France
People of this nationality
Jacques Chaumont
1934 – 2025
politician
Jacques Baraud
1921 – 1992
entomologist
Damien Tiberi
b. 1985
association football player
Jean Thiébault Silbermann
1806 – 1865
physicist
Jean-Marc Todeschini
b. 1952
politician
Maurice Bedel
1883 – 1954
writer
Vimala Pons
b. 1983
actor
Joseph Halévy
1827 – 1917
explorer
Simon Chèvre d'Or
poet
Pomponne de Bellièvre
1529 – 1607
diplomat
Henri Sanz
b. 1963
rugby union player
Thomas Crețu
b. 2002
rugby union player
Sam Spiegel
b. 1963
actor
Jean Neuberth
1915 – 1996
painter
Louis-Mathieu Langlès
1763 – 1824
librarian
Yannick Noah
b. 1960
tennis player
Henri-Antoine-Marie de Noailles
1890 – 1947
Denise Vernay
1924 – 2013
French resistance fighter
Georges Mareschal
1658 – 1736
surgeon
Émile Hugot
1904 – 1993
businessperson
Nils John Nilsson
1933 – 2019
engineer
Philadelphe de Gerde
1871 – 1952
poet
Vincent Dorel
b. 1992
association football player
Pauline Harmange
b. 1994
writer
Théophile Emmanuel Duverger
1821 – 1898
painter
Raymonde Vital
domestic worker
Armel Traoré
b. 2003
basketball player
Yves Boissier
b. 1944
fencer
Marianne Grunberg-Manago
1921 – 2013
biochemist
Nicolas Vogondy
b. 1977
sport cyclist
Lily Grosser
1894 – 1968
philanthropist
Fabien Anselmet
b. 1960
ski mountaineer
William Barthau
b. 1990
rugby league player
Prosper Peter
b. 2007
association football player
Suzanne Honoré
1909 – 2000
archivist
Balla Camara
1926 – 1970
economist
Farid Diaf
b. 1971
association football player
Anne Querrien
b. 1945
sociologist
Louis-Mathieu Molé
1781 – 1855
politician
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
1643 – 1687
explorer
Louis Napoléon Murat
1851 – 1912
military officer
Thomas Castaignède
b. 1975
rugby union player
Catalina Denis
b. 1995
actor
Manon Petit-Lenoir
b. 1998
snowboarder
Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini
1716 – 1798
diplomat
Alain Patritti
b. 1953
sport cyclist
Matthieu Paley
b. 1973
photographer
Stéphane Pacaud
b. 1978
computer scientist
Louis Duc
b. 1983
navigator
Julien Lyneel
b. 1990
volleyball player
Antoine Vermorel-Marques
b. 1993
politician
Jacques Barsamian
1943 – 2024
journalist
Élisabeth Duparc
1750 – 1778
opera singer
Auguste-Marie Hue
1840 – 1917
lichenologist
Karim Safsaf
b. 1994
association football player
François Couperin
1668 – 1733
composer
Thibaud Gaudin
1229 – 1292
Jean de Gribaldy
1922 – 1987
sport cyclist
Noëlle Cordier
b. 1944
singer
Christian Galan
b. 1960
japanologist
Kévin Ledanois
b. 1993
sport cyclist
Yohan Congio
b. 1984
association football player
Danielle Darrieux
1917 – 2017
singer
Florian Douetteau
b. 1980
business executive
Elisabeth Chaplin
1890 – 1982
painter
Eugène Bataillon
1864 – 1953
zoologist
Laurent Chardard
b. 1995
swimmer
Hugh XI of Lusignan
1221 – 1250
Eugène Müntz
1845 – 1902
art historian
Juliette Mills
b. 1945
actor
Jean-Michel Tinivelli
b. 1967
actor
Christine Flear
b. 1967
chess player
Blaise Pascal
1623 – 1662
mathematician
Tiphaine Raguenel
1335 – 1373
astrologer
Armelle Faesch
b. 1981
volleyball player
Yves Ciampi
1921 – 1982
film director
Bariza Khiari
b. 1946
politician
Jean-Marthe-Adrien l'Hermite
1766 – 1826
military personnel
Serge Mesonès
1948 – 2001
association football player
Charles Netter
1826 – 1882
businessperson
Henri Galliard
1891 – 1979
physician
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
1908 – 1961
philosopher
Wilfried Dalmat
b. 1982
association football player
Victoire Berteau
b. 2000
sport cyclist
André Caroff
1924 – 2009
writer
Camélia Jordana
b. 1992
singer
Pierre Guénin
1927 – 2017
novelist
František Peřina
1911 – 2006
aircraft pilot
Giovanni Paolo Paladino
1500 – 1566
composer
Nicolas Prosper Bauyn d'Angervilliers
1675 – 1740
politician
Ferdinand P. Beer
1915 – 2003
engineer
Alice Stoffel
1905 – 1983
swimmer
Julien Grondin
b. 1993
teqball player
Isabelle Joschke
b. 1977
skipper
Serge Lepeltier
b. 1953
politician
Philippe Le Bas
1794 – 1860
anthropologist
Edouard Dubois
b. 1989
golfer
Pierre Coquelin de Lisle
1900 – 1980
sport shooter
Nicolas Brignone
b. 1989
sprinter
Louis Jaurès
1860 – 1937
politician