France
People of this nationality
Philippe De Vomecourt
1902 – 1964
spy
Julie-Anne Gross
b. 1967
fencer
Élisabeth Borne
b. 1961
politician
François Pluchart
1937 – 1988
journalist
Ion Mocanu
b. 1962
handball player
Franc-Nohain
1872 – 1934
writer
Joanna Tomera
b. 1999
tennis player
Henri Levée
1885 – 1943
rugby union player
Marcel Sembat
1862 – 1922
politician
Vincenzo Carabetta
b. 1973
judoka
Vincent Ségal
b. 1967
cellist
François de Laval
1623 – 1708
Catholic priest
Benjamin Laplace
singer
Pierre Laffitte
1925 – 2021
politician
Robert Léon
rower
Paul-Quentin Desains
1817 – 1885
physicist
Antoine Le Moiturier
b. 1425
sculptor
Nicolas Joseph Maison
1771 – 1840
military officer
Alain Ambrosino
b. 1951
rally driver
Jean Joseph Hubert
1765 – 1805
Officer of the French Navy
Jacqueline Comerre-Paton
1859 – 1955
painter
Thibault Giresse
b. 1981
association football player
Eric Benhamou
b. 1955
engineer
Caterina Valente
1931 – 2024
actor
Abdel Amid Boutefnouchet
b. 1932
boxer
Théophile Silvestre
1823 – 1876
art critic
William Accambray
b. 1988
handball player
Raoul Thiercelin
1898 – 1988
rugby union player
Émilie Gral
b. 1986
swimmer
Éric Durand
b. 1965
association football player
Gabriel Bouret
1817 – 1890
painter
Philippe Jules François Mancini
1675 – 1768
poet
Jean-Pierre Liégeois
b. 1953
sociologist
Clémentine Jouassain
1829 – 1902
stage actor
Jean de Viguerie
1935 – 2019
historian
Léo Bergoffen
1922 – 2020
translator
Jean Ferrand
1930 – 1990
ice hockey player
Jean-Marie Sotin de La Coindière
1764 – 1810
lawyer
Roger de Saivre
1908 – 1964
politician
Albertet Cailla
troubadour
Karim Zedadka
b. 2000
association football player
Jean-Marc Gaillard
b. 1980
cross-country skier
Cédric Morgan
b. 1943
writer
Florence Thomassin
b. 1966
actor
Erick Pitau
1952 – 1999
field hockey player
Charles Auguste Corbineau
1835 – 1901
painter
Henri Hazebrouck
1877 – 1948
rower
Gérald Baudouin
b. 1972
pole vaulter
Gédéon Pitard
b. 1989
basketball player
Francis Duteil
1947 – 2016
sport cyclist
Jean Schlumberger
1907 – 1987
goldsmith
Tony Chapron
b. 1972
association football referee
Romain Barras
b. 1980
athletics competitor
Jules Michel
b. 1931
painter
Jean-Charles Nicaise Perrin
1754 – 1831
painter
John II, Count of Dreux
1265 – 1309
aristocrat
Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt
b. 1928
writer
Pierre Dalle Nogare
1934 – 1984
poet
Anne Ferrand
1657 – 1740
writer
Estelle Vogein
b. 1976
handball player
Deva Dassy
1911 – 2016
opera singer
Martin Terrier
b. 1997
association football player
Gilbert Renault
1904 – 1984
screenwriter
Jean-François Bonhème
b. 1949
athletics competitor
Maurice del Valle
1883 – 1965
ice hockey player
Pierre Talmont
b. 1977
association football player
Dominique Ricard
1741 – 1803
writer
Thierry Legault
b. 1962
astronomer
Alain Savary
1918 – 1988
politician
Theo Sulpice
François Bacqué
1936 – 2023
Catholic priest
Amel Bouderra
b. 1989
basketball player
Paul Achard
1887 – 1962
writer
William Prunier
b. 1967
association football player
Michel Giraud
1929 – 2011
politician
Georges Guéril
1909 – 1977
politician
Solène Coulot
1989 – 2010
curler
Dominique Sarron
b. 1959
motorcycle racer
Philippe Jourdan
b. 1960
Catholic priest
David Victor Belly de Bussy
1768 – 1848
military officer
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
1780 – 1831
orientalist
Jean-François Ballester
1965 – 2018
figure skater
Paul Désiré Trouillebert
1829 – 1900
painter
Sophie-Tith
b. 1996
singer
Virginie Lagoutte-Clément
b. 1979
golfer
Solal
b. 1962
singer
Jocelyne Dakhlia
b. 1959
historian
Georges Cabanier
1906 – 1976
French resistance fighter
Antoine Henri de Bérault-Bercastel
1722 – 1794
poet
Dominique Sigaud
b. 1959
journalist
Jeanne Varney Pleasants
1899 – 1986
scholar of French literature
Médard des Groseilliers
1618 – 1696
Coureur des bois
Philippe Forquet
1940 – 2020
actor
Maurice Franck
1897 – 1983
conductor
Mickael Leca
b. 1994
association football player
Dominique Avon
b. 1968
historian
Édouard Joseph Dantan
1848 – 1897
painter
Gaston van de Werve et de Schilde
1867 – 1923
politician
Louis-Pasteur Vallery-Radot
1886 – 1970
politician
Jacques de Nervo
1897 – 1990
businessperson