France
People of this nationality
Étienne Bacrot
b. 1983
chess player
Delphine Depardieu
b. 1979
actor
Marc Gabolde
b. 1957
Egyptologist
Philippe Louviot
b. 1964
sport cyclist
Marie Adélaïde of France
1732 – 1800
aristocrat
Jacques de Tourreil
1656 – 1714
jurist
Mickaël Vallet
b. 1979
politician
Darcel Yandzi
b. 1973
judoka
Geneviève Hasenohr
b. 1942
medievalist
Alain Schifres
1939 – 2026
journalist
Jean-Pierre François
b. 1965
association football player
Louis Legrand
1711 – 1780
theologian
Jean Roy
1916 – 2011
musicologist
Youssouf Niakaté
b. 1992
association football player
Pierre Chapo
1927 – 1987
furniture designer
Pierre Ménès
b. 1963
sports journalist
Hillary Diaz
b. 2004
association football player
Johann Grégoire
b. 1972
freestyle skier
Adalbert Vitalyos
1914 – 2000
journalist
David Toupé
b. 1977
para badminton player
Étienne de Poncher
1446 – 1524
diplomat
Pierre Darbos
1939 – 2017
rugby union player
Louis Nicolas
1634 – 1682
missionary
Marguerite de Sassenage
royal mistress
Jacques Morin
1924 – 1995
military personnel
Aimeric de Belenoi
1216 – 1242
troubadour
Paul Leroy-Beaulieu
1843 – 1916
economist
Geneviève de Brunelle
1742 – 1823
Chouan
Saint Vincent
b. 1976
singer
Florence Gaub
b. 1977
political scientist
Nath-Sakura
b. 1973
journalist
Pierre Taittinger
1887 – 1965
politician
Emmanuel de Crussol d'Uzès, 15th Duke of Uzès
1927 – 1999
Fernand Sardou
1910 – 1976
singer
Malek Aït Alia
b. 1977
association football player
Philippe Peythieu
b. 1950
actor
François Michelin
1926 – 2015
businessperson
Jean Waline
1933 – 2022
jurist
Marcelle Tassencourt
1914 – 2001
theatre director
Hilary Kpatcha
b. 1998
athletics competitor
SCH
b. 1993
singer
Matthieu Jeannes
b. 1987
sport cyclist
Mano Solo
1963 – 2010
singer
André Castaigne
1861 – 1929
painter
Christophe Ossvald
b. 1737
military personnel
Julie-Victoire Daubié
1824 – 1874
women's rights activist
Jean Nicolas Bréon
1785 – 1864
botanist
Lola Esbrat
b. 1997
figure skater
Karim Attoumani
b. 2001
association football player
Jacqueline de Guillenchmidt
b. 1943
magistrate
Pierre Félix Masseau
1869 – 1937
sculptor
Michel Charréard
b. 1959
sport cyclist
Georges Rol
1926 – 2017
theologian
Anne-Charlotte de Crussol de Florensac
1700 – 1772
salonnière
Olivier de la Marche
1425 – 1502
writer
Georges de Layens
1834 – 1897
beekeeper
Jean-François Bedenik
b. 1978
association football player
Georges de Saint-Foix
1874 – 1954
musicologist
Guillaume François Laennec
1748 – 1822
physician
Jacky Ido
b. 1977
actor
John, Dauphin of France, Duke of Touraine
1398 – 1417
aristocrat
Juste Brouzes
1894 – 1973
association football player
Pierre Stenne
1893 – 1967
sculptor
Laëtizia Penmellen
b. 1994
beauty pageant contestant
Ernest Clère
1897 – 1967
association football player
Paul Grenier
1768 – 1827
politician
Georges Moreau de Tours
1848 – 1901
painter
Géo Daly
1923 – 1999
conductor
Gennaro Bracigliano
b. 1980
association football player
Karim Bouamrane
b. 1973
politician
Bianca Tchoubar
1910 – 1990
chemist
Christine Hocq
b. 1970
triathlete
Todros Todrosi
b. 1313
translator
Jean-Pierre Pranlas-Descours
b. 1956
urban planner
Jean-Cyril Spinetta
b. 1943
entrepreneur
Barney Wilen
1937 – 1996
composer
Robert Wan
b. 1934
merchant
Driss Trichard
b. 1995
association football player
Alexis Palisson
b. 1987
rugby union player
Josette Elayi
b. 1943
historian
Francis Croissant
1935 – 2019
archaeologist
Marius Chaîne
1873 – 1960
Catholic priest
André Dupré
1931 – 2024
sport cyclist
Paul Hallez
1846 – 1938
zoologist
Matthieu Fontaine
b. 1987
association football player
Charles Rigault de Genouilly
1807 – 1873
politician
Jean Turco
b. 1917
politician
Paul Cotte
1825 – 1901
politician
Jacques Sanglier
1919 – 2014
politician
Jean-Luc Moulène
b. 1955
artist
Françoise Laborde
b. 1958
politician
Julie Molé
1789 – 1832
memoirist
Hassan Hirt
b. 1980
athletics competitor
Georges Deicha
1917 – 2011
geologist
Émile Léonard Mathieu
1835 – 1890
mathematician
Nicolas Chambon
1748 – 1826
military physician
Nicolas Isouard
1775 – 1818
composer
Roger Chatelain
b. 1942
rower
Gilles de la Pommeraie
diplomat
Pierre Culioli
1912 – 1994
spy