France
People of this nationality
Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux
b. 1962
entrepreneur
Colonel Moutarde
b. 1968
comics artist
David Belle
b. 1973
traceur
Peter Anthony Motteux
1663 – 1718
playwright
Jean-Loup Rouyer
1945 – 2007
tennis player
Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux
1779 – 1825
botanist
Benoît Croissant
b. 1980
association football player
Calvin Bombo
b. 1999
association football player
Sébastien Lepetit
1969 – 2025
crime fiction writer
Kévin Farade
b. 1995
association football player
Arnaud I de La Porte
1701 – 1770
Gaston Defferre
1910 – 1986
politician
Joseph Dérigoin
military personnel
Jean Pigeon
1654 – 1739
physicist
Guillaume André Villoteau
1759 – 1839
musicologist
Bakari Camara
b. 1994
association football player
Albert Jouve
b. 1886
association football player
Joseph Guiraud
1929 – 2020
rugby league player
Ibrahim Shahda
1929 – 1991
painter
Bruno Millienne
b. 1959
politician
Edgar Puaud
1889 – 1945
military personnel
Charles I, Duke of Orléans
1394 – 1465
poet
Catherine Grojean
b. 1947
swimmer
Louis Aubeux
1917 – 1999
organist
Claudy Mbuyi
b. 1999
association football player
Edouard de Pomiane
1875 – 1964
chef
Paul Saint-Martin
1901 – 1940
politician
Stéphanie Loeuillette
b. 1992
table tennis player
Lambert Courtois
1520 – 1563
singer
Alphonse Steinès
1873 – 1960
journalist
Michel Cullin
1944 – 2020
diplomat
Jean-Claude Izzo
1945 – 2000
journalist
Guillaume Dufresne d'Arsel
1668 – 1738
seafarer
Auguste Rencurel
1896 – 1983
politician
Hubert Thieblot
b. 1984
Helmut Fritz
b. 1975
singer
Driss Maazouzi
b. 1969
middle-distance runner
Jean-Paul Coche
b. 1947
judoka
Moha La Squale
b. 1996
rapper
Florentin-Étienne Jaussen
1815 – 1891
Catholic priest
Théo Mercier
b. 1984
photographer
Michel Bucy
prelate
Henri Alméras
1892 – 1965
perfumer
Pierre Berthezène
1775 – 1847
politician
Odette Duriez
b. 1948
politician
Lucie Chevalley
1882 – 1979
politician
Jean Sagbo
1959 – 2024
politician
Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente
1872 – 1959
Catholic priest
Jacques de Chavigny
1880 – 1963
ornithologist
Daniel Marsin
b. 1951
politician
Bertrand Westphal
b. 1962
university teacher
Dominique Leclerc
b. 1944
politician
Julien Trarieux
b. 1992
sport cyclist
Roger Claudel
1911 – 1944
rugby union player
Raymond Dugrand
1925 – 2017
geographer
Lucien Cayeux
1864 – 1944
geologist
Jacques Lizot
1938 – 2022
anthropologist
Michelle de Bonneuil
1748 – 1829
spy
Gustave Larroumet
1852 – 1903
art historian
Jérémie Beyou
b. 1976
skipper
Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet
1838 – 1902
botanist
Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault
1695 – 1791
actor
Julien Jalâl Eddine Weiss
1953 – 2015
zitherist
Pierre-François Levasseur
1753 – 1815
cellist
David Merdy
b. 1975
association football player
Damon Mayaffre
b. 1970
linguist
Fernande Decruck
1896 – 1954
composer
Robert Guérin du Rocher
1736 – 1792
Catholic priest
Alexandre Menjaud
1773 – 1832
painter
Clément Reix
b. 1983
tennis player
Ludovic Roux
b. 1979
Nordic combined skier
Serge Duigou
b. 1948
historian
Clara Sanchez
b. 1983
sport cyclist
André Jardin
1912 – 1996
historian
Diane de France, Duchess of Angoulême
1538 – 1619
politician
Delphine Biscaye
mechanical engineer
Nicole Védrès
1911 – 1965
journalist
Maurice Deligne
1861 – 1939
politician
Jeanne Harvilliers
1528 – 1578
witch
Walter Ricci
b. 1946
sport cyclist
Charles-Robert Faidide
1880 – 1907
athletics competitor
Michel Rio
b. 1963
association football player
Jacques Vandier
1904 – 1973
historian
Nicolas de Largillière
1656 – 1746
painter
Jules Meese
1896 – 1968
weightlifter
José Mange
1866 – 1935
painter
Émile Mâle
1862 – 1954
art historian
Jenny Rolland
b. 1975
artistic gymnast
Roger Anger
1923 – 2008
architect
Margot Bailet
b. 1990
alpine skier
William Irigoyen
b. 1970
journalist
Alain Sarteur
b. 1946
sprinter
August Stöber
1808 – 1884
poet
Henri-François des Herbiers, Marquis de l'Estenduère
1682 – 1750
military personnel
Raphael Severe
b. 1994
clarinetist
Jean Ambroise Baston de Lariboisière
1759 – 1812
military personnel
Louis Charles Antoine de Beaufranchet
1757 – 1812
military personnel
André Rives
1924 – 2017
rugby league player
Antoine-Éléonor-Léon Leclerc de Juigné
1728 – 1811
politician
Julien Bonnaire
b. 1978
rugby union player