France
People of this nationality
Émile Combes
1835 – 1921
politician
Sylvain André
b. 1992
sport cyclist
Charles Vélain
1845 – 1925
geologist
Jean-Baptiste Charpentier the Elder
1728 – 1806
painter
Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle
1775 – 1809
military officer
Danyel Gérard
b. 1939
singer
Jean-Marie Guastavino
1886 – 1960
politician
Robert Tournières
1667 – 1752
painter
Didier Van Cauwelaert
b. 1960
writer
Jean-Jacques Favier
1949 – 2023
astronaut
Madeleine d'Angennes
1629 – 1714
Philippe Cousteau
1940 – 1979
explorer
Charles-Eugène Pénaud
1800 – 1864
Officer of the French Navy
Georges Pasteur
1930 – 2015
herpetologist
Roland Paradis
1696 – 1754
artist
Antoine Morlot
1766 – 1809
military personnel
Jean Déré
1886 – 1970
organist
Jacques Rolland
1914 – 1999
politician
Marguerite Macé-Montrouge
1836 – 1898
opera singer
Jean Pelet
1759 – 1842
politician
Cédric Fèvre-Chevalier
b. 1983
sport shooter
Joseph Etienne Richard
1761 – 1834
politician
Pierre Bernard
1922 – 1991
Xavier Pompidou
b. 1972
racing automobile driver
Charles Plichon
1814 – 1888
politician
Olivier Chaline
b. 1964
historian
Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde
1756 – 1841
jurist
Henri Mauperché
1602 – 1686
painter
Sabine Crossen
b. 1983
actor
Théodore Lebreton
1803 – 1883
chansonnier
Tom Emerson
b. 1970
architect
Raymond Suvigny
1903 – 1945
weightlifter
Léon Cladel
1834 – 1892
writer
Ebles II of Roucy
1050 – 1103
feudatory
François Tristan l'Hermite
1601 – 1655
poet
Eugène Le Moignic
1875 – 1947
politician
Chems Dahmani
b. 1986
actor
René Ménil
1907 – 2004
writer
Erik Marchand
1955 – 2025
singer
Léon Monosson
1892 – 1943
chess player
Alain Maline
1947 – 2025
screenwriter
Jean-Achille Benouville
1815 – 1891
painter
Sully Prudhomme
1839 – 1907
poet
Victor Gilbert
1847 – 1933
painter
Cécile Brunschvicg
1877 – 1946
politician
Henri Skiba
1927 – 2018
association football player
Roger Dwyre
1913 – 2005
film director
Henri Raybaud
1879 – 1942
sculptor
Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant
1690 – 1743
writer
Peter Falconet
1741 – 1791
painter
Henri Dentz
1881 – 1945
military personnel
Frédéric Hanvi
b. 1989
baseball player
Armand de Saint-Félix
1737 – 1819
naval officer
Louis Querbes
1793 – 1859
presbyter
Gladys Swain
1945 – 1993
psychiatrist
Bernard Descoings
1931 – 2018
botanist
François Girardon
1628 – 1715
sculptor
Étienne Mantoux
1913 – 1945
economist
Laurent Huard
b. 1973
association football player
Antonin Poncet
1849 – 1913
surgeon
Lucien Jarraud
1922 – 2007
radio personality
Antoine Valentin
b. 1992
politician
Eriamel
1952 – 2026
comics writer
Pierre Caroli
1480 – 1546
theologian
Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi
1932 – 2004
professeur des universités
Raimana Li Fung Kuee
b. 1985
association football player
Odette Jasse
1899 – 1949
astronomer
Adrien Loir
1862 – 1941
bacteriologist
Mathieu Jussaume
b. 1999
rugby league player
Édouard Duhour
1905 – 1968
athletics competitor
Serge Ravanel
1920 – 2009
resistance fighter
Matthieu Bailet
b. 1996
alpine skier
Roland Passot
b. 1955
chef
Henri Cohen
b. 1947
mathematician
Nicolas Vogel
1925 – 2006
actor
Gustave Sandras
1872 – 1951
artistic gymnast
Jocelyn Delecour
b. 1935
sprinter
Philippe Parès
1901 – 1979
composer
Joseph André Cellony
1696 – 1746
painter
Bronisław Szwarce
1834 – 1904
engineer
Maurice Boissais
1901 – 1981
writer
Nicolas Moutton
b. 1986
rower
Aldo Ciccolini
1925 – 2015
pianist
Grandmesnil
1737 – 1816
stage actor
Pierre-Luc Séguillon
1940 – 2010
journalist
Jacques Boyvin
1650 – 1706
composer
Jean Paul Vuillemin
1861 – 1932
botanist
Sébastien Vaillant
1669 – 1722
botanist
Louis Guillouet, comte d'Orvilliers
1710 – 1792
naval officer
Hercule de Rohan, Duke of Montbazon
1568 – 1654
Ferdinand de Béhagle
1857 – 1899
explorer
Pierre de Maupeou d'Ableiges
1910 – 1996
equestrian
Jean Mézard
1904 – 1997
politician
Mouloud Akloul
b. 1983
association football player
Lucas Pouille
b. 1994
tennis player
Paul Belmondo
1898 – 1982
sculptor
Pierre Du Moulin
1568 – 1658
theologian
Marcel Lermoyez
1858 – 1929
physician
Jean-Claude Valla
1944 – 2010
journalist
Pierre d'Angicourt
architect