France
People of this nationality
François de Bourbon
1558 – 1614
condottiero
Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps
1794 – 1867
botanist
Jacques Montéran
1882 – 1947
cinematographer
Marie-Félix Blanc
1859 – 1882
Gérard Leleu
1932 – 2024
writer
Kheops
b. 1966
disc jockey
Max Régis
1873 – 1950
politician
Joseph Kouneiher
b. 1962
physicist
Hubert Parot
1933 – 2015
show jumper
Emil Zeibig
1904 – 1981
swimmer
Michel Paulin
1933 – 2026
actor
Alain Girard
1914 – 1996
sociologist
Geneviève de Galard
1925 – 2024
military nurse
Princess Theodolinde de Beauharnais of Leuchtenberg
1814 – 1857
aristocrat
Gary Phaeton
b. 1985
basketball player
Vahina Giocante
b. 1981
actor
Dominique Nohain
1925 – 2017
actor
Jean-François Landolphe
1747 – 1825
slave trader
Éric Decroix
b. 1969
association football player
Jan de Hoey
1545 – 1615
painter
Hyacinthe de Charencey
1832 – 1916
politician
Martine Billard
b. 1952
politician
Agnes Mercier
b. 2000
curler
Philippe Sylvestre Dufour
1622 – 1687
writer
Marine Johannes
b. 1995
basketball player
Joan, Countess of Toulouse
1220 – 1271
politician
Louis Antoine Jullien
1812 – 1860
conductor
Sabine Stuart de Chevalier
b. 1750
alchemist
Gustave Louis Jaulmes
1873 – 1959
painter
Francis Pélissier
1894 – 1959
sport cyclist
André Tota
b. 1950
association football player
Robert Dewilder
b. 1943
association football player
Claude-Louis Navier
1785 – 1836
physicist
Nicolas Josef Eugene Holl
1855 – 1919
lepidopterist
Aymeric Chauprade
b. 1969
politician
Claude Mutafian
b. 1942
historian
Davina Michel
b. 1997
boxer
Marie-Élisabeth Cléry
1761 – 1811
composer
Maxime Valet
b. 1987
wheelchair fencer
Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu
1889 – 1964
friar
Camille Razat
b. 1994
actor
Joseph Le Bon
1765 – 1795
politician
Paul Marie André Richaud
1887 – 1968
Catholic priest
Elisabeth Brasseur
1896 – 1972
choir director
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
1957 – 2016
mathematician
Charles-François Dupuis
1742 – 1809
politician
Claude Lanzmann
1925 – 2018
journalist
Jeanne Demessieux
1921 – 1968
composer
Flavien Termet
b. 2002
politician
Jacques Gohory
1520 – 1576
translator
Claude Jaeger
1917 – 2004
film producer
Jean-Marc Bonfils
1963 – 2020
architect
Aurore Martin
b. 1979
politician
Tristane Banon
b. 1979
journalist
Isaac de Laffemas
1589 – 1657
jurist
Anne-Marie Bauduin
b. 1972
artistic gymnast
Jean Cayrol
1911 – 2005
poet
Roland Dumas
1922 – 2024
politician
Jean-Baptiste Campenon
1819 – 1891
politician
Jean Aubert
1680 – 1741
architect
Jérémy Amelin
b. 1986
singer
Auger de Balben
warrior monk
Guillaume Budé
1467 – 1540
librarian
Hélène Labarrière
b. 1963
jazz musician
Faf Larage
b. 1971
rapper
Amaury de Riencourt
1918 – 2005
sinologist
Jean-Louis Verdier
1935 – 1989
mathematician
Tsilla Chelton
1919 – 2012
actor
Georges Corbel
1942 – 2015
field hockey player
François Polgár
b. 1946
conductor
Léon Vaganay
1882 – 1969
Catholic priest
Hélie de Noailles
b. 1943
diplomat
Émile Baffert
1924 – 2017
sport cyclist
Yves Daniel
b. 1954
politician
Paul Omba-Biongolo
b. 1995
boxer
Volusianus of Tours
401 – 498
Catholic priest
Joseph Groussard
b. 1934
sport cyclist
Paul Deltombe
1878 – 1971
painter
Pierre Schapira
b. 1943
mathematician
Lydia Gouardo
b. 1962
Alexandre Stavisky
1886 – 1934
financier
François VIII de La Rochefoucauld
1663 – 1728
military officer
François Leuret
1797 – 1851
psychiatrist
André Desvallées
1931 – 2024
museologist
Amine Salama
b. 2000
association football player
René Soulier
1911 – 1991
athletics competitor
Teshana Vignes Waran
b. 1989
badminton player
Stéphane Fontaine
b. 2000
cinematographer
Marcel Miquel
1913 – 1994
association football player
Olivier Ochanine
b. 1979
flautist
Ken Romain
b. 1993
sprinter
Jacques Cazotte
1719 – 1792
philosopher
Émile Colinus
1884 – 1966
painter
Anne-Laure Bonnet
b. 1978
television presenter
Berthe Jalabert
1858 – 1935
actor
Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville
1746 – 1795
magistrate
Christophe Meneau
b. 1968
volleyball player
Julie Fuchs
b. 1984
opera singer
Jean Marie Bosser
1922 – 2013
botanist
Claude Grunitzky
b. 1971
journalist