France
People of this nationality
Bernard Brochand
1938 – 2025
politician
Michèle Bernier
b. 1956
actor
Benoît Potier
b. 1957
entrepreneur
Théo Eyoum
b. 2002
association football player
Ricardo Porro
1925 – 2014
architect
Victor Frédéric Chassériau
1774 – 1815
military officer
Marcel-André Buffet
1922 – 2009
sailor
Ebony Cham
b. 2004
reality television participant
Sophie Daull
b. 1965
stage actor
Albert Strickler
1955 – 2023
poet
David Gosset
b. 1970
sinologist
Antonio Doria
1300 – 1346
military personnel
Louis-François Biloul
1874 – 1947
painter
Jean de Corbeil
1201 – 1318
military personnel
Michel Caboche
1946 – 2021
biologist
Oktay Takalak
b. 1990
boxer
Arthur Kleinclausz
1869 – 1947
medievalist
Louis Rousseau
1787 – 1856
naval officer
François Louis Bourdon
1758 – 1798
politician
Maurice Lauze
1922 – 2017
sport cyclist
Fabien Raddas
b. 1980
association football player
Philippe Mouiller
b. 1969
politician
Nordine Mouchi
b. 1972
boxer
Jean Auclair
b. 1946
politician
Louis Cattiaux
1904 – 1953
painter
Catherine Plewinski
b. 1968
swimmer
Maurice Prat
1928 – 2016
rugby union player
Princess Hélène of Orléans
1871 – 1951
aristocrat
Jeanne Hatto
1879 – 1958
opera singer
Charles, Prince of Soubise
1715 – 1787
politician
Georges Bardet
1885 – 1970
physician
Pierre Lacour
1778 – 1859
painter
Loïc Korval
b. 1988
judoka
Claude de Beauharnais
1717 – 1784
lord
Paul Regnard
1850 – 1927
physician
René Le Bègue
1914 – 1946
racing automobile driver
Lucien Quélet
1832 – 1899
botanist
André Fauquet-Lemaître de Guiroya
1862 – 1943
polo player
Gérard Rousset
1921 – 2000
fencer
Danielle Gourevitch
1941 – 2021
medical historian
Jules André
1807 – 1869
painter
Francois Simars de Bellisle
1695 – 1763
Cyril Barthe
b. 1996
sport cyclist
Pierre Bettencourt
1917 – 2006
sculptor
Marcel Pinel
1908 – 1968
association football player
Atila Septar
b. 1996
rugby sevens player
Louis Engel
1885 – 1960
sport cyclist
V. Standish Mallory
1919 – 2003
geologist
Taos Amrouche
1913 – 1976
singer
Hugo Clere
b. 1994
motorcycle racer
Émile-Joseph Legal
1849 – 1920
Catholic priest
Nicolas Fontaine
b. 2000
association football player
Alfred Gautier
1793 – 1881
mathematician
Sandie Toletti
b. 1995
association football player
Laurent Petitgand
b. 1959
actor
Charles de Louviers
1550 – 1583
lord
Gérard Serkoyan
1922 – 2004
opera singer
Victor Cadet
1878 – 1911
water polo player
Henri Langlois
1914 – 1977
civil servant
Jean Coquelin
1865 – 1944
film actor
Élisabeth Décultot
b. 1968
Germanist
Philippe of Lorraine
1643 – 1702
aristocrat
Alfred Vulpian
1826 – 1887
neurologist
Gabriel Jeantet
1906 – 1978
journalist
Stéphanie Ludwig
b. 1972
handball player
Boris Vallaud
b. 1975
politician
Renaud Capuçon
b. 1976
violinist
Paul Sinibaldi
1921 – 2018
association football player
Louis-Guillaume Perreaux
1816 – 1889
engineer
Pierre-Noël Violet
1749 – 1819
painter
Stéphane Derenoncourt
b. 1963
winegrower
Louis René Boulanger
1860 – 1917
painter
Isabelle Weingarten
1950 – 2020
film actor
Guy David
1947 – 2008
association football player
Constantin-François Chassebœuf
1757 – 1820
explorer
Frank Le Gall
b. 1959
comics artist
Kader Zitouni
b. 1981
association football referee
Philippe Wolff
1913 – 2001
historian
Monique Roosmale Nepveu
b. 1940
Aurélien Tertereau
b. 1981
association football player
Serge Djelloul
b. 1966
ice hockey player
Chloé Lopes Gomes
b. 1991
ballet dancer
Catherine Pozzi
1882 – 1934
writer
Charles Belle
b. 1956
painter
Séverine Autesserre
b. 1976
political scientist
Sarah Ourahmoune
b. 1982
boxer
Peter of Angoulême
1200 – 1208
Catholic priest
François Caron
b. 1937
Officer of the French Navy
Paul Paris
1875 – 1938
zoologist
William of Rubruck
1220 – 1293
explorer
Sylvie Brunel
b. 1960
geographer
François Sauvadet
b. 1953
politician
Lucien Hénault
1823 – 1908
architect
Anjela Duval
1905 – 1981
poet
Simon Foucher
1644 – 1696
philosopher
Catherine Sauvage
1929 – 1998
actor
Jean Dacquay
1927 – 2014
sport cyclist
Guillaume de Bellecombe
1728 – 1792
colonial administrator
Pierre-Louis Barassi
b. 1998
rugby union player
Fernand de La Tombelle
1854 – 1928
composer