France
People of this nationality
Anne Marie de Bethune
1610 – 1688
Dame d'atours
Valéry Inkijinoff
1895 – 1973
film director
Josquin des Prez
1455 – 1521
composer
Gaston Franco
b. 1944
politician
Fabienne Godet
b. 1964
screenwriter
Jean Nicolas
1913 – 1978
association football player
Jacques Hermant
1855 – 1930
architect
René Simon
1898 – 1971
film actor
Jean Joseph Henri Toussaint
1847 – 1890
veterinarian
Maurice Arnoult
1897 – 1959
sport cyclist
Pierre Bailloquet
1613 – 1692
missionary
Antoine Barnave
1761 – 1793
politician
Alain Madalle
1937 – 2024
politician
Jacques Vigouroux Duplessis
1680 – 1732
painter
Antoine Abrassart
b. 1987
association football player
Adèle Haenel
b. 1989
film actor
Camille Durutte
1803 – 1881
composer
Anne-Cécile Itier
1890 – 1980
rally driver
Maurice Desfassiaux
1886 – 1956
cinematographer
Adel Bettaieb
b. 1997
association football player
Jean-Marc Olivier
b. 1961
historian
Nicolas Thomann
b. 1972
tennis player
Nicolas Mercier
b. 2003
association football player
Marie-Morgane Sieber
b. 2002
association football player
Caesar, duc de Choiseul
1598 – 1675
diplomat
Kléber Balmat
1896 – 1961
ski jumper
Philippe Vatuone
b. 1962
artistic gymnast
Piche
b. 1996
drag queen
Clara Dupont-Monod
b. 1973
journalist
Eugène Lawrence Vail
1857 – 1934
painter
Marga d'Andurain
1893 – 1948
adventurer
Marcel Adamczyk
1935 – 2023
association football player
Henri Desgrange
1865 – 1940
journalist
Dinah Derycke
1946 – 2002
politician
Guillaume Vandive
1680 – 1706
printer
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
b. 1968
economist
Jonathan Moriame
b. 1984
water polo player
Stéphane Le Mignan
b. 1974
association football player
Melvyn Jaminet
b. 1999
rugby union player
Bernard Heyberger
b. 1954
historian
Jacques le Moyne
1533 – 1588
cartographer
Serge Gainsbourg
1928 – 1991
actor
Albert Wolsky
1930 – 2026
costume designer
Laurent Pionnier
b. 1982
association football player
Patrick Diaike
b. 1980
association football player
Angelina Lanza
b. 1993
athletics competitor
Jean-Michel Atlan
1913 – 1960
painter
Louis Burton
b. 1985
skipper
Gustave Massiah
b. 1938
economist
Jean Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune
1732 – 1809
philologist
Louis Moreau
1883 – 1958
painter
Dominique Vidal
b. 1964
businessperson
David Haziot
b. 1947
writer
Catherine de Nevers
1568 – 1629
Georges Récipon
1860 – 1920
sculptor
Éric Guérit
b. 1964
association football player
Barthélemy Mercier de Saint-Léger
1734 – 1799
librarian
Jean Baptiste François Pitra
1812 – 1889
church historian
Alexandre Rudajev
1935 – 2002
psychiatrist
Marc Ambroise-Rendu
1929 – 2024
journalist
Ernest Henri Griset
1844 – 1907
painter
Aurélia Beigneux
b. 1980
politician
Guy Michel Lejay
1588 – 1674
lawyer
Jean de Silhon
1596 – 1667
philosopher
Karim Fradin
b. 1972
association football player
Hubert Auriol
1952 – 2021
rally raid rider
Rose Guérin
1915 – 1998
politician
Sandrine Morand
b. 1979
curler
Léonce Crenier
1888 – 1963
theologian
Émilie Boulard
b. 1999
rugby union player
Anatole Vologe
1909 – 1944
field hockey player
Paul Gregori
b. 1901
athletics competitor
Moussa Koita
b. 1982
association football player
Auguste Albert
1859 – 1915
skipper
John Joseph Hirth
1854 – 1931
Catholic priest
Étienne-Gabriel Morelly
1717 – 1778
philosopher
Denis Lalanne
1926 – 2019
journalist
Jean Lannes
b. 1947
mathematician
Grégory Beron
b. 1989
ice hockey player
Madeleine Grey
1896 – 1979
opera singer
Clara Joyeux
b. 1998
rugby union player
Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans
1751 – 1832
inventor
Olivier Sitruk
b. 1970
actor
Franck Cammas
b. 1972
sailor
Yves Bur
b. 1951
politician
Maxence Larrieu
b. 1934
musician
Barbara Buatois
b. 1977
sport cyclist
Marcelle Bory
b. 1908
fencer
Soriba Kouyaté
1963 – 2010
musician
Madame Ronssecy
b. 1780
composer
Dominique Sanda
b. 1951
film actor
Sotiris René Sidiropoulos
b. 1977
painter
Céleste Bulkeley
1759 – 1832
military personnel
Zinovy Peshkov
1884 – 1966
diplomat
Raphaël Etifier
1889 – 1966
politician
Julien Dray
b. 1955
politician
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet
1872 – 1967
painter
Sylvie Boldo
mathematician
Joseph C. Brun
1907 – 1998
cinematographer
Françoise Brochard-Wyart
b. 1944
theoretical physicist