France
People of this nationality
Franck Ribéry
b. 1983
association football player
Charles of Lorraine, duke of Aumale
1555 – 1630
aristocrat
Patrick Chila
b. 1969
table tennis player
Claude Magni
b. 1950
sport cyclist
Princesse Goubo
b. 1991
basketball player
Marie Dauguet
1860 – 1942
poet
Adalbert Hamman
1910 – 2000
translator
Philippe Véron
1939 – 2014
astronomer
Ferdinand Cheval
1836 – 1924
architect
Vanessa Beauchaints
b. 1985
beauty pageant contestant
Jacques-Germain Soufflot
1713 – 1780
architect
Jean Abel Gruvel
1870 – 1941
marine biologist
Ariel Kenig
b. 1983
writer
Thierry Jamin
b. 1967
explorer
José Nat
1887 – 1962
sport cyclist
Sylvain Beuf
b. 1964
jazz musician
Jean-Claude Gayssot
b. 1944
politician
Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly
1714 – 1769
physicist
Rachel Rosenthal
1926 – 2015
artist
Léonce Angrand
1808 – 1886
painter
Sipili Falatea
b. 1997
rugby union player
Félix Lebrun
b. 2006
table tennis player
François Billoux
1903 – 1978
politician
Gaston Noury
1865 – 1936
poster artist
Pierre-Charles Bridan
1766 – 1836
sculptor
Paul Dearlove
b. 1979
rugby union player
Alice Domon
1937 – 1977
religious sister
Souleymane Cissé
b. 2002
association football player
Roger Pingeon
1940 – 2017
sport cyclist
Clevid Dikamona
b. 1990
association football player
Cheng Zhifan
1928 – 2021
painter
Félicie Gérard
b. 1974
politician
Jean Poton de Xaintrailles
1390 – 1461
military personnel
Thomas Deniaud
b. 1971
association football player
Christian Robini
1946 – 2001
sport cyclist
Maurice Denis
1870 – 1943
illustrator
Charles Chamois
1610 – 1684
architect
François Auguste Claude
1858 – 1938
astronomer
Grégoire Arfeuil
b. 2004
rugby union player
Allan Viral
b. 2001
association football player
Alain Delbe
b. 1954
writer
Vincent Trébuchet
b. 1988
politician
Joseph Gabriel Imbert
1666 – 1749
painter
Fanny Peltier
b. 1997
athletics competitor
Hélène Hatzfeld
b. 1950
political scientist
Ramon Guthrie
1896 – 1973
poet
Julien Leonardelli
b. 1987
politician
Ambroise Louis Garneray
1783 – 1857
painter
Pierre Bayard
b. 1954
writer
Dominique Ottato
b. 1968
association football player
Jacques Perrin de Brichambaut
1920 – 2007
ornithologist
Fabrice Walfisch
b. 1973
racing driver
Adolphe Charlet
1908 – 2009
sculptor
Mathias Loras
1792 – 1858
Catholic priest
Simon de Montfort
aristocrat
Gilbert J. Uteau
1897 – 1963
flying ace
Caroline Costa
b. 1996
television presenter
Bernard Natan
1886 – 1942
entrepreneur
Philippe Lheureux
b. 1958
conspiracy theorist
Claude Dourthe
b. 1948
rugby union player
Yvonne Claudie
1891 – 1974
film actor
François Louisy
1921 – 2007
politician
Marc Sangnier
1873 – 1950
journalist
Juan Carlos Etxegoien
b. 1956
writer
Pierre-Joseph Tiolier
1763 – 1819
sculptor
Jean-François Voguet
1949 – 2021
politician
Thérèse Leduc
1934 – 1988
alpine skier
Fily Dabo Sissoko
1900 – 1964
politician
Gérard Pirès
b. 1942
film director
Elisa de Lamartine
1790 – 1863
sculptor
Jean-Marie Chauvet
b. 1953
speleologist
Georges Kamm
1894 – 1945
sport cyclist
Paul Couillaud
1893 – 1962
athletics competitor
Kemmler
b. 1990
rapper
Pauline Dechilly
b. 1998
association football player
André Frédérique
1915 – 1957
poet
Alain Grumelon
b. 1957
association football player
Sophie Germain
1776 – 1831
mathematician
Élie Dohin
b. 1983
association football player
Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo
1773 – 1828
military officer
Lambert of Ardres
1160 – 1227
writer
Jean Vallée
1899 – 1979
film director
Édouard Piette
1827 – 1906
archaeologist
Paul Gouyon
1910 – 2000
Catholic priest
Sébastien Descons
b. 1983
rugby union player
Heiric of Auxerre
841 – 876
theologian
Yanis Rahmani
b. 1995
association football player
Kévin Bru
b. 1988
association football player
Louis Auriacombe
1917 – 1982
conductor
Gwennole Le Menn
1938 – 2009
lexicographer
Béatrice Vernaudon
b. 1953
politician
Nawal Meniker
b. 1997
athletics competitor
Lionel Terray
1921 – 1965
mountaineer
André Biancarelli
b. 1970
association football player
Marguerite Bornhauser
b. 1989
art photographer
Charles Édouard Delort
1841 – 1895
painter
Albert de Lapparent
1839 – 1908
geologist
André Chauvel
1909 – 1973
association football player
Jacques Piette
1916 – 1990
politician
Sophie Huet
1953 – 2017
journalist