France
People of this nationality
Marco Majouga
b. 2001
association football player
Eugénie Renique
1780 – 1836
dancer
Paule Lejeune
1925 – 2014
poet
Thomas Poussin
architect
Nicolas-Médard Audinot
1732 – 1801
actor
Nicolas Caito
b. 1969
businessperson
Yann Moix
b. 1968
writer
Paul Collowald
1923 – 2025
journalist
Jean Baudoin
1590 – 1650
translator
Jean-Claude Mourlevat
b. 1952
translator
Joel Ducorroy
b. 1955
visual artist
Basile Guy Marie Victor Baltus de Pouilly
1766 – 1845
military officer
Emmanuel Clément
b. 1971
association football player
Princess Marie-Louise d’Orléans
1896 – 1973
Marguerite Brouzet
1855 – 1891
Antoine Destutt de Tracy
1754 – 1836
philosopher
Josué Dubois Berthelot de Beaucours
1662 – 1750
military engineer
Marie Chiffon
1835 – 1882
washerwoman
Pierre Bianconi
1962 – 1993
association football player
Louis Blanchette
1739 – 1793
explorer
Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil
1814 – 1885
painter
Ousmane Bangoura
b. 1979
association football player
Sébastien Candel
b. 1946
physicist
Eugène Louis-Marie Jancourt
1815 – 1900
composer
Elea Mariama Diarra
b. 1990
athletics competitor
Françoise Olivier-Coupeau
1959 – 2011
politician
Bryan Pamba
b. 1992
basketball player
Taïna Barioz
b. 1988
alpine skier
Émile-Guillaume Léonard
1891 – 1961
historian
Pierre Arnoul
1651 – 1719
Officier de plume
Hubert Zimmerman
1941 – 2012
computer scientist
Claude Sicard
1677 – 1726
anthropologist
Jules de Koenigswarter
1904 – 1995
diplomat
Jacqueline Martel
1927 – 2015
alpine skier
Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret
1782 – 1863
lithographer
Daniel Dezeuze
b. 1942
painter
Hélène Raguénès
b. 2000
canoeist
Marie-Christine Blandin
b. 1952
politician
Manoush
b. 1971
actor
François Coulomb the Younger
1691 – 1751
Charles Louis Joseph Vandame
b. 1928
Catholic priest
Laurent Pêcheux
1729 – 1821
painter
Daniel Gillois
1888 – 1959
dressage rider
Frank Lambert
1851 – 1937
inventor
Mhamed Arezki
b. 1984
actor
Georges Bontemps
1799 – 1883
engineer
Augustin Maurs
b. 1975
cellist
Jakie Quartz
b. 1955
singer
Bruce Inkango
b. 1984
association football player
Patricia Djaté-Taillard
b. 1971
middle-distance runner
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle
1818 – 1894
poet
Laurent Lokoli
b. 1994
tennis player
Jean Leclercq
1911 – 1993
medievalist
Georges Lamothe
1842 – 1894
composer
Maurice El Mediouni
1928 – 2024
pianist
Ronald Virag
b. 1938
cardiac surgeon
Ghislain Guessan
b. 1992
association football player
William Laurentz
1895 – 1922
tennis player
Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu
1755 – 1832
painter
Anne Gruner Schlumberger
1905 – 1993
patron of the arts
Jean Dieuzaide
1921 – 2003
painter
Joseph Bernelle
1785 – 1871
military personnel
Jacques Hébert
1757 – 1794
journalist
Fousseni Diabaté
b. 1995
association football player
Étienne Destot
1864 – 1918
physician
Jean Baseilhac
1703 – 1781
physician
François Lesure
1923 – 2001
librarian
Hugues Kenfack
b. 1967
jurist
Leon Dehon
1843 – 1925
theologian
François Commeinhes
b. 1949
politician
Yvonne Reungoat
b. 1945
religious
François Charles-Roux
1879 – 1961
diplomat
Émile Abonnenc
1905 – 1989
entomologist
Augustin Félix Fortin
1763 – 1832
sculptor
Cathy Moncassin
b. 1977
sport cyclist
Aurélien Faivre
b. 1978
association football player
Eugène Spuller
1835 – 1896
politician
Germaine Mounier
1920 – 2006
classical pianist
Octave Parent
1882 – 1942
entomologist
Étienne Martin
1913 – 1995
sculptor
Julien Dumora
b. 1988
rugby union player
Mylène Chavas
b. 1998
association football player
Marc Daunis
b. 1955
politician
Laurent d'Arvieux
1635 – 1702
traveler
Franciscus Verellen
b. 1952
sinologist
Pierre Petit
1922 – 2000
composer
Jean du Casse
1646 – 1715
colonial administrator
Laura Augé
b. 1992
synchronized swimmer
Jules A. Hoffmann
b. 1941
biologist
Daniel Vachez
1946 – 2021
politician
Charles Perrin
1875 – 1954
rower
Paul Janet
1823 – 1899
philosopher
Dragutin Esser
b. 1850
racing driver
Davy Rimane
b. 1979
politician
François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chesnaye Des Bois
1699 – 1784
writer
Pierre Quesnel
1502 – 1574
painter
Lucas Serme
b. 1992
squash player
Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils
980 – 1050
rabbi
Philippe Salaün
1943 – 2020
photographer
Laurent Desbiens
b. 1969
sport cyclist