France
People of this nationality
Louis Chéron
1660 – 1725
painter
Paul de Cordon
1908 – 1998
photographer
Sidy Sanokho
b. 1997
association football player
André Giroux
1801 – 1879
painter
Patrick Rieupeyrout
1951 – 2021
sailor
Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse
1848 – 1913
painter
Françoise Fabian
b. 1933
film actor
Guillaume-Louis du Tillet
1730 – 1794
politician
Jean-Jacques Becker
1928 – 2023
historian
Aurelia Litsner De Fere
1835 – 1917
musician
Cécille Calmette
b. 1968
tennis player
Léonor de Récondo
b. 1976
violinist
Steve Passeur
1899 – 1966
screenwriter
Patrick Baudry
b. 1946
astronaut
Michel Lévy
1821 – 1875
editor
André Jouve
1929 – 2019
conductor
Jean-Paul Mari
b. 1950
war correspondent
Paul Petit
b. 1993
racing driver
Frédéric Fontang
b. 1970
tennis player
Paul Schlupp
1930 – 2008
basketball player
Ghibbelin of Arles
1045 – 1112
Catholic priest
Catherine Dumas
b. 1957
politician
André Billy
1882 – 1971
writer
John Havan
1933 – 2019
novelist
Guillaume Brenner
b. 1986
association football player
Marie Courcelles
courtier
Jean Merley
1927 – 2017
historian
Xavier Eyma
1816 – 1876
playwright
Matatia Paama
b. 1992
association football player
Kader Arif
b. 1959
politician
Émile Beaussire
1824 – 1889
politician
Philippe Billy
b. 1982
association football player
Vegedream
b. 1992
rapper
Williams Kokolo
b. 2000
association football player
Marie-Dominique Lelièvre
b. 1953
journalist
Louis Narcisse Baudry des Lozières
1761 – 1841
entomologist
Manon Tardon
1913 – 1989
French resistance fighter
Denis Bourdoncle
b. 1964
association football player
Anaïs Orsi
b. 1981
researcher
Madeleine Françoise Basseporte
1701 – 1780
painter
Jean Antoine Armand Vergeaud
1876 – 1949
painter
Jean Accart
1912 – 1992
military personnel
Roger Tauvel
1902 – 1976
sport shooter
Louis de Nogaret de La Valette d'Épernon
1593 – 1639
Catholic priest
Pierre Hardy
1907 – 2000
sport shooter
Gilet Velut
composer
Saffaracus
b. 550
Catholic priest
Yohann Kouam
b. 1982
film director
André Martineau
1930 – 1972
mathematician
Alphonse Charpiot
1879 – 1957
sport cyclist
Jean Le Poulain
1924 – 1988
theatre director
Joël Quiniou
b. 1950
association football referee
Georges Staquet
1932 – 2011
actor
Nicolas-Marie Daru
b. 1988
athletics competitor
Pascal Pereira-Leal
b. 1982
table tennis player
Jean-Baptiste Boësset
1614 – 1685
composer
Angélique Cénas
b. 1757
actor
Florimond Badier
1630 – 1668
bookbinder
Jean Philippe Goujon de Grondel
1714 – 1807
military officer
Françoise Héritier
1933 – 2017
anthropologist
Ernest de Jonquières
1820 – 1901
mathematician
René Fonck
1894 – 1953
politician
Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait
1752 – 1807
politician
Roland Garros
1888 – 1918
aircraft pilot
Nicolas Horvath
b. 1977
pianist
Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume
1905 – 2000
organist
Matar Fall
b. 1982
association football player
Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke
1780 – 1844
publisher
Louis-Armand Chardin
1755 – 1793
singer
Henri Albert Hartmann
1860 – 1952
surgeon
Gilles Bouhours
1944 – 1960
Ismaïla N'Diaye
b. 1988
association football player
Jean-Max de Chavigny
b. 1965
windsurfer
Ismael Urbain
1812 – 1884
journalist
Eric Guillemain
photographer
Frédéric Pottecher
1905 – 2001
journalist
Henri Alleg
1921 – 2013
politician
Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen
1811 – 1884
military officer
Abdallah Imamo
b. 1993
association football player
Gustave Prouvost
b. 1887
water polo player
Georges Azéma
1821 – 1864
historian
Perenelle Flamel
1320 – 1397
alchemist
Madeleine Moua
1899 – 1989
choreographer
Jean Buridan
1295 – 1358
philosopher
Guglielmo Pepe
1783 – 1855
military officer
Jean-Marie Aimot
1901 – 1968
biographer
Patrick Moreau
b. 1973
association football player
Claire Levacher
b. 1967
conductor
Jimmy Algerino
b. 1971
association football player
Hom Nguyen
b. 1972
painter
Arthur Sorin
b. 1985
association football player
Pascal Lecocq
b. 1958
painter
Émile Cotton
1872 – 1950
mathematician
Anae Simon
b. 2002
ice hockey player
Gabriel Guist'hau
1863 – 1931
politician
Gabriel Millet
1867 – 1953
historian
Dominique Di Piazza
b. 1959
jazz musician
Georges Calas
b. 1948
mineralogist
Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie
1774 – 1857
classical philologist
Florian Pinteaux
b. 1992
association football player