France
People of this nationality
Coco Chanel
1883 – 1971
fashion designer
Thérèse Wartel
1814 – 1865
composer
Étienne Payot
1900 – 1972
bobsledder
Sandie Thibaut
b. 1996
sport cyclist
Jean-Pierre Léaud
b. 1944
film director
Jean-Baptiste Kim
b. 1966
journalist
Edmond Etling
1850 – 1940
art dealer
Emmanuel Vermignon
b. 1989
association football player
Antonio Martinelli
b. 1953
photographer
Honoré d'Albert
1581 – 1649
aristocrat
Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella
1641 – 1676
painter
Jean-Louis Lalanne
1954 – 2025
association football player
Henri Montan Berton fils
1784 – 1832
composer
Sylvain Armand
b. 1980
association football player
Philippe Chamouard
b. 1952
composer
Patrice Delaveau
b. 1965
show jumper
Paul Gardy
1901 – 1975
military leader
Raymond Hermantier
1924 – 2005
actor
Joseph Gonzales
1907 – 1984
association football player
Jacques Seiler
1928 – 2004
actor
Raymond Schlemmer
Anne Le Guernec
b. 1967
actor
Guillaume Bautru
1588 – 1665
poet
Charles Xavier Thomas
1785 – 1870
inventor
Georges Hilaire Bousquet
1846 – 1937
lawyer
Pierre Lenhardt
1927 – 2019
theologian
Pierre-Henri Bunel
b. 1952
autobiographer
Thomas Hache
1664 – 1747
joiner
Kassandra Jappont
b. 1994
handball player
Gustave Hervé
1871 – 1944
politician
Rémi Brague
b. 1947
philosopher
Fodé Sylla
b. 1963
politician
Emma Saïd Ben Mohamed
1876 – 1930
circus performer
Daniel Defert
1937 – 2023
university teacher
Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy
1613 – 1684
Catholic priest
Pierre-Marie-Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu
1758 – 1816
writer
Serge Brunier
b. 1958
photographer
Frédéric Grillot
b. 1974
professor
Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo
b. 1977
biologist
Jean-Marc Aué
b. 1973
rugby union player
Charles Dubouillé
b. 1918
table tennis player
Charles-Louis Hanon
1819 – 1900
composer
Henri-Étienne Beaunis
1830 – 1921
physician
Alexis Izard
b. 1992
politician
Valéry Aubertin
b. 1970
organist
Jérôme Potier
b. 1962
tennis player
Nicolas Fizes
1648 – 1718
mathematician
Fernand Loriot
1870 – 1932
politician
Pome
250 – 300
nun
John Berthier
1840 – 1908
Catholic priest
Charles Pellat
1914 – 1992
arabist
Paul-Marie Delaunay
1878 – 1958
physician
Eugène Lechat
1919 – 2008
politician
Vikash Tillé
b. 1997
association football player
Jean-Marc Fontaine
1944 – 2019
mathematician
Gilles Porte
b. 1965
film director
Julien Fritz
b. 1990
rugby union player
Ernest (Jean Baptiste) Rupin
1845 – 1909
botanist
Julien Dufau
1888 – 1916
rugby union player
Madeleine Barbulée
1910 – 2001
actor
Lefa
b. 1985
rapper
Henri Courtine
1930 – 2021
judoka
Jean-Louis Schoellkopf
b. 1946
photographer
Ernest Hébert
1817 – 1908
painter
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
1814 – 1879
architect
Francine Caron
b. 1945
poet
Henri Peslier
1880 – 1912
water polo player
Madeleine Fié-Fieux
1897 – 1995
painter
Hippolyte Charles
1773 – 1837
military personnel
Eugene Oge
1861 – 1936
lithographer
Frédéric Acquaviva
b. 1967
composer
Caroline Roque
b. 1975
writer
Marcel Azzola
1927 – 2019
musician
Camille De Pazzis
b. 1978
actor
Robert Constantin
b. 1896
sport cyclist
Émile Gagnan
1900 – 1984
engineer
Élodie Godin
b. 1985
basketball player
Gabrielle de Rochechouart
1530 – 1580
Jean Claude Eléonore de Michaud d'Arçon
1733 – 1800
politician
Guillaume Boni
1530 – 1598
composer
Jean-Paul-Égide Martini
1741 – 1816
composer
Jacob van Schuppen
1670 – 1751
painter
Louis Trousselier
1881 – 1939
sport cyclist
Édouard Bamberger
1825 – 1910
politician
Isabelle Demongeot
b. 1966
tennis player
Jean-Baptiste Quentin
1690 – 1742
composer
Henri Holgard
1884 – 1927
association football player
Louis-Alexis Baudouin
1776 – 1805
Officer of the French Navy
Françoise Cadol
b. 1964
actor
Jean Pierre Lanabère
1770 – 1812
military officer
Isabelle Carré
b. 1971
stage actor
Germaine Coty
1886 – 1955
economic historian
Stéphane Breton
b. 1959
anthropologist
Roger Menetrey
b. 1945
boxer
Jean-François Domergue
b. 1957
association football player
Jacques Fred Petrus
1948 – 1987
disc jockey
David Recorbet
b. 1976
association football player
David Bismuth
b. 1975
pianist
Jean Chaland
1881 – 1973
ice hockey player
Gustave Vogt
1781 – 1870
oboist