France
People of this nationality
François Viger
1590 – 1647
philologist
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat
b. 1953
directeur de recherche
Valère Germain
b. 1990
association football player
Pierre Nicolas Gerdy
1797 – 1856
surgeon
Henri Marteau
1874 – 1934
composer
Dimitri Cavaré
b. 1995
association football player
Anne-Madeleine Rémusat
1696 – 1730
nun
Boffille de Juge
1401 – 1502
mercenary
Maxime Zianveni
b. 1979
basketball player
Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti
1629 – 1666
military personnel
Colette
1873 – 1954
novelist
Claudine Thévenet
1775 – 1837
nun
Dylan Chellamootoo
b. 1995
taekwondo athlete
Pierre-Marie Rudelle
1932 – 2015
painter
Princess Marie Françoise of Parma
b. 1928
aristocrat
Albert Louis Wolff
1884 – 1970
conductor
Bettina Goislard
1974 – 2003
diplomat
Sophie Boilley
b. 1989
biathlete
Pascal-Alex Vincent
b. 1967
screenwriter
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
1893 – 1945
writer
André Chamson
1900 – 1983
historian
Louis Mékarski
1843 – 1923
engineer
Yolande Ardissone
1927 – 2024
painter
Affif Ben Badra
b. 1960
actor
Jean-Luc Thiébaut
b. 1960
handball player
Abdoulaye Keita
b. 1990
association football player
Jean-Gabriel Périot
b. 1974
film director
Robert Desbats
1922 – 2007
sport cyclist
Hervé Guilleux
b. 1956
motorcycle racer
Robert Degos
1904 – 1987
dermatologist
Louis Monrose
1811 – 1883
stage actor
Claude Lelouch
b. 1937
film director
Serge Humpich
b. 1963
engineer
Vincent Lepetit
b. 1972
computer scientist
Zygmunt Krasiński
1812 – 1859
poet
Jacques Destoop
1931 – 2022
actor
Christian Baptiste
b. 1962
politician
Jean-Marie Déchanet
1906 – 1992
Catholic theologian
François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet
1716 – 1786
diplomat
Jacques Laurent Gilly
1769 – 1829
military officer
Odile Croissant
1923 – 2020
biologist
Corentin Sellier
b. 2001
field hockey player
Jean de Nostredame
1522 – 1577
writer
Claude Sautet
1924 – 2000
screenwriter
Jean-Jacques Cologni
b. 1951
rugby league player
René Guillot
1900 – 1969
writer
Jeremy Bellicaud
b. 1998
sport cyclist
Pierre-Henri Mayeux
1845 – 1929
architect
Jean-Louis Haillet
b. 1954
tennis player
Pierrick Lilliu
b. 1986
singer
Claude d'Angennes
1538 – 1601
diplomat
Jean-Louis Martin
1939 – 2022
equestrian
Anne Penesco
b. 1953
musicologist
George Ura
1812 – 1889
geologist
Yves Montcheuil
1900 – 1944
philosopher
Guy Hocquenghem
1946 – 1988
writer
Georges Barathon
amateur wrestler
Georgette Elgey
1929 – 2019
journalist
Robert I of Burgundy
1011 – 1076
monarch
Gérard Nédellec
b. 1952
military officer
Julia Sedefdjian
b. 1994
chef
Bon-Albert Briois de Beaumetz
1755 – 1801
politician
Bouchard IV of Avesnes
1182 – 1244
politician
Olivier Charbonneau
1613 – 1687
settler
Emmanuel Lepage
b. 1966
comics artist
René Pleven
1901 – 1993
politician
Austau VII d'Orlhac
1225 – 1300
troubadour
Louis Sonnery-Martin
1841 – 1907
politician
René Goblet
1828 – 1905
politician
Nicolas Giraud
b. 1978
actor
Nelly Trumel
1938 – 2018
women's rights activist
Auguste Trognon
1795 – 1873
translator
Charles Dufraisse
1885 – 1969
chemist
Carole André
b. 1953
film actor
Geneviève Sorya
1912 – 2008
actor
Marcel Richard
1907 – 1976
Catholic priest
Élodie Touffet
b. 1980
sport cyclist
Aimé Cotton
1869 – 1951
physicist
Antoine-Louis Barye
1795 – 1875
painter
Jean-Louis Ricci
1944 – 2001
racing driver
Michel Robin
1930 – 2020
film actor
Marthe Vinot
1894 – 1974
actor
Malika Louback
b. 1995
model
Jean Chalopin
b. 1950
screenwriter
René Semelaigne
1855 – 1934
psychiatrist
Claudie Fayein
1912 – 2002
ethnologist
Emmanuel Vasseur
b. 1976
association football player
Cécilia Hornus
b. 1963
actor
Joseph Tissier
1857 – 1948
Catholic priest
René Gillouin
1881 – 1971
journalist
Marc Rivière
1950 – 2025
actor
Yasmina Reza
b. 1959
actor
Jules David
1848 – 1923
photographer
Eugène Lenepveu
1819 – 1898
painter
Sonia Ribes-Beaudemoulin
b. 1953
curator
Théo Kueny
1894 – 1978
amateur wrestler
Louis Paul Mesnil
1904 – 1986
entomologist
Des Eschelles Manseau
Jacques Bravo
1943 – 2019
politician
Marina Ginestà
1919 – 2014
journalist