France
People of this nationality
Jacques-Louis de Valon
1659 – 1719
linguist
Antonin Berruyer
b. 1998
rugby union player
Jean-François Hodoul
1766 – 1835
privateer
Julien Soyer
b. 1978
para table tennis player
Jacques-Henry Rys
1909 – 1960
conductor
Patrick Grainville
b. 1947
writer
Jacques de Brazza
1859 – 1888
explorer
Bernard Ziegler
1933 – 2021
military flight engineer
René Just Haüy
1743 – 1822
mineralogist
Léo Sauvage
1915 – 1988
journalist
Roxane Petetin
b. 1981
figure skater
Étienne-Jean Bouchu
1714 – 1773
writer
Guillaume Apollinaire
1880 – 1918
poet
Jean Courteaux
1926 – 2003
association football player
Philip James de Loutherbourg
1740 – 1812
painter
Job Durupt
1931 – 2017
politician
Laurent Baheux
b. 1970
photographer
Annick Alane
1925 – 2019
actor
Issaga Diallo
b. 1987
association football player
Rudy Molard
b. 1989
sport cyclist
Arnaud Danjean
b. 1971
politician
José Vespasien
b. 1976
basketball player
Tanguy Ndombele
b. 1996
association football player
Robert Dhéry
1921 – 2004
actor
Alexis Clairaut
1713 – 1765
astronomer
Matthias Tavel
b. 1987
politician
Pierre de Montgolfier-Verpilleux
1831 – 1913
politician
Philippe Levenard
b. 1965
association football player
Franck Sauzée
b. 1965
association football player
Chloe Tallot
b. 1973
Anne Bertolotti
researcher
Julia Tolofua
b. 1997
judoka
Danièle Chatelain
writer
Philippe Bequel
privateer
Anna Marly
1917 – 2006
singer
Cyril Cazeaux
b. 1995
rugby union player
André Mollet
b. 1949
sport cyclist
Janika Fabrikant
b. 1934
painter
Benjamin Bertrand
b. 1992
association football player
Tylel Tati
b. 2008
association football player
Princess Diana of Bourbon-Parma
1932 – 2020
Emily Thouy
b. 1993
karateka
Jean-François Delmas
b. 1964
librarian
Frederic Sessa
b. 1985
freediver
Fabrice Divert
b. 1967
association football player
Jean-Michel Bazire
b. 1971
harness racer
Florian Verhaeghe
b. 1997
rugby union player
Alain Bernaud
1932 – 2020
composer
Mamadou Diakhon
b. 2005
association football player
Jacqueline Challet-Haas
1934 – 2022
dancer
Antoine Simon
1736 – 1794
cobbler
Jean-Pierre Pincemin
1944 – 2005
painter
Ernest Daltroff
1867 – 1941
perfumer
Jean-Ernest Ducos de La Hitte
1789 – 1878
politician
Jean-Baptiste Salme
1766 – 1811
military personnel
Marcel Bataillon
1895 – 1977
hispanist
Valentin Jacob
b. 1994
association football player
Henri Roy
1873 – 1950
politician
Stéphane Clamens
b. 1971
sport shooter
Christian Baudelot
b. 1938
sociologist
Isabelle Buret
engineer
Jean Bornoy
architect
Félix Mayol
1872 – 1941
actor
Guillaume de l'Hôpital
1661 – 1704
mathematician
Joë Bousquet
1897 – 1950
poet
Jean-Baptiste Lemire
1867 – 1945
composer
Raoul II of Brienne, Count of Eu
1315 – 1350
military personnel
Pierre Belon
1517 – 1564
naturalist
Olivia Rosenthal
b. 1965
novelist
Michelle Marquais
1926 – 2022
actor
Clément Rodier
1839 – 1904
missionary
Gabriel Piguet
1887 – 1952
theologian
Vincent Moscato
b. 1965
actor
Patrick Forterre
b. 1949
biologist
Jean-Valentin Morel
1794 – 1860
goldsmith
Louis Bonnier
1856 – 1946
architect
Justin Savornin
1876 – 1970
geologist
Jeanne Pérez
1894 – 1975
film actor
Jean-Paul Mendy
b. 1973
boxer
Philippe Bercovici
b. 1963
caricaturist
Nicolas Klotz
b. 1954
film director
François Fédier
1935 – 2021
philosopher
Hélène Darly
1900 – 1994
actor
Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath
1924 – 2008
Catholic priest
Maxime Méderel
b. 1980
sport cyclist
Yorane Julians
b. 1981
basketball player
Émile Deschanel
1819 – 1904
politician
Malick Koly
b. 1998
musician
Didier Levallet
b. 1944
jazz musician
Jackson Mendy
b. 1987
association football player
Eugène Sue
1804 – 1857
novelist
Albert Badrikian
1933 – 1994
mathematician
Alfred Deléhelle
1826 – 1893
composer
Jean-Paul Volnay
1952 – 2020
Sega performer
Xavier Tilliette
1921 – 2018
philosophy historian
Carine Fouteau
b. 1974
journalist
Alphonse Du Breuil
1811 – 1890
horticulturist
Yvonne Rokseth
1890 – 1948
musicologist
Béatrice Uria-Monzon
1963 – 2025
opera singer
Caroline Cayeux
b. 1948
politician