France
People of this nationality
Henry Lemoine
1786 – 1854
music publisher
Adrienne Bolland
1895 – 1975
aircraft pilot
Pierre Vilars
1916 – 2024
engineer
Jacques Bertillon
1851 – 1922
statistician
Mickaël Ravaux
b. 1979
association football player
Moustapha N'Diaye
b. 1984
basketball player
François Goetghebeur
b. 1974
film director
Patrick Charpentier
b. 1970
boxer
Gilbert Chaumaz
b. 1953
sport cyclist
Mario Bocaly
b. 1978
association football coach
Charles Fechter
1824 – 1879
stage actor
André Birabeau
1890 – 1974
writer
Charles the Simple
879 – 929
monarch
François Gaussen
1790 – 1863
theologian
Louis François Auguste Souleyet
1811 – 1852
zoologist
Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec
1719 – 1781
diplomat
Dominique Garde
b. 1959
sport cyclist
Pierrick Fédrigo
b. 1978
sport cyclist
Pierre-François Laurent
1739 – 1809
printmaker
Jean-Louis de Rambures
1930 – 2006
journalist
Harriet Thayer Durgin
1843 – 1912
botanical illustrator
Bernadette Kanter
b. 1950
sculptor
Idriss Ech-Chergui
b. 1985
association football player
Dominique Hulin
b. 1959
mathematician
Serge Gabernet
b. 1955
rugby union player
Jean Chalette
1581 – 1643
painter
Éric Alibert
b. 1958
painter
Jean-Claude Fournier
b. 1943
comics artist
Georges Grisier
1855 – 1909
playwright
Abdoulay Diaby
b. 1991
association football player
Pierre Bertaux
1907 – 1986
politician
Stéphanie Tirode
b. 1975
sport shooter
Bernard Morin
1931 – 2018
mathematician
Marie-Eugène de l'Enfant-Jésus
1894 – 1967
Catholic priest
Richard Goz
1025 – 1082
feudatory
Antoine Augereau
1485 – 1534
type designer
Claire Moyse-Faurie
b. 1949
linguist
Jérôme Bottelin
b. 1978
association football player
Zakaria Moumni
b. 1980
kickboxer
Selma Bacha
b. 2000
association football player
Guillaume de Beaujeu
Grand Master
Claire Chapotot
b. 1990
snowboarder
Clémence Rougier
b. 2005
athletics competitor
Claude Melki
1939 – 1994
actor
Ronny Abraham
b. 1951
judge
Maximilien Sebastien Foy
1775 – 1825
politician
Hemza Mihoubi
b. 1986
association football player
Georges Bever
1884 – 1973
actor
Jean-Antoine de Baïf
1532 – 1589
poet
Ludovic Baal
b. 1986
association football player
Arthur Rhoné
1836 – 1910
Egyptologist
Gérard Philipe
1922 – 1959
actor
Edgar Aubert de la Rüe
1901 – 1991
geographer
Renaud Ripart
b. 1993
association football player
Brice Pauset
b. 1965
musician
Gabriel Pierné
1863 – 1937
conductor
Antoine Laplasse
1883 – 1918
flying ace
Henry Laurens
b. 1954
historian
Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac
1769 – 1846
playwright
Marc Rivière
b. 1969
pastry chef
Jacques Trolley de Prévaux
1888 – 1944
naval officer
Joëlle Mélin
b. 1950
politician
Olivier Patru
1604 – 1681
lawyer
Karen Joubert Cordier
b. 1954
painter
Mondine Garcia
1936 – 2010
jazz musician
Karim Dridi
b. 1961
film director
Ginette Neveu
1919 – 1949
violinist
Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin
1821 – 1910
composer
Gui of Cavaillon
troubadour
Ofer Bronchtein
1957 – 2026
group activist
Daniel Meja
dancer
Philippe Desportes
1546 – 1606
poet
Emile Pessard
1843 – 1917
composer
Élisabeth Cibot
b. 1960
sculptor
Arno Cost
b. 1986
disc jockey
Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière
1768 – 1812
military personnel
Jean Pestré
1723 – 1821
encyclopédistes
Pierre Loeb
1897 – 1964
art dealer
Rodolphe Salis
1851 – 1897
tavernman
Gilles de Noailles
1524 – 1600
diplomat
Amélie Cocheteux
b. 1978
tennis player
William McGuckin de Slane
1801 – 1878
translator
Alfred-Georges Regner
1902 – 1987
painter
Jocelyne Villeton
b. 1954
long-distance runner
Jean-Marc Civault
b. 1965
association football coach
Constantin Macris
1917 – 1984
painter
Paul Damance
1650 – 1700
organist
Constantin Lissenko
1933 – 2024
athletics competitor
Adrian Dearnell
b. 1972
journalist
Antoine-Augustin Bruzen de La Martinière
1662 – 1746
historian
Jacques Mering
1904 – 1973
mineralogist
Pierre Le Tessier
1255 – 1325
diplomat
François de Scépeaux
1509 – 1571
diplomat
Claude le Blanc
1669 – 1728
politician
Aymeri de Montesquiou
b. 1942
politician
Chantal Montellier
b. 1947
painter
Gilles Servat
b. 1945
singer
Cyril Féraud
b. 1985
radio personality
Pascal Engel
b. 1954
philosopher
Pierre Fons
1880 – 1917
poet