France
People of this nationality
Ernest Bour
1913 – 2001
conductor
Jean Nageotte
1866 – 1948
anatomist
Maurice Alhoy
1802 – 1856
journalist
Mansour Kamardine
b. 1959
politician
Eugène Montel
1885 – 1966
politician
Jacques Witt
1958 – 2026
visual artist
Jean-Bernard Condat
b. 1963
system administrator
Patrick Galan
1950 – 2025
journalist
Gerald Fusil
b. 1946
journalist
Mamadou Konate
1897 – 1956
politician
Jonathan Ligali
b. 1991
association football player
Jacques Ehrmann
1931 – 1972
literary critic
Jean-Léonce Dupont
b. 1955
politician
Lucien Seevagen
1887 – 1959
painter
Michel Leclerc
b. 1965
film director
Pierre-Imbert Drevet
1697 – 1739
printmaker
Gustave Botiaux
1926 – 2025
opera singer
Paul Dumas
wallpaper manufacturer
Cécile Coulon
b. 1990
novelist
Louis-Pierre-Pantaléon Resnier
1752 – 1807
politician
Raymond-Benoît
b. 1900
rower
Jean Marchand
1883 – 1940
painter
Adrien-Louis de Bonnières, duc de Guînes
1735 – 1806
diplomat
Jacques Famery
1923 – 2014
actor
August Friedrich Albert Schenck
1828 – 1901
painter
Alexis Chassang
1827 – 1888
lexicographer
Hélène Deschamps Adams
1921 – 2006
spy
Brian Bayeye
b. 2000
association football player
Najoua Belyzel
b. 1981
singer
Aimé Jacquet
b. 1941
association football player
Kevin Bozon
b. 1995
ice hockey player
Michel Mohrt
1914 – 2011
literary editor
Eugène Secrétan
1836 – 1899
industrialist
Charles Louis de Biaudos de Casteja
1693 – 1755
diplomat
Wilfried Knight
1975 – 2013
pornographic film actor
Simon Janczewski
1926 – 1989
association football player
Paul John Marx
1935 – 2018
Catholic priest
Georges Hirsch
1895 – 1974
theatre manager
Françoise Henry
1902 – 1982
art historian
Teresa Cremisi
b. 1945
publisher
François Joseph of Lorraine, Duke of Guise
1670 – 1675
aristocrat
Fabrice Le Vigoureux
b. 1969
politician
Anne-Sophie Pic
b. 1969
businessperson
Philippe Dajoux
b. 1968
film director
Philippe Descola
b. 1949
anthropologist
Juliette Landi
b. 2007
competitive diver
Delphine Horvilleur
b. 1974
journalist
Henri Tézenas du Montcel
1943 – 1994
economist
Jacques Joseph Coiny
1761 – 1809
printmaker
Guilhem de la Tor
1216 – 1233
troubadour
Malek
b. 1959
musician
Charles Bilot
1883 – 1912
association football player
Séraphine Louis
1864 – 1942
painter
Patrick Mora
b. 1952
physicist
Antoine Caron
1521 – 1599
painter
Édouard Frère
1797 – 1874
librarian
Louise Charlotte Françoise de Montesquiou
1765 – 1835
governess
Alexandre Bouchard
b. 1988
association football player
Laurent Ferlet
b. 1961
pianist
Paul Sérant
1922 – 2002
journalist
Louis Poggi
b. 1984
association football player
Pierre Toubert
1932 – 2025
medievalist
François Payard
b. 1966
chef
Jérôme Cahuzac
b. 1952
politician
Christophe Deneuville
b. 1967
swimmer
Auguste Nicolas Eugène Millon
1812 – 1867
chemist
Hubert Faure
1914 – 2021
military personnel
André Courrèges
1923 – 2016
grand couturier
Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse
1612 – 1687
magistrate
Fawaz Hussain
b. 1953
writer
Bruno Verges
b. 1975
rugby league player
Juliette Benzoni
1920 – 2016
writer
Bertrand Gachot
b. 1962
Formula One driver
Thierry Caens
b. 1958
trumpeter
André Guelfi
1919 – 2016
Formula One driver
Jean-Luc Ballestra
b. 1976
performing artist
Aaron Gabet
b. 2008
tennis player
Jacques Raymond Brascassat
1804 – 1867
painter
Nicolas-Didier Boguet
1755 – 1839
painter
Oscar Bongard
b. 1872
association football player
Louis Maurin
1869 – 1956
military personnel
Guigues VII of Viennois
1225 – 1269
aristocrat
Ernest Hoschedé
1837 – 1891
art collector
Rémi Himbert
b. 2008
association football player
Vincent-Marie Farinole
1832 – 1905
politician
Georges Johin
1877 – 1955
croquet player
Michel Monnerie
b. 1940
essayist
Hubert Ferrer
b. 1937
sport cyclist
Magali Sauri
b. 1977
figure skater
Guillaume d'Estouteville
1403 – 1483
diplomat
Maurice Sartre
b. 1944
historian
Patrick Leugueun
b. 1981
association football player
Flavien Berger
b. 1986
singer
Gaston Dubosc
1861 – 1941
actor
Julie Dorus-Gras
1805 – 1896
opera singer
Kelly Irep
b. 1995
association football player
Sylvie Olivé
b. 1950
scenographer
Jules-Émile Zingg
1882 – 1942
painter
Félicien Menu de Ménil
1860 – 1930
diplomat
Marcel Spilliaert
1924 – 1992
water polo player