France
People of this nationality
Pierre de Montreuil
1200 – 1267
architect
Marc Laberte
1880 – 1963
luthier
Henri Pitot
1695 – 1771
inventor
Kevin N'Doram
b. 1996
association football player
John of Matha
1150 – 1213
Catholic priest
Anne Canteaut
b. 1970
researcher
Jean Jacques Dortous de Mayran
1678 – 1771
entomologist
René Guénot
1890 – 1965
sport cyclist
Jean-Pierre Rivère
b. 1957
businessperson
Patrick Videira
b. 1977
association football coach
Alain Desreumaux
b. 1944
university teacher
Bryan Leininger
judoka
Jacques Huntzinger
b. 1943
diplomat
Georges Guillez
1909 – 1993
sprinter
Léon Deubel
1879 – 1913
poet
Jean Vincent
1930 – 2013
association football player
Armand Philippon
1761 – 1836
military officer
Goderfroy de Forçant
Officer of the French Navy
Jérôme Pichon
1812 – 1896
art collector
Jean-Marie Dallet
1909 – 1972
linguist
Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras
1755 – 1829
politician
Antoine Cordonnier
1892 – 1918
military personnel
Constance Wachtmeister
1838 – 1910
memoirist
Georges Rivollet
1888 – 1974
politician
Jean-François Tournon
1905 – 1986
fencer
Guy Laporte
1948 – 2019
actor
Alain Lanty
b. 1961
singer
Denis Huisman
1929 – 2021
businessperson
Nicolas Petit
dogsled musher
Martin Maingaud
1700 – 1725
painter
Pierre Pansu
b. 1959
mathematician
Julien Outrebon
b. 1983
association football player
Barbara Pravi
b. 1993
singer-songwriter
Jules-Charles Le Bozec
1898 – 1973
sculptor
Alimami Gory
b. 1996
association football player
Marie Thérèse of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe
1749 – 1792
lady-in-waiting
John I, Count of Ponthieu
1141 – 1191
soldier
Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic
1839 – 1889
archaeologist
Jean Landry
1826 – 1865
physician
Louis Botinelly
1883 – 1962
sculptor
Aude Compan
b. 1993
skipper
Camille Sée
1847 – 1919
politician
David Patros
b. 1977
athletics competitor
Charles Louis Dieudonné Grandjean
1768 – 1828
politician
Guigues III of Albon
1050 – 1133
aristocrat
François Favrat
b. 1953
actor
Gabriel Cognacq
1880 – 1951
businessperson
Émile Henriot
1889 – 1961
poet
Marie Line
b. 2000
singer
Christian Nadé
b. 1984
association football player
Caroline Chomienne
1957 – 2020
film director
Julien Maio
b. 1994
badminton player
Alain Happe
association football coach
Ernst Münch
1859 – 1928
organist
Arsène-Marie Le Feuvre
1863 – 1936
painter
Pierre Lartigue
b. 1948
racing automobile driver
Sébastien Patrice
b. 2000
fencer
Gustave Tridon
1841 – 1871
politician
Lucien Bégule
1848 – 1935
painter
Lucienne Schmidt-Couttet
1926 – 2022
alpine skier
Charles Desplanques
1877 – 1951
Jean François Mbaye
b. 1979
politician
Florian Dauphin
b. 1999
sport cyclist
Antoine Gaubil
1689 – 1759
sinologist
Joël Martel
1896 – 1966
sculptor
Athanase Josué Coquerel
1820 – 1875
writer
Auguste Charpentier
1813 – 1880
painter
Alexandre Bertrand
1820 – 1902
archaeologist
Jean Duplessis-Bertaux
1747 – 1818
painter
Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron
1763 – 1831
military officer
Albert Courquin
1898 – 1940
association football player
Daniel Senet
1953 – 2026
weightlifter
Foued Kadir
b. 1983
association football player
Pascal Portes
b. 1959
tennis player
Olivier Galzi
b. 1971
journalist
Émile Keller
1828 – 1909
politician
Louis Corbière
1850 – 1941
bryologist
Thierry Metz
1956 – 1997
poet
Léon Azéma
1888 – 1978
architect
Georges de La Nézière
1878 – 1914
athletics competitor
Pierre Guillaumat
1909 – 1991
engineer
Robert Nivelle
1856 – 1924
military personnel
Jacques Rey
b. 1942
politician
Nicolas Ruyssen
1757 – 1826
painter
Armand Joseph Overnay
1798 – 1853
playwright
Jean de la Cassière
1503 – 1581
warrior monk
Léon Pillet
1803 – 1868
journalist
Elena Filonova
b. 1953
pianist
Charles Chaynes
1925 – 2016
composer
Simon de la Vallée
1590 – 1642
architect
Sébastien Martin
b. 1977
politician
Célestin Oliver
1930 – 2011
association football player
Oscar Lombardot
b. 2000
biathlete
Pierre Aristouy
b. 1979
association football player
Charlotte Delbo
1913 – 1985
poet
Cyril Gautier
b. 1987
sport cyclist
Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre
b. 1976
journalist
Denise Guénard
1934 – 2017
sprinter
Nesta Elphege
b. 2001
association football player
Claude Louis Hector de Villars
1653 – 1734
diplomat