France
People of this nationality
Gabrielle Demange
b. 1954
economist
Jean-Baptiste Solignac
1773 – 1850
politician
Louis-François Cassas
1756 – 1827
landscape painter
Henri Barbusse
1873 – 1935
writer
François de Maucroix
1619 – 1708
linguist
Christian Tourret
b. 1946
athletics competitor
Rima Abdul Malak
b. 1979
politician
Jean Sentuary
1711 – 1784
lawyer
Alain Lance
b. 1939
linguist
Jacques Bigot
b. 1952
politician
Alfons Hellemans
b. 1939
sport cyclist
Pierre Cally
1630 – 1709
philosopher
Zoé Clauzure
b. 2010
singer
Christian Delage
b. 1954
rugby union player
Jean Marco
1923 – 1953
singer
Pierre-César Abeille
1674 – 1740
composer
Martin Dumollard
1810 – 1862
serial killer
Louis François Henri de Menon
1717 – 1776
agronomist
Alphonse Leroy
1820 – 1902
engraver
Rudy Camacho
b. 1991
association football player
Pierre Sabatier
1682 – 1742
scientist
Antoine Le Maistre
1608 – 1658
jurist
Victor Boutilly
1864 – 1934
water and forest inspector
Bernard Foing
researcher
Louis Lenormand
1801 – 1862
architect
Roman Ghirshman
1895 – 1979
anthropologist
Paul Burani
1843 – 1901
chansonnier
Stéphane Millereau
b. 1976
association football player
Adel Chedli
b. 1976
association football player
Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier
1764 – 1859
organist
Amédée Domenech
1933 – 2003
rugby union player
Jean Pommat
1944 – 2006
swimmer
Frédérick Raynal
b. 1966
video game designer
Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu
1050 – 1053
feudatory
Pauline Lafont
1879 – 1955
benefactor
Jean-Baptiste Nattier
1678 – 1726
painter
Eugène Veuillot
1818 – 1905
journalist
Cécile Laborde
b. 1971
political scientist
Jean Gobet
1888 – 1980
actor
Aminata Konate
b. 1990
basketball player
Julien Nicolardot
b. 1981
swimmer
Marc Delmas
1885 – 1931
composer
André Muffang
1897 – 1989
chess player
Océane Cairaty
b. 1989
association football player
Marius Bonnet
1921 – 2003
sport cyclist
Anne Hilarion de Tourville
1642 – 1701
military personnel
Maurice Emmanuel
1862 – 1938
composer
Michel Charrel
1936 – 2026
film actor
Charles Louis du Chilleau de La Roche
1738 – 1825
naval officer
René Lateux
fencer
André Albert
1911 – 1976
politician
Jean de Herdt
1923 – 2013
judoka
Marcel Desprets
1906 – 1973
fencer
Damien Perrier
b. 1989
golfer
Anthony Guttig
b. 1988
ice hockey player
Wesley Pardin
b. 1990
handball player
Alphonse Allais
1854 – 1905
writer
Claude Burdin
1788 – 1873
hydraulic engineer
René Lavocat
1909 – 2007
paleontologist
Marie Magdelaine Mouron
b. 1650
military personnel
Michel Maurice-Bokanowski
1912 – 2005
politician
Simone Bitton
b. 1955
documentarian
Jules Trousset
1842 – 1905
historian
Louis Chavance
1907 – 1979
screenwriter
Alfred Brauner
1910 – 2002
pedagogue
François Dumont
1687 – 1726
sculptor
Boubaker El Hakim
1983 – 2016
jihadist
Michel Waldschmidt
b. 1946
mathematician
Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin
1766 – 1832
politician
Hugo Prevost
b. 1999
politician
Michel Brunet
b. 1940
paleontologist
Yohan Marmot
b. 1999
association football player
Jean de Broglie
1921 – 1976
politician
Yvann Maçon
b. 1998
association football player
Alice Tissot
1890 – 1971
film actor
Jean-Claude Lasserre
b. 1938
rugby union player
Armand Raimbault
b. 1976
association football player
Yann Quentrec
b. 1962
athletics competitor
Anatole France
1844 – 1924
writer
Gaël Clichy
b. 1985
association football player
Jacques Cartier
1491 – 1557
navigator
Georges Saint-Paul
1870 – 1937
psychiatrist
Georges Eo
b. 1948
association football player
Georges-Robert Lefort
1875 – 1954
architect
Oriane Jean-François
b. 2001
association football player
Alice Ozy
1820 – 1893
stage actor
Louis Gomis
b. 1971
association football player
Jean Camille Cipra
1892 – 1952
painter
Louis Archinard
1850 – 1932
military personnel
Harriet Smithson
1800 – 1854
actor
Bertrand Pelletier
1761 – 1797
chemist
Yvon Douis
1935 – 2021
association football player
Adil Taui
b. 2001
association football player
Kyllan Ramé
b. 1997
association football player
Mary of Burgundy
1457 – 1482
politician
Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine
b. 1966
journalist
James Theuri
b. 1978
marathon runner
Erwann Kermorvant
b. 1972
film score composer
Sylvain Augier
1955 – 2024
journalist
Lamine Ndiaye
b. 1995
association football player