France
People of this nationality
Will Yeguete
b. 1991
basketball player
Thomas Lauth
1758 – 1826
physician
Djama Ali Moussa
1916 – 1959
politician
Ernest Grandidier
1833 – 1912
art collector
Jean-Michel Ponzio
b. 1967
comics artist
Madeleine Charnaux
1902 – 1943
aircraft pilot
Jean-Luc Lambourde
b. 1980
association football player
Yoann Bonato
b. 1983
rally driver
Jacob Anatoli
1194 – 1256
translator
Adelbert von Chamisso
1781 – 1838
botanist
Stéphane Richard
b. 1961
entrepreneur
Pierre-Robert Le Cornier de Cideville
1693 – 1776
magistrate
François Chopart
1743 – 1795
surgeon
Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle
1684 – 1761
military personnel
Marcel Kappeler
b. 1881
amateur wrestler
Georges Guibourg
1891 – 1970
singer
Tatiana Riabouchinska
1917 – 2000
ballet dancer
Christophe Prazuck
b. 1960
military officer
Charles-Julien Lioult de Chênedollé
1769 – 1833
poet
François Lissarrague
1947 – 2021
classical archaeologist
Jocelyne Roupioz
b. 1955
kayaker
Florent Barle
b. 1986
sport cyclist
Raymond Contrastin
1925 – 1985
rugby league player
Soraya Chaouch
b. 1988
artistic gymnast
Germaine Martinelli
1887 – 1964
opera singer
Wilson Isidor
b. 2000
association football player
Adolphe Grisel
1872 – 1942
athletics competitor
Marie-Guillemine Benoist
1768 – 1826
painter
Dimitri Tikovoi
b. 1950
songwriter
Pierre Léaud
1909 – 1996
writer
Philippe Garrel
b. 1948
actor
Jordan Luce
b. 1993
basketball player
DyE
musician
Marie Décugis
1884 – 1969
tennis player
Philippe Descombes
racing driver
Lilian Compan
b. 1977
association football player
Sylvain Eugène Raynal
1867 – 1939
military personnel
Éric Drouet
truck driver
Guillaume de Nogaret
1260 – 1313
jurist
Pascal Théophile
b. 1970
athletics competitor
André Dubosc
1866 – 1935
actor
Bernard de Montfaucon
1655 – 1741
palaeographer
François Vatel
1631 – 1671
master of ceremonies
François Annibal II d'Estrées
1623 – 1687
diplomat
Eugène Girardet
1853 – 1907
painter
Eva Ionesco
b. 1965
film director
Mathieu Ganio
b. 1984
ballet dancer
Hélène de Beauvoir
1910 – 2001
painter
Jean Debucourt
1894 – 1958
stage actor
Janine Magnin-Lamouche
1920 – 2022
athletics competitor
Mathieu Laine
b. 1975
entrepreneur
David Mélé
b. 1985
rugby union player
Marie-Claire Caron-Harant
b. 1945
association football player
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
1900 – 1958
nuclear physicist
Gerald Messadié
1931 – 2018
journalist
Claudius Crozet
1789 – 1864
civil engineer
Roland Desné
1931 – 2020
philosopher
Delphine Arnould de Cool-Fortin
1830 – 1921
painter
Alfred Prunier
1848 – 1925
chef
Ilana Löwy
b. 1948
women's rights activist
Thierry Tusseau
b. 1958
association football player
Louise Thuliez
1881 – 1966
school teacher
Waniss Taïbi
b. 2002
association football player
Bertrand Piton
b. 1970
association football player
Kalash l'Afro
b. 1975
singer
Liliane Gaschet
b. 1962
sprinter
Jean Christophe Collin
1754 – 1806
military personnel
Charles Paliard
b. 1968
figure skater
Gérard Troupeau
1927 – 2010
linguist
Bernard Seurre
1795 – 1867
sculptor
Patrick Charnay
b. 1954
geneticist
Marcus Gaither
1961 – 2020
basketball player
Thérèse de Kermel
1874 – 1955
tennis player
René Laloux
1929 – 2004
animator
Léo Trespeuch
b. 1987
snowboarder
Charles Graux
1852 – 1882
classical philologist
Henri Villat
1879 – 1972
mathematician
Odo of Cambrai
1100 – 1113
writer
Pascal Camadini
b. 1972
association football player
Laurent Clozel
b. 1953
mathematician
Alexandre de Vendôme
1598 – 1629
Catholic priest
Jean-Didier Vincent
1935 – 2024
neurobiologist
Jean-Luc Masbou
b. 1963
cartoonist
Auguste-Lucien Vérité
1806 – 1887
organ builder
Jean-Pierre-Antoine Rey
1767 – 1842
military officer
Claude Fournier
1745 – 1825
writer
Marie Pélissier
1707 – 1749
opera singer
Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne
1743 – 1793
pastor
Léon Humblot
1852 – 1914
botanist
Pierre Delsuc
1902 – 1986
lawyer
Auguste Toulmouche
1829 – 1890
painter
Maureen Nisima
b. 1981
fencer
Jean Manuel Mayen
1930 – 2011
sport cyclist
Julia Mesplede
b. 2002
ice hockey player
Madame de Villette
1584 – 1663
Harry Baur
1880 – 1943
film actor
Christian Azzi
1926 – 2020
jazz musician
Jacques d'Allonville
1671 – 1732
mathematician
Jean-François Beltramini
1948 – 2014
association football player
Gerald V of Armagnac
1150 – 1219
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