France
People of this nationality
Pierre Lequiller
b. 1949
politician
Louis Marie Sicard
1743 – 1825
painter
Jacqueline Fleury
b. 1923
resistance fighter
Pascal Themanlys
1909 – 2000
writer
Gautier d'Arras
1135 – 1189
poet
Pierre-Antoine Bozo
b. 1966
Catholic priest
Herman Willem Daendels
1762 – 1818
lawyer
André-Jean Festugière
1898 – 1982
historian of religion
Pierre-François Basan
1723 – 1797
copper engraver
Marie Angélique Arnauld
1591 – 1661
religious sister
Louis Joseph Troost
1825 – 1911
chemist
Raphaël Daubet
b. 1977
politician
Maurice Alliot
1903 – 1960
Egyptologist
Alain Goldmann
1931 – 2022
rabbi
Jean-Baptiste Massillon
1663 – 1742
Catholic priest
Ivar Ekeland
b. 1944
mathematician
Henri Le Sidaner
1862 – 1939
painter
Béatrice Schönberg
b. 1953
journalist
Adrien Alexandre Adolphe de Carrey de Bellemare
1824 – 1905
military personnel
Michel Morandais
b. 1979
basketball player
René Moreau
b. 1938
physicist
Odile Favaron
b. 1938
mathematician
André Marchand
1907 – 1997
painter
Jean Cousin
1490 – 1560
sculptor
Bastien Ripoll
b. 1980
rower
Jason Ngouabi
b. 2003
association football player
Michel Debray
1936 – 2024
politician
Gérard Caussé
b. 1948
musician
Walter of Pontoise
1030 – 1099
Bastien Marchive
b. 1990
politician
Etienne Gambu
1904 – 1979
businessperson
Xavier Kuhn
b. 1978
freestyle skier
Urban of Langres
327 – 390
priest
Jean Salençon
b. 1940
physicist
Régis Boyer
1932 – 2017
linguist
Floris Osmond
1849 – 1912
engineer
David Lorion
b. 1964
politician
Jean Bellay
1930 – 1989
sport cyclist
Augustin Abel Hector Léveillé
1863 – 1918
botanist
Aurélie Revillet
b. 1986
alpine skier
Joseph Privat de Molières
1676 – 1742
physicist
Charles-François-Jean-Baptiste Moreau de Commagny
1783 – 1832
librettist
Saint-Yves
1660 – 1730
painter
Eric Perrot
b. 2001
biathlete
Aloÿs Claussmann
1850 – 1926
organist
Charles Gaspard Elisabeth Joseph de Bailly
1765 – 1850
politician
Paul Sebag
1919 – 2004
historian
Joseph Villiet
1823 – 1877
archaeologist
Philippe Noiret
1930 – 2006
film actor
Louis Michel Halbou
1730 – 1809
draftsperson
Shaquil Delos
b. 1999
association football player
Albert Maige
1872 – 1943
botanist
Henri Hitier
1864 – 1958
agronomist
Gustave de Reiset
1821 – 1905
diplomat
Léon François Chervet
1834 – 1900
sculptor
Esther Turpin
b. 1996
athletics competitor
Anousone Prasitharath
b. 1984
association football player
Louis Bastoul
1753 – 1801
military personnel
Andrée Debar
1920 – 1999
film actor
Jacques-Ignace de La Touche
1694 – 1781
painter
Jean-Carles Grelier
b. 1966
politician
Dan Sperber
b. 1942
anthropologist
André Bourreau
b. 1934
judoka
Jean-Baptiste Willermoz
1730 – 1824
writer
Jacques Nicolas Ernest Germain de Saint-Pierre
1814 – 1882
botanist
Jean Carbonnier
1908 – 2003
jurist
Garnier de Traînel
1125 – 1205
Catholic priest
Alexandre Baron
b. 1994
racing automobile driver
Alexis André Roger
1814 – 1846
composer
Thomas Touré
b. 1993
association football player
Léon Bertrand
b. 1951
politician
Ousmane Sy
b. 1988
association football player
Nicolas Herpin
b. 1942
sociologist
Rémi Cavagna
b. 1995
sport cyclist
Galinard
b. 1850
archer
Louis Pauwels
1920 – 1997
journalist
Marie-Claude Bierre
b. 1953
figure skater
Stéphane Gourichon
b. 1977
canoeist
Laurent Pardo
b. 1958
rugby union player
Jean Delsarte
1903 – 1968
mathematician
Emmanuel Cattin
b. 1966
philosopher
Yvon Bourges
1921 – 2009
politician
René Maillard
1931 – 2012
composer
Véronique Le Flaguais
b. 1947
actor
François Jouffroy
1806 – 1882
sculptor
Pascal Parisot
b. 1963
singer-songwriter
Ernest Martin
b. 1878
swimmer
Pierre Roullier
b. 1954
conductor
Mélissa Plaza
b. 1988
association football player
Titouan Carod
b. 1994
sport cyclist
Hugh of Cluny
1024 – 1109
politician
Alexis Vastine
1986 – 2015
boxer
Eugène Kalt
1861 – 1941
ophthalmologist
Senny Mayulu
b. 2006
association football player
Samy Chouchane
b. 2003
association football player
Pierre Vernimmen
1946 – 1996
economist
Aimé Charles His de la Salle
1795 – 1878
art collector
Geneviève Vergez-Tricom
1889 – 1966
geographer
Benoît Ribadeau-Dumas
b. 1972
industrialist
André-Louis Danjon
1890 – 1967
astronomer