France
People of this nationality
Pierre Jean-Baptiste Bradel
b. 1750
illustrator
Charles Houël du Petit Pré
1616 – 1682
counsellor to the king
Yann Lesgourgues
b. 1991
rugby union player
Vincent Rivasseau
b. 1955
physicist
Gildas Le Lidec
1947 – 2025
diplomat
Philippe Lazare
b. 1956
businessperson
Noël Liétaer
1908 – 1941
association football player
Claire Gérard
1889 – 1971
voice actor
Magnetica
drag performer
Claude Colette
1929 – 1990
sport cyclist
Hugh IX of Lusignan
1163 – 1219
Auguste Lefranc
1814 – 1878
playwright
Lionel Ravi
b. 1985
association football player
Philippine Le Noir de Carlan
2004 – 2024
student
Filippa Hamilton
b. 1985
model
Antoinette de Bourbon
1494 – 1583
aristocrat
Claude-Christophe Gourdan
1754 – 1804
politician
Pablo Reinoso
b. 1955
artist
Alexandre Astruc
1923 – 2016
film director
Félix Coquereau
1808 – 1866
Catholic priest
Nicholas Francis
1609 – 1670
aristocrat
Fernand Maillaud
1862 – 1948
painter
Maurice Fenaille
1855 – 1937
art collector
Alain Ducasse
b. 1956
chef
Joseph Michel Antoine Servan
1737 – 1807
jurist
Henry Coston
1910 – 2001
journalist
Jean Cottard
1926 – 2020
fencer
Paul Dujardin
1894 – 1959
swimmer
Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy
1571 – 1621
politician
Gabriel Faure
1877 – 1962
poet
Amelle Chahbi
b. 1980
actor
Johnny Szlykowicz
b. 1980
association football player
Joël Aviragnet
b. 1956
politician
Franck Langolff
1948 – 2006
guitarist
Alexandre Millerand
1859 – 1943
lawyer
Daniel Moreira
b. 1977
association football player
Rémy Boissier
b. 1994
association football player
Lauriane Doumbouya
b. 1980
gendarme
Henri Chantavoine
1850 – 1918
poet
Oliver de Termes
1200 – 1274
military personnel
Albert Rivaud
1876 – 1956
philosopher
Alfredo Müller
1869 – 1939
painter
Jean-Marc Nobilo
b. 1960
association football player
Amos Youga
b. 1992
association football player
Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël
b. 1976
mathematician
Guérin de Montaigu
1200 – 1230
warrior monk
Loïc Lapoussin
b. 1996
association football player
Danièle Dorléans
b. 1947
swimmer
Baptiste Couilloud
b. 1997
rugby union player
Pierre-Yves Bény
b. 1983
artistic gymnast
Roland Delmaire
1941 – 2021
teacher
Christophe Boutin
b. 1959
political scientist
Joseph Velly
1938 – 2016
sport cyclist
Jean de Carro
1770 – 1857
physician
Ronald Servius
b. 1976
athletics competitor
Claude de Vin des Œillets
1637 – 1687
lady-in-waiting
Léon Cogniet
1794 – 1880
painter
Danielle Licari
b. 1943
singer
Lina Tuy
b. 2004
rugby union player
Abdoulaye Touré
b. 1994
association football player
Saul Yaffie
1898 – 1957
painter
Antoine de Castelnau
Catholic priest
Jean-Claude Dague
1937 – 2017
screenwriter
Émile Bourdon
1884 – 1974
organist
Arnaud de Tarlé
b. 1959
military personnel
Jean-Max
1894 – 1970
actor
Jean Gascou
b. 1945
papyrologist
Joseph A. Bailly
1826 – 1883
sculptor
Frédéric Saillot
1881 – 1957
sport cyclist
Max Barrau
b. 1950
rugby union player
Philippe Langenieux-Villard
b. 1955
politician
Cathy Rosier
1945 – 2004
actor
Romain Wacziarg
b. 1970
economist
Jacques-Evrard Bapst
1771 – 1842
goldsmith
Roger Bens
b. 2000
singer
Charles-François Richard
1772 – 1851
industrialist
Jacques Benoit
1896 – 1982
physician
Albert Cazenave
1902 – 1982
rugby union player
Fernand Doukhan
1913 – 1996
school teacher
Guillaume-Lebrecht Petzold
b. 1794
piano maker
Abel Thermeus
b. 1983
association football player
Olivier Henno
b. 1962
politician
Nina Bouraoui
b. 1967
novelist
Julien Ricaud
b. 1985
association football player
Florence Laborderie
b. 1969
artistic gymnast
Émile Ogier
1862 – 1932
politician
Matthieu Peche
b. 1987
canoeist
Jean-Charles Gicquel
b. 1967
athletics competitor
Honoré Vial
1766 – 1813
diplomat
Jean Jacques Surian
b. 1942
painter
André Cerbonney
1900 – 1992
sprinter
Lionel Tivoli
b. 1988
politician
Pascal Greggory
b. 1954
stage actor
Pierre-Antoine Gourgaud
1706 – 1774
stage actor
Richard Le Hir
1947 – 2018
jurist
Franck Gilard
b. 1950
politician
Max Delys
1951 – 1993
actor
Henri Hyvernat
1858 – 1941
archaeologist
Paul Pairet
b. 1964
chef
Kévin Le Roux
b. 1989
volleyball player