France
People of this nationality
Alexandre Peyron
1823 – 1892
politician
Françoise Balibar
b. 1941
physicist
Abdelaziz Kamara
b. 1984
association football player
Jean-Remy de Chestret
1739 – 1809
politician
Napoleon Charles Bonaparte
1802 – 1807
Ludovic Fabregas
b. 1996
handball player
Nicolas-Auguste Hesse
1795 – 1869
painter
François Vatable
1495 – 1547
professor
Marcel Loncin
1920 – 1995
engineer
Alexander Varbedian
b. 1943
ethnologist
John I, Count of Dammartin
1300 – 1302
composer
Hugues Delorme
1868 – 1942
journalist
Aristide Drouet
1903 – 1949
sport cyclist
Simon Vollant
1622 – 1696
architect
Hervé Guiraud
b. 1966
rugby union player
Christiane Spinoza
b. 1945
tennis player
Charles Sellier
1830 – 1882
painter
Camille-Melchior Gibert
1797 – 1866
dermatologist
Madeleine Guitty
1870 – 1936
actor
Joseph Mauclair
1906 – 1990
sport cyclist
Jean Froissart
1337 – 1405
chronicler
Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc
1756 – 1845
politician
Raphaël Jacquelin
b. 1974
golfer
Jean-Baptiste Libouban
1935 – 2021
trade unionist
Henri Ecochard
1923 – 2020
soldier
Fernand Vast
1886 – 1968
sport cyclist
Lucien Seignol
1907 – 1994
architect
Clarisse Mairot
b. 2001
handball player
Binot Paulmier de Gonneville
1500 – 1600
explorer
Pierre Nora
1931 – 2025
historian
Guy Romano
1937 – 2023
theologian
Auguste-Armand de la Force
1878 – 1961
historian
Jean-Marie Le Bris
1817 – 1872
aircraft pilot
Charles-Henri Sanson
1739 – 1806
executioner
Paul Vidal de La Blache
1845 – 1918
geographer
Olivier Barbarant
b. 1966
poet
Pascale Fonteneau
b. 1963
journalist
Catherine Pen
b. 1954
politician
Henri Guérard
1846 – 1897
lithographer
Ema Stokholma
b. 1983
television presenter
Christophe Dechavanne
b. 1958
radio personality
Jean-Baptiste Bréval
1753 – 1823
composer
Camille Le Mercier d'Erm
1888 – 1978
historian
Nadège Havet
b. 1975
politician
Odette Bergoffen
1924 – 2026
French resistance fighter
Maurice Arthus
1862 – 1945
immunologist
Sabine Rubin
b. 1960
politician
Monique Boulestin
b. 1951
politician
Éric Gold
b. 1964
politician
Marcel Marongiu
b. 1962
personal stylist
Nicolas Grandjean
b. 1967
physicist
Paul Masino
1911 – 1993
artistic gymnast
Daniel Choquet
b. 1962
neuroscientist
Antoine Lavoisier
1743 – 1794
chemist
Ève Ruggieri
b. 1939
radio personality
Raymond Pichard
1913 – 1992
Catholic priest
Leonardo Marcos
artist
Hubert Déquier
b. 1952
poet
Louis Aragon
1897 – 1982
physician writer
Virgilije Nevjestić
1935 – 2009
printmaker
Jean Rollin
1938 – 2010
film director
René Jarry-Desloges
1868 – 1951
astronomer
Stéphane Lemarchand
b. 1971
association football player
Fulchran-Jean Harriet
1776 – 1805
painter
Jacques Thomas
1922 – 1987
tennis player
Charles Quervel
1801 – 2000
archer
Agnès Berthon
1959 – 2025
actor
Hugh XIII of Lusignan
1259 – 1303
Jean Daurat
1508 – 1588
poet
Louis Marie Raymond Durand
1786 – 1837
diplomat
Ilarie Voronca
1903 – 1946
poet
Pierre Descaves
1924 – 2014
politician
Charles Le Roux
1814 – 1895
painter
Eguinaire Baron
1495 – 1550
philosopher
Léonard Baldner
1612 – 1694
naturalist
Jean de Murat de Cros
1301 – 1383
Catholic priest
Victor-Amédée Lebesgue
1791 – 1875
mathematician
Paloma
b. 1991
drag queen
Corentin Ermenault
b. 1996
sport cyclist
Philippe Loiseleur des Longchamps Deville
1923 – 2003
historian
Gérald Marie
b. 1950
businessperson
Élisabeth Guigou
b. 1946
politician
Steve Tran
b. 1985
actor
Henri Omont
1857 – 1940
librarian
Gervais Gindre
1927 – 1990
athlete
Jehan
b. 1957
singer
Gabriel Hargues
1904 – 1982
sport cyclist
François Loncle
b. 1941
politician
Anis Ouzenadji
b. 2006
association football player
Céline Bonacina
b. 1975
saxophonist
Henri Paris
1935 – 2021
military leader
Charles Dugua
1744 – 1802
politician
Émile Baas
1906 – 1984
writer
Bernart de Rovenac
b. 1200
troubadour
Pierre Guffroy
1926 – 2010
scenographer
Jean Trillo
b. 1944
rugby union player
Annick Ménardo
b. 1950
perfumer
Adeline Yzac
b. 1954
writer
Ann O'Aro
b. 1990
poet
Hugo Page
b. 2001
sport cyclist