France
People of this nationality
Jules Jacques Veyrassat
1828 – 1893
painter
Gabriel Marie Joseph, comte d'Hédouville
1755 – 1825
diplomat
Jean-Marc Chanelet
b. 1968
association football player
Evrard Chaussoy
b. 1980
painter
André Verdaine
1923 – 2005
amateur wrestler
Marie-Madeleine Dienesch
1914 – 1998
politician
Pierre Simonet
1921 – 2020
military personnel
Joachim Carvallo
1869 – 1936
art collector
Brigitte Granville
b. 1957
economist
Agnes Fienga
b. 1973
astronomer
André Gernez
1923 – 2014
physician
Marie-Élisabeth Thibault
courtier
Erwin Reuben Jacobi
1909 – 1979
musicologist
François Thureau-Dangin
1872 – 1944
archaeologist
Elinard de Bures
1100 – 1148
René Warcollier
1881 – 1962
chemical engineer
Nicolas Thomas Barthe
1736 – 1785
poet
Elizabeth Colomba
b. 1976
visual artist
Pierre-Paul Guieysse
1841 – 1914
politician
André Silva
b. 1975
rugby union player
Geneviève Termier
1917 – 2005
paleontologist
Maurice Maunoury
1863 – 1925
politician
Jérôme Salomon
b. 1969
physician
Georges Conchon
1925 – 1990
writer
Jiří Kolář
1914 – 2002
writer
Étienne Pflimlin
b. 1941
banker
Kévin Vandendriessche
b. 1989
association football player
Étienne Stéphane Tarnier
1828 – 1897
obstetrician
Andrée Peel
1905 – 2010
French resistance fighter
Ernest Hébrard
1875 – 1933
architect
Enzo Couacaud
b. 1995
tennis player
Jean Guéguen
1924 – 1998
sport cyclist
Frédéric Mistral
1830 – 1914
writer
Georges Friedmann
1902 – 1977
sociologist
Camille Paule
1867 – 1946
gendarme
Mino Cinelu
b. 1957
composer
Nicolas Princen
b. 1983
entrepreneur
Patrick Cothias
b. 1948
comics writer
Nasser Daoudou
b. 1998
association football player
Edmond Gustave Camus
1852 – 1915
botanist
Gérard La Viny
1933 – 2009
musician
Olivier Bellisi
b. 1975
association football player
Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon
b. 1986
investment banker
Achille Liénart
1884 – 1973
Catholic priest
Étienne Anheim
b. 1973
historian
Armand Léon Annet
1888 – 1973
politician
Élie Catherine Fréron
1718 – 1776
journalist
Adam Allouche
b. 1993
swimmer
Eugène Devéria
1805 – 1865
painter
Charles Le Goux de La Berchère
1647 – 1719
Catholic bishop
Guy Sajer
1927 – 2022
comics artist
Émile Goudeau
1849 – 1906
journalist
Gustave Lhopiteau
1860 – 1941
politician
Rachid Chékhémani
b. 1973
athletics competitor
Léonce Quentin
1880 – 1957
archer
Yves Benoist
b. 2000
mathematician
Lucien Aimar
b. 1941
sport cyclist
Marie Recio
1814 – 1862
opera singer
Gaston Tessier
1887 – 1960
trade unionist
Auguste Herst
1825 – 1900
painter
François de Sagon
Catholic priest
Fernand Arnout
1899 – 1974
weightlifter
Romuald Joubé
1876 – 1949
actor
Bamba Diarrassouba
b. 1989
association football player
Hariulf
1060 – 1143
writer
Philip Hurepel
1201 – 1234
Yannick Grannec
b. 1970
writer
Édouard Fritch
b. 1952
politician
David Darmon
b. 1974
association football player
Paul Antoine Brunel
1830 – 1904
military personnel
Catherine Millot
1944 – 2026
psychoanalyst
Marguerite Lwoff
1905 – 1979
microbiologist
Patricia Mazuy
b. 1960
film director
Steve Germain
b. 1981
association football player
Jean-Baptiste Muiron
1774 – 1796
military personnel
Nans Laborde-Jourdàa
b. 1986
actor
Robert I, Count of Dreux
1123 – 1188
aristocrat
Jean-Maurice Verdier
1928 – 2018
jurist
Jean-Michel Jarre
b. 1948
composer
Alain Colmerauer
1941 – 2017
computer scientist
Jean Bérenger
1934 – 2024
historian
David Lappartient
b. 1973
politician
Dmitry Buturlin
1790 – 1849
historian
Eugène Casalis
1812 – 1891
ethnologist
Raymond Subes
1893 – 1970
artist
Saint Gaucherius
1060 – 1140
hermit
Léon Damas
1912 – 1978
politician
Daniel Chabrun
1925 – 2006
conductor
Maxime Jousse
b. 1991
racing driver
Claire Lacombe
1765 – 1826
revolutionary
Emmanuel Marie Michel Philippe Fréteau de Saint-Just
1745 – 1794
politician
Jean Joseph Antoine de Courvoisier
1775 – 1835
politician
Gustave Stoskopf
1869 – 1944
painter
Gérard Farison
1944 – 2021
association football player
Ramon Djamali
b. 1975
association football player
Pierre Soubeyran
1709 – 1775
printmaker
Coline Aumard
b. 1989
squash player
Yoa
b. 1998
singer
Marie-France Dufour
1949 – 1990
singer
André-Samuel-Michel Cantwell
1744 – 1802
linguist