France
People of this nationality
Sidi Fredj Halimi
1876 – 1957
rabbi
Marie Battu
1837 – 1919
opera singer
Raoul de Navery
1831 – 1885
novelist
Clément Darbo
b. 1986
rugby union player
Émile Jourdan
1860 – 1931
painter
Jacques Chazot
1928 – 1993
choreographer
Jules Renard
1864 – 1910
writer
François Frédéric Campana
1771 – 1807
military officer
Louis Laguerre
1663 – 1721
painter
Jean Klein
1912 – 1998
writer
Thilda Harlor
1871 – 1970
journalist
Frédéric Tranchand
b. 1988
orienteer
Jean Feldmann
1905 – 1978
marine biologist
Salomon Schapira
1910 – 1944
resistance fighter
Brigitte Byrd
b. 1959
poet
René Léonard
1889 – 1965
racing automobile driver
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
1675 – 1755
courtier
Colin Biard
1460 – 1525
architect
Vincent Restencourt
b. 1981
figure skater
Sambou Yatabaré
b. 1989
association football player
Zaho de Sagazan
b. 1999
singer-songwriter
Pierre Sabatier
1925 – 2003
sculptor
Émile Dewoitine
1892 – 1979
military flight engineer
Louis, Duke of Vendôme
1612 – 1669
Catholic priest
Pierre Mendès France
1907 – 1982
politician
Michel Magne
1930 – 1984
composer
Samir Dahmani
b. 1991
athletics competitor
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli
1824 – 1886
painter
Jean-Pierre Decool
b. 1952
politician
Jacques Cavallier
b. 1962
perfumer
Adrien Delorme
1722 – 1791
cabinetmaker
Alain Frachon
b. 1950
journalist
Louis de La Coste
1675 – 1757
composer
Colbert Marlot
b. 1963
association football player
Jean Le Vacher
1619 – 1683
diplomat
Alexandre Gillet
b. 1967
actor
Vincent Desagnat
b. 1976
actor
Étienne-Louis Charbonnaux
1806 – 1873
Catholic priest
Jean-Victor Castor
b. 1962
politician
Liliane Montagne
b. 1931
artistic gymnast
Roger Neubauer
1938 – 2023
water polo player
Charles Lasègue
1816 – 1883
physician
Joseph-Alfred Foulon
1823 – 1893
Catholic priest
Valérie Bonneton
b. 1970
television actor
Charles Victor Woirgard
1764 – 1810
military personnel
Paul-Émile Bécat
1885 – 1960
painter
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
1774 – 1833
painter
Claude Lutz
1942 – 2022
canoeist
Toufik Mekhalfi
b. 2002
squash player
Yvan Le Bolloc'h
b. 1961
actor
Sylvain Garel
b. 1956
politician
Salif Cissé
b. 1992
association football player
Pierre Lasserre
1867 – 1930
journalist
Jean Bossu
1912 – 1983
architect
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1770 – 1852
painter
Léo Gantelet
1940 – 2025
poet
Jean-Joseph Bellel
1816 – 1898
painter
Sandrine Brétigny
b. 1984
association football player
Victor Lardanchet
1863 – 1936
rugby union player
Paul Androuet du Cerceau
1623 – 1710
copper engraver
Michel Peissel
1937 – 2011
explorer
Umut Bozok
b. 1996
association football player
Anka Muhlstein
b. 1935
historian
Camille Ournac
1845 – 1925
politician
Pierre Allorge
1891 – 1944
botanist
Olivier Chaplain
b. 1982
rugby union player
Jenny Vertpré
1797 – 1865
actor
Frederuna
885 – 917
consort
Philippe Frémeaux
1949 – 2020
journalist
Joseph Engel
film actor
Jean-Louis Baudry
1930 – 2015
writer
Myziane Maolida
b. 1999
association football player
Marie Duval
1847 – 1890
caricaturist
Koba Leïn Koindredi
b. 2001
association football player
André Lefèbvre
1894 – 1964
military flight engineer
Lucien Gourong
1943 – 2021
writer
Philippe Jean
b. 1959
association football player
Theodore Wildanger
1905 – 1989
painter
François Devienne
1759 – 1803
composer
Hawise of Normandy
970 – 1034
Alain Aspect
b. 1947
physicist
Ali Mourade
b. 1984
association football player
Sergio de Castro
1922 – 2012
artist
Merry-Joseph Blondel
1781 – 1853
painter
Noël Delberghe
1897 – 1965
swimmer
Thierry Foucaud
b. 1954
politician
Pierre Alexandre
b. 1964
journalist
Joannès Marietton
1860 – 1914
politician
Pierre Méhaignerie
b. 1939
politician
Loris Gréaud
b. 1979
visual artist
Mélinda Jacques-Szabo
b. 1971
handball player
Marc Eyraud
1924 – 2005
actor
Jessica Ekomane
sound artist
Pierre Ruby
1932 – 2023
sport cyclist
Marcel Barbeault
b. 1941
serial killer
Jean de Gagny
1401 – 1549
theologian
Paul Barguet
1915 – 2012
Egyptologist
Armand de Pontmartin
1811 – 1890
journalist
Sebastian
b. 1981
club DJ
Agrippa d'Aubigné
1552 – 1630
writer