France
People of this nationality
Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers
1795 – 1878
politician
Jean Lhermitte
1877 – 1959
neurologist
Auguste Fernbach
1860 – 1939
biologist
Valérie Rosso-Debord
b. 1971
politician
Jean Montalat
1912 – 1971
politician
Pierre Morange
b. 1956
politician
Maxime Laisney
b. 1981
politician
Rémi Souyeux
b. 1984
association football player
Anne-Madeleine de Conty d'Argencourt
1637 – 1718
lady-in-waiting
Madeleine Chaumont
1896 – 1973
mathematician
Édouard Allou
1820 – 1888
politician
Marie Inbona
b. 1980
television presenter
Patrick Mouratoglou
b. 1970
tennis coach
Joël Bockaert
b. 1945
university teacher
Georges Chennevière
1884 – 1927
poet
Aldebert de Chambrun
1872 – 1962
explorer
Michel Surya
b. 1954
publisher
Max Gallo
1932 – 2017
politician
Lucien Martinet
1878 – 1903
rower
Armand Deperdussin
1864 – 1924
businessperson
Antoine Prost
b. 1933
historian
Yves Donguy
b. 1982
rugby union player
André-Charles Brotier
1751 – 1798
mathematician
Étienne Regnault
1650 – 1688
politician
Philippe Mettoux
b. 1958
magistrate
Frédéric Zgainski
b. 1972
politician
Nicolas Vleughels
1668 – 1737
painter
Georges Picard
1857 – 1943
painter
Nicole Lachartre
1934 – 1992
composer
Michel-Aloys Ney
1835 – 1881
military officer
Laurence Cristol
b. 1967
politician
Stanley Segarel
b. 1994
association football player
Nicolas Nancey
1874 – 1925
playwright
Anne-Marie Dias Borges
b. 1976
television presenter
Charles Spinasse
1893 – 1979
politician
Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy
1789 – 1874
painter
François Vivares
1709 – 1780
engraver
Maryvonne Briot
b. 1959
politician
Henri Rol-Tanguy
1908 – 2002
politician
Laurent Clerc
1785 – 1869
teacher
Louis de Frotté
1766 – 1800
military officer
Gérard Hekking
1879 – 1942
cellist
Valentin Chauvin
b. 1995
cross-country skier
Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves
1901 – 1941
military personnel
Carolann Héduit
b. 2003
artistic gymnast
Olivier Saïsset
b. 1949
rugby union player
Donald Smith
b. 1946
Arnulf
901 – 1021
archbishop
Pierre Chaignon
1791 – 1883
Catholic priest
Camille Cornelie Isbert
1825 – 1911
painter
Charles-Grégoire de Beauchamps
1731 – 1817
military personnel
Rémi Garsau
b. 1984
water polo player
Roxane Duran
b. 1993
stage actor
Suzy Delair
1917 – 2020
singer
Louis Auguste Deschamps
1765 – 1842
explorer
Jean Chesneau
b. 1520
writer
Marc Joulaud
b. 1967
politician
Anthony Smith
b. 1975
politician
Fernande Cormier
1888 – 1964
painter
Hervé Le Bras
b. 1943
demographer
Roger Rabiniaux
1914 – 1986
writer
Thierry Janeczek
b. 1959
rugby union player
Pierre-Jules Jollivet
1803 – 1871
painter
Daniel Bergey
1881 – 1950
politician
Mateo Garcia
b. 2002
rugby union player
Annick Chapron
b. 1949
sport cyclist
Gérard Larcher
b. 1949
politician
Philippe Gladines
b. 1960
association football player
Edmond Roudnitska
1931 – 2023
athletics competitor
Eugène Deully
1860 – 1933
painter
Joseph Sec
1715 – 1794
businessperson
René Thévenet
1926 – 1998
film producer
François Favé
1905 – 1951
sport cyclist
Sébastien Flute
b. 1972
archer
Julien Lorcy
b. 1972
boxer
Annibale Bozzuti
1521 – 1565
Catholic priest
Benoît Duquesne
1957 – 2014
journalist
Léon Motchane
1900 – 1990
mathematician
Lise Tréhot
1848 – 1922
art model
Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine
1745 – 1830
painter
Anne-Lise Stern
1921 – 2013
psychoanalyst
Irène Jacob
b. 1966
stage actor
Jean Bertaina
1928 – 2018
sport cyclist
Benoît de Maillet
1656 – 1738
diplomat
Andréa Guiot
1928 – 2021
opera singer
Hippolyte Sebert
1839 – 1930
botanist
Sophie Burdet
b. 1882
Marguerite Morel
1737 – 1804
ballet dancer
Richard Pelletier
b. 1988
association football player
Mounir Bouziane
b. 1991
association football player
Pierre Bersuire
1290 – 1362
writer
Frédéric Coquerel
b. 1978
association football player
Benjamin Kayser
b. 1984
rugby union player
Camille Laurens
1906 – 1979
politician
Fabrice André
b. 1972
oncologist
Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie
1760 – 1829
politician
Adrien Garel
b. 1996
sport cyclist
François Jeanne
1943 – 2011
fencer
Victor Hugues
1762 – 1826
colonial administrator
Yves Le Jan
b. 1952
mathematician