France
People of this nationality
Guillaume Louis Cottrau
1797 – 1847
publisher
Lucette Valensi
b. 1936
historian
Romain Colas
b. 1979
politician
Edme-Sébastien Jeaurat
1725 – 1803
astronomer
Fulvie de Randan
1533 – 1607
lady-in-waiting
Bruno Durieux
b. 1944
politician
Éric Borel
1978 – 1995
spree killer
Pierre-Yves Le Rhun
1936 – 2025
geographer
Paul Ducuing
1867 – 1949
sculptor
Ginette Durand
1929 – 2018
artistic gymnast
Roger Boutet de Monvel
1879 – 1951
memoirist
Albert Heisé
1899 – 1951
sprinter
Roger Lemerre
b. 1941
association football player
Yves Pozzo di Borgo
b. 1948
politician
Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier
1664 – 1734
writer
Tony Aubin
1907 – 1981
conductor
Pierre Bottero
1964 – 2009
writer
Jean Pezous
1815 – 1885
painter
Augustin de Romanet
b. 1961
official
Henri Charrière
1906 – 1973
writer
Jirès Kembo Ekoko
b. 1988
association football player
Yohann Diniz
b. 1978
athletics competitor
Joseph Rue
1894 – 1976
naval officer
André Even
1926 – 2009
basketball player
Marilou Berry
b. 1983
actor
Pierre Laroque
1907 – 1997
official
Paul du Ry
1640 – 1714
architect
Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin
1732 – 1804
Catholic priest
Jean Bérain the Elder
1640 – 1711
painter
Jean-Marie-Bernard Clément
1742 – 1812
linguist
Jacques Cornano
b. 1956
politician
Gilles Bastié
b. 1971
tennis player
oussama fellouri
1886 – 1949
Catholic priest
Maxime Pianfetti
b. 1999
fencer
Ounie Lecomte
b. 1966
actor
Damien Rascle
b. 1980
association football player
Michel Ordener
1755 – 1811
politician
Placide Cappeau
1808 – 1877
librettist
Raymond Lebègue
1895 – 1984
university teacher
Ernest Schultz
1931 – 2013
association football player
Eva Sadoun
b. 1990
businessperson
Pigault-Lebrun
1753 – 1835
writer
Anne Dacier
1645 – 1720
linguist
Bernard Pascual
b. 1967
association football player
Ramzy Bedia
b. 1972
actor
Émile Bernard
1843 – 1902
organist
Jean-Claude Chauray
1934 – 1996
painter
Emmanuelle Bouaziz
actor
Frederic Holyszewski
b. 1970
record producer
Jean Patrick Lesobre
b. 1953
rugby union player
Jeanne Viard
b. 2003
musician
Luc Boltanski
b. 1940
sociologist
Jean Lacouture
1921 – 2015
journalist
Alain Gheerbrant
1920 – 2013
explorer
Norbert Glanzberg
1910 – 2001
composer
Louis Marie Turreau
1756 – 1816
diplomat
Léon Solomiac
1873 – 1960
colonial administrator
Robert d'Auvergne
troubadour
Gaëtan Jego
engineer
Stéphane Nikiéma
b. 1965
kickboxer
Émile Deshayes de Marcère
1828 – 1918
politician
Hou Hanru
b. 1963
curator
Étienne Monier
1889 – 1913
peddler
Guillaume Legras
b. 1990
association football player
Pierre Henry-Larivière
1761 – 1838
politician
Norbert Rillieux
1806 – 1894
inventor
Antoine Lavigne
1816 – 1886
oboist
Dominique Turpin
b. 1957
business theorist
Pierre Michelin
b. 1937
association football player
Gabriel Adrien Marie Poissonnier Desperrières
1763 – 1852
military officer
Sophie Body-Gendrot
1942 – 2018
sociologist
Jeanne of Montfort
1250 – 1300
politician
Hayce Lemsi
b. 1987
rapper
Louise Dimanche
1650 – 1800
actor
Marie Victoire de Noailles
1688 – 1766
lady-in-waiting
Louis-Claude Vassé
1716 – 1772
sculptor
Henri Klein
1919 – 2007
athletics competitor
Louis Bachelier
1870 – 1946
mathematician
Claudie Weill
1942 – 2018
historian
Pone
b. 1973
disc jockey
Julien Humbert
b. 1984
association football player
Michel Baulier
b. 1949
association football player
Muttonheads
b. 1976
disc jockey
Lucile Tessariol
b. 2004
swimmer
François Buzot
1760 – 1794
politician
Eddy Casterman
b. 1996
politician
Jean-Paul Goude
b. 1938
photographer
Prosper-Gabriel Audran
1744 – 1819
printmaker
François de Vial
1904 – 1984
diplomat
Jeff Panacloc
b. 1986
ventriloquist
Roy F. Guste
1951 – 2021
chef
Marcel Letestu
1918 – 2006
military personnel
Jean Dides
1915 – 2004
politician
Jean Joubert
1928 – 2015
writer
Yoann Rapinier
b. 1989
athletics competitor
Marie-Jo Bonnet
b. 1949
art historian
Alain de Boismenu
1870 – 1953
Catholic priest
Joseph Wresinski
1917 – 1988
Catholic priest
Jean-Yves Besselat
1943 – 2012
politician
Gilles Cantagrel
b. 1937
musicologist