France
People of this nationality
Hervé Mariton
b. 1958
politician
Saër Sène
b. 1986
association football player
Alec Head
1924 – 2022
horse trainer
Marcus Vulson de la Colombière
poet
Maxime Vuillaume
1844 – 1925
engineer
Luca Sanchez
b. 1999
tennis player
François de La Noue
1531 – 1591
military leader
Thérèse Eléonore Lingée
1753 – 1818
printmaker
Hugh of Digne
1205 – 1256
writer
Roland Barthes
1915 – 1980
philosopher
Guillaume le Vinier
1190 – 1245
poet
Mathieu Chabert
b. 1978
association football coach
Alain Touraine
1925 – 2023
sociologist
Harry Eliott
1882 – 1959
painter
Pierre Jouvet
b. 1986
politician
Mathieu Patouillet
b. 2004
association football player
Michel Goma
1932 – 2022
fashion designer
Maxence Barouh
b. 1995
kayaker
Jules Ferry
1832 – 1893
politician
Fiammetta Venner
b. 1971
journalist
Jean-Luc Fichet
b. 1953
politician
Carl de La Sablière
1895 – 1979
sailor
Guy-Marie Bagnard
b. 1937
Catholic priest
Victor Leydet
1861 – 1904
painter
Michel Constantin
1924 – 2003
volleyball player
Henri Gautier
1660 – 1737
civil engineer
Guillaume Rouillé
1520 – 1589
publisher
Bruno Stolorz
b. 1955
rugby union coach
Felice Blangini
1781 – 1841
composer
Jean Hyppolite
1907 – 1968
linguist
Jean-Marc Ferry
b. 1946
philosopher
Jean Sarazin
1536 – 1598
prelate
Éric Leichtnam
b. 1960
mathematician
Jacqueline Feldman
1936 – 2026
sociologist
Emmanuel Lacroix
b. 1969
biathlete
Ayodelé Ikuesan
b. 1985
athletics competitor
Michel Carrouges
1910 – 1988
writer
Fabienne Chaudat
b. 1959
actor
Ghislaine Dommanget
1900 – 1991
comedian
Jules Turgan
1824 – 1887
chansonnier
Chevalier de Beauregard
1665 – 1692
military personnel
Georges Lannes
1895 – 1983
actor
Philippe Pech
b. 1966
tennis player
Cosette Saint-Omer-Roy
1907 – 1985
tennis player
Jean-Baptiste-Maximien Parchappe de Vinay
1800 – 1866
psychiatrist
Clément Ducos
b. 2001
sprinter
Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel
1802 – 1891
Catholic priest
Daniel Moulinet
b. 1957
historian
Johan Lapeyre
b. 1985
association football player
Pierre Sabatié
b. 1977
rugby league player
Henriette Louise de Waldner de Freundstein
1754 – 1803
memoirist
Claude Aubriet
1665 – 1742
botanical illustrator
Stanislas Lépine
1835 – 1892
painter
Nicolas Le Nen
b. 1966
military officer
Philippe Gondet
1942 – 2018
association football player
Louis-Fernand Flutre
1892 – 1978
university teacher
Pierre Bretonneau
1778 – 1862
physician
Françoise Barrière
1944 – 2019
composer
Camille Chevalier
b. 1993
golfer
Rigaut de Berbezilh
1120 – 1163
troubadour
Xavier Lacroix
1947 – 2021
theologian
Jean Doujat
1609 – 1688
lexicographer
Amandine Brossier
b. 1995
athletics competitor
Guillaume Bottazzi
b. 1971
painter
Teva Victor
b. 1971
sculptor
Jacques Grinberg
1941 – 2011
painter
Pierre Morel
b. 1964
cinematographer
Patrick Cazal
b. 1971
handball player
Madame de Pompadour
1721 – 1764
salonnière
Hélène de Saint-Père
1960 – 2022
actor
Mathilde Cannat
b. 1958
geologist
Camille François
researcher
Charles Marie Benjamin Rouget
1824 – 1904
physiologist
Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian
1789 – 1839
school teacher
Joan of Arc
1412 – 1431
military personnel
Joseph-Albert Deport
1846 – 1926
military officer
Yvette Monginou
1927 – 2023
sprinter
André Costa
1926 – 2002
journalist
Stéphane Rossetto
b. 1987
sport cyclist
Tchéky Karyo
1953 – 2025
film actor
Michèle Sarde
b. 1939
writer
Bernard Boursicot
b. 1944
diplomat
Daniel Ducruet
b. 1964
singer
Paul Madeline
1863 – 1920
painter
Dominique Daguet
1938 – 2021
writer
Rosvitha Okou
b. 1986
athletics competitor
Éric Sandillon
b. 1969
photographer
Claude Bartolone
b. 1951
politician
Déborah Perret
actor
Charles Hermite
1822 – 1901
mathematician
Nicolas Millot
composer
Jean François Paul de Gondi
1613 – 1679
writer
Séverine Loyau
b. 1973
canoeist
Jean-Gérard Lacuée, count of Cessac
1752 – 1841
politician
Georges Lesueur
1834 – 1910
politician
Anne Queffélec
b. 1948
classical pianist
Claude-Jean-François Despréaux
1750 – 1794
violinist
Aretz Iguiniz
b. 1983
rugby union player
Gilda Darthy
1878 – 1952
actor
Jean-Pierre Serre
b. 1926
mathematician