France
People of this nationality
Pierre Pennec
b. 1977
sailor
Guillaume de Machaut
1300 – 1377
composer
Augustin Henri Brincourt
1823 – 1909
military officer
William Briton
writer
Ludmila Ruoso
b. 1953
actor
Val
1967 – 2016
sculptor
Mily Meyer
1856 – 1927
opera singer
Henri Pellizza
1920 – 2001
tennis player
Michel Piron
b. 1943
politician
Henri de Grèzes
1834 – 1897
historian
Elizabeth Sombart
b. 1958
pianist
Raymond of Poitiers
1115 – 1149
military personnel
François Debeauvais
1903 – 1944
political activist
Adolphe Demange
1857 – 1938
painter
Yolande de Polastron
1749 – 1793
lady-in-waiting
Gabriel Marie Étienne Vanel
1925 – 2013
theologian
Pierre-Edmé Babel
1720 – 1775
wood carver
Simone Valère
1923 – 2010
stage actor
Hervé Ryssen
b. 1967
essayist
Quentin Danloux
b. 2001
association football player
Ernest Charles de Bouteiller
1826 – 1883
politician
Simone Beck
1904 – 1991
chef
Morgane Ikene
b. 1999
association football player
Kilian Hennessy
1907 – 2010
businessperson
Jean Rochefort
1930 – 2017
film director
Guy Dussaud
b. 1955
association football player
Cléopâtre Darleux
b. 1989
handball player
Christophe Hérelle
b. 1992
association football player
Fanny Dombre-Coste
b. 1956
politician
Siaka Bakayoko
b. 2005
association football player
Gaston Marie Jacquier
1904 – 1976
Catholic priest
Yves Duhard
b. 1955
rugby union player
Pascal Durand
b. 1960
politician
Champion Métadier
b. 1947
painter
Patrice Bouchet
b. 1953
astrophysicist
Raphael Mathieu
b. 1983
curler
Jacques Henri-Labourdette
1915 – 2003
architect
Enzo Zidane
b. 1995
association football player
Charles Cuvillier
1877 – 1955
composer
Francis Brown
b. 1977
mathematician
Auguste Jal
1795 – 1873
writer
Sébastien Leclerc
b. 1970
politician
Lucien Dautresme
1826 – 1892
politician
Édouard Baer
b. 1966
actor
Mathilde of Angoulême
François-Benoît Hoffman
1760 – 1828
playwright
Jean-Charles Moreux
1889 – 1956
architect
Marie Desplechin
b. 1959
journalist
Hervé Charpentier
b. 1955
military personnel
Isabelle Corey
1939 – 2011
actor
Anne-Françoise Moreau
1866 – 1900
nun
Laurent Dos Santos
b. 1993
association football player
Camille Le Menn
b. 1934
sport cyclist
Singuila
b. 1977
singer
Charles-Jean-François Hénault
1685 – 1770
historian
Pierre Jean Chalençon
b. 1970
collector
André Morizet
1876 – 1942
politician
Camille Pascal
b. 1966
essayist
Napoléon, comte Daru
1807 – 1890
politician
Clothilde Magnan
b. 1973
fencer
Philippe-Frédéric Blandin
1798 – 1849
surgeon
Georges Ahnne
1903 – 1949
politician
Sophie Achard
b. 1977
researcher
Colette Rosambert
1910 – 1987
tennis player
Pierre Fayet
b. 1949
physicist
Jean-Claude Guiguet
1948 – 2005
film director
Catherine Allégret
b. 1946
film actor
Jean-Nicolas Boulay
1837 – 1905
botanist
Antoine Frisch
b. 1996
rugby union player
Youssouf Kanté
b. 1984
association football player
Patrick Strzoda
b. 1952
official
Bertrand Blier
1939 – 2025
film director
Georges Langevin
1888 – 1967
fencer
William Soliman
b. 1980
basketball player
Gédéon Naudet
b. 1970
film director
Yann Barthès
b. 1974
television presenter
Marc Laurent
b. 1947
sailor
Claude Desplan
biologist
Éric Chaulvet
b. 1974
basketball player
Paul Claude-Michel Carpentier
1787 – 1877
painter
Paul Lasne
b. 1989
association football player
Jean Vallière
1480 – 1523
friar
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux
1619 – 1692
writer
Jonathan Kakou
b. 1989
association football player
Philema Lemaire
1856 – 1932
politician
Grégory Tafforeau
b. 1976
association football player
Marie van Goethem
1865 – 1935
ballet dancer
Pierre Jurieu
1637 – 1713
pastor
Lydie Solomon
b. 1982
pianist
Kévin Monzialo
b. 2000
association football player
Serge Andreoni
b. 1940
politician
Alphonse Henri of Lorraine, Count of Harcourt
1648 – 1719
aristocrat
Paul Allix
1888 – 1974
organist
Raoul Loé
b. 1989
association football player
Jean-Jacques Candelier
b. 1945
politician
Alexandre Barbier
b. 1979
association football player
Pouria Amirshahi
b. 1972
politician
Alexandre Danilevsky
b. 1957
composer
Éric Naulleau
b. 1961
radio personality
Jules Leleu
1883 – 1961
furniture designer