France
People of this nationality
Alban Bensa
1948 – 2021
anthropologist
Jean-Baptiste Lesueur
1749 – 1826
painter
Henri-Gustave Delvigne
1800 – 1876
inventor
Nicolas Dumont
1973 – 2025
sport cyclist
Louis Barré
b. 2000
sport cyclist
Amale
b. 1993
professional wrestler
Rachida Brakni
b. 1977
actor
Nidoïsh Naisseline
1945 – 2015
politician
Nicolas Bréhal
1952 – 1999
writer
Édouard Kirmisson
1848 – 1927
surgeon
Philippe Macquer
1720 – 1770
lawyer
Jean de Vignay
1283 – 1340
translator
Amy Dommel-Dieny
1894 – 1981
composer
Jean-Claude Daunat
1945 – 1999
sport cyclist
Henri Froidevaux
1863 – 1954
historian
Jean Michel Massing
b. 1948
art historian
Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy
1339 – 1397
condottiero
Nicolas Tikhobrazoff
1946 – 2022
painter
Jean Ier
prelate
André Devaux
1894 – 1981
athletics competitor
Paul Fréart de Chantelou
1609 – 1694
art collector
Humbert Balsan
1954 – 2005
film producer
Johannes Symonis Hasprois
1301 – 1428
composer
Annie Pétain
1877 – 1962
Jean-Christophe Cesto
b. 1987
association football player
Michel Croz
1830 – 1865
mountain guide
Bafodé Dansoko
b. 1985
association football player
Paulette Dubost
1910 – 2011
stage actor
Marie-Paule Malliavin
1935 – 2019
mathematician
Juliette Bossu
b. 2000
artistic gymnast
Isabelle Poulenard
b. 1961
opera singer
Dimitri Liénard
b. 1988
association football player
Jacqueline de Ribes
1929 – 2025
personal stylist
Jean Gérault
1904 – 1988
athletics competitor
Guy Fischer
1944 – 2014
politician
Béatrice Chatel
b. 1970
physicist
Tom Gomes
b. 2004
association football player
Paul Delarue
1889 – 1956
writer
Roland Romanelli
b. 1946
musician
Matthieu de La Teulière
1622 – 1702
art critic
L'Atlas
b. 1978
graffiti artist
Zabou Breitman
b. 1959
film actor
Israël Isaac Besançon
1944 – 2026
rabbi
Jean-Blaise Martin
1768 – 1837
opera singer
Gaston Delaplane
1882 – 1977
sport cyclist
Guillaume Fichet
1433 – 1480
diplomat
David Félix
b. 1971
karateka
Christian Casadesus
1912 – 2014
stage actor
Anne-Marie Gentily
1882 – 1972
judge
Roger Bastié
1932 – 2019
rugby union player
Gilles Cormery
1950 – 1999
poet
Grégoire Yachvili
b. 1977
rugby union player
Dominique Azzaro
b. 1948
boxer
René Revol
b. 1947
politician
Philippe Petit-Radel
1749 – 1815
physician
Lisa Blamèble
b. 1992
athletics competitor
Grégory Poirier
b. 1982
association football player
Charles Villeneuve
b. 1941
journalist
Maurice Borrmans
1925 – 2017
Catholic priest
Dominic Serres
1722 – 1793
painter
Jean Panisse
1928 – 2021
actor
Moïse Nordmann
1809 – 1884
rabbi
Jacques Sigurd
1920 – 1987
screenwriter
Maurice Meyssonnier
1903 – 1963
executioner
Arthur Pilard
b. 1996
sport cyclist
François Blanchetière
b. 1953
historian
Jordi Tixier
b. 1992
motocross rider
Patriarch Fulk of Jerusalem
1100 – 1157
Catholic priest
Henri Guillaumet
1902 – 1940
aircraft pilot
Master of Jouvenel des Ursins
b. 1450
illuminator
Jean Duclos
1895 – 1957
politician
Jean-Louis Michel
b. 1945
engineer
Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia
b. 1962
political scientist
Mathis Ragot Richard
b. 1998
sport cyclist
Manon Léonard
b. 2001
tennis player
Louis de Beaufront
1855 – 1935
linguist
Charlotte-Catherine Patin
1660 – 1744
art critic
Claude Borelli
1934 – 1960
actor
Eugène Rouché
1832 – 1910
mathematician
Henry Soum
1899 – 1983
official
Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo
b. 1968
politician
Jacques de Beaune
1465 – 1527
politician
Antoine de Salinis
1798 – 1861
Catholic priest
Éric Doligé
b. 1943
politician
Madame Prévost
florist
Pierre François Bauduin
1768 – 1815
military officer
Charles de Rochefort
1887 – 1952
film director
Méril Loquette
b. 1996
para badminton player
Jaufre de Pons
troubadour
Louis Paul Abeille
1719 – 1807
economist
Jean-Jacques Quesnot de La Chênée
1650 – 1708
playwright
Jean-François de La Harpe
1739 – 1803
writer
François de Sourdis
1574 – 1628
Catholic priest
Charles d'Angennes
1577 – 1652
diplomat
Squeezie
b. 1996
vlogger
Louis François II de Bourbon
1734 – 1814
writer
Ana Tijoux
b. 1977
singer
Rudolf-August d'Ornano
1817 – 1865
politician
Bernard Gui
1261 – 1331
writer
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
1780 – 1857
chansonnier