France
People of this nationality
Siméon-Guillaume de La Roque
1551 – 1611
poet
Charles Percier Bassant
1764 – 1838
architect
Dimitri Amilakhvari
1906 – 1942
military personnel
Fabien Devecchi
b. 1975
rugby league player
Clara Royer
b. 1981
professor
Lucien Lagouche
b. 1894
sport cyclist
Louis Félix Henneguy
1850 – 1928
entomologist
Paul Arène
1843 – 1896
poet
Noël Duval
1929 – 2018
historian
Yvonne Rudelatt
1897 – 1945
spy
Jules Horowitz
1921 – 1995
physicist
Adrien Lagard
1821 – 1878
composer
Aslove
b. 1995
songwriter
Franck Fernandel
1935 – 2011
actor
Lucie Derain
1902 – 1977
film critic
Charles Dubost
1914 – 1991
surgeon
Jean-Jacques Grasset
1769 – 1839
violinist
Jean-Michel Bernard
b. 1961
composer
Robert-Martin Lesuire
1737 – 1815
writer
René-Paul Victoria
b. 1954
politician
Jacques Natteau
1920 – 2007
cinematographer
Gilbert Bostsarron
1903 – 1944
industrialist
Léon-Victor Dupré
1816 – 1879
painter
Thomas Corneille
1625 – 1709
linguist
Joseph Heckel
1922 – 2011
association football player
Pierre-Antoine Demachy
1723 – 1807
painter
Nathalie Thoumas
b. 1962
middle-distance runner
Bernard Herrero
b. 1957
rugby union player
Gertrude of Dagsburg
1190 – 1225
aristocrat
Thomas Martin (Tom) Baumgartner
b. 1945
economist
William Edjenguélé
b. 1987
association football player
Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin-Gouvernet
1727 – 1794
military personnel
Claude Griscelli
1936 – 2026
pediatrician
Joanna of Bourbon
1338 – 1378
aristocrat
Jacqueline Danno
1931 – 2021
film actor
Jacques Marie Deschamps
1750 – 1826
journalist
Jean-Pierre Chevènement
b. 1939
politician
Ramire Rosan
1895 – 2004
military personnel
Françoise Bertaut de Motteville
1621 – 1689
writer
Nicolas Soret
b. 1505
Catholic priest
Alexis de Chaunac
b. 1991
painter
Jean-David Bernard
b. 1977
rower
Marguerite Radideau
1907 – 1978
sprinter
Jacques Louis François Delaistre de Tilly
1749 – 1822
politician
Anatole Le Braz
1859 – 1926
literary historian
Irene de Peyré
1874 – 1968
suffragette
Charles-Edouard Levillain
b. 1971
historian of Modern Age
Martine Wonner
b. 1964
politician
François Pourfour du Petit
1664 – 1741
ophthalmologist
Cardinal de Rohan
1734 – 1803
Catholic priest
Robert Maah
b. 1985
association football player
Romain Thibault
b. 1991
association football player
Alexis Hanquinquant
b. 1985
triathlete
Georges Bordonove
1920 – 2007
historian
Jean Antoine Constantin
1756 – 1844
painter
Claude-François-Xavier Millot
1726 – 1785
historian
Jean de Cointac
friar
Lucien Michard
1903 – 1985
sport cyclist
Michel Delpon
b. 1949
politician
Gilles Silvestrini
b. 1961
oboist
Bernard Thévenet
b. 1948
sport cyclist
Louis-Charles Marty
1891 – 1970
artistic gymnast
André Maranne
1926 – 2021
actor
Patrick Valéry
b. 1969
association football player
Jacques Henri de Durfort de Duras
1625 – 1704
military officer
Alexis Kpadé
b. 2005
swimmer
Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov
1920 – 1994
military personnel
Mildred Bendall
1891 – 1977
artist
Victor Janvier
1851 – 1911
sculptor
Jean-Luc Petitrenaud
1950 – 2025
food critic
Anne Ventalon
b. 1972
politician
Daniel Enkaoua
b. 1962
painter
Claude Érignac
1937 – 1998
official
Nicolas Cicut
b. 1983
association football player
Thierry Morin
b. 1957
association football player
Nathan Tchibozo
b. 2004
alpine skier
Henri Mondor
1885 – 1962
physician writer
Adèle of Champagne
1140 – 1206
regent
Stéphanie Nicot
b. 1952
essayist
Yanis Hamache
b. 1999
association football player
Éric Navet
b. 1959
show jumper
Marthe Chenal
1881 – 1947
opera singer
François Legrand
b. 1970
rock climber
Paul Cabet
1815 – 1876
sculptor
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
1736 – 1813
mathematician
Charles Defodon
1832 – 1891
teacher
Olivier Bitz
b. 1975
politician
Vitaly Halberstadt
1903 – 1967
chess player
Pierre Marceau
b. 1983
professional wrestler
Alice de Lusignan of Marche
1241 – 1290
Matthias Lepiller
b. 1988
association football player
Philibert de l'Orme
1514 – 1570
architect
Alfred Des Cloizeaux
1817 – 1897
mineralogist
René Duchez
1903 – 1948
interior designer
Antoine du Verdier
1544 – 1600
literary scholar
Moussa Sylla
b. 1999
association football player
Jacques Thamin
b. 1952
tennis player
Patrick Birocheau
b. 1955
table tennis player
Fernand Secheer
1908 – 1988
politician
Jules Chevalier
1824 – 1907
Catholic priest