France
People of this nationality
Alain Pichon
b. 1964
para table tennis player
Gilbert Omnès
1918 – 1970
hurdler
Bradley Danger
b. 1998
association football player
Jean-François Leleu
1729 – 1807
cabinetmaker
Jean de Werchin
1374 – 1415
poet
Justine Dupont
b. 1991
surfer
Paul Traverse
1892 – 1979
sculptor
Luc Ferrari
1929 – 2005
composer
André Lichnerowicz
1915 – 1998
mathematician
René Emanuelli
1905 – 1992
equestrian
Odette Ducas
b. 1940
sprinter
Maxime Josse
b. 1987
association football player
Claude of France
1499 – 1524
politician
Pierre Alexandre le Camus
1774 – 1824
politician
Georges Tabet
1905 – 1984
film actor
Claude Duval
1643 – 1670
Highwayman
Jean-Louis Carle
1925 – 1975
sport cyclist
Hector Giacomelli
1822 – 1904
painter
Alain Dolium
b. 1967
politician
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon
b. 1961
computer scientist
Louis Faidherbe
1818 – 1889
politician
Jacques Nicolas Bellavène
1770 – 1826
military personnel
Albert Roussel
1869 – 1937
classical composer
Job de Roincé
1896 – 1981
journalist
Léon Dufourmentel
1884 – 1957
surgeon
Anaïs Ségalas
1811 – 1895
writer
Louis Vaillant
1876 – 1963
explorer
Tristan Louis
b. 1971
author
Philippe Autexier
1954 – 1998
music historian
Jean-Marc Tailhardat
b. 1966
athletics competitor
Hugues Rebell
1867 – 1905
poet
Élisabeth Rappeneau
1940 – 2020
film director
Maurice Viollette
1870 – 1960
politician
Jean-Christophe Potton
b. 1960
diplomat
Jimmy Lomba
b. 1978
athletics competitor
Jean-Gilles Grare
b. 1972
canoeist
Yann Tainguy
b. 1955
Karl Janik
b. 1960
rugby union player
Ibrahim Sissoko
b. 1995
association football player
Patrick Chaize
b. 1963
politician
Phillipe Ambroise Durand
1799 – 1880
writer
Raymond Loucheur
1899 – 1979
composer
Louis Guiguer
1675 – 1747
banker
Monique Lubin
b. 1963
politician
Nicolas Grunitzky
1913 – 1969
politician
André Cognat
1938 – 2021
factory worker
Paolo Hausner
b. 2002
association football player
Maurice Princet
1875 – 1973
mathematician
Mourad Meghni
b. 1984
association football player
Guillaume Robin
architect
Rudy Salles
b. 1954
politician
Louis Giscard d'Estaing
b. 1958
politician
Hyacinthe Robillard d'Avrigny
1675 – 1719
historian
Jean-Nicolas Marjolin
1780 – 1850
surgeon
Fabien Morel
b. 1965
mathematician
Nicolas Sicard
1846 – 1920
painter
Patrick Balkany
b. 1948
politician
Edward Goldsmith
1928 – 2009
philosopher
Nicole Cage-Florentiny
b. 1965
poet
Adrienne Lecouvreur
1692 – 1730
stage actor
Charles François Marie Baron
1900 – 1980
diplomat
Mademoiselle Dennebault
1642 – 1708
actor
Philippe Chiappe
b. 1963
athlete
Ferris N'Goma
b. 1993
association football player
François Louis of Lorraine, Count of Harcourt
1623 – 1694
aristocrat
Charles Sterling
1901 – 1991
art historian
Thomas Langmann
b. 1971
film producer
Claude Chastillon
1559 – 1616
architect
Jean Charles Pierre Lenoir
1732 – 1807
magistrate
Jérôme Pineau
b. 1980
sport cyclist
Henri-Louis de Boulainvilliers de Croy
Officer of the French Navy
Jean-Louis Bellet
1932 – 2023
rower
David Herman
b. 1967
postdoctoral researcher
Charles Nodier
1780 – 1844
journalist
Sosefo Panuve
b. 1987
athletics competitor
Ousoumane Camara
b. 1998
association football player
Madeleine Barot
1909 – 1995
librarian
Jeanne Tomasini
1920 – 2022
writer
Ernest Allard
1820 – 1900
entomologist
André Paradis
1939 – 2024
writer
Odile Renaud-Basso
b. 1965
official
Marcus Amand
b. 2006
racing driver
Selevasio Tolofua
b. 1997
rugby union player
Martine Pascal
b. 1939
film actor
Darnell Eric Bile
b. 2005
association football player
Hélène Pelosse
b. 1970
official
Alice Benoît
b. 1996
association football player
Delphine Forest
1966 – 2020
actor
Ghislain Boiron
b. 1988
sport cyclist
Doungou Camara
b. 1995
handball player
Édouard Courtial
b. 1973
politician
Max Morise
1900 – 1973
actor
Hugo Gélin
b. 1980
film producer
François Pétis de la Croix
1653 – 1713
diplomat
Gérard Besnard
1945 – 2026
sport cyclist
Lucien Lecointe
1867 – 1940
politician
Nicolas Prodhomme
b. 1997
sport cyclist
Diane Lacombe
1976 – 1999
swimmer
Miguel Courtois
b. 1960
film director
Lucien Loizeau
1879 – 1978
military personnel