France
People of this nationality
Charles Le Brun
1619 – 1690
painter
Ernest Esclangon
1876 – 1954
mathematician
Christian Assaf
b. 1972
politician
Pierre Lefebvre
1938 – 2026
politician
Didier Munduteguy
b. 1953
navigator
Sarah Adler
b. 1978
actor
Candie Herbert
b. 1977
association football player
Ronan Guéguin
b. 1996
badminton player
François Pinault
b. 1936
businessperson
Christiane Mandelys
1873 – 1957
film actor
Karyn Faure
b. 1969
swimmer
Sami Frey
b. 1937
stage actor
Gaëtan Poussin
b. 1999
association football player
Jacques Cousteau
1910 – 1997
zoologist
Gérald de Palmas
b. 1967
singer
Henry Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
1847 – 1916
politician
Paul Aubry
1902 – 1998
politician
Prosper Marchand
1678 – 1756
publisher
René-Louis Baire
1874 – 1932
mathematician
Françoise-Hélène Jourda
1955 – 2015
architect
Taïro
b. 1978
singer-songwriter
Pierre-François Flaugergues
1767 – 1836
politician
Manon Garcia
b. 1985
philosopher
Jules Gabriel Levasseur
1823 – 1907
printmaker
Jean Délémontez
1918 – 2015
aircraft pilot
Charles Labie
1803 – 1881
playwright
Jean-Louis Vaudoyer
1883 – 1963
writer
Irène du Buisson de Longpré
lady-in-waiting
Margaret of Foix
1453 – 1486
Hatem Ben Arfa
b. 1987
association football player
Marina Ferrari
b. 1973
politician
Marc Chervel
1932 – 2004
economist
Sarah Michel
b. 1989
basketball player
Thomas Leleu
b. 1987
tubist
René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt
1773 – 1844
playwright
Gilbert-Amable Faure-Conac
1755 – 1819
politician
Marie Antoine de Reiset
1775 – 1836
military personnel
Damien Le Tallec
b. 1990
association football player
Jean-Yves Prigent
b. 1954
kayaker
Georgette Tissier
1910 – 1959
actor
William Vincent Barré
1760 – 1829
linguist
Maguy Nestoret
b. 1969
athletics competitor
Georges Périnal
1897 – 1965
cinematographer
Francis Borelli
1932 – 2007
businessperson
Lucie Guérin
1900 – 1973
politician
Colette Privat
1925 – 2021
politician
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
b. 1954
latinist
Joseph Soriano
anarchist
Antoine Gombaud
1607 – 1684
gambler
Charles-Philbert de Couët de Lorry
1911 – 1981
equestrian
Élise Delzenne
b. 1989
sport cyclist
Serge Crasnianski
b. 1942
entrepreneur
Edouard Cukierman
b. 1965
entrepreneur
Marine de Carné
b. 1963
diplomat
Manon Valentino
b. 1990
sport cyclist
Made Siamé
1885 – 1974
actor
Hippolyte Worms
1889 – 1962
banker
Auguste Detœuf
1883 – 1947
economist
Jacques Balsan
1868 – 1956
military officer
Coralie Ducher
b. 1986
association football player
Nicolas Pousset
b. 1979
ice hockey player
Max-Hervé George
b. 1989
businessperson
Gaston Flosse
b. 1931
politician
Léa Catania
b. 1993
swimmer
Simon de Faultrier
1763 – 1832
military officer
Alexia Chartereau
b. 1998
basketball player
Odette Lamolle
1910 – 2000
translator
Lucien Braun
1923 – 2020
university teacher
Yann Guyot
b. 1986
sport cyclist
Rose Loga
b. 2002
athletics competitor
Ambroise Paré
1510 – 1590
surgeon
Alexandre Dumas fils
1824 – 1895
writer
Jean Hamon
1618 – 1687
biblical scholar
Princess Anne Thérèse of Savoy
1717 – 1745
aristocrat
Corentin Tolisso
b. 1994
association football player
Ksenia Milicevic
b. 1942
painter
Aude Cassagne
b. 1990
sport cyclist
Jean-Michel Roddaz
b. 1948
historian
Milena Surreau
b. 1997
para badminton player
Jean de La Chapelle
1651 – 1723
writer
Alexandra Fusai
b. 1973
tennis player
Eugène Pelletan
1813 – 1884
politician
Charles François Gand
1789 – 1845
musical instrument maker
Ionna Vautrin
b. 1979
designer
Christian Cuch
1943 – 2014
track cyclist
Albert Bellenger
1846 – 1914
wood engraver
Emmanuel Mayonnade
b. 1983
handball coach
Yoann Paillot
b. 1991
sport cyclist
Henri Verne
1880 – 1949
art historian
Olivier Cyran
b. 1953
journalist
Antoine-Charles Vauthier
1790 – 1879
botanist
Ana Tadić
b. 1998
basketball player
Georges Philippar
1883 – 1959
businessperson
Mohamed Toihiri
b. 1955
diplomat
Geneviève Fontanel
1936 – 2018
stage actor
Annie Beustes
b. 1945
politician
Pierre Aubé
b. 1944
historian
Carle Vernet
1758 – 1836
lithographer
Tamatoa VI
1853 – 1905
Dominique Voynet
b. 1958
politician