France
People of this nationality
Charles Higounet
1911 – 1988
historian
Kiady Razanamahenina
b. 1996
basketball player
Roger Hanin
1925 – 2015
actor
Louis Antoine de Gontaut
1701 – 1788
military officer
Albert Deullin
1890 – 1923
aircraft pilot
Nicolas Depoortère
b. 2003
rugby union player
Max Léglise
1924 – 1996
oenologist
Louis-Antoine Dornel
1680 – 1757
composer
Jean-Louis Preti
1798 – 1881
publisher
Jeanne Flore
1520 – 1600
poet
Jérôme Lejeune
1926 – 1994
physician
Charles Léopold Mayer
1881 – 1971
engineer
Philibert Babou de la Bourdaisière
1513 – 1570
diplomat
Bernard Le Nail
1946 – 2010
writer
François le Clerc
1501 – 1563
privateer
Souleymane Karamoko
b. 1992
association football player
Georgette Thiollière-Miller
1920 – 2010
alpine skier
Jean de La Ceppède
1548 – 1623
poet
Jimmy Vienot
b. 1995
boxer
Corentin de Chatelperron
b. 1983
engineer
Jean-François Berthet
b. 1969
skipper
Valérie Gay
b. 1968
table tennis player
François Golse
b. 1962
mathematician
Jean Legrez
b. 1948
Catholic priest
Hortense Clémentine Tanvet
1880 – 1981
sculptor
Marcel Dupré
1886 – 1971
composer
Alain Cudini
b. 1946
racing automobile driver
Claude Fagedet
1928 – 2017
photographer
André Bellessort
1866 – 1942
poet
Charly Mottet
b. 1962
sport cyclist
Walter of Châtillon
1135 – 1201
writer
Philibert Guinier
1876 – 1962
botanist
Jean Seznec
1905 – 1983
art historian
Jacques D'Hondt
1920 – 2012
philosopher
Louis Lemoine
1754 – 1842
military personnel
Édith Piaf
1915 – 1963
singer
Casimir Freschot
1640 – 1720
historian
Jean Nallit
1923 – 2024
resistance fighter
Virginie Dreux
b. 1988
sprinter
Guy Bonnet
1945 – 2024
singer
Marc Ruchmann
b. 1981
actor
Pierre Izard
1935 – 2026
politician
Marin Molliard
1866 – 1944
botanist
Lolita Hoarau
beauty pageant contestant
Bradley Locko
b. 2002
association football player
Nicolas Dahlmann
1769 – 1807
military officer
Sébastien Roch
b. 1972
actor
Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine
1498 – 1550
Catholic priest
Pierre Montazel
1911 – 1975
cinematographer
Serge Mathieu
1936 – 2026
politician
Marie Grisier-Montbazon
1859 – 1922
actor
Henri Quintric
1897 – 1955
racewalker
Jean-Baptiste-Michel Renou de Chauvigné dit Jaillot
1710 – 1780
cartographer
Alessandro Salimbeni
1867 – 1942
physician
Jean Valade
1709 – 1787
painter
Jean Noël Hallé
1754 – 1822
physician
Jean-Philippe Daurelle
b. 1963
fencer
Jasmine Anteunis
b. 1991
entrepreneur
Matthias II, Duke of Lorraine
1193 – 1251
feudatory
Jean-Marie Bayol
1849 – 1905
military physician
Jules Gallay
1822 – 1897
lawyer
Amandine Bourgeois
b. 1979
singer
Ilios Yannakakis
1931 – 2017
historian
Marc Pyrée
b. 1960
karateka
Cécile Corbel
b. 1980
singer
Nicolas Lagneau
1590 – 1666
caricaturist
Eugène Mage
1837 – 1869
explorer
Marie Seznec Martinez
1958 – 2015
model
Saint-Pol-Roux
1861 – 1940
poet
Silvia Alexieva
b. 1974
chess player
Marie Thérèse Françoise Boisselet
1731 – 1800
royal mistress
Vikash Dhorasoo
b. 1973
association football player
Michel Muller
b. 1966
screenwriter
Wallis Vitis
b. 1995
tennis player
Eugène Darcy
1868 – 1928
Officer of the French Navy
Clémence Guetté
b. 1991
politician
Jules Plisson
b. 1991
rugby union player
Emmanuelle de Villepin
b. 1959
writer
Chloé Dufresne
b. 1991
conductor
Joseph Sitruk
1944 – 2016
rabbi
Antoine Danchin
b. 1944
biologist
Ernest Flammarion
1846 – 1936
publisher
Uc de la Bacalaria
troubadour
Georges Delvallée
b. 1937
organist
Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark
1910 – 1989
writer
Yves Camdeborde
b. 1964
chef
Nicolas Guillou
b. 1975
judge
Jean Dupont
1938 – 2025
sport cyclist
Louis-Jacques Rondeleux
1923 – 2000
opera singer
Pierre Ferlin
b. 1900
rower
Claude Guillaume Lambert
1726 – 1794
magistrate
Antoine de Longueval
1401 – 1525
composer
Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle
1766 – 1855
historian
Charles François Delamarche
1740 – 1817
geographer
Jean-Claude Beton
1925 – 2013
agricultural engineer
Francisco de Paula de Borbón y Castellví
1853 – 1942
politician
Henri Fleisch
1904 – 1985
anthropologist
Olivier Rolin
b. 1947
novelist
Bernard Gardon
b. 1951
association football player
Stéphanie Elbaz
b. 2000
pianist