France
People of this nationality
Bernhard Ayglerius
1216 – 1282
Catholic priest
Henri Dutrochet
1776 – 1847
biologist
Evert Endt
1933 – 2025
designer
Raymond Argentin
1924 – 2022
canoeist
René Desmaison
1930 – 2007
mountaineer
Marcelle Monthil
1892 – 1950
stage actor
Gabriel Arnaud
1882 – 1957
mycologist
Georges Raymond
1887 – 1918
flying ace
Kerima
1925 – 2014
actor
Carlo Zucchi
1777 – 1863
military officer
Jean Sylvain Bailly
1736 – 1793
astronomer
Annabelle Lengronne
b. 1950
actor
Pauline Ado
b. 1991
surfer
Cyril Graff
b. 1980
sport shooter
Mathieu Valbuena
b. 1984
association football player
André Riou
1918 – 2005
association football player
Yvette Lebon
1910 – 2014
film actor
Joseph Dubar
1899 – 1960
French resistance fighter
Loïc Serra
b. 1972
engineer
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
1884 – 1979
art collector
Simon de Phares
b. 1444
astronomer
Louis Dupré
choreographer
Ludovic Lidon
b. 1971
association football player
Patrice Guers
b. 1969
bassist
Laurence Croguennec
researcher
Pierick Houdy
1929 – 2021
composer
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny
1729 – 1817
composer
Francis Cosne
1916 – 1984
film producer
Louise Ebrel
1932 – 2020
singer
Patricia Kaas
b. 1966
actor
Gustave Lefebvre
1879 – 1957
Egyptologist
Pierre Cohen
b. 1950
politician
Pierre Trabaud
1922 – 2005
actor
Jean Behourt
1505 – 1621
playwright
Adelphe Chasles
1795 – 1868
politician
Gustave Rives
1858 – 1926
architect
Robert de Ho
1140 – 1210
poet
Nicolas Pitau
1632 – 1671
printmaker
Gérard d’Erlanger
1905 – 1962
manager
Frédéric Zitter
b. 1979
rugby league player
François Giroust
1737 – 1799
composer
Yael Azoulay
b. 1969
writer
Jean Levaillant
1790 – 1876
military personnel
Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan
1595 – 1673
cartographer
Jean Milhau
b. 1929
politician
Fritz Keller
1913 – 1985
association football player
Emmanuelle Pierre-Marie
b. 1971
sociologist
Eugène Bourgeois
1818 – 1847
playwright
Ketty Kerviel
1916 – 2009
actor
Guillaume d'Abbes de Cabrerolles
1718 – 1802
writer
André Zeller
1898 – 1979
military officer
Julien Quesne
b. 1980
golfer
Éloïse Vanryssel
b. 1999
fencer
Pierre Camara
b. 1965
athletics competitor
Émile Chautard
1864 – 1934
film director
Stéphane Denis
b. 1949
journalist
Jacqueline Alduy
1924 – 2016
politician
Louis Vierne
1870 – 1937
composer
Sophie Moniotte
b. 1969
figure skater
Bernard Cazeau
b. 1939
politician
René Leray
1901 – 1988
athletics competitor
Edgar Ney
1812 – 1882
politician
Philippe de Rubempré
1558 – 1639
Carrie Perrodo
b. 1951
businessperson
Moses ha-Darshan
b. 1100
rabbi
Louis Gonse
1846 – 1921
art historian
Jacques Tillier
b. 1947
journalist
Patrick Rubinstein
b. 1960
artist
Loïc Merel
b. 1965
mathematician
David Roumieu
b. 1981
rugby union player
Bernard Bonnejean
b. 1950
literary critic
Jean Desbordes
1906 – 1944
poet
Louis Lumière
1864 – 1948
inventor
Nicolas Faret
1596 – 1646
politician
Giacomo Badoer
1575 – 1620
diplomat
Amélie Gex
1835 – 1883
poet
Nicolas de Gunzburg
1904 – 1981
actor
René II of Lorraine
1451 – 1508
monarch
Maxime Bourgeois
b. 1991
association football player
Auguste Chaillou
1866 – 1915
biologist
Benoît Bordat
b. 1984
politician
Stéphane Abrial
b. 1954
military personnel
Christian Lopez
b. 1953
association football player
Roselyne Sibille
b. 1953
poet
Aristide Bruant
1851 – 1925
chansonnier
Edgar Maxence
1871 – 1954
painter
Pauline Pousse
b. 1987
discus thrower
Alexandre Franquet
1828 – 1907
military personnel
Alexandra Harrison
b. 2002
ice hockey player
Erwin Kehlhoffner
b. 1983
badminton player
Émile Zuccarelli
b. 1940
politician
Émile Delahaye
1843 – 1905
industrialist
Guillaume Poyet
1473 – 1548
politician
Jean-Marc Forneri
1959 – 2020
businessperson
Yann-Fañch Kemener
1957 – 2019
singer
Franck Reynier
b. 1965
politician
Thadée Kaleba
b. 1999
association football player
Malcolm Cazalon
b. 2001
basketball player
Madeleine Scopello
b. 1953
historian of religion
Arsène Darmesteter
1846 – 1888
lexicographer