France
People of this nationality
Serge Gakpé
b. 1987
association football player
Léonard Limousin
1505 – 1575
goldsmith
Paul Fritsch
1901 – 1970
boxer
Anne Aghion
b. 1960
film director
Maurice Novarina
1907 – 2002
architect
Armand-François Cillart de Suville
1730 – 1801
Officer of the French Navy
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen
1913 – 1957
journalist
André Versini
1923 – 1966
film actor
Roger Loyer
1907 – 1988
motorcycle racer
Sekou Macalou
b. 1995
rugby union player
Charles Philippe d'Albert de Luynes
1695 – 1758
writer
Rhys Curran
b. 1989
rugby league player
Sophie Giquel-Bettan
b. 1982
golfer
Kéthévane Davrichewy
b. 1965
translator
Évelyne Didier
b. 1948
politician
Jérôme Éyana
b. 1977
athletics competitor
André Bramard
1915 – 2009
sport cyclist
Gwendal Marimoutou
b. 1995
actor
Simon Boyleau
1544 – 1586
composer
Fernand de Langle de Cary
1849 – 1927
military personnel
Walter Jeandel
1918 – 2012
Nordic combined skier
Charles Lacoste
1870 – 1959
painter
Irène Joachim
1913 – 2001
opera singer
Georges Fabre
1844 – 1911
geologist
Michel Routart
1580 – 1653
jurist
Suzanne Mertzizen
1919 – 1945
resistance fighter
Prosper Weil
1926 – 2018
jurist
Renaud II de Forez
1150 – 1226
Pierre Ducasse
b. 1987
association football player
Léonard Defrance
1735 – 1805
painter
Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis of Puységur
1751 – 1825
military personnel
Raphaël Chrétien
b. 1972
cellist
Antoine de Beaulieu
1650 – 1663
choreographer
Daniel Dayan
b. 1943
university teacher
Pascale Trinquet
b. 1958
fencer
Kilian Le Blouch
b. 1989
judoka
Alain Bugat
1948 – 2019
engineer
Lionel Poirot
b. 1973
swimmer
Michel Boutant
b. 1956
politician
Charles Ledoux
1892 – 1967
boxer
Patrick Calvar
b. 1955
police commissioner
Jean-Féry Rebel
1666 – 1747
composer
Andrea Tommasi
researcher
René Laurentin
1917 – 2017
writer
Gilbert Annette
b. 1946
politician
Antoine Banier
1673 – 1741
historian of religion
Jean-Baptiste Goyet
1779 – 1854
painter
Richard Simon
1638 – 1712
theologian
Willy Delajod
b. 1992
referee
Louis Bertrand Castel
1688 – 1757
mathematician
Frédéric Darras
1966 – 2010
association football player
Élodie Bourgeois-Pin
b. 1982
cross-country skier
Louis de Cardevac, marquis d'Havrincourt
1707 – 1767
diplomat
Jordy Gaspar
b. 1997
association football player
Eusèbe Renaudot
1646 – 1720
Catholic priest
Rayane Bouhanni
b. 1996
sport cyclist
Robert Redeker
b. 1954
writer
David Di Tommaso
1979 – 2005
association football player
Fabrizio Calvi
1954 – 2021
journalist
Catherine de' Medici
1519 – 1589
regent
Guy Sorman
b. 1944
editor
Louis-Léger Vauthier
1815 – 1901
politician
Dominique Honoré Antoine Vedel
1771 – 1848
military officer
Simone Benmussa
1931 – 2001
writer
Julia Piaton
b. 1985
actor
Jeanne de Bar, Countess of Marle and Soissons
1415 – 1462
feudatory
Kyan Khojandi
b. 1982
comedian
Bonnaventure-François de Boisfermé
1661 – 1722
governor
Patrick Bernasconi
b. 1955
businessperson
Anne de La Tour d'Auvergne
1496 – 1524
politician
Cizia Zykë
1949 – 2011
adventurer
Léo Rispal
b. 2000
singer
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
1857 – 1939
anthropologist
Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert
1797 – 1847
writer
Henri Heurtebise
1936 – 2023
poet
Maurice Langlois
1860 – 1948
Robert Delpire
1926 – 2017
publisher
Jean-Pierre de Bougainville
1722 – 1763
philologist
Marcel Labey
1875 – 1968
conductor
Xavier Mignot
b. 1994
rugby union player
Chantal Mauduit
1964 – 1998
explorer
Armand Doré
1824 – 1886
painter
Guy Bertrand
b. 1952
chemist
Yosef ben Davvid Genasiyah
1879 – 1962
lexicographer
Jean-Pierre Pujol
1941 – 2017
politician
Georg Daniel Hirtz
1804 – 1893
poet
Jean Grave
1854 – 1939
journalist
David Beauchard
b. 1959
comics artist
Reynald Pedros
b. 1971
association football player
Jean-Yves Bilien
b. 1958
actor
Mickaël Forest
b. 1975
rugby union player
Auguste Nefftzer
1820 – 1876
journalist
Augustin-Charles Renouard
1794 – 1878
politician
Jean-Pierre Mahé
b. 1944
historian
Charles Celier
1912 – 1992
jurist
Julien Fouchard
b. 1986
sport cyclist
Alice of Champagne
1193 – 1246
queen
Régis Juanico
b. 1972
politician
Jimmy Casper
b. 1978
sport cyclist
Marco Koskas
b. 1951
writer