France
People of this nationality
Billy Eidi
b. 1955
pianist
Eliot Berthon
b. 1992
ice hockey player
Philippe de Chérisey
1923 – 1985
actor
Mustapha Sangaré
b. 1998
association football player
Kader Belarbi
b. 1962
ballet dancer
Clément-Louis-Marie-Anne Belle
1722 – 1806
painter
Audrey Arno
1942 – 2012
actor
Manuel Carpentier
b. 1959
rugby union player
Mireille Capitaine
mathematician
Jean Henri Magne
1804 – 1885
botanist
Paul Bénichou
1908 – 2001
literary critic
Damien Maudet
b. 1996
politician
Jean-Christophe Combe
b. 1981
politician
Sofiane Oumiha
b. 1994
boxer
Jules Jamin
1818 – 1886
physicist
Denise Colomb
1902 – 2004
photographer
Joachim Trouabal
b. 2000
rugby union player
Ibrahim Ba
b. 1973
association football player
Henri Peuchot
1889 – 1978
field hockey player
Marcel Pérès
1898 – 1974
film actor
Charb
1967 – 2015
journalist
Sandrine Daudet
1972 – 2019
short-track speed skater
Edme Mallet
1713 – 1755
translator
Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy
1757 – 1841
painter
Évariste de Parny
1753 – 1814
poet
Grégory Proment
b. 1978
association football player
Aimable Denhez
1914 – 1977
sport cyclist
Dupland
skipper
Jacques Lusseyran
1924 – 1971
autobiographer
Louis Vaudable
1902 – 1983
restaurateur
Annika Bruna
b. 1956
politician
Jacques Beaulieu
1651 – 1719
physician
François Richard
1580 – 1650
composer
Just Becquet
1829 – 1907
sculptor
Nora Lafi
b. 1965
historian
Émile Wartel
1834 – 1868
opera singer
Asher ben David
b. 1150
theologian
Eugène Osty
1874 – 1938
physician
Honorat de Porchères Laugier
1572 – 1653
poet
Jean-Pierre Latz
1691 – 1754
cabinetmaker
François Petitdemange
1945 – 2025
karateka
Julien Buge
1913 – 1940
association football player
Camille Foucaux
1906 – 1976
sport cyclist
Jean-Pierre Maransin
1770 – 1828
military officer
Elsa Barraine
1910 – 1999
composer
Jerome Jarre
b. 1990
influencer
Françoise de Langlade
1921 – 1983
fashion editor
Lise Sarfati
b. 1958
photographer
Véronique Schiltz
1942 – 2019
archaeologist
Laurie Thomassin
b. 1978
swimmer
Anne Lehoërff
b. 1968
archaeologist
Alex Métayer
1930 – 2004
comedian
Jean-François Mattei
b. 1943
politician
Paul Faure
1878 – 1960
politician
Clovis Sagot
1854 – 1913
clown
Olivier Aurenche
b. 1942
archaeologist
Georges Lech
b. 1945
association football player
François Victor Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
1686 – 1743
politician
Jean Golein
1325 – 1403
translator
Ebremaro di Thérouanne
1100 – 1123
Catholic priest
Jules Moinaux
1815 – 1895
writer
Henry Hermand
1924 – 2016
French resistance fighter
Jules Beau
1864 – 1932
photographer
Fabien Clain
1978 – 2019
jihadist
Romane Bohringer
b. 1973
actor
Jean Marguerite Bachelier
1751 – 1843
jurist
Jean-Christophe Rouvière
b. 1974
association football player
Geoffroy Coeur, Seigneur de Saint-Fargeau et de La Chaussee
Henri Joncourt
1922 – 1957
association football player
Anne Boixel
b. 1965
canoeist
Vladimir Golschmann
1893 – 1972
conductor
Philippe Adamov
1956 – 2020
comics artist
Joseph-Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle
1737 – 1812
journalist
Aadil Assana
b. 1993
association football player
Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville
1752 – 1821
diplomat
Gilles Jullien
1653 – 1703
organist
Charles J. V. Macé
1898 – 1919
flying ace
Claude Nau
1574 – 1605
diplomat
Arthur de Montauban
Catholic priest
Ivo of Kermartin
1253 – 1303
presbyter
Pierre Flotte
1300 – 1302
jurist
Mona Ozouf
b. 1931
historian
Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart
1741 – 1792
politician
Merguir Bardisbanian
1897 – 1969
engineer
Jean-Raymond Toso
b. 1952
sport cyclist
Najib Farssane
b. 1981
association football player
Charles Imbert
b. 1952
rower
Alphonse Louis Paul Matruchot
1863 – 1921
botanist
Énora Villard
b. 1993
squash player
Franck Dubosc
b. 1963
comedian
André Minangoy
1905 – 1985
architect
Antoine Joseph Jobert de Lamballe
1799 – 1867
physician
Vannina Crolas
civil servant
Bernard
b. 1785
actor
Henri Prévost
1904 – 1969
sport cyclist
Jacques Le Fèvre
1645 – 1716
theologian
Georges Goyau
1869 – 1939
historian of religion
Yevgeni Salias de Tournemir
1840 – 1908
writer
Edouard Teisseire
1902 – 1981
sport cyclist
Louis Testelin
1615 – 1655
painter