France
People of this nationality
Mai Trung Thu
1906 – 1980
painter
Karel II van Montmorency
1702 – 1764
marshal
Étienne Becker
1936 – 1995
cinematographer
Christian Brincourt
1935 – 2025
journalist
Émilie Charmy
1878 – 1974
painter
Mathieu Boogaerts
b. 1970
singer-songwriter
Jean Daubigny
1948 – 2024
official
Philippe Caffieri
1634 – 1716
sculptor
Dhoihir Dhoulkamal
b. 1969
politician
Jean-Claude Combaz
1856 – 1926
Catholic missionary
Patrick Blanc
b. 1972
ski mountaineer
Francis Lapp
b. 1958
electrical engineer
Frédéric Dindeleux
b. 1974
association football player
Harold Kay
1926 – 1990
actor
Jacques Ferrand
1575 – 1700
physician
Marie-Charlotte de Beauvau
1729 – 1807
memoirist
Evens Stievenart
b. 1983
racing driver
Symphora Béhi
b. 1986
athletics competitor
Roger Grand
1874 – 1962
historian
Daniel Masson
1897 – 1980
sport cyclist
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
1924 – 2006
journalist
Henri Pierre
1918 – 1994
journalist
André Bareau
1921 – 1993
professor
Joris Gnagnon
b. 1997
association football player
Auguste Évrard
b. 2000
politician
Louis Edmond Duranty
1833 – 1880
writer
Pierre-Louis Binet de Marcognet
1765 – 1854
military personnel
Édouard Ferlet
b. 1971
pianist
Jean Benoit Meybeck
1973 – 2026
visual artist
Olivia Côte
b. 1974
actor
Jonathan Bourhis
1990 – 2009
basketball player
Paul Legrand
1816 – 1898
mime artist
Maes
b. 1995
rapper
Jean Lartéguy
1920 – 2011
writer
Zdenka Buben
1895 – 1988
social worker
Jean Moreau de Séchelles
1690 – 1760
civil servant
Ernest Wickersheimer
1880 – 1965
librarian
Franck Esposito
b. 1971
swimmer
IFBB Best in the World
b. 1983
bodybuilder
Raphaëlle Grenier
b. 1996
ice hockey player
Claude Antoine Gabriel, duc de Choiseul-Stainville
1760 – 1838
politician
Grégory Dutil
b. 1980
association football player
Cédric Fauré
b. 1979
association football player
Simone Melchior Cousteau
1919 – 1990
explorer
Édouard Carmignac
b. 1947
banker
François Deguelt
1932 – 2014
singer
Henri II de Rohan
1579 – 1638
diplomat
Christian Zeimert
1934 – 2020
painter
Jean-Pierre Romeu
b. 1948
rugby union player
Diane Kurys
b. 1948
screenwriter
Lucile Schmid
b. 1962
politician
François Rousseau
b. 1967
photographer
Noël-Étienne Henry
1767 – 1832
chemist
Achille Richard
1794 – 1852
botanist
Antoine Deidier
1670 – 1746
physician
Thibault Lassalle
b. 1987
rugby union player
Henri de Gramont
1907 – 1995
aristocrat
Bernard Sinclair
1937 – 2015
opera singer
Jean-Michel Gaillard
1946 – 2005
official
Roger de Barbarin
1860 – 1925
sport shooter
Hildebert of Lavardin
1056 – 1133
poet
Raymond de Lafage
1656 – 1684
draftsperson
Maurice Maillot
1906 – 1968
film actor
Steeven Ribéry
b. 1995
association football player
Marguerite de Bourbon
1438 – 1483
aristocrat
Robert Desmettre
1901 – 1936
swimmer
Kamil Rustam
b. 1962
musician
François Bonvin
1817 – 1887
painter
René Bezard
1920 – 2008
film producer
Louis Leopold Poniatowski
1864 – 1954
Marc Culetto
b. 1956
association football coach
Paul Dissard
1852 – 1926
epigrapher
Flavie Lemaître
b. 1988
association football player
Damien Carême
b. 1960
politician
Louis Bonniot de Fleurac
1876 – 1965
athletics competitor
Baptiste Bonnet
1844 – 1925
writer
Bernard Campan
b. 1958
actor
Jean-Philippe Blondel
b. 1964
writer
Eugenie Sellers Strong
1860 – 1943
archaeologist
Charles-Étienne Pesselier
1712 – 1763
economist
Jean-Marie Demange
1943 – 2008
politician
Johaneko Louis-Jean
b. 2004
association football player
Catherine Joly
b. 1953
pianist
Henri Pottier
1912 – 2000
architect
Fabrice Nsakala
b. 1990
association football player
Bernard Derosier
b. 1939
politician
Sandrine Bailly
b. 1979
biathlete
Françoise Minkowska
1882 – 1950
psychiatrist
Valentin Tournet
b. 1996
conductor
Jacques Monory
1924 – 2018
painter
Pierre Riché
1921 – 2019
historian
Martial Bild
b. 1961
politician
Auguste Doriot
1863 – 1955
engineer
Anne Marie François Barbuat de Maison-Rouge de Boisgérard
1767 – 1799
military officer
Herculine Barbin
1838 – 1868
governess
Abel Quentin
b. 2000
lawyer
Marcel Autaa
1902 – 1959
sport cyclist
Jean-Charles-Alexandre Moreau
1762 – 1810
architect
Jean-Baptiste Pastré
1804 – 1877
politician
Yannick Kerlogot
b. 1970
school teacher