France
People of this nationality
Jeanne Rij-Rousseau
1870 – 1956
painter
Émile Koehl
1921 – 2013
politician
Brigitte Cantaloube
b. 1967
businessperson
André Casanova
1919 – 2009
composer
François Marchand
1500 – 1551
sculptor
Philippe Buonarroti
1761 – 1837
journalist
Étienne-Émile Desvaux
1830 – 1854
botanist
Jean-Claude Casties
b. 1936
association football player
Éric Laurent
b. 1945
psychologist
Brahima Doukansy
b. 1999
association football player
Marie-Anne de Bovet
1855 – 1935
writer
André Mirambeau
b. 1879
rower
Emmanuel Petit
b. 1972
sport shooter
Alfred-Henri-Armand Mame
1811 – 1893
publisher
Louis II de la Trémoille
1460 – 1525
military officer
Philippe Gas
b. 1963
président-directeur général
Thierry Braillard
b. 1964
politician
Camille Chantereine
1810 – 1847
artist
Emmanuèle Bernheim
1955 – 2017
screenwriter
Jean-Antoine Verdier
1767 – 1839
politician
Jean-François-Joseph Lecointe
1783 – 1858
architect
Bertrand Escaich
b. 1973
comics artist
André Jacob Roubo
1739 – 1791
joiner
Yves Poilane
b. 1959
director general
André Terrasson
1669 – 1723
Catholic priest
Krissy Bade
b. 1980
basketball player
Jean Prouvé
1901 – 1984
architect
Sonia de La Provôté
b. 1968
politician
Lucien Grosso
1932 – 1993
bobsledder
Henri Delannoy
1833 – 1915
mathematician
Jean Peyrafitte
1922 – 2017
politician
Jacques Cartonnet
1911 – 1967
swimmer
Ferdinand Brunetière
1849 – 1906
writer
Serisay Barthélémy
b. 1984
association football player
Frédéric Jacques Temple
1921 – 2020
journalist
Etienne Daguinos
b. 2000
long-distance runner
Claude Breitman
1921 – 2016
actor
Joseph Marcelin Rulhières
1787 – 1863
politician
Mélanie Fazi
b. 1976
linguist
Thomas Laurent
b. 1998
racing driver
Raffaël Enault
b. 1990
writer
Sébastien Duret
b. 1980
sport cyclist
Frank Cassenti
1945 – 2023
screenwriter
Charles Joachim Colbert de Croissy
1667 – 1738
Catholic priest
Eugène Crosti
1833 – 1908
voice teacher
Myung-Ok Han
b. 1958
artist
Gustave Henri Krafft
1861 – 1927
architect
Mia Schem
b. 2002
actor
Guy Lux
1919 – 2003
television presenter
Jean Bonaventure Birotteau
1758 – 1793
politician
Jonathan Biabiany
b. 1988
association football player
Elie-Jean-Joseph Morel
1862 – 1948
missionary
Henri Fescourt
1880 – 1966
film director
Paul Joüon
1871 – 1940
Catholic priest
Charles-Claude Genest
1639 – 1719
poet
Myriam Abel
b. 1981
singer
Edgar Moreau
b. 1994
cellist
Jean Galli de Bibiena
1709 – 1779
writer
Cécile Untermaier
b. 1951
politician
Pierre Gaudibert
1928 – 2006
art critic
Antoine Elwart
1808 – 1877
composer
Monica Charlot
1933 – 2005
university teacher
Hélène Rémy
b. 1932
actor
Pierre Octave Vigoureux
1884 – 1965
sculptor
Catherine Théot
1716 – 1794
preacher
Camille Doncieux
1847 – 1879
art model
Laurent Panifous
b. 1976
politician
Yvette Guilbert
1865 – 1944
actor
Pierre-Joseph Macquer
1718 – 1784
chemist
René Hardy
1911 – 1987
writer
Jean-Jacques Fussien
1952 – 1978
sport cyclist
Robert Jaulin
1928 – 1996
anthropologist
François Forster
1790 – 1872
printmaker
Alexandre Ramalingom
b. 1993
association football player
Émile Baumann
1868 – 1941
writer
Laurent Bernardi
b. 1988
association football player
Emerick Setiano
b. 1996
rugby union player
Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire
1740 – 1792
military officer
Henri Marracq
1937 – 2003
rugby union player
Agnès Vesterman
b. 1953
musician
Nantenin Keïta
b. 1984
Paralympic athlete
Bernard Louis Marie Charrier
b. 1938
Catholic priest
Joseph ben Nathan Official
b. 1300
writer
Marie Tabarly
b. 1984
sailor
Marius Sestier
1861 – 1928
cinematographer
Octave Pradels
1842 – 1930
poet
Émilie Favre
b. 1992
ski mountaineer
Jeanine Delpech
1905 – 1992
journalist
Georges Balagny
1837 – 1919
photographer
Isabelle Wendling
b. 1971
handball player
Gaëlle Arquez
b. 1983
opera singer
Paul Masson
1859 – 1940
winegrower
Madeleine Passot
1914 – 2009
resistance fighter
François-Jean Willemain d'Abancourt
1745 – 1803
poet
Laura Monk
mathematician
Éléonore Tenaille Vaulabelle
1801 – 1859
journalist
Henri Fertet
1926 – 1943
French resistance fighter
Guillaume Ducatel
b. 1979
association football player
Frede
1914 – 1976
artist
Jean Le Fèvre
1493 – 1565
lexicographer