France
People of this nationality
Mélesville
1787 – 1865
playwright
Jean Behra
1921 – 1959
motorcycle racer
Hédi Kaddour
b. 1945
poet
Pauline Crammer
b. 1991
association football player
Donovan Léon
b. 1992
association football player
Johan Letzelter
b. 1984
association football player
Claude Dellacherie
b. 1943
mathematician
Bernard Lopez
1813 – 1896
writer
Henri Tincq
1945 – 2020
journalist
Karima Berger
b. 1956
non-fiction writer
Jean-Baptiste Jacopin
1755 – 1811
politician
Nicolas Beaudan
b. 1975
fencer
Catherine Langeais
1923 – 1998
continuity announcer
Félix Lionnet
1832 – 1896
painter
Emmanuelle Zoldan
b. 1977
opera singer
Louis Barillet
1880 – 1948
stained-glass artist
Jean Aicard
1848 – 1921
writer
Terence Pinto
b. 1989
association football player
Jules Cambon
1845 – 1935
diplomat
Solomon Klein
1814 – 1867
rabbi
Adolfo Kaminsky
1925 – 2023
printer
Georges Malfait
1878 – 1946
athletics competitor
Pierre Palliot
1608 – 1698
printer
Robert Giguère
1616 – 1709
Eric Vigeanel
b. 1972
event rider
Dominique Phinot
1510 – 1556
composer
Pierre Oliver
b. 1992
politician
Vincent Montabonel
b. 1977
rower
Marcel Bitsch
1921 – 2011
composer
Marie Cico
1841 – 1875
actor
Isabelle Gatti de Gamond
1839 – 1905
women's rights activist
Ginette Bucaille
1926 – 2021
tennis player
Pierre Bouysse
b. 1983
association football player
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
1750 – 1819
painter
Jean Godin des Odonais
1713 – 1792
cartographer
Pierre Sidos
1927 – 2020
politician
Bernard Eisenschitz
b. 1944
film critic
Gentian Hervetus
1499 – 1584
translator
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme
1540 – 1614
historian
Alfred Badu
equestrian
Bernard Fernandez
1924 – 2000
sport cyclist
Sylvie Hue
b. 1963
clarinetist
Jean-Baptiste de Gennes
1656 – 1705
naval officer
Jean-Pascal Zadi
b. 1980
film director
Susanne de Baudéan
1625 – 1700
lady-in-waiting
Jacques Grimonpon
1925 – 2013
association football player
Dominique Schneidre
b. 1942
writer
Éric Élisor
b. 1971
association football player
Charles Denner
1926 – 1995
stage actor
Catherine Couturier
b. 1959
politician
Jean-Pierre Lémonon
b. 1940
biblical scholar
Robert Marchal
1901 – 1961
athletics competitor
Florence Loiret Caille
b. 1975
film actor
Xavier Noël
b. 1976
boxer
Fabrice Begeorgi
b. 1987
association football player
Édouard André
1840 – 1911
botanist
Jeannine Richer
1924 – 2022
composer
Louis Darragon
1883 – 1918
sport cyclist
Antoine Gutierrez
b. 1953
sport cyclist
Guillaume Florent
b. 1973
sailor
Maurice Piette
1871 – 1953
civil servant
Marcel Hauss
1890 – 1917
flying ace
Françoise Demulder
1947 – 2008
photojournalist
Billal Bennama
b. 1998
boxer
Frédéric Botton
1936 – 2008
composer
Franck Jurietti
b. 1975
association football player
Isam Shahrour
b. 1956
scientist
Paul Bourde
1851 – 1914
playwright
Nabil Ennasri
b. 1982
political scientist
William Lee Stokes
1915 – 1994
geologist
Martial Bourquin
b. 1952
politician
Léon Escudier
1821 – 1881
journalist
Robert Diochon
1883 – 1953
association football player
Jean-François-Maxime Raybaud
1795 – 1894
military officer
Georges Mathé
1922 – 2010
immunologist
Cindy Perros
b. 1990
kickboxer
Romain Alessandrini
b. 1989
association football player
Jean-Henri Fondeville
1633 – 1705
writer
Louis Cazamian
1877 – 1965
writer
Thomas Sauvage
1794 – 1877
playwright
Alain-François Lehoerff
1941 – 2003
sailor
Petronilla, Countess of Bigorre
1184 – 1251
feudatory
Hippolyte Hanry
1807 – 1893
botanist
Sébastien Mamerot
1401 – 1490
writer
Joël Bats
b. 1957
association football player
Madeleine Renaud
1900 – 1994
stage actor
Blanche Edwards-Pilliet
1858 – 1941
human rights defender
Édouard Marquis
1969 – 2020
journalist
Mary O'Shiell
1715 – 1749
businessperson
Raphaël Faÿs
b. 1959
guitarist
Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier
1653 – 1727
Catholic priest
Jacques Grosperrin
b. 1955
politician
Michel Spiro
b. 1946
physicist
Alexandre Michon
1858 – 1921
film director
Margot Béziat
b. 2001
canoeist
Jean Gimpel
1918 – 1996
medievalist
Barbe Le Clerch
1891 – 2000
maid
Antoine Mendy
b. 2004
association football player
Renée Faure
1918 – 2005
actor
Pierre Manhès
1841 – 1906
engineer