France
People of this nationality
Brahim Hammouche
b. 1971
politician
Inès Kbida
b. 2003
association football player
William II, Lord of Béthune
1200 – 1214
Nadia Vigliano
b. 1977
athletics competitor
François Coillard
1834 – 1904
missionary
Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline Guizot
1773 – 1827
writer
Marcel Sendrail
1900 – 1976
physician
Thierry Perreux
b. 1963
handball player
Benoît Mottet de La Fontaine
1745 – 1820
Officier de plume
Jean-Michel-Pascal Buhan
1770 – 1822
playwright
Georges Dumézil
1898 – 1986
linguist
Philibert Vigier
1636 – 1719
sculptor
Nicolas Le Mercier
1541 – 1637
architect
Claude Deruet
1588 – 1660
painter
Édouard Timbal-Lagrave
1819 – 1888
botanist
Saint-Preux
b. 1948
composer
Raymond Rochette
1906 – 1993
painter
Lucien Bonaparte
1775 – 1840
politician
Vincent Ribeton
b. 1968
Catholic priest
Gérard Coignot
1936 – 2023
swimmer
Patrick Hernandez
b. 1949
singer-songwriter
Tigran Gharamian
b. 1984
chess player
Jacques Delacôte
b. 1942
conductor
Eric Carrière
b. 1973
association football player
Louis Théophile Hingre
1832 – 1911
sculptor
Germain Muller
1923 – 1994
poet
François Valéry
b. 1954
singer-songwriter
Erik Izraelewicz
1954 – 2012
journalist
Guillaume-Isidore Baron de Montbel
1787 – 1861
politician
Yves Lafarge
b. 1953
rugby union player
Jane Henriot
1878 – 1900
actor
Charles Koechlin
1867 – 1950
composer
Thierry Henry
b. 1977
association football player
Lise Deharme
1898 – 1980
poet
Karen Erodi
b. 1977
politician
Antoine Louis François Sergent dit Sergent-Marceau
1751 – 1847
politician
José Frèches
b. 1950
writer
Adrien Quiret de Margency
1727 – 1802
poet
Gébuin
prelate
Jean-Marie Cieleska
1928 – 1998
sport cyclist
Valentin Hasse-Clot
b. 1966
racing automobile driver
Nalini Anantharaman
b. 1976
mathematician
Slobodan Milosavljević
1943 – 2025
association football player
Gustave Guillaume
1883 – 1960
linguist
Ronan Augé
b. 2004
sport cyclist
Roger Coggio
1934 – 2001
film actor
Marcel Naudin
1895 – 2000
association football player
Paul Meliande
b. 2001
association football player
Jean-Paul Faber
1930 – 2018
sport shooter
Sophie Toscan du Plantier
1957 – 1996
film producer
Sébastien Portal
b. 1982
sport cyclist
Adalberon
925 – 989
archbishop
Camille Cottin
b. 1978
actor
Pierre Goldberg
b. 1938
politician
John Claude Neraz
1828 – 1894
Catholic priest
Pierre Edelman
b. 1953
film producer
Jocelyne Ratignier
b. 1954
association football player
Daniel Vaillant
b. 1949
politician
Steeve Barry
b. 1991
rugby union player
Souhad Ghazouani
b. 1982
weightlifter
Louis Vasseur
1885 – 1968
athletics competitor
Adam de la Halle
1237 – 1288
composer
Jean-Paul Amoudry
b. 1950
politician
Jean-Claude Lefebvre
1933 – 2014
sport cyclist
Catherine Barma
b. 1945
television producer
Régis Blachère
1900 – 1973
historian
Marcel Darrieux
1891 – 1989
violinist
Gaspard Ulliel
1984 – 2022
model
Darling Bladi
b. 2004
association football player
Ludovico Brea
1450 – 1523
painter
Laurent Vicomte
1956 – 2020
comics artist
Gilbert Romme
1750 – 1795
politician
Sedullos
80 – 52 BC
war chief
Armand Fouillen
1933 – 2024
association football player
Moulaye Ba
b. 1990
association football player
Philippe Boyard
1916 – 1969
ice hockey player
Alphonse Roubichou
1861 – 1938
painter
Jean-Patrick Wakanumuné
b. 1980
association football player
Guy Thomazeau
b. 1937
Catholic priest
Jordan Ferri
b. 1992
association football player
Christian Vadim
b. 1963
actor
Roger-Bernard III, Count of Foix
1243 – 1302
troubadour
André Miquel
1929 – 2022
professor
Gérard Laumon
1952 – 2025
mathematician
Mlle Guerin
b. 1739
composer
Léontine Suétens
1846 – 1891
communard
Damien Félix
musician
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
1605 – 1689
explorer
Sophie Erre
b. 1979
tennis player
Pauline Fourès
1778 – 1869
painter
Guigues VIII of Viennois
1309 – 1333
aristocrat
Charles-Maxime de Villemarest
1784 – 1852
biographer
Alphonse Anger
1915 – 1999
artistic gymnast
Comte de Lautréamont
1846 – 1870
poet
Gilbert Faure
b. 1943
cross-country skier
Jean Zuléma Amussat
1796 – 1856
surgeon
Pierre Philippe Thomire
1751 – 1843
sculptor
Michel Lefait
b. 1946
politician
Muriel Hurtis-Houairi
b. 1979
sprinter
Mahyar Monshipour
b. 1975
boxer