France
People of this nationality
Serge Lifar
1904 – 1986
ballet dancer
Nicolas Delobel
1693 – 1763
painter
Edme-Louis Billardon de Sauvigny
1738 – 1812
journalist
Pierre Henri Battifol
1861 – 1929
Catholic priest
Pierre Koch
1895 – 1978
civil engineer
Catherine Hosmalin
b. 1960
actor
Jean de Talaru
Catholic priest
François-Marie Luzel
1821 – 1895
anthropologist
Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry
1927 – 1963
military flight engineer
Marcel Gerbidon
1868 – 1933
screenwriter
Alexis Bonnet
b. 1966
mathematician
Bernard Charreyre
b. 1950
rugby union player
Charles Abbatucci
1816 – 1885
politician
Wanda de Boncza
1872 – 1902
actor
Éléonore de Bourbon
1587 – 1619
aristocrat
Jean-Paul Ribreau
b. 1957
association football player
Frantz Funck-Brentano
1862 – 1947
historian
Roger Karl
1882 – 1984
actor
Éric Micoud
b. 1973
basketball player
Anne Sylvestre
1934 – 2020
singer-songwriter
Jean Ausseil
1925 – 2001
diplomat
Rayane Messi Tanfouri
b. 2007
association football player
Hélène Gordon-Lazareff
1909 – 1988
journalist
Nicolas Noguier
LGBTQ rights activist
Arnaud Larrieu
b. 1966
film director
Gérald Maquat
b. 1912
rower
Gérard Prunier
b. 1942
historian
Christian Bromberger
b. 1946
iranologist
Enzo Sternal
b. 2007
association football player
Marie-Madeleine Hachard
1704 – 1760
women letter writer
Francois Delage
b. 1965
business executive
Jean Couzy
1923 – 1958
explorer
Daniel Guérin
table tennis player
Prosper Mendy
b. 1996
association football player
Anne-Aymone Sauvage de Brantes
b. 1933
politician
Jean-Marc Aveline
b. 1958
Catholic priest
Alain Moizan
b. 1953
association football player
Gilles Panizzi
b. 1965
rally driver
Fabien Gay
b. 1984
politician
Yan Gras
b. 1996
sport cyclist
Saint-Georges de Bouhélier
1876 – 1947
poet
William, Count of Mortain
1100 – 1140
feudatory
François Le Lionnais
1901 – 1984
mathematician
Fabrice Balanche
b. 1969
geographer
Frédéric Ozanam
1813 – 1853
literary critic
Nompar of Caumont
1391 – 1446
seigneur
Stéphane Vossart
b. 1972
swimmer
Sonny Degert
b. 2001
association football player
Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois
1806 – 1871
playwright
Jean Dabry
1901 – 1990
aircraft pilot
Antonin Bobichon
b. 1995
association football player
Brice Guidon
b. 1985
kickboxer
Mohamed Simakan
b. 2000
association football player
Henri Coupon
1929 – 2024
screenwriter
Christian Liger
1935 – 2002
writer
Valérie Lacroute
b. 1965
politician
Jules Ribstein
b. 1986
paratriathlete
Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein
researcher
Florian Billant
b. 1996
handball player
Paul Tarascon
1882 – 1977
flying ace
Mehdi Bayat
b. 1979
businessperson
Jean-Laurent Kopp
1812 – 1872
singer
François Mansart
1598 – 1666
architect
Pierre Montet
1885 – 1966
archaeologist
Bernard Tissier de Mallerais
1945 – 2024
theologian
Auguste Allongé
1833 – 1898
painter
Pascal Caffet
b. 1962
pastry chef
Charles Malherbe
1853 – 1911
composer
Gaston Cyprès
1884 – 1925
association football player
Chloé Delaume
b. 1973
publisher
Claude Lucien Bergery
1787 – 1863
economist
Louis Daguerre
1787 – 1851
photographer
Étienne Louis Geoffroy
1725 – 1810
entomologist
Christian Herter
1895 – 1966
politician
Wandrille Lefèvre
b. 1989
association football player
Catherine Wagener
1952 – 2011
actor
Renée Carpentier-Wintz
1913 – 2003
painter
Nicolas Thyrel de Boismont
1715 – 1786
preacher
Georges Breitman
1920 – 2014
physician
Henri Bourtayre
1915 – 2009
composer
Maya Lauqué
b. 1979
journalist
Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin
1905 – 1972
mathematician
Michel Lambin
b. 1950
Thierry Maulnier
1909 – 1988
journalist
Marie-Agnès Letrouit-Galinou
b. 1931
botanist
Claude François de Malet
1754 – 1812
military officer
Grégory Bettiol
b. 1986
association football player
Pierre de Thury
1350 – 1410
Catholic bishop
Jacques Jurquet
1922 – 2020
politician
Julie Coulaud
b. 1982
athletics competitor
Pierre Deval
1897 – 1993
painter
Georges Dantu
1867 – 1948
painter
Romain Froment
b. 1977
rugby union player
François-Joseph de Champagny
1804 – 1882
journalist
Jacques Cohen
computer scientist
Isabelle Junot
b. 1991
actor
Soa de Muse
b. 1989
drag queen
Matthieu Chalmé
b. 1980
association football player
Éric Moulines
b. 1963
physicist
Charles Grandmougin
1850 – 1930
linguist