France
People of this nationality
Benjamin Dutreux
b. 1990
sailor
Guillaume Coustou the Elder
1677 – 1746
sculptor
Houssem Aouar
b. 1998
association football player
Antoine Richer
b. 1961
ice hockey player
Tiffany Zahorski
b. 1994
ice dancer
Françoise Cartron
b. 1949
politician
Paul Bar
1853 – 1945
gynecologist
Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke
1765 – 1818
politician
Paul Courbis
b. 1967
programmer
Henri Laurens
1885 – 1954
sculptor
François-Olivier Rousseau
b. 1947
journalist
Jérémie Clément
b. 1984
association football player
Robert Levasseur
1898 – 1974
rugby union player
Patrice Calmejane
b. 1960
politician
Lucien Arman
1811 – 1873
marine architect
Charlotte Bilbault
b. 1990
association football player
Henry Février
1875 – 1957
composer
Cyril Huvé
b. 1954
classical pianist
Jeanine Moussier
1930 – 2024
sprinter
Federico de Brandsen
1785 – 1827
military personnel
Paul-Léon Seitz
1906 – 1984
Catholic priest
Christian Demuynck
b. 1947
politician
René Leriche
1879 – 1955
physician
Anatole Novak
1937 – 2022
sport cyclist
Théodore Chassériau
1819 – 1856
painter
Céline Ferer
b. 1991
rugby union player
Medi Sadoun
b. 1973
actor
Emmanuelle Curutchet
b. 1978
tennis player
Henri Michel
1947 – 2018
association football player
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
1689 – 1755
composer
Caroline Lair
b. 1985
businessperson
Louis Bonneau
1851 – 1938
military personnel
Rotrou
1109 – 1183
Catholic priest
Hervé de Charette
b. 1938
politician
Armand de Turenne
1891 – 1980
flying ace
Jean-Georges Lefranc de Pompignan
1715 – 1789
politician
Pierre Leroux
1797 – 1871
economist
Xavier Lesage
1885 – 1968
dressage rider
Aimé Desprez
1763 – 1824
chansonnier
Suzanne Urverg-Ratsimamanga
1928 – 2016
biochemist
Roger Salengro
1890 – 1936
politician
Jacques Cuinières
1943 – 2020
photographer
Pascal Michon
b. 1959
historian
Pierre du bois
1250 – 1312
writer
Franck Tchiloemba
b. 1973
basketball player
Claude Lévi-Strauss
1908 – 2009
philosopher
Max Fresson
1912 – 1996
equestrian
Julien-David Le Roy
1724 – 1803
architect
The Avener
b. 1987
disc jockey
Henri Marion
1846 – 1896
philosopher
Lucile Desmoulins
1770 – 1794
diarist
Pierre Demours
1702 – 1795
physician
François Bazin
1897 – 1956
sculptor
Fernand Cazenave
1924 – 2005
rugby union player
Henri Jekel
1816 – 1891
entomologist
Julien Torma
1902 – 1933
poet
Achille Allier
1807 – 1836
archaeologist
Ulrich Le Pen
b. 1974
association football player
Jean-Paul Charié
1952 – 2009
politician
René Gervais
1908 – 1997
military personnel
Henri Spondanus
1568 – 1643
Catholic priest
René Laverdure
1862 – 1914
military personnel
Benjamin Édelin
b. 1993
sport cyclist
Olivier Verdon
b. 1995
association football player
André Raynaud
1904 – 1937
sport cyclist
Charles Ambroise de Caffarelli du Falga
1758 – 1826
Catholic priest
Steve Traoré
b. 1998
association football player
David Diop
b. 1966
writer
Eugène Lami
1800 – 1890
painter
Jacques Doriot
1898 – 1945
politician
Françoise Brion
1933 – 2025
actor
Thibault Damour
b. 1951
physicist
Serge Muller
b. 1976
politician
Nicolas Meizonnet
b. 1983
politician
Toumani Diagouraga
b. 1987
association football player
Margaret of Valois
1553 – 1615
salonnière
Denis Clavel
1942 – 2024
poet
Jeanne de Flandreysy
1874 – 1959
poet
Rabah Slimani
b. 1989
rugby union player
Catman
b. 1971
singer-songwriter
Georges Burou
1910 – 1989
gynecologist
André Adelheim
1906 – 1951
athletics competitor
Édouard Pailleron
1834 – 1899
journalist
Jean-Marc Nesme
b. 1943
politician
Pierre Cullaz
1935 – 2013
cellist
Robert Bourgi
b. 1945
political adviser
Pierre Desceliers
1487 – 1553
cartographer
Charles Mangin
1866 – 1925
military personnel
Stéphane Brosse
1971 – 2012
ski mountaineer
Jean-Pierre Allali
1939 – 2025
academic
Josy Eisenberg
1933 – 2017
rabbi
Marina Jaunatre
b. 1982
sport cyclist
Ernest Daudet
1837 – 1921
journalist
Riad Ouedraogo
b. 1996
association football player
François Perron
b. 1953
choreographer
Yamê
b. 1993
singer
Sylvain Maréchal
1750 – 1803
journalist
Dominique Perrier
1948 – 2023
composer
Christian Gailly
1943 – 2013
writer
Jean-Roger Caussimon
1918 – 1985
film actor