France
People of this nationality
Mireille Fanon Mendès-France
b. 1953
jurist
Joan of Valois, Countess of Beaumont
1304 – 1363
Angèle Ravizé
1887 – 1980
composer
Mylène Troszczynski
b. 1972
politician
Jean Carles
1892 – 1966
perfumer
Daniel Buren
b. 1938
painter
Charles de Dompierre d'Hornoy
1816 – 1901
politician
François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac
1604 – 1676
playwright
Laurent Munier
b. 1966
handball player
Louis Lully
1664 – 1734
choreographer
Steven Paulle
b. 1986
association football player
Jacques Thomas Sarrut
1765 – 1813
military personnel
Maurice Deloraine
1898 – 1991
engineer
Angélique Arvanitaki
1901 – 1983
neuroscientist
Denis Lathoud
1966 – 2025
handball coach
Stephen of Fougères
prelate
Éliane Assassi
b. 1958
politician
Iris Sachet
b. 1994
sport cyclist
Alex Ranarivelo
b. 1901
screenwriter
George Fitzmaurice
1885 – 1940
film director
Bernard de Languissel
1240 – 1291
Catholic priest
Didier Lavergne
b. 1950
make-up artist
David Holcman
researcher
Marguerite Pierry
1887 – 1963
film actor
Agricol Perdiguier
1805 – 1875
politician
Angèle Picado
1934 – 1997
athletics competitor
Cyrille Pouget
b. 1972
association football player
Jean-Marc Juilhard
1940 – 2023
politician
Rene Jacquot
b. 1961
boxer
Roger Auguste Dumas
1897 – 1951
composer
Malcolm Barcola
b. 1999
association football player
Soko
b. 1985
singer-songwriter
Victor Thibault
1867 – 1941
archer
Francis De Percin
b. 1969
association football coach
Antoine Biancamaria
1923 – 1959
military personnel
Louis de Chantemerle
1818 – 1893
politician
David Douline
b. 1993
association football player
Christophe Galfard
b. 1976
physicist
François Brousse
1913 – 1995
poet
Denis Bouanga
b. 1994
association football player
Christelle Doumergue
1963 – 2023
basketball player
Claudette Herbster-Josland
b. 1946
fencer
Jacques Sevin
1882 – 1951
Catholic priest
Jean-Louis Trintignant
1930 – 2022
film director
Maurice Gillet
1763 – 1833
Officer of the French Navy
Giulia Morlet
b. 2002
tennis player
Jean Gaumy
b. 1948
photographer
Jean Dréville
1906 – 1997
film director
Zoë Prévost
1802 – 1861
opera singer
Nicolas Taravel
b. 1994
association football player
Yassine Jebbour
b. 1991
association football player
Roger François
1900 – 1949
weightlifter
Samba Camara
b. 1992
association football player
Marie-Cunégonde Huin
b. 1767
painter
Adrien Lejeune
1847 – 1942
politician
René Le Coq de La Saussaye
1501 – 1601
Valérie Damidot
b. 1965
actor
Felix of Nîmes
Catholic priest
René Exbrayat
1947 – 2023
association football player
Joseph Aved
1702 – 1766
painter
Francis Giraud
1932 – 2010
politician
Amandine Petit
b. 1997
model
Jacques Durand
1920 – 2009
engineer
Pascal Lagat
b. 1960
swimmer
Béroul
writer
Pierre-Paul Gobet, dit Dorfeuille
1745 – 1806
actor
Samira Bellil
1972 – 2004
writer
Ardant du Picq
1821 – 1870
military personnel
Jean de Launoy
1603 – 1678
historian
Nicolas Abraham
1919 – 1975
psychoanalyst
François Duchesne
1616 – 1693
historian
Paul Gourret
1859 – 1903
zoologist
André Fougeron
1913 – 1998
painter
Yvonne Arnaud
1890 – 1958
singer
Francis Joffo
1937 – 2013
actor
Antoine Giacomasso
1904 – 1987
sport cyclist
Magda Wiet-Hénin
b. 1995
taekwondo athlete
Benjamin Saint-Huile
b. 1983
permanent politician
Pierre Sinaÿ
b. 1938
chemist
Moshe Yaniv
b. 1938
molecular biologist
Rémi Santiago
b. 1980
ski jumper
Henry Gravrand
1921 – 2003
anthropologist
Benoît Bourrust
b. 1985
rugby union player
David Dancrade
b. 1976
kickboxer
Lola Le Lann
b. 1996
actor
Marie Colardeau
1907 – 1996
lawyer
Mélanie Vogel
b. 1985
politician
Gautier le Leu
b. 1210
poet
Gilles Vigne
b. 1950
swimmer
Pierre Charles Comte
1823 – 1895
painter
Joseph Marie Servan de Gerbey
1741 – 1808
politician
Manasses III, Count of Rethel
1022 – 1065
aristocrat
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b. 1981
singer-songwriter
Mahi Khennane
b. 1936
association football player
Michel Charasse
1941 – 2020
politician
Djamel Belmadi
b. 1976
association football player
Geneviève Hennet de Goutel
1885 – 1917
nurse
Jacques-Joseph Grancher
1843 – 1907
professor
Paul Dupuy
1856 – 1948
historian
Fulcran
901 – 1006
Catholic priest