France
People of this nationality
Julie d'Aubigny
1670 – 1707
actor
Claude Dulong
1922 – 2017
historian
Jean-Claude Gérard
b. 1944
music educator
Roland Bénabou
b. 1957
economist
Thomas Vallez
b. 1996
badminton player
Laurent Riboulet
1871 – 1960
tennis player
Pierre Georget
1917 – 1964
sport cyclist
Maurice Long
1866 – 1923
politician
Ary Abittan
b. 1974
comedian
Nassim Mendil
b. 1979
association football player
Ségolène Berger
b. 1978
tennis player
Alexandre Cabanel
1823 – 1889
painter
Louis Martin-Chauffier
1894 – 1980
journalist
Jeanne Manet
1917 – 2012
actor
Carole Martinez
b. 1966
writer
Léonce Laugier
1829 – 1900
colonial administrator
Arthur Maury
1844 – 1907
publisher
Bosh
b. 1992
rapper
Antoinette Sachs
1897 – 1986
painter
Jean-Marie Winling
b. 1947
actor
Claire Lejeune
b. 1994
politician
Pierre L'Enfant
1704 – 1787
painter
Dimitri Storoge
b. 1977
actor
Juliette de La Genière
1927 – 2022
art historian
Suzanne Wesse
1914 – 1942
translator
René Riffaud
1898 – 2007
military personnel
Pierre Renoir
1885 – 1952
stage actor
Jean Baptiste de Caux of Blacquetot
1723 – 1796
military personnel
Céline Arnauld
1885 – 1952
poet
Demon
b. 1977
musician
Charlotte of Bourbon
1546 – 1582
Jean-Paul Viguier
b. 1946
architect
Pierre Brice
1929 – 2015
singer
Louis Schweitzer
1942 – 2025
official
Philippe Lopes-Curval
1951 – 2023
film director
Jean de Beaugué
writer
Alain Huetz de Lemps
1926 – 2024
geographer
Eugène Lefebvre
1868 – 1921
politician
Jean Dreux
canoeist
Édouard Brisebarre
1815 – 1871
playwright
Isabella of Aragon
1248 – 1271
Philippe Hadengue
1932 – 2021
painter
Adélaïde Dufrénoy
1765 – 1825
poet
Duchess Marie Thérèse of Württemberg
b. 1934
aristocrat
Tom Duponchelle
b. 1996
association football player
Paul Dognin
1847 – 1931
lepidopterist
Guillaume Bélibaste
1280 – 1321
clergyman
Claudius Hollyband
1534 – 1594
lexicographer
Bryan Alaphilippe
b. 1995
sport cyclist
Joseph Rivière
b. 1971
politician
David Martin
1639 – 1721
theologian
Claude Paris
1808 – 1866
composer
Frédéric Dubois
1760 – 1822
painter
Daniel Arasse
1944 – 2003
art historian
Romain Gagliazzo
b. 1953
rugby league player
Jacques Glassmann
b. 1962
association football player
Maud Simonnot
b. 1979
writer
Yves Guyot
1843 – 1928
economist
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz
1807 – 1876
painter
Jean-Baptiste Godart
1775 – 1825
lepidopterist
Charles Gaulthier
1889 – 1952
athlete
Robert Florey
1900 – 1979
actor
Xavier Bougarel
b. 1965
consultant
Chantal Lafon
b. 1965
rower
Édouard François
b. 1957
architect
Joël Bouchoucha
b. 1976
association football player
Edmond Locard
1877 – 1966
criminologist
Antoine Bonifaci
1931 – 2021
association football player
Nadège Beausson-Diagne
b. 1972
actor
Marion Laborde
b. 1986
basketball player
Ricardo Faty
b. 1986
association football player
Henri Matisse
1869 – 1954
painter
Roland Clauws
1933 – 2004
association football player
George Heinrich Gottlieb Jahr
1800 – 1875
physician
Jean de Lalande
1620 – 1646
regular cleric
Gustave Crauck
1827 – 1905
sculptor
Léonide Moguy
1899 – 1976
film director
Leila Piccard
b. 1971
alpine skier
Didier Lecour Grandmaison
1889 – 1917
fighter pilot
Marie Robine
1350 – 1399
mystic
Georges Rasetti
1851 – 1938
painter
Jean Luret
1942 – 2021
film producer
Edmond Wallace
1876 – 1915
fencer
Jean Arnault
b. 1951
diplomat
Émile Coornaert
1886 – 1980
journalist
Théophile Seyrig
1843 – 1923
engineer
Philippe Lefait
b. 1953
journalist
Claude Jourdan
1803 – 1873
zoologist
Jules Chappaz
b. 1999
cross-country skier
Philippe Grimbert
b. 1948
psychoanalyst
Hersende de Champagné
1060 – 1114
nun
Élisabeth Bouissonade
politician
Adolphe Alésina
b. 1969
rugby union player
Roger Guérillot
1904 – 1971
politician
Princess Louise d'Artois
1819 – 1864
Georges Vedel
1910 – 2002
jurist
Louis Philipon de La Madelaine
1734 – 1818
chansonnier
Jean-Luc Brunel
1946 – 2022
model agent
Martin Douillard
b. 1985
association football player
Jean-Michel Brard
b. 1968
politician