France
People of this nationality
Dan Poncet
b. 1953
painter
Marcel Rieder
1862 – 1942
painter
Louis Tellier
1886 – 1921
golfer
Aboubacar Fofana
b. 1982
association football player
Maïwenn
b. 1976
film director
Gilbert Scodeller
1931 – 1989
sport cyclist
Étienne Audibert
1888 – 1954
engineer
Louis-Nicolas Bescherelle
1802 – 1883
lexicographer
Maxime Bertrand
sport cyclist
Enzo Basilio
b. 1994
association football player
Pierre Levisse
b. 1952
athletics competitor
Joseph Désanat
1796 – 1873
writer
Sindy
b. 1995
singer
Catherine Ribeiro
1941 – 2024
actor
Philippe Lazar
1936 – 2026
epidemiologist
Isabelle Druet
b. 1979
opera singer
Jean Antoine Coquebert de Montbret
1753 – 1825
entomologist
Mickaël François
b. 1988
athletics competitor
Hélène Bergès
b. 1966
biologist
Coralie Clément
b. 1978
singer
Élodie Chabrol
b. 1982
researcher
Jean Jacques Antoine Caussin de Perceval
1759 – 1835
orientalist
François Gravé Du Pont
1560 – 1629
navigator
Louis Lliboutry
1922 – 2007
geophysicist
Ze'ev Schiff
1932 – 2007
journalist
Michel Corrette
1707 – 1795
organist
Arthur Lamothe
1928 – 2013
film director
Jacques Lassaigne
1911 – 1983
exhibition curator
Augusta Bernard
1886 – 1946
fashion designer
Jean-Luc Cairon
1962 – 2022
artistic gymnast
Bernard Chevassus-au-Louis
b. 1949
biologist
Marius Toudoire
1852 – 1922
architect
Louise Antonini
1771 – 1861
privateer
Louis de Guilhem de Castelnau, marquis de Cessac
courtier
René Monory
1923 – 2009
politician
Michaël Barré
b. 1974
association football player
René-Joseph de Tournemine
1661 – 1739
journalist
Patricia Mirallès
b. 1967
politician
Anthony Charteau
b. 1979
sport cyclist
Nils Thornander
1958 – 2022
artist
Jean-Louis Taberd
1794 – 1840
missionary
François Preziosi
1921 – 1964
humanitarian
Alexandre Mabboux
b. 1991
ski jumper
Mathurin Cherpitel
1736 – 1809
architect
Albert Malbert
1914 – 1972
film actor
Véronique Gens
b. 1966
opera singer
Eugendus
450 – 510
Willy Rovelli
b. 1980
actor
Georges de Saint-Clair
1845 – 1910
sports executive
Olivier Enjolras
b. 1971
association football player
Jules Cotard
1840 – 1889
psychiatrist
Chancelle Effa Effa
b. 2006
association football player
Henri Ponsot
1877 – 1963
diplomat
Laure Hériard-Dubreuil
b. 1977
businessperson
Maurice Lehmann
1895 – 1974
theatre director
Ramzi Aburedwan
b. 1979
musician
Auguste Pavie
1847 – 1925
explorer
Charlotte Saumaise de Chazan
1619 – 1693
poet
Dany Verissimo
b. 1982
model
Nicolas-Sébastien Adam
1705 – 1778
sculptor
Lucien Le Cam
1924 – 2000
mathematician
Bruno Marie-Rose
b. 1965
sprinter
Stéphane Molliens
b. 1974
para table tennis player
Roger Gilbert-Lecomte
1907 – 1943
poet
Gérard Araud
b. 1953
diplomat
Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard
1476 – 1524
condottiero
Charles Goutzwiller
1819 – 1900
art historian
Gilbert Auvergne
1905 – 1976
association football player
Leanne C. Pitchford
b. 1950
researcher
Yoric Ravet
b. 1989
association football player
Gaston Jèze
1869 – 1953
jurist
André Lauseig
1900 – 1972
athletics competitor
Régis Lacote
b. 1972
businessperson
Cathy Bernheim
1946 – 2025
writer
Charles III of Lorraine, Duke of Elbeuf
1620 – 1692
aristocrat
Roger Duchet
1904 – 1981
politician
Reine Gianoli
1915 – 1979
pianist
Jules-Justin Sauveplane
1862 – 1928
historian
Alexandre Grimaldi
b. 2003
socialite
Charles des Jamonières
1902 – 1970
sport shooter
Brigitte Deydier
b. 1958
judoka
Haby Niaré
b. 1993
taekwondo athlete
Emmanuel Drake del Castillo
1855 – 1904
botanist
François Salque
cellist
Jacques Lacarrière
1925 – 2005
translator
Geoffroy du Breuil
writer
Jean-Claude Colin
1790 – 1875
Catholic priest
André Julien, Comte Dupuy
1753 – 1832
politician
Marc Vouillot
1952 – 2022
coach
Marcel Lafitte
sport shooter
Fabienne Pascaud
b. 1955
journalist
Joséphine Bowes
1825 – 1874
painter
Nicolas Sansu
b. 1968
politician
Louis Latouche
1829 – 1883
painter
Pierre Ducimetière
1942 – 2026
epidemiologist
Michel Belliard
b. 1949
boxer
Laurent Montaron
b. 1972
photographer
Gabriel Lettu
1775 – 1859
painter
André Manoukian
b. 1957
songwriter
Jacques Renoir
1942 – 2024
photographer