France
People of this nationality
Jean-Claude Sala
table tennis player
Emmanuel Gros
b. 1978
association football player
Émile Baudot
1845 – 1903
inventor
Rainier I of Monaco, Lord of Cagnes
1267 – 1314
sovereign
Maryvonne Dupureur
1937 – 2008
middle-distance runner
Daniel Fernandes
b. 1973
judoka
Guy Duraffourg
b. 1936
biathlete
Jean-Louis-Brigitte Espagne
1769 – 1809
military officer
Claude Buffier
1661 – 1737
cartographer
Yvonnick Raffin
b. 1963
politician
Pierre Chouard
1903 – 1983
botanist
Joseph-Noël Sylvestre
1847 – 1926
painter
Bertrand Ketchanke
b. 1980
association football player
Djamalidine Atoiyi
b. 1997
association football player
Henri Chevreau
1823 – 1903
politician
Floriane André
b. 2000
handball player
Achille Fontanelli
1775 – 1838
politician
Georges Cattaui
1896 – 1974
translator
Rafik Mezriche
b. 1978
association football player
Brassaï
1899 – 1984
photographer
Domenico Alberto Azuni
1749 – 1827
jurist
André Beronneau
1886 – 1973
painter
Emile Amagat
1841 – 1915
physicist
Louis Honore Martin
1895 – 1920
flying ace
Nicolas Bouleau
b. 1945
mathematician
Casimir Nowotarski
1932 – 2024
association football player
Jacques-Antoine Dulaure
1755 – 1835
politician
Jacqueline Joubert
1921 – 2005
continuity announcer
Léon Dierx
1838 – 1912
painter
Jérémy Berthod
b. 1984
association football player
Richard Tardits
b. 1965
association football player
Christine Fabréga
1931 – 1988
film actor
Raoul Couvert
1903 – 1983
ice hockey player
Jean Victor Mottez
1866 – 1942
Officer of the French Navy
Francis Schewetta
1919 – 2007
sprinter
Dylan Nahi
b. 1999
handball player
Bertrand Reuzeau
b. 1966
association football player
Hélène Metzger
1889 – 1944
philosopher
Jacques Chapiro
1897 – 1972
painter
Joseph-Honoré Ricard
1880 – 1948
agronomist
Lucien Lesna
1863 – 1932
sport cyclist
Jean Pierre Marie Persois
1782 – 1854
musical instrument maker
Julie Siegfried
1848 – 1922
women's rights activist
Frédéric Kuhn
b. 1968
athletics competitor
M. van de Wynckélé
golfer
Robert Gigi
1926 – 2007
journalist
Alonzo
b. 1982
rapper
Paul Halter
b. 1956
writer
André Salomon
1881 – 1944
pianist
Émile Poisson
1905 – 1999
politician
Frédéric Lazard
1883 – 1948
chess composer
Georges Roes
1889 – 1945
sport shooter
Louis-François de la Baume de Suze
1595 – 1690
Catholic priest
Véra Norman
1924 – 2023
film actor
Jacques de Romas
1713 – 1776
physicist
Paul Filliat
1899 – 1981
sport cyclist
Nathalie Lancien
b. 1970
sport cyclist
Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine
1751 – 1799
military personnel
Fernand Sorlot
1904 – 1981
publisher
Claude Hoin
1750 – 1817
painter
Francis Boespflug
1948 – 2018
film producer
Béatrice Roullaud
b. 1960
politician
Miss Ming
b. 1990
actor
Jean Veillot
1600 – 1662
composer
Jean Robiquet
1874 – 1960
curator
Joseph Aurèle de Bossi
1758 – 1823
politician
Fatou N'Diaye
b. 1980
actor
Louis-Joseph Delaporte
1874 – 1944
orientalist
Robert Massard
1925 – 2025
opera singer
Laurent Lefèvre
b. 1976
sport cyclist
Louis Augustin d’Affry
1713 – 1793
diplomat
Alexandra Recchia
b. 1988
karateka
Louis of France
1264 – 1276
Marthe Mellot
1870 – 1947
actor
François Castaing
1945 – 2023
engineer
Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons
1558 – 1628
explorer
Albert Fathi
b. 1951
mathematician
Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville
1929 – 2007
Catholic priest
André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin
1783 – 1865
politician
Stéphane Sparagna
b. 1995
association football player
Jean Sulivan
1913 – 1980
writer
Matthieu Bochu
b. 1979
association football player
Édouard Lièvre
1828 – 1886
draftsperson
Nikola Karabatić
b. 1984
handball player
Alain Guionnet
b. 1954
historian
Gildas Arzel
b. 1961
singer-songwriter
Ernest Laurent
1859 – 1929
painter
Louis Carbonel
b. 1999
rugby union player
Henri Lafond
1894 – 1963
banker
Léon Gambetta
1838 – 1882
politician
Louis Bertrand
1866 – 1941
historian
Jean d'Harcourt
Catholic priest
Valentin Debise
b. 1992
motorcycle racer
Sébastien Lecornu
b. 1986
politician
Marie-Claude Vayssade
1936 – 2020
politician
Jeanloup Sieff
1933 – 2000
photographer
Henri Fluchère
1898 – 1987
literary critic
Adolphe Cayron
1878 – 1950
sport cyclist
Bastien Fuster
b. 1992
rugby union player
Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
1611 – 1668
poet