France
People of this nationality
Christine Guillemot
researcher
Jean Jules Godefroy Calès
1828 – 1899
politician
Suzanne Deutsch de La Meurthe
1892 – 1937
patron of the arts
Valérie Létard
b. 1962
politician
Michel de l'Hôpital
1505 – 1573
writer
Dominique Colonna
1928 – 2023
association football player
Clement VII
1342 – 1394
politician
Stanislas de Barbeyrac
b. 1984
performing artist
Mickaël Landreau
b. 1979
association football player
Antoine Bohier Du Prat
1460 – 1519
Catholic priest
Madame de Saint-Laurent
1760 – 1830
Auguste Houzeau
1829 – 1911
chemist
Georges Descrières
1930 – 2013
stage actor
Susitino Sionepoe
b. 1965
Catholic priest
Pierre Koffmann
b. 1948
chef
Anna Bass
1876 – 1961
sculptor
Roger Gavoury
1911 – 1961
police officer
Charlotte d'Ornellas
b. 1986
journalist
Louis du Tillet
Catholic priest
Jean-Yves Roux
b. 1970
politician
Romain Eskenazi
b. 1986
politician
Marie-Ève Paget
b. 1994
basketball player
Hervé Prouzet
1920 – 2010
sport cyclist
Céline Calvez
b. 1979
politician
Guy Lintilhac
1927 – 2014
sport cyclist
Gilles Delouche
1948 – 2020
university teacher
José Lenoir
b. 1972
canoeist
Jacques Patin
1501 – 1587
draftsperson
Christophe Berdos
b. 1970
rugby union player
Évelyne Prouvost
1939 – 2017
media proprietor
Charles Pozzi
1909 – 2001
racing automobile driver
Inès Dhaou
b. 1988
association football player
Catherine Duchemin
1630 – 1698
painter
Jean-François Garneray
1755 – 1837
painter
Celeste Alkan Meyer Marix
1812 – 1897
composer
Benjamin Clément
b. 1966
association football player
Gustave Fougères
1863 – 1927
archaeologist
Neil Brown
b. 1990
ice dancer
Aurélien Rougerie
b. 1980
rugby union player
Charles Martin-Sauvaigo
1881 – 1970
painter
Teddy Riner
b. 1989
judoka
Antoine Thiout
1692 – 1767
clockmaker
Félix Ayat
1882 – 1972
fencer
Ralph I, Count of Vermandois
1085 – 1152
aristocrat
Lionel Medeiros
b. 1977
association football player
Simha Arom
b. 1930
ethnomusicologist
Colette Besson
1946 – 2005
middle-distance runner
Gérard Moneyron
b. 1948
sport cyclist
Ludovic Clément
b. 1976
association football player
Antoine-Claude Fleury
1774 – 1824
painter
Robert Sainte-Rose
b. 1943
athletics competitor
Philippe Mestre
1927 – 2017
politician
Anne Méaux
b. 1954
business executive
Jean-Marc Monnerville
b. 1956
singer
Jean Loubignac
1901 – 1991
film director
Lââm
b. 1971
actor
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis
1715 – 1794
diplomat
Frédéric Dienert
1874 – 1948
microbiologist
Orphée Meneghini
b. 1934
sport cyclist
Laureen Beckles
b. 1958
athletics competitor
Yoan Gouffran
b. 1986
association football player
Carmen Damedoz
1890 – 1964
balloonist
Auger de Moléon de Granier
1600 – 1652
historian
Henri de Saint Germain
1878 – 1951
fencer
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
1801 – 1887
chemist
Sandra Marsaud
b. 1974
politician
Rohff
b. 1977
rapper
Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod
b. 1958
crime fiction writer
Marcel Herriot
1934 – 2017
Catholic priest
André Niederlender
1890 – 1959
anthropologist
Richard Waddington
1838 – 1913
politician
Patrice Esnault
b. 1961
sport cyclist
Mélissa Godart
b. 1991
association football player
Jean-François Jannekeyn
1892 – 1971
fencer
Steph Honde
b. 1975
singer-songwriter
Franck Histilloles
b. 1973
association football player
Pierre Péan
1938 – 2019
investigative journalist
Vincent Bioulès
b. 1938
painter
Ladislas Starevich
1882 – 1965
film director
Christian Hamel
1955 – 2017
Mathurin Henrio
1929 – 1944
Louis-Ernest Dubois
1856 – 1929
writer
Henri Skoda
b. 1945
mathematician
May Angeli
1937 – 2026
children's writer
Dieynaba Diop
b. 1974
politician
Marianne Comtell
b. 1953
actor
Henri Garat
1902 – 1959
actor
Yolande II, Countess of Nevers
1247 – 1280
politician
Léna Bernstein
1906 – 1932
aircraft pilot
Antoine-François Momoro
1755 – 1794
journalist
Hippolyte Aucouturier
1876 – 1944
sport cyclist
Jérémie Bela
b. 1993
association football player
René of Lorraine, marquis of Elbeuf
1536 – 1566
diplomat
Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Chaussard
1766 – 1823
poet
Jean-Paul Laumond
1953 – 2021
roboticist
Max Clos
1925 – 2002
journalist
Habib Tawa
b. 1945
journalist
Duchess Diane, Duchess of Württemberg
b. 1940
painter
Daniel Gélin
1921 – 2002
actor
Raymond Geoffrey of Marseille
1150 – 1192
troubadour