France
People of this nationality
Émile Pouvillon
1840 – 1906
writer
Killyan Toure
b. 2006
basketball player
Colette Libourel
b. 1940
swimmer
François Marthouret
b. 1943
audiobook narrator
Josette Amiel
b. 1930
choreographer
Joseph Jacotot
1770 – 1840
pedagogue
La Païva
1819 – 1884
salonnière
Randy Nteka
b. 1997
association football player
Michel Mercier
b. 1947
politician
Jean Michel Karam
b. 1969
engineer
François Budet
1940 – 2018
poet
France Roche
1921 – 2013
screenwriter
Amélie Mauresmo
b. 1979
tennis player
Eugène Séguy
1890 – 1985
entomologist
Youness Bengelloun
b. 1983
association football player
Émile Gontier
1877 – 1947
pole vaulter
Isabelle Mouthon-Michellys
b. 1966
triathlete
Pierre-Simon Ballanche
1776 – 1847
writer
Benoît-Constant Coquelin
1842 – 1909
stage actor
Humbert II of Viennois
1312 – 1355
Catholic priest
Anice Badri
b. 1990
association football player
Ibrahim Keita
b. 1996
association football player
Guillaume Despréaux
1802 – 1865
composer
Stéphanie Bouvier
b. 1981
short-track speed skater
Jean Poirier
1921 – 2009
ethnologist
Louis Favre
1892 – 1956
painter
Aurélie Védy
b. 1981
tennis player
Serge Soudoplatoff
b. 1954
writer
Élisabeth Sophie Chéron
1648 – 1711
painter
Pierre-Henri Carbonnel
b. 1990
politician
Guillaume Ader
1575 – 1638
poet
Pierre Capretz
1925 – 2014
writer
Napoleon
1769 – 1821
politician
Théophile Tilmant
1799 – 1878
conductor
Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre
1725 – 1793
military officer
Jean-Manuel Thetis
b. 1971
association football player
Alexandre Troffa
b. 2000
association football player
Léon Richer
1824 – 1911
journalist
Marlène Zarader
1949 – 2025
philosopher
Germaine Kerjean
1893 – 1975
actor
Paul Ragueneau
1608 – 1680
missionary
Samir Salameh
1944 – 2018
visual artist
André Michel
1910 – 1989
film director
Raissa Kelly
b. 1976
singer
Henri Hirschmann
1872 – 1961
composer
Julien Mette
b. 1981
association football coach
Christophe Bouchut
b. 1966
racing automobile driver
Charles Louis d'Albert de Luynes
1717 – 1771
military personnel
Éric Caravaca
b. 1966
film director
Serge Ferreira
b. 1959
pole vaulter
Jeanne Humbert
1890 – 1986
women's rights activist
Sandy Dujardin
b. 1997
sport cyclist
Charles Laverne
1903 – 1987
sailor
Paul Brouardel
1837 – 1906
physician
Eugène Héros
1860 – 1925
playwright
Pierre Humbert
1848 – 1919
architect
Hugo Lapalus
b. 1998
alpine skier
Kapit Djoco
b. 1995
association football player
Jean-Marie Cavada
b. 1940
politician
Mathieu-Antoine Bouchaud
1719 – 1804
economist
Paul-Marie Duval
1912 – 1997
historian
Roger Duchesne
1906 – 1996
actor
Lucien Jerphagnon
1921 – 2011
philosopher
Philibert Gueneau de Montbeillard
1720 – 1785
entomologist
Lucien Juy
inventor
Patrick Bourbeillon
1947 – 2015
sprinter
Antoinette Robain
b. 1956
architect
Mélusine Mayance
b. 1999
actor
André Rogerie
1921 – 2014
military personnel
Maria Pacôme
1923 – 2018
film actor
Amalie Zephyrine of Salm-Kyrburg
1760 – 1841
Raymond Woog
1875 – 1949
painter
Jean-Louis Moncet
b. 1945
sports journalist
Émile Moreau
1868 – 1950
banker
Raymond Cogniat
1896 – 1977
critic
Jean-Pierre Bernard
1933 – 2017
film actor
François Lanno
1800 – 1871
sculptor
Hugel
b. 1987
record producer
Sylvain Luc
1965 – 2024
jazz guitarist
Alexandre Sarr
b. 2005
basketball player
Nicole Laroche
1945 – 2019
engineer
Eugène Loup
1867 – 1948
painter
Élisabeth de Feydeau
b. 1966
expert
Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle
1748 – 1835
engineer
Antoine Viterale
b. 1996
association football player
Frantz Jourdain
1847 – 1935
architect
Rémi Trotereau
1956 – 2026
artist
Aubrey
1150 – 1218
Catholic priest
Georges Rousse
b. 1947
artist
Jean-Pierre Nicolas
b. 1945
rally driver
Cyril Guyot
b. 1980
association football player
Claude Quittet
b. 1941
association football player
Marc Antoine Bourdon de Vatry
1761 – 1828
politician
David Le Bailly
journalist
Joris Marveaux
b. 1982
association football player
Yann Algan
b. 1974
economist
Léon Roger-Milès
1859 – 1928
poet
Marie Louise Amiet
1879 – 1949
painter
Laurence Manfredi
b. 1974
athletics competitor
Marguerite Bellanger
1838 – 1886
actor