France
People of this nationality
Marie Madeleine de Rochechouart de Mortemart
1645 – 1704
linguist
Roland Muzeau
b. 1951
politician
Joachim Bernier de La Brousse
1580 – 1623
poet
Samy Smaili
b. 1965
association football coach
Vincent Duport
b. 1987
rugby league player
Jack Néel
1907 – 1973
architect
Alain Bouquin
b. 1958
military personnel
Jean-Michel Nectoux
b. 1946
musicologist
Simon Delestre
b. 1981
jockey
Thierry Mukuta
b. 1989
association football player
Jody Viviani
b. 1982
association football player
Serge de Beaurecueil
1917 – 2005
Catholic priest
Bruno de Leusse
1916 – 2009
diplomat
Steve Delaup
b. 1972
ski jumper
Louis-Fabrice Latour
1964 – 2022
director
Achille Giovannoni
1926 – 2014
rower
Nicolas Inaudi
b. 1978
sport cyclist
Terry Tarpey III
b. 1994
basketball player
Florence Masnada
b. 1968
alpine skier
Félix Chemla Lamèch
1894 – 1962
astronomer
Marguerite Wapler
1859 – 1927
anarchist
Nathalie Léger
b. 1960
writer
Paul Oscar Blocq
1860 – 1896
pathologist
Jacques Cassini
1677 – 1756
astronomer
Louis Marie Alphonse Depuiset
1822 – 1886
lepidopterist
Georges Gardet
1863 – 1939
sculptor
François Gacon
1667 – 1725
linguist
Cyrille Merville
b. 1982
association football player
Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet
1821 – 1898
anthropologist
Louis-Gaston de Sonis
1825 – 1887
military officer
Jean Guillaume Moitte
1746 – 1810
sculptor
André Colomer
1886 – 1931
poet
Patrice de MacMahon
1808 – 1893
military officer
Félix Mesnil
1868 – 1938
zoologist
Lucien Genot
1901 – 1965
sport shooter
Robert Enteric
1929 – 2022
canoeist
Yann Le Pennec
b. 1974
canoeist
Bertrand Fayolle
b. 1975
association football player
Chaim Paltiel
1240 – 1300
rabbi
Henriette Herminie Gudin
1825 – 1892
painter
Cédric Varrault
b. 1980
association football player
Thierry Brusseau
b. 1964
athletics competitor
Antoine Sabarthès
1854 – 1944
Catholic priest
Beatrice Rivière
b. 1974
mathematician
Pascal Arrighi
1921 – 2004
politician
Rodulfus Tortarius
1063 – 1114
poet
Gerard de Daumar
theologian
Charles Champion
b. 1955
businessperson
Henri de Bornier
1825 – 1901
playwright
Mounir Mahjoubi
b. 1984
entrepreneur
Raymond Adolphe Séré de Rivières
1815 – 1895
military engineer
Monique Papon
1934 – 2018
politician
Antoine Odier
1766 – 1853
politician
Jean-Victor Makengo
b. 1998
association football player
Paul Marie
b. 1995
association football player
Julien Durand
b. 1983
association football player
Sandrine Dumas
b. 1963
film actor
Jean De Gaillard De la Valden
1895 – 1977
flying ace
Paul César Helleu
1859 – 1927
painter
Erik Satie
1866 – 1925
composer
Vincent Scotté
b. 1987
association football player
Marc Thuet
b. 1963
restaurateur
Théodore Sivel
1834 – 1875
balloonist
Herbert Pepper
1912 – 2000
composer
Jean-Arnold de Clermont
b. 1941
pastor
Jean Aurel
1925 – 1996
film director
Robert De Bonnefoy
1894 – 1946
aircraft pilot
Marcel Lattès
1886 – 1943
pianist
Paul Bablot
1873 – 1932
engineer
Julien Robert
b. 1974
biathlete
Marc Pourpe
1887 – 1914
aircraft pilot
François Bunel the Younger
1552 – 1599
painter
Madeleine Dreyfus
1909 – 1987
psychologist
Michel Leclercq
b. 1940
tennis player
Christine Gossé
b. 1964
rower
Anthony Mortas
b. 1974
ice hockey player
Alain
1868 – 1951
philosopher
Jean-Marie Guyau
1854 – 1888
philosopher
Jérémie Bélingard
b. 1975
choreographer
Isabelle Balducchi
b. 1953
screenwriter
André Bouguenec
1914 – 1997
writer
Collin d'Harleville
1755 – 1806
comedy writer
Emmanuel Lescure
1930 – 2017
businessperson
Thomas Darmon
b. 1998
rugby union player
Yves Pignot
b. 1946
actor
Côme Levin
b. 1990
actor
Joseph Antignac
1895 – 1976
politician
Jean Bauhin
1511 – 1582
physician
Olivier Delbosc
b. 1968
film producer
Blandine Lachèze
b. 1982
modern pentathlete
Pierre Mazille
1921 – 1979
racewalker
Nasser Menassel
b. 1983
association football player
Pierre Andurand
b. 1977
businessperson
Gilbert Trigano
1920 – 2001
businessperson
Pascal Plisson
b. 1959
film director
Pierre de Piton
diplomat
Joseph Hollman
1852 – 1926
composer
Nicolas Huet
b. 1976
snowboarder
Michel Zink
b. 1945
philologist
Jean Nadeaud
1834 – 1898
botanist