France
People of this nationality
Rostanh de Merguas
troubadour
Gabriel-Julien Ouvrard
1770 – 1846
financier
Jean Alexandre LeMat
1821 – 1895
physician
Pierre Langlois
b. 1958
canoeist
Alexandre Mauguin
1838 – 1916
politician
Miguel Pacios
b. 1977
association football player
Phil Greiss
b. 1976
record producer
Peter H. Dailey
1930 – 2018
businessperson
Antoine Jean-Baptiste
b. 1991
association football player
Arnaud Josserand
b. 1963
volleyball player
Clavel Kayitaré
b. 1986
Paralympic athlete
Julien Sicot
b. 1978
swimmer
Romain Sicard
b. 1988
sport cyclist
Alfred Jost
1916 – 1991
biologist
Valérie Barlois-Mevel-Leroux
b. 1969
fencer
Louis Gérardin
1912 – 1982
sport cyclist
Marcel Chevalier
1921 – 2008
executioner
Cécile Renault
1970 – 2021
astrophysicist
Nicolas Iljine
b. 1944
curator
Michel Vuillermet
1950 – 2021
film director
Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen
1712 – 1790
naval officer
Henri Hiro
1944 – 1990
film director
François de Paule Bretonneau
1660 – 1741
librettist
Jacky Chazalon
b. 1945
basketball player
Adrien Vachette
1753 – 1839
goldsmith
Lucille Tostée
opera singer
Joseph Édouard de La Motte-Rouge
1804 – 1883
politician
Ayyoub Bouaddi
b. 2007
association football player
Marie de Contades
1786 – 1869
official
Djibril Coulibaly
b. 2008
association football player
Guillaume Massieu
1665 – 1722
philologist
Eric Lévi
b. 1955
composer
Pierre Amandry
1912 – 2006
art historian
Henri Meslot
1884 – 1973
athletics competitor
Gui de Cambrai
1170 – 1248
poet
Jeanne Dupleix
1706 – 1756
Roger Auque
1956 – 2014
spy
Guillaume Chiche
b. 1986
politician
Véronique Louwagie
b. 1961
politician
Gaston Berger
1896 – 1960
philosopher
Dominique Mulhem
b. 1952
painter
Albert Decaris
1901 – 1988
painter
Philippe Charles de La Fare
1687 – 1752
military personnel
Bruno Guiblet
b. 1951
writer
Lucas Digne
b. 1993
association football player
Thierry Ambrose
b. 1997
association football player
Chimène Badi
b. 1982
singer
Damien Ounouri
b. 1982
director
Anny Duperey
b. 1947
novelist
Benjamin Noirot
b. 1980
rugby union player
Yoan Cardinale
b. 1994
association football player
Raymond Lefebvre
1908 – 1946
long-distance runner
Frederic Monneyron
b. 1954
writer
Daniel Bustaffa
b. 1956
rugby union player
Louis-Philippe I
1773 – 1850
ruler
Michel Lescanne
b. 1954
engineer
Simone Sylvestre
1923 – 2020
actor
Jade Schaeffer
b. 1986
golfer
Pénélope Leprevost
b. 1980
show jumper
Rahamim Naouri
1902 – 1985
rabbi
Henri of Savoy, Duke of Nemours
1572 – 1632
aristocrat
John of Canterbury
1120 – 1204
Catholic priest
Émile Lesieur
1885 – 1985
rugby union player
Gérard Pasquier
1929 – 1995
curler
Olivier Le Gac
b. 1993
sport cyclist
William Dumas
b. 1942
politician
Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy
1605 – 1677
poet
El Omar Fardi
b. 2002
association football player
Esprit Pezenas
1692 – 1776
astronomer
Joseph Joubert
1878 – 1963
organist
Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville
1723 – 1790
librettist
Véronique Filozof
1904 – 1977
painter
René Thomas
1886 – 1975
racing automobile driver
Jean Todrani
1922 – 2006
poet
Henri Helle
1873 – 1901
archer
Manon Aubry
b. 1989
politician
Henri Surbatis
1922 – 2000
sport cyclist
Quentin Halys
b. 1996
tennis player
Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi
1939 – 2023
lawyer
Christian Peyron
1952 – 2007
association football player
Richard Boudet
1958 – 1995
anthropologist
Prince-Désir Gouano
b. 1993
association football player
Gilles Peress
b. 1946
photographer
Claudine de Culam
1585 – 1601
domestic worker
Maria Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne
1708 – 1728
Fanchon Moreau
1668 – 1743
opera singer
Gérard Guercy
1925 – 2009
sport cyclist
Nicole Hassler
1941 – 1996
figure skater
Michel Puig
b. 1930
composer
Danièle Gégauff
1939 – 2007
actor
Romain Armand
b. 1987
association football player
Pierre I Desgots
1600 – 1675
gardener
Théophile Alajouanine
1890 – 1980
neurologist
Gustave Sandré
1843 – 1916
composer
Céline Laguarde
1873 – 1961
photographer
Vladimir Prikhodko
1944 – 2011
hammer thrower
Angèle Préville
b. 1955
politician
Emmanuel Carrère
b. 1957
writer
André Lajoinie
1929 – 2024
politician
Joanny-Philippe Lagrula
1870 – 1941
astronomer