1835
botanist
Patrick Préjean
b. 1944
dub actor
Claude Charles Du Tisné
1680 – 1730
explorer
Jean-Marc Deshouillers
b. 1946
mathematician
Émile Faynot
1878 – 1962
engineer
Manuel Rendón Seminario
1894 – 1982
painter
François Bachy
b. 1960
journalist
Charles de Saint-Évremond
1613 – 1703
writer
Benjamin Auffret
b. 1995
competitive diver
Pierre Blanchar
1892 – 1963
film director
Jean-René Toumelin
1942 – 2022
sports executive
Henri de Tully
1798 – 1846
playwright
Anne Lesage
b. 1969
researcher
Hippolyte Fontaine
1833 – 1910
engineer
Gaston Cornereau
1888 – 1944
fencer
Rémy-Louis Leprêtre
1878 – 1961
diplomat
Christophe Grondin
b. 1983
association football player
Rosario Murcia-Gangloff
b. 1964
long-distance runner
Charles Kuentz
1897 – 2005
military personnel
Olivier Schwartz
b. 2000
researcher
Guy Trédaniel
editor
René Toribio
1912 – 1990
politician
Yavé Cahard
b. 1957
sport cyclist
Robert Lynen
1920 – 1944
actor
Yvonne de Pfeffel
1883 – 1958
tennis player
Olivier Brouzet
b. 1972
rugby union player
Simon Abadie
b. 1978
racing driver
Charles-Marie Widor
1844 – 1937
classical composer
Jacques Hotteterre le Romain
1673 – 1763
composer
Joseph Lepaute Dagelet
1751 – 1788
astronomer
Jean Condom
b. 1960
rugby union player
Ludovic Valbon
b. 1976
rugby union player
Georges Dubois
1865 – 1934
sculptor
Séverine Foulon
1973 – 2024
athletics competitor
Roger Bastide
1898 – 1974
anthropologist
Charles Chusseau-Flaviens
1866 – 1928
photographer
Jean-Pierre Vincent
1942 – 2020
actor
Amédée Fournier
1912 – 1992
sport cyclist
Manuel Cabit
b. 1993
association football player
Blanche Ravalec
b. 1954
dub actor
Pierre-Nicolas Rolland
1761 – 1825
military personnel
Georges Gérald
1904 – 1977
rugby union player
Grégory Ursule
b. 1977
association football player
Christophe Laussucq
b. 1973
rugby union player
Anthony of Paule
1570 – 1636
religious
Sam Avezou
b. 2001
rock climber
Joan Pau Verdier
1947 – 2020
singer
André Obrecht
1899 – 1985
executioner
Pauline Klein
b. 1976
writer
Cyril Mandouki
b. 1991
association football player
Alain Plante
b. 1943
athlete
Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche
1722 – 1774
writer
Michel Montignac
1944 – 2010
writer
Raphael Mohamed
b. 1998
athletics competitor
Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans
1703 – 1752
monk
Elie Joseph Bois
1878 – 1941
journalist
Auguste Le Guennant
1881 – 1972
composer
Tehauroa
1830 – 1884
politician
Nicolas Goussé
b. 1976
association football player
Benjamin Bernheim
b. 1985
opera singer
Charles X of France
1757 – 1836
politician
Nicolas Dautricourt
b. 1977
classical violinist
Paul Collomb
1921 – 2010
painter
Elisa Beetz-Charpentier
1859 – 1949
sculptor
Ladislas de Hoyos
1939 – 2011
journalist
Léa Kergal
b. 1999
association football player
Yvonne Constant
1935 – 2023
singer
Hugh of Rhuddlan
1150 – 1190
poet
Katia Lova
1914 – 1994
actor
Aurélia Thierrée
b. 1971
actor
Vincent Dutrait
b. 1976
illustrator
Charles Matton
1931 – 2008
painter
Stéphane Hessel
1917 – 2013
diplomat
Annie Cardin
b. 1938
painter
Éric Ythier
b. 1978
entomologist
René Berthier
1912 – 2001
film actor
Henri Lambert de Thibouville
1710 – 1784
writer
Sébastien Humbert
b. 1990
politician
Alain Thébault
b. 1962
sailor
Bernard Plossu
b. 1945
photographer
Suzanne Estelle Apoil
1825 – 1902
painter
Mohammed Ghermati
b. 1897
marathon runner
Frédéric Lopez
b. 1967
radio personality
Cyril Yapi
b. 1980
association football player
Charles Rivière
1848 – 1920
painter
François-Henri de Virieu
1931 – 1997
journalist
Patricia Barbizet
b. 1955
businessperson
Eugène Giraud
1806 – 1881
painter
Grégory Pastel
b. 1990
association football player
Bernard Dubourg
1945 – 1992
linguist
Jean Coulomb
1904 – 1999
mathematician
Jean-Baptiste Languet de Gergy
1675 – 1750
presbyter