France
People of this nationality
Eugène Alcan
1811 – 1898
painter
Fabien Garcia
b. 1994
association football player
Donatien Bouché
1882 – 1965
sailor
Jocelyne Béroard
b. 1954
singer
Trébla
1870 – 1943
writer
Bonaventure-Hypolithe Sabatier
1773 – 1842
military officer
Henri Lambert
1828 – 1859
explorer
Benoit Mouchart
b. 1976
writer
Michel Lang
1939 – 2014
film director
Achille Ouy
1889 – 1959
sociologist
Louis de Silvestre
1675 – 1760
painter
François Hauter
b. 1951
writer
Audrey Fleurot
b. 1977
actor
Marcel A. Hugues
1892 – 1982
military personnel
Andrée Flageolet
b. 1950
sport cyclist
Jacques Gasc
1949 – 2025
rugby union player
Conon de Béthune
1150 – 1219
poet
Pierre Giffard
1853 – 1922
journalist
Louis Pierre Ancillon de la Sablonnière
businessperson
François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil
1761 – 1819
chansonnier
Pierre-Henri Xuereb
b. 1959
musician
Michel Kilo
1940 – 2021
journalist
Albert Edouard Gilou
1910 – 1961
art collector
Marc Bourrier
1934 – 2024
association football player
Pierrequin de Thérache
composer
Édouard-Théophile Blanchard
1844 – 1879
painter
Yves Rocher
1930 – 2009
entrepreneur
Eugène Fabry
1856 – 1944
mathematician
André Geourjon
b. 1950
biathlete
Louis DuBois
1626 – 1696
settler
François Bonnardot
1843 – 1926
historian
Ernst Atis-Clotaire
b. 1977
association football player
Léo Delibes
1836 – 1891
composer
Albert Auguste Perdonnet
1801 – 1867
engineer
Jean Leonetti
b. 1948
politician
Antoine L'Hote
b. 2005
sport cyclist
Robert Thomas
1927 – 1989
actor
Christophe Jallet
b. 1983
association football player
Jacques Schwarz-Bart
b. 1962
jazz musician
Sébastien Loeb
b. 1974
rally driver
Alan Techer
b. 1994
motorcycle racer
Abdoulaye Loum
b. 1991
basketball player
Yann Claudepierre
b. 1984
canoeist
Muriel Linsolas
b. 1965
athletics competitor
Louis-Siffren-Joseph de Salamon
1750 – 1829
Catholic priest
Gilles Boeuf
b. 1950
biologist
Bernard-Marie Koltès
1948 – 1989
playwright
Jean François Laterrade
1784 – 1858
botanist
Étienne Carjat
1828 – 1906
journalist
Alexandre Beljame
1842 – 1906
historian
Jacques Weulersse
1905 – 1946
geographer
Nicolas-Philippe Ledru
1731 – 1807
magician
Étienne Blanc
b. 1954
politician
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola
1871 – 1950
painter
Isaac Jogues
1607 – 1646
missionary
Joseph Charles André d'Arbaud de Jouques
1769 – 1849
military officer
Fadouwa Ledhem
b. 1987
athletics competitor
Karim Ouattara
b. 1979
basketball player
Rambert Dumarest
1750 – 1806
medalist
Édouard Goursat
1858 – 1936
mathematician
Solomon Lazard
1827 – 1916
businessperson
Bernard de Faubournet de Montferrand
b. 1945
diplomat
Édouard Dupiré
1904 – 1968
athletics competitor
Alain Marleix
b. 1946
politician
Masséot Abaquesne
1500 – 1564
ceramicist
Rémi Thirion
b. 1990
mountain biker
Marie-Armelle Deguy
b. 1953
actor
Sosefo Suve
b. 1953
politician
Fanny Claus
1846 – 1877
violinist
Antoine Andrews
b. 2003
athletics competitor
Elise Christiani
1827 – 1853
cellist
Claude-François-Marie Rigoley
1756 – 1790
cellist
Évariste Galois
1811 – 1832
mathematician
Jean-Baptiste Stuck
1680 – 1755
composer
Christian Coste
b. 1949
association football player
Arria Ly
1881 – 1934
women's rights activist
Marcel Boigegrain
1929 – 1986
coxswain
Arnaud Marquesuzaa
1934 – 2020
rugby union player
Théodore Tuffier
1857 – 1929
military physician
Michel Kazanski
b. 1953
archaeologist
William des Roches
1165 – 1222
aristocrat
Guy V, Count of Saint-Pol
aristocrat
Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
1765 – 1824
lexicographer
Frédéric Vaysse-Knitter
b. 1975
pianist
Robert Demachy
1859 – 1936
photographer
Emmanuel Di Donna
b. 1971
art dealer
Léon de Maleville
1803 – 1879
politician
Yanis Lenne
b. 1996
handball player
Jean-Pierre Wimille
1908 – 1949
racing automobile driver
Marc Soustrot
b. 1949
conductor
Philippe-Jacques Meyer
1737 – 1819
composer
Edmond Leveugle
1904 – 1986
association football player
Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais
1777 – 1809
military officer
Claude Fauchet
1744 – 1793
revolutionary
André Bounal
1899 – 1963
field hockey player
Dominique Fernandez
association football player
Paul Helbronner
1871 – 1938
photographer
Matthieu Gauzin
b. 2001
basketball player
Christophe Plé
b. 1966
alpine skier
Nicolas Chatelain
b. 1970
table tennis player