France
People of this nationality
Édouard Vaillant
1840 – 1915
politician
Sébastien Gimenez
b. 1974
association football player
Charles Achille Simon
1873 – 1894
anarchist
Charles II of Nevers
1491 – 1521
Charles Montaland
1910 – 1985
composer
Henri Coulonges
1936 – 2023
novelist
Pierre Morain
1930 – 2013
activist
François Antoine
1695 – 1771
military personnel
Agoria
b. 1976
disc jockey
Alexandra Lacrabère
b. 1987
handball player
Mayeur de Saint-Paul
1758 – 1818
writer
Lucien Bodard
1914 – 1998
war correspondent
Koumba Cissé
b. 1991
handball player
Sabine Hettner
1907 – 1986
painter
Jacques Picoux
1948 – 2016
actor
Joseph Solvinto
1902 – 1979
boxer
Jean-Claude Lubtchansky
1930 – 2020
film director
Xavier Philippe
b. 1956
businessperson
Patrick Bismuth
b. 1954
classical violinist
Thibaut Vallette
b. 1974
event rider
Nicolas Altmayer
1965 – 2026
film producer
Pierre-Adrien Toulorge
1757 – 1793
Catholic priest
Jonas Chollet
b. 2008
snowboarder
Jace
b. 1973
graffiti artist
Étienne Onimus
1907 – 1982
basketball player
Giacomo F. Maraldi
1665 – 1729
astronomer
Calixte Payot
b. 1901
ice hockey player
Alain Rossmann
b. 1956
businessperson
Rémy Rioux
b. 1969
senior civil servant
Julie Fabre
b. 1976
synchronized swimmer
Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis
1871 – 1954
Marie-Annick Dézert
1972 – 2019
handball player
Jacques Spiesser
b. 1947
actor
Hugues Le Bars
1950 – 2014
composer
Osvaldo Lopes
b. 1980
association football player
Melvin Landerneau
b. 1997
sport cyclist
Colette Deréal
1927 – 1988
actor
Émile Friant
1863 – 1932
painter
Daniel Alagille
1925 – 2005
scientist
Armand Viellard-Migeon
1842 – 1905
ironmaster
Kane Bentley
b. 1987
rugby league player
Sophie Duvaucel
1789 – 1867
scientific illustrator
Stanislas de Castellane
1875 – 1959
politician
Philippe Leroy
1940 – 2019
engineer
Isabelle de Funès
b. 1944
actor
Oumar Dieng
b. 1972
association football player
Jean-Baptiste Moreau
b. 1977
politician
Marie de Mandat-Grancey
1837 – 1915
nun
Raymond Toscanelli
1921 – 2015
association football player
Arnould Bonneville de Marsangy
1802 – 1894
criminologist
Charlotte Desmares
1682 – 1753
actor
Jean-Luc Averous
b. 1954
rugby union player
Daniel Dugléry
b. 1946
politician
Anna Cazenave Cambet
b. 1990
film director
Kristin Scott Thomas
b. 1960
character actor
Gérard Labrune
b. 1943
economist
Nanine Paris
1800 – 1868
music theorist
Tamara Tchinarova
1919 – 2017
ballet dancer
Thomas Gobert
1601 – 1672
Catholic priest
Gus Bofa
1883 – 1968
graphic artist
Banine
1905 – 1992
writer
Joy Esther
b. 1984
actor
Roman Laspalles
b. 1996
association football player
Jérôme-Hermès Bolsec
1501 – 1585
theologian
Rose Féart
1878 – 1954
opera singer
Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne
1727 – 1794
politician
Pierre Tornade
1930 – 2012
actor
Peggy Taylor
1920 – 2006
spy
Ugo Mola
b. 1973
rugby union player
Youssef Benali
b. 1995
association football player
Madeleine Lommel
1923 – 2009
painter
Charles Schoebel
1813 – 1888
linguist
Joseph Olivier
1874 – 1901
rugby union player
Albert Weil
1880 – 1945
skipper
Rafael Andia
b. 1942
guitarist
Hubert Monteilhet
1928 – 2019
novelist
Georges Watin
1923 – 1994
military personnel
Jacques Duby
1922 – 2012
stage actor
Gregory B. Lee
b. 1955
writer
Jordan Pierre-Charles
b. 1993
association football player
Michel Pécheux
1911 – 1985
fencer
Paul Dubois
1829 – 1905
sculptor
Brayann Pereira
b. 2003
association football player
Pierre Yovanovitch
b. 1965
architect
François Levantal
b. 1960
actor
Nathalie Appéré
b. 1975
politician
Louis-Léonce Trullet
1756 – 1827
Officer of the French Navy
Laurent Sourisseau
b. 1966
comics artist
Claude Verlon
1958 – 2013
journalist
André Muller Weitzenhoffer
1921 – 2005
psychologist
Killian Le Roy
b. 1998
association football player
Paul Guiraud
1850 – 1907
historian
Henri-Georges Clouzot
1907 – 1977
screenwriter
Rosemary Forbes Kerry
1913 – 2002
Bernard Rosenblum
1927 – 2007
Marie Petiet
1854 – 1893
painter
Jacques Herbillon
1936 – 2003
opera singer
Jean Dujardin
b. 1972
film actor
Michel Félibien
1665 – 1719
historian
Pascale Launois
b. 1961
researcher