France
People of this nationality
René Poupardin
1874 – 1927
historian
Marcel Dohis
b. 1880
sport cyclist
Fabien Baron
b. 1959
art director
Émile Colonne
1885 – 1970
opera singer
Édouard Saint-Poulof
1877 – 1934
equestrian
Bertrand Moingeon
1964 – 2020
academic
Louis Delattre
gymnast
Joseph Alexandre Jacques Durant de Mareuil
1769 – 1855
politician
Edmund Chojecki
1822 – 1899
journalist
Charles Pattin
1899 – 1999
field hockey player
Simone Boutarel
1892 – 1987
sculptor
Maïtena Biraben
b. 1967
television presenter
Louis Perouas
1923 – 2011
Catholic priest
François de La Chaise
1624 – 1709
pedagogue
Joffrey Pollet-Villard
b. 1992
freestyle skier
Alexandre François Selligue
1784 – 1845
engineer
Jean Pavans
b. 1949
writer
Alain Manoukian
b. 1946
businessperson
Max Wechsler
1925 – 2020
painter
René Metz
b. 1950
athletics competitor
Laurent Pariente
b. 1962
architect
Charles-Caïus Renoux
1795 – 1846
painter
Geraldine Seydoux
b. 1964
molecular biologist
Jacques Curie
1855 – 1941
physicist
Jean Giono
1895 – 1970
writer
Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville
1715 – 1766
librettist
Aristide Olivier
b. 1981
politician
Daniel Gousseau
sport cyclist
André Plassart
1889 – 1978
philologist
Ugo Raghouber
b. 2003
association football player
Jules Dewaquez
1899 – 1971
association football player
Stéphanie Renouvin
b. 1977
journalist
Pierre Nogaret de La Valette
1500 – 1553
military personnel
Paul Chollet
1928 – 2022
pediatrician
Henri de Sully
1101 – 1200
Catholic priest
Julien Augustin Joseph Mermet
1772 – 1837
military personnel
Jean-Louis Bertucelli
1942 – 2014
film director
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
b. 1942
visual artist
Marcel Locquin
1922 – 2009
mycologist
Gustave Colin
1828 – 1910
painter
François de Mazières
b. 1960
politician
Ketevan Bagration of Mukhrani
b. 1954
diplomat
Paul Bracq
b. 1933
designer
Nicolas Farina
b. 1986
association football player
Simone Berbain
1915 – 1949
historian
Charles Millon
b. 1945
politician
Kévin Réza
b. 1988
sport cyclist
Michel Poniatowski
1922 – 2002
politician
Stéphane Braunschweig
b. 1964
theatre director
Maxence Van Der Meersch
1907 – 1951
writer
Pascal Giordani
b. 1974
rugby union player
Sylvie Corteel
mathematician
Désiré-François Le Filleul Des Guerrots
1778 – 1857
poet
Anne Deslions
1829 – 1873
courtesan
Jean-Daniel Dumas
1721 – 1794
military personnel
Jean Capperonnier
1716 – 1775
professor
N'Dri Philippe Koffi
b. 2002
association football player
François Vernadat
b. 1954
computer scientist
Alfred Auguste Giraudet
1845 – 1911
opera singer
Nicholas Jacquier
1410 – 1472
inquisitor
Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé
1619 – 1646
diplomat
Daniel Charles O'Connell
1745 – 1833
military leader
Alain Cuny
1908 – 1994
film actor
Pierre Guichet
1915 – 1989
Catholic priest
Jean Cochard
b. 1939
long jumper
Raphaël Perrissoud
1879 – 1956
politician
Claude Arabo
1937 – 2013
fencer
Sandrine Delerce
b. 1975
handball player
Charles Pic
b. 1990
racing automobile driver
Loïc Perrin
b. 1985
association football player
Julien Guertiau
1885 – 1954
flying ace
Vincent Pelluard
b. 1990
sport cyclist
Catherine Daufès-Roux
b. 1963
politician
François-Louis-Joseph Watteau
1758 – 1823
painter
Jean-Pierre Thiollet
b. 1956
journalist
Marie-Georges Pascal
1946 – 1985
stage actor
Luc Tardif
b. 1984
ice hockey player
Christos Tasoulis
b. 1991
association football player
Albert Peyriguère
1883 – 1959
Catholic priest
Martine Olivier
b. 1953
figure skater
Mathieu Marie de Lesseps
1870 – 1953
equestrian
Laurent Ournac
b. 1980
actor
Pierre Sauvestre
1915 – 1980
rower
Frantisek Mertl
b. 1930
painter
Dorian Hauterville
b. 1990
bobsledder
Christophe Dominici
1972 – 2020
rugby union player
Claude Ballot-Léna
1936 – 1999
engineer
Sophia Domancich
b. 1957
jazz pianist
Joseph Cabassol
1859 – 1928
lawyer
Hubert Mingarelli
1956 – 2020
writer
Gaston Mayordome
1923 – 2005
athletics competitor
Pape-Philippe Amagou
b. 1985
basketball player
Jean Joseph Guieu
1758 – 1817
military personnel
Pauline Jeanneret
b. 1987
curler
Wilfrid Hounkpatin
b. 1991
rugby union player
Alexandre Parsemain
b. 2003
association football player
Auguste Vinson
1819 – 1903
poet
Custodio Dos Reis
1922 – 1959
sport cyclist
Stéphane Chaudesaigues
b. 1968
tattoo artist
Caroline Bergvall
b. 1962
poet