France
People of this nationality
Baptiste Roux
b. 1999
association football player
Sergio Coronado
b. 1970
politician
Shannon Izar
b. 1993
rugby union player
Frédéric Meyrieu
b. 1968
association football player
Djimi Traoré
b. 1980
association football player
François-Antoine Devaux
1712 – 1796
poet
François Dominique Séraphin
1747 – 1800
marionetteist
Claude Desouches
1911 – 2001
sailor
Arnaud des Etages
b. 1985
association football player
Aimé Lepercq
1889 – 1944
politician
Leck
b. 1988
rapper
Adam Bessa
b. 1992
actor
Raphaël Jérusalmy
b. 1954
writer
Yohann Lasimant
b. 1989
association football player
Paul Naudet
1859 – 1929
Catholic priest
Monique Orphé
b. 1964
politician
Jean Beaufret
1907 – 1982
philosopher
Samir Malcuit
b. 1985
association football player
Élisabeth Guazzelli
b. 1955
physicist
Louise de Bossigny, comtesse d'Auneil
1670 – 1730
salonnière
Doudou Masta
b. 1971
rapper
Jean Baptiste Meusnier
1754 – 1793
mathematician
Georges de Paris
1934 – 2015
tailor
Roland Jeannerod
b. 1945
cross-country skier
André Piganiol
1883 – 1968
university teacher
Marcel Bernard
1914 – 1994
tennis player
Alphonse Loubat
1799 – 1866
engineer
Florence de la Courtie-Billat
1935 – 2023
tennis player
Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany
1000 – 1008
aristocrat
Arthur Rinderknech
b. 1995
tennis player
Catherine of Guise
1585 – 1618
aristocrat
Charles Heidsieck
1822 – 1893
winegrower
Zohra Graziani-Koullou
b. 1966
athletics competitor
Adrien Truffert
b. 2001
association football player
Albert Crumeyrolle
1919 – 1992
mathematician
Gilles le Vinier
1190 – 1252
poet
Carol Arnauld
1961 – 2022
singer-songwriter
Norma Ray
b. 1970
singer-songwriter
Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier
1507 – 1572
professor
Yves Cros
1923 – 1995
sprinter
Eugène Grébaut
1846 – 1915
historian
Gérard Darrieu
1925 – 2004
actor
Albert Pézard
1875 – 1927
endocrinologist
Gilles Capelle
1949 – 2021
field hockey player
Daniel Mérillon
1852 – 1925
politician
Jacques Nicolas Bussière de Pouilly
1804 – 1875
architect
Alfred Marzolff
1867 – 1936
sculptor
Albert Androt
1781 – 1804
composer
Dominique Lapierre
1931 – 2022
war correspondent
Mapie de Toulouse-Lautrec
1901 – 1972
journalist
Hamid Oualich
b. 1988
athletics competitor
Henri Hemsch
1700 – 1769
musical instrument maker
Pierre-Jules Delespine
1756 – 1825
architect
Pierre Grillet
1932 – 2018
association football player
Christopher Maboulou
1990 – 2021
association football player
Philippe Beaussant
1930 – 2016
musicologist
Gustave Mentré
1909 – 1975
Amédée Thubé
1884 – 1941
skipper
Alfred Manessier
1911 – 1993
painter
Youssef Hajdi
b. 1979
actor
Louis-Casimir Teyssier
1821 – 1916
soldier
Benoît Fourneyron
1802 – 1867
engineer
Robert Béliard
1912 – 1993
sport cyclist
Thomas Conway
1735 – 1800
military officer
Clotilde-Auguste Mafleuroy
1776 – 1826
principal dancer
Sarah Bernhardt
1844 – 1923
stage actor
Jacques Bachelot
1938 – 2022
sport cyclist
Henri-Pierre Dall'acqua
b. 1972
rower
Pierre-Laurent Baeschlin
1886 – 1973
painter
Michèle Reverdy
b. 1943
composer
André Antoine Bernard
1751 – 1818
journalist
Jocelyn Blanchard
b. 1972
association football player
Maurice Raynaud
1834 – 1881
physician
Jean Louis Georges Poiret
1872 – 1932
colonial administrator
André Hambourg
1909 – 1999
painter
José-Maria de Heredia
1842 – 1905
poet
Camille Corney
1883 – 1952
actor
Auguste Baron
1794 – 1862
university teacher
Henri Révoil
1822 – 1900
architect
René Jadfard
1899 – 1947
politician
Michel Tombereau
1945 – 2026
painter
Charlie Cosnier
b. 1980
snowboarder
Blanche Amblard
1896 – 1974
tennis player
Louis de Berquin
1490 – 1529
linguist
Sylvie
1883 – 1970
film actor
Guéric Kervadec
b. 1972
handball player
Alain Oreille
b. 1953
rally driver
Gabriel Bonnot de Mably
1709 – 1785
philosopher
Bastien Héry
b. 1992
association football player
Henry Chéron
1867 – 1936
politician
Paul Meyer
b. 1965
conductor
Murielle Laurent
b. 1977
politician
Jef Le Penven
1919 – 1967
composer
Céline Sallette
b. 1980
actor
Louis Jean Baptiste Bergeron
1876 – 1948
electrical engineer
Paul Parisel
1904 – 1987
amateur wrestler
Marie Farge
b. 1953
mathematician
Charles Basle
1885 – 1962
racing driver
Bryan Coquard
b. 1992
sport cyclist
Amira Ould Braham
b. 1998
association football player