France
People of this nationality
Gilles Esnault
painter
Jérome Chevallier
1974 – 2025
sport cyclist
Mathurin Guillemé
1859 – 1942
Catholic priest
Josep Maria Bayarri
1886 – 1970
sculptor
Bernard Pariset
1929 – 2004
judoka
Ali Marhyar
actor
René Rimbert
1896 – 1991
painter
Pauline Ramart
1880 – 1953
politician
Lorna Bonnel
b. 1986
Thierry Séchan
1949 – 2019
journalist
Michel Dussuyer
b. 1959
association football player
Benny Lévy
1945 – 2003
philosopher
Charles IV, Duke of Alençon
1489 – 1525
aristocrat
Marcel Moussy
1924 – 1995
screenwriter
Pascal Thiébaut
b. 1959
athletics competitor
Brigitte Roy
b. 1959
sport shooter
Amandine Buchard
b. 1995
judoka
Pierre Jean Jouve
1887 – 1976
poet
Jean-Baptiste Azéma
1696 – 1745
colonial administrator
Christophe Willem
b. 1983
singer
Louis Gallouédec
1864 – 1937
geographer
Isabelle Boulogne
b. 1971
canoeist
Napoléon Joseph Louis Bontemps
1813 – 1872
Officer of the French Navy
Raymond Forni
1941 – 2008
politician
Louise Merzeau
1963 – 2017
university teacher
René Domingo
1928 – 2013
association football player
Prince Emmanuel d’Orléans
1872 – 1931
Marc Restellini
b. 1964
art historian
Marjane Satrapi
1969 – 2026
film director
Julienne Paroli
1882 – 1959
actor
Boukary Dramé
b. 1985
association football player
Alain Laboile
b. 1968
photographer
Tony Johannot
1803 – 1852
lithographer
Herminie Cadolle
1842 – 1924
businessperson
Jany Temime
b. 1948
fashion designer
Jean-Claude Meyer
1945 – 2026
investment banker
Kheira Hamraoui
b. 1990
association football player
Elsa Schalck
b. 1986
politician
Louis Jean, duc Decazes
1889 – 1941
athlete
Ceslaw Bojarski
1912 – 2003
engineer
Karim Robin
b. 1984
association football player
Thadée Polak
1932 – 2024
association football player
Stanislas-Henri-Benoit Darondeau
1807 – 1842
painter
Faustine Bollaert
b. 1979
presenter
Rémi Oudin
b. 1996
association football player
Hermano Nicéforo María
1888 – 1980
naturalist
Marie-Louise Bouglé
1883 – 1936
women's rights activist
Ugo Bonnet
b. 1993
association football player
Laura Agard
b. 1989
association football player
Pierre Cassen
b. 1953
writer
Gérard de la Martinière
1943 – 2023
businessperson
Désiré-Magloire Bourneville
1840 – 1909
politician
Sébastien Bézy
b. 1991
rugby union player
Laurence Maillart-Méhaignerie
b. 1967
politician
François Péron
1775 – 1810
explorer
John Baptist Pitaval
1858 – 1928
Catholic priest
Pierre Carmouche
1797 – 1868
chansonnier
Vincent Abril
b. 1995
racing driver
Jean-Charles Corbet
b. 1953
aircraft pilot
Richard François Philippe Brunck
1729 – 1803
classical philologist
Florian Hardy
b. 1985
ice hockey player
René Koering
b. 1940
radio producer
Daniel Rabel
1578 – 1637
painter
Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours
1433 – 1477
feudatory
Egidius de Francia
composer
Maria Rebelo
b. 1956
athletics competitor
Patrick d'Aulan
b. 1971
businessperson
Philippe Ragueneau
1917 – 2003
journalist
Jules-Émile Péan
1830 – 1898
surgeon
Marie de Jésus Deluil-Martiny
1841 – 1884
religious
Emmanuel Domenech
1825 – 1903
historian
Félix Barthe
1795 – 1863
politician
Louis Lafferre
1861 – 1929
politician
Serigne Diop
b. 1988
association football player
Jacques Israelievitch
1948 – 2015
violinist
François Ducuing
1817 – 1875
politician
Francis Roux
1908 – 1998
association football player
David ben Abraham ha-Laban
b. 1201
philosopher
Eugène Camplan
1889 – 1944
aircraft pilot
Raymond Brutinel
1872 – 1964
geologist
Denys Lombard
1938 – 1998
historian
Guillaume Debure
1734 – 1820
printer
Ryan Zeze
b. 1998
sprinter
Mathieu Scarpelli
b. 1981
association football player
Olivier, Baron de Brandois
1870 – 1916
sailor
Francisque Teyssier
b. 1969
sport cyclist
Victorine Farrenc
1826 – 1859
pianist
Louis-Benjamin Francoeur
1773 – 1849
mathematician
Simon master
b. 1200
illuminator
Paul Berna
1908 – 1994
writer
François-César Le Tellier de Courtanvaux
1718 – 1781
astronomer
Mathieu Mille
b. 1981
ice hockey player
Gilles de Robien
b. 1941
politician
Blanche Paymal-Amouroux
1860 – 1944
painter
Wojciech Siudmak
b. 1942
painter
Marcel Delaître
1888 – 1963
actor
Edme-Bonaventure Courtois
1754 – 1816
politician
Joséphine Berthault
1853 – 1923
painter
Anna Judic
1849 – 1911
actor
Arthur Mensch
b. 1992
computer scientist