France
People of this nationality
Auguste Jubé de La Perelle
1765 – 1824
politician
Paul Albert Laurens
1870 – 1934
painter
Jacques Alexis de Verteuil
1726 – 1793
military leader
Luce
b. 1990
singer
Pierre Leguillon
b. 1969
contemporary artist
Michel de Gallard
1921 – 2007
painter
Nicolas Basin
b. 1998
association football player
Charles Devendeville
1882 – 1914
water polo player
Célia Bertin
1920 – 2014
writer
Lazare Garreau
1812 – 1892
botanist
François Spoerry
1912 – 1999
architect
Jean Verdun
1931 – 2021
writer
Moïse Schwab
1839 – 1918
librarian
Yann Clairay
b. 1983
chauffeur
Florian Guillou
b. 1982
sport cyclist
Olympe de Gouges
1748 – 1793
playwright
Julien El Fares
b. 1985
sport cyclist
Thomas Damuseau
b. 1989
sport cyclist
Félix Jean Marie Louis Ancey
1835 – 1919
entomologist
George Wagner
1930 – 1993
Christian minister
Jacques d'Annebaut
1450 – 1557
Catholic priest
Jacques Bernard Hombron
1798 – 1852
explorer
Jean-Pierre Kuskowiak
1949 – 2025
association football player
Jean-Anne Christy de la Pallière
1755 – 1829
military personnel
Jean Hubert
1885 – 1927
aerospace engineer
Princess Victoria, Duchess of Nemours
1822 – 1857
Georges Dejaeghère
1879 – 1954
artistic gymnast
Étienne de Voisins-Lavernière
1813 – 1898
politician
André Sainte-Laguë
1882 – 1950
mathematician
Katell Keineg
b. 1965
singer
Pascal Baills
b. 1964
association football player
Frédéric Lemoine
b. 1965
entrepreneur
Thierry Lauret
b. 1965
athletics competitor
Claire Guion-Firmin
b. 1957
politician
Prisca Thevenot
b. 1985
politician
Albert Gilles
1895 – 1979
coppersmith
Gaston Fichu
1901 – 1974
amateur wrestler
André Lefèvre
1869 – 1929
politician
Yves Michalon
1945 – 2022
writer
Gabriel Amard
b. 1967
politician
Patrick Perrier
1957 – 2015
rugby union player
YL
b. 1996
rapper
Alain Schmitt
b. 1983
judoka
Gabriel Kimiaie Asadi Bildstein
b. 1999
entrepreneur
François Adhémar de Monteil
1603 – 1689
Catholic bishop
Laurent Mangel
b. 1981
sport cyclist
Adrienne Fidelin
1915 – 2004
art model
Jean-Paul Paloméros
b. 1953
military officer
Thomas Alizier
b. 1990
kickboxer
Thibaud Flament
b. 1997
rugby union player
Frantz Reichel
1871 – 1932
rugby union player
Valery Larbaud
1881 – 1957
poet
Pacôme Rupin
b. 1985
politician
Jean Jules Badin
1843 – 1919
painter
Guy de Chauliac
1290 – 1368
physician
Hercule Mériadec, Prince of Guéméné
1688 – 1757
aristocrat
Jo Prestia
b. 1960
actor
Dominique Darel
1950 – 1978
model
Alfred Léon Gérault-Richard
1860 – 1911
politician
Jean-Louis Leca
b. 1985
association football player
Gabriel François Doyen
1726 – 1806
painter
Gaëlle Bélem
b. 1984
novelist
Yorick Le Saux
b. 1968
cinematographer
Jean-Michel Lambert
1952 – 2017
writer
Master of 1342
b. 1201
painter
Françoise Journet
1675 – 1720
opera singer
Jean Mariette
1660 – 1742
printmaker
Jacques Le Goff
1924 – 2014
historian
Amélie Sarn
b. 1970
writer
Jean-Luc Lemoine
b. 1970
actor
Raoul Dautry
1880 – 1951
politician
Bruno Le Maire
b. 1969
politician
Bernard Caron
b. 1952
association football player
Jules Mazellier
1879 – 1959
composer
Jean Jouffroy
1412 – 1473
Catholic priest
Baptiste Veistroffer
b. 2000
sport cyclist
Xavier Picard
b. 1962
animator
Merlin Surget
b. 1999
snowboarder
Yannick Gozzoli
b. 1983
chess player
Jeanne Sully
1905 – 1995
film actor
Thierry Argelier
b. 1986
association football player
Thibaut de Blaison
1150 – 1229
poet
Isabelle Moretti
b. 1964
harpist
Gilles-Barnabé Guimard
1734 – 1805
architect
Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy
1736 – 1804
painter
Paul Hautefeuille
1836 – 1902
chemist
Jocelyn Quivrin
1979 – 2009
actor
Paul Tallement the Younger
1642 – 1712
Catholic priest
Christian Synaeghel
b. 1951
association football player
Daniel Paul
1943 – 2023
politician
James, Duke of Nevers
1544 – 1564
aristocrat
Eliakim Carmoly
1802 – 1875
literary historian
Jean Foussat
1931 – 2015
rugby union player
Floresca Guépin
1813 – 1889
founder
Charles Jules Edmée Brongniart
1859 – 1899
entomologist
Colonel Amirouche
1926 – 1959
political activist
Luigi Richetto
1853 – 1903
habitual offender
Pierre Noël Le Cauchois
1740 – 1788
lawyer
Élise Leboucher
b. 1982
politician
Robin Campillo
b. 1962
film director