France
People of this nationality
Louis Andre Pichon
1771 – 1854
diplomat
Mickaël Colloredo
b. 1980
association football player
Franck Pajonkowski
b. 1964
ice hockey player
Louis Gailliard
1912 – 1996
athletics competitor
Georges Laurent
1886 – 1964
flautist
Pierre Camille Le Moine
1723 – 1800
archivist
Sébastien Martins
b. 1985
rugby league player
Georges Domercq
1931 – 2020
rugby union match official
Guy Bono
b. 1953
politician
Jean-Pierre Gury
1801 – 1866
Catholic priest
Jordan Sigismeau
b. 1992
rugby league player
Françoise de Veyrinas
1943 – 2008
politician
Saint-John Perse
1887 – 1975
poet
Catherine Arnauld
1590 – 1651
nun
Guillaume Beghin
b. 1997
association football player
Jean Clarieux
1911 – 1970
film actor
Georges Brassens
1921 – 1981
poet
Franck Pencolé
b. 1976
sport cyclist
Paul-Jacques de Bruyères-Chalabre
1734 – 1821
officer in the French Royal Navy
Anatole de Montaiglon
1824 – 1895
art historian
Denis Flahaut
b. 1978
sport cyclist
Michel Adanson
1727 – 1806
botanist
Alphonse Métérié
1887 – 1967
poet
Blaise François Pagan
1604 – 1665
architect
Pierre Raymond de Montmort
1678 – 1719
mathematician
François-Benjamin Chaussemiche
1864 – 1945
architect
Rémi Delatte
b. 1956
politician
Romane Miradoli
b. 1994
alpine skier
Florence Gossiaux
b. 1966
athletics competitor
Albert Lemaître
1865 – 1906
racing automobile driver
Henri Marret
1878 – 1964
painter
Jean-Baptiste Carrier
1756 – 1794
politician
Lionel de La Laurencie
1861 – 1933
musicologist
Arnoldo Wion
1554 – 1610
monk
Fatima Bedar
1946 – 1961
activist
Georges Lesieur
1848 – 1931
businessperson
Jonathan Midol
b. 1988
freestyle skier
Christophe Maé
b. 1975
singer
Camille Delezenne
1868 – 1932
biologist
Victor Sillon
1927 – 2021
pole vaulter
Joseph Kimhi
1105 – 1170
poet
Henri-Jacques Espérandieu
1829 – 1874
architect
Charles Vincent
1828 – 1888
chansonnier
André Jubelin
1906 – 1986
Officer of the French Navy
Pierre Mazeaud
b. 1929
politician
Charles Edward Hallé
1846 – 1914
painter
Paul Loridant
1948 – 2020
politician
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald
1911 – 1982
organist
Shirley Bousquet
b. 1976
actor
Franck Azzopardi
b. 1970
association football player
Olivier Py
b. 1965
actor
Max Claudet
1840 – 1893
sculptor
Bilal Coulibaly
b. 2004
basketball player
Pierre Charles Huguier
1804 – 1873
gynecologist
Kiki of Paris
b. 1945
photographer
Pedro José Pézerat
1801 – 1872
architect
François Curiel
b. 1948
auctioneer
Désiré
1823 – 1873
actor
Arno Santamaria
b. 1978
singer-songwriter
Yvonne Marie Elise Toussaint de Quiévrecourt
1885 – 1964
Ismaël Gharbi
b. 2004
association football player
Libéral Bruant
1636 – 1697
architect
Vincent Acapandié
b. 1990
association football player
Claude Meillassoux
1925 – 2005
anthropologist
Arnaldo Gruarin
1938 – 2025
rugby union player
Guy of Lusignan Count of Angoulême
Yves Le Grand
1908 – 1986
physicist
Arthur Dehaine
1932 – 2020
politician
Guillaume Musso
b. 1974
writer
Primat de Saint-Denis
chronicler
Jacques Perret
1540 – 1610
architect
Claude Pouteau
1724 – 1775
surgeon
René Renoult
1867 – 1946
politician
Jérôme Bel
b. 1964
choreographer
Jean de Tillière
1900 – 1974
military personnel
Hubert de Givenchy
1927 – 2018
art collector
Nicolas Eugène Géruzez
1799 – 1865
historian
Jacques Dulcy
b. 1954
equestrian
Louis Léger
1843 – 1923
linguist
Henri I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville
1568 – 1595
military leader
Grégory Lamboley
b. 1982
rugby union player
Lud Germain
1953 – 2015
actor
Maurice Raoul-Duval
1866 – 1916
polo player
Stéphane Tchalgadjieff
b. 1942
executive producer
Marc Meneau
1943 – 2020
chef
Marie-Charlotte Hippolyte de Campet de Saujon
1725 – 1800
lady-in-waiting
Ludovic Mercier
b. 1976
rugby union player
Hélène Thouy
b. 1983
politician
Théobald Chartran
1849 – 1907
painter
Sophie Alour
b. 1974
jazz saxophonist
Vafessa Fofana
b. 1992
basketball player
Eugene Weismann
1896 – 1973
flying ace
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
b. 1977
computer scientist
Julien Duvivier
1896 – 1967
film director
Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet
1723 – 1778
botanist
Dominique Besnehard
b. 1954
film producer
Hugo Constant
b. 1999
association football player
Pierric Poupet
b. 1984
basketball player
Li Tchoan King
1904 – 1971
draughts player
Jacques de Loustal
b. 1956
illustrator