France
People of this nationality
Henri Poupart-Lafarge
b. 1969
business executive
Habib Beye
b. 1977
association football player
Guilhem Molinier
poet
Pierre Excoffier
b. 1953
audio engineer
Nicolas Sanson
1600 – 1667
cartographer
Maurice Cacheux
1913 – 1980
sport cyclist
François Cacault
1743 – 1805
art collector
Guy Lafarge
1904 – 1990
composer
Teddy Bertin
b. 1969
association football player
Michel Adopo
b. 2000
association football player
René Brossy
1907 – 1991
sport cyclist
Paul E. Tapponnier
1947 – 2023
geophysicist
Nadar
1820 – 1910
photographer
Jordan Aboudou
b. 1991
basketball player
Maryan Wisniewski
1937 – 2022
association football player
Daniel Londas
b. 1954
boxer
Louis Sextius Jarente de La Bruyère
1706 – 1788
prelate
Louis Barbey
1888 – 1978
figure skater
Jean de Joinville
1224 – 1317
historian
Caroline von Paulus
b. 1959
singer
Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin
1707 – 1743
Claude Brami
b. 1948
writer
Henriette Walter
b. 1929
linguist
Marcel Lucien
1902 – 1960
cinematographer
Michèle Beugnet
b. 1950
sprinter
Hortense de Beauharnais
1783 – 1837
composer
Sylvie Tellier
b. 1978
beauty pageant contestant
Georges Abrial
1898 – 1970
military flight engineer
Jacques-André Jacquelin
1776 – 1827
chansonnier
Djibril Camara
b. 1989
rugby union player
Maurice Bénichou
1943 – 2019
stage actor
Raymonde Vincent
1908 – 1985
writer
Henri de Jordan
1944 – 1996
painter
John Misaubin
1673 – 1734
physician
Caroline Jouisse
b. 1994
swimmer
Lorenzo Strozzi
1513 – 1571
Catholic priest
Michou
1931 – 2020
artist
Xavier Batut
b. 1976
politician
Bertrand Planes
b. 1975
artist
Jean-Christophe Fromantin
b. 1962
politician
Jean Aurenche
1903 – 1992
screenwriter
Jules-Émile Saintin
1829 – 1894
painter
Élisabeth Fanger
b. 1956
writer
Marion Leboyer
b. 1957
psychiatrist
Philippe Hersant
b. 1948
composer
Jean Braconnier
1401 – 1512
composer
Étienne Bobillier
1798 – 1840
mathematician
Gilbert Sinoué
b. 1947
writer
Nadir Bosch
b. 1973
athletics competitor
Samuel Paty
1973 – 2020
history-geography teacher
Pierre-André Boutang
1937 – 2008
journalist
Jean-Pierre Audy
b. 1952
politician
Malika Zitouni
b. 1973
bodybuilder
Jean-François Berdah
b. 2000
historian
Patrick Vial
b. 1946
judoka
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
1736 – 1806
architect
Olivier Boivin
b. 1965
canoeist
Eduardo Camavinga
b. 2002
association football player
Louis Guéymard
1822 – 1880
opera singer
Arthur Vitelli
b. 2000
association football player
Lucrèce Andreae
b. 1988
screenwriter
Léon Geoffray
1852 – 1927
diplomat
Bruno Belthoise
b. 1964
pianist
Déborah Anthonioz
b. 1978
snowboarder
Adolphe Noël des Vergers
1805 – 1867
archaeologist
Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy
1920 – 2011
politician
Marie-Caroline Le Pen
b. 1960
politician
Bella Blue
b. 1982
dancer
Émile Turlant
1904 – 2013
Édouard Philippe
b. 1970
politician
Fabien Mira
b. 1961
association football player
Étienne Terrus
1857 – 1922
painter
Charles Madic
1942 – 2008
scientist
Jean-Claude Andro
1937 – 2000
writer
Alain Fuss
b. 1968
athletics competitor
Florence Darel
b. 1968
actor
Peter du Moulin
1601 – 1684
theologian
Jacques Gernet
1921 – 2018
sinologist
Fabrizio Garattoni
b. 1972
figure skater
Gervais, Count of Rethel
1056 – 1124
Catholic priest
Antoine Dessane
1826 – 1873
composer
François-Jacques Guillotte
1701 – 1766
police officer
Anne-Marie Deschodt
1938 – 2014
actor
Larbi Tbessi
1895 – 1957
revolutionary
Jacques Pouysségur
b. 1943
molecular biologist
Alexia Guggémos
b. 1966
journalist
Gaston Milhaud
1858 – 1918
philosopher
Jean de Valenciennes
diplomat
Jean de Roquetaillade
1310 – 1365
scribe
Nicolas Saint-Ruf
b. 1992
association football player
Georges Bellenger
1878 – 1977
aircraft pilot
Florence Ezeh
b. 1977
hammer thrower
Jean-Paul Schroeder
philatelist
André Gide
1869 – 1951
journalist
Raoul Plus
1882 – 1958
Catholic priest
Laëtitia Tonazzi
b. 1981
association football player
Vera Kovarsky
1896 – 1973
psychologist
Francis Masse
b. 1948
artist
Mehdi Dorval
b. 2001
association football player
Michel Lafourcade
1941 – 2006
firefighter