France
People of this nationality
Jean de Brisacier
1592 – 1668
Catholic priest
Charles de Montmorency
1307 – 1381
military personnel
Émile Mercier
1900 – 2000
archer
Maurice Ménardeau
1897 – 1977
painter
Arnaud Leclercq
b. 1967
banker
Jean François d’Aubuisson de Voisins
1769 – 1841
mining engineer
Noémie Brochant
b. 1999
basketball player
Jules Zvunka
b. 1941
association football player
Antoine de Rochebrune
b. 1964
Catholic priest
Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville
1700 – 1778
naval officer
Louis Claude Monnet de Lorbeau
1766 – 1819
military personnel
Olivier N'Siabamfumu
b. 1986
association football player
Frédéric Montenard
1849 – 1926
painter
Arthur Robin
1927 – 2023
circus performer
Diana Iscaye
b. 1998
sprinter
Jean-Frédéric Schall
1752 – 1825
painter
Guillaume Dustan
1965 – 2005
publisher
Hugo Reus
b. 2004
rugby union player
Françoise Macchi
b. 1951
alpine skier
Joseph Deniker
1852 – 1918
racial theorist
Ethel Houbiers
b. 1973
actor
Roger de Saint-Lary de Bellegarde
1525 – 1579
politician
Didier Hoyer
b. 1961
canoeist
Michel Laplénie
b. 1943
conductor
François de Cauvigny de Colomby
1588 – 1648
poet
Lucenzo
b. 1983
singer
Coralie Lassource
b. 1992
handball player
Daniel Gittard
1625 – 1686
architect
Azzedine Alaïa
1935 – 2017
grand couturier
Samuel Hadida
1953 – 2018
film producer
Claude Allègre
1937 – 2025
politician
Nicole El Karoui
b. 1944
mathematician
Jean-Charles Laveaux
1749 – 1827
lexicographer
Henri Bergé
1870 – 1937
designer
Alain Renoir
1921 – 2008
writer
Owen Simonin
b. 1997
Jean-Luc Martinez
b. 1964
art historian
Bruno G. Pollet
b. 1969
university teacher
Henri-Irénée Marrou
1904 – 1977
church historian
Selim Bengriba
b. 1980
association football player
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle
1517 – 1586
Catholic priest
Germinal Peiro
b. 1953
politician
Joëlle Bernard
1928 – 1977
film actor
Louis Fensterbank
b. 1967
researcher
Pierre Dubois
b. 1945
writer
Joseph S. Labill
1837 – 1911
David Legrand
b. 1972
amateur wrestler
Jean Giral
1700 – 1787
architect
Edmond-Denis de Manne
1801 – 1877
chansonnier
Henri Krasucki
1924 – 2003
politician
Georges Rossignon
1900 – 1974
boxer
Arnaud Coyot
1980 – 2013
sport cyclist
Catherine of Navarre
1470 – 1517
ruler
Francine Charderon
1861 – 1928
painter
Victor Cousin
1792 – 1867
philosopher
Aurore Kichenin
b. 1995
beauty pageant contestant
Louis Urbain Lefebvre de Caumartin
1653 – 1720
François de Boigne
1896 – 1970
flying ace
Moussa Kamara
b. 1999
association football player
Claudine Brunand
1630 – 1674
printmaker
Claude-Alexandre Ysabeau
1754 – 1831
Catholic priest
Bertrand Laquait
b. 1977
association football player
Romain Noble
1980 – 2026
fencer
Joseph François Soleirol
1781 – 1863
botanist
Odette Herviaux
b. 1948
politician
Marcellin Champagnat
1789 – 1840
Catholic priest
Rémy Stricker
1936 – 2019
radio producer
Éric Postaire
b. 1957
pharmacist
Yannick Guillochon
b. 1960
association football player
Nella Bielski
1937 – 2020
actor
Gustave Le Rouge
1867 – 1938
journalist
Sililo Kivalu
b. 1999
athletics competitor
Lionel Dumont
b. 1971
terrorist
Jeanne Halbwachs
1890 – 1980
professor of philosophy
Bastian Pagez
musician
Aimée Antoinette Camus
1879 – 1965
botanist
Marc Boeuf
1934 – 1993
politician
Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain
1710 – 1795
sculptor
Lancelot Voisin de La Popelinière
1541 – 1608
historian
Claudius Madrolle
1870 – 1949
explorer
Hyacinthe Loyson
1827 – 1912
Catholic priest
Marcel Gauchet
b. 1946
philosopher
Antonine Meunier
1877 – 1972
choreographer
Joëlly Belleka
b. 1995
basketball player
Lionel Martin
b. 1974
association football player
Emile Thubron
1861 – 1927
athlete
Ferdinand Canu
1863 – 1932
paleontologist
Orélie-Antoine de Tounens
1825 – 1878
avoué
Frédéric Plessis
1851 – 1942
journalist
Henri Jooris
1879 – 1940
association football coach
Cindy Billaud
b. 1986
athletics competitor
Louis-Georges Tin
b. 1974
group activist
François Errard
b. 1967
tennis player
Isaac-Joseph Berruyer
1681 – 1758
historian
Richard Podesta
b. 1948
sport cyclist
Antoine Dauvergne
1713 – 1797
composer
Thadée Gabrielli
1856 – 1940
politician
Patrick Vernay
b. 1973
triathlete
Suzanne Dobelmann
1905 – 1993
librarian
Adèle Foucher
1803 – 1868
biographer