France
People of this nationality
Michel Orcel
b. 1952
writer
Ludovico Dorigny
1654 – 1742
painter
Mickaël Buscher
b. 1987
association football player
Jean Henri Georges Laguerre
1858 – 1912
politician
Kays Ruiz-Atil
b. 2002
association football player
Antoine Jimenez
1929 – 2019
rugby league player
Gérard Landry
1912 – 1999
film actor
Pierrette Lalanne
b. 1935
model
Lucien Polastron
b. 1944
historian
François Biensan
b. 1945
trumpeter
Pierre-Marie Pory-Papy
1805 – 1874
politician
Jules Alfred Pierrot Deseilligny
1867 – 1918
astronomer
Christophe Revault
1972 – 2021
association football player
Conrad Kilian
1898 – 1950
geologist
Chaouki Ben Saada
b. 1984
association football player
Raphaël Trémouilhe
1891 – 1978
politician
Jürg Kreienbühl
1932 – 2007
painter
Jacques Arnoux
1938 – 2019
athletics competitor
Michelle Perrot
b. 1928
historian
Yoram Zague
b. 2006
association football player
Nicolas Besch
b. 1984
ice hockey player
Fadela Amara
b. 1964
politician
Jean Espariat
1747 – 1827
politician
David Hendrik Chassé
1765 – 1849
politician
Agnès Laroche
1965 – 2023
writer
François d'Orléans-Longueville, duc de Fronsac
1570 – 1631
aristocrat
Élie Buzyn
1929 – 2022
surgeon
Bintou Dembélé
b. 1975
dancer
Jules Édouard Valtat
1838 – 1871
sculptor
Grégory Labille
b. 1968
politician
Jean-Pierre Guignon
1702 – 1774
composer
Max Cohen
1932 – 2002
sport cyclist
Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de Lafond
1730 – 1810
physicist
Marwa Loud
b. 1996
singer
Pascal Bomati
b. 1973
rugby league player
Geneviève Gaillard
b. 1947
politician
Denis Lambin
1519 – 1572
philologist
Serge Hutin
1929 – 1997
researcher
Philippe Antoine d'Ornano
1784 – 1863
politician
Jean-Jacques Gabut
1934 – 2024
writer
Charlotte Duplessis-Mornay
1548 – 1606
poet
Cronier
sailor
Yannick Salem
b. 1983
association football player
Georges Mathias
1826 – 1910
pianist
Jean-François Boclé
1971 – 2026
artist
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
1697 – 1782
cartographer
David Janin
b. 1977
rugby union player
Christophe Mendy
b. 1971
boxer
Jean Bouchet
1476 – 1557
poet
Pascal Mariini
b. 1960
association football player
Henri Lucien Jumelle
1866 – 1935
botanist
Anne-Sophie Bion
b. 2000
film editor
Erwan Péron
b. 1980
rower
Évelyne Grandjean
b. 1939
actor
Didier Dinart
b. 1977
handball player
Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle
1778 – 1865
painter
Michel-Étienne Turgot
1690 – 1751
magistrate
Philippe Boccara
b. 1959
kayaker
Christophe Di Pompeo
b. 1964
politician
Médéric de Vasselot de Régné
1837 – 1919
forester
Tom Spring
b. 2002
rugby union player
Joseph Valentin Boussinesq
1842 – 1929
mathematician
Sigiramnus
Françoise Bernard
1921 – 2021
television presenter
Odette Bancilhon
1908 – 1993
astronomer
Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
b. 1982
politician
Numa Andoire
1908 – 1994
association football player
Auguste Mariette
1821 – 1881
Egyptologist
Léo Marjane
1912 – 2016
singer
Pierre Houles
1945 – 1986
photographer
Marion Bertrand
b. 1984
alpine skier
Lucien Finel
1928 – 2013
French resistance fighter
Paul Léautaud
1872 – 1956
writer
Jean-Philippe Lecat
1935 – 2011
politician
Henri Huchard
1844 – 1910
cardiologist
Charles Mewès
1858 – 1914
architect
Claudine Doury
b. 1959
photographer
Jan Henryk Wołodkowicz
1765 – 1825
military officer
Charles-Louis Corbet
1758 – 1808
sculptor
Pierre Vergniaud
1753 – 1793
politician
Lucien Laurent
1907 – 2005
association football player
Anaël Lardy
b. 1987
basketball player
John II of Brienne
1227 – 1296
Jacques Martin
1906 – 2001
peace activist
Mireille Alcantara
opera singer
Guillaume Ferrus
1784 – 1861
psychiatrist
Jan Kazimierz Danysz
1884 – 1914
physicist
Hadrien Salvan
b. 1997
swimmer
Charles Defrémery
1822 – 1883
university teacher
Alexandre Delettre
b. 1997
sport cyclist
Céline Roos
1953 – 2021
chess player
Bernard Chapuis
b. 1945
journalist
Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
1934 – 2018
poet
Marguerite Chapuy
1852 – 1936
opera singer
Albert Cim
1845 – 1924
literary critic
Joseph Pothier
1835 – 1923
musicologist
Georges Mesmin
1926 – 2019
politician
Edme Mentelle
1730 – 1815
geographer
Marie-Noëlle Lienemann
b. 1951
politician
Louise Drevet
1835 – 1898
novelist