France
People of this nationality
Antoine Derizet
1697 – 1768
architect
Lugné-Poe
1869 – 1940
theatre director
Robin Leclercq
b. 1952
association football player
Nadine Basile
1931 – 2017
actor
Sandra Laugier
b. 1961
philosopher
Alfred Almont
b. 1944
politician
Francis Hervieu
b. 1956
kayaker
Guy Genet
b. 1955
association football player
Paul Facchetti
1912 – 2010
photographer
Pierre Chuvin
1943 – 2016
philologist
René Andrei
1906 – 1987
sculptor
Jimmy Marlu
b. 1977
rugby union player
Philippe Bugalski
1963 – 2012
rally driver
Jean Marie Balland
1934 – 1998
Catholic priest
Lara Grangeon
b. 1991
swimmer
Gaspard Goyrand
1803 – 1866
physician
Julien Leghait
b. 1994
association football player
Henry Loste
1899 – 1978
politician
Jean-René Ledru
b. 1948
rugby league player
Florence Pernel
b. 1966
actor
Paul Gay
b. 1968
opera singer
Pierre Bilger
1940 – 2011
businessperson
Guy Chantepleure
1870 – 1951
writer
Françoise Elisabeth Desfossez
1743 – 1823
composer
Noom Diawara
b. 1978
comedian
Eugène-Alexandre de Montmorency-Laval
1773 – 1851
military officer
Fabrice Lefrançois
b. 1983
basketball coach
Paul-Gustave Herbinger
1839 – 1886
military personnel
Anne-Fleur Sautour
b. 1975
kayaker
Gilles Clouzeau
b. 1966
kayaker
MHD
b. 1994
rapper
Agathe de Rambaud
1764 – 1853
nurse
Aristide Frémine
1837 – 1897
poet
Maxime Jasse
b. 1988
association football player
Edmond Laguerre
1834 – 1886
mathematician
Pierre de Labriolle
1874 – 1940
philologist
François d'Aubusson de La Feuillade
1631 – 1691
military personnel
David Hauss
b. 1984
triathlete
Albert Clemenceau
1861 – 1955
lawyer
Maurice Gufflet
1863 – 1915
skipper
Louis-Antoine Ranvier
1835 – 1922
anatomist
Louise Levesque
1703 – 1745
poet
François Vautier
1589 – 1652
botanist
Valentin Campagne
actor
Louis de La Couldre de La Bretonnière
1741 – 1809
Officer of the French Navy
Alain de Rothschild
1910 – 1982
banker
Jacob Helberg
b. 1989
Jean Pain
1928 – 1981
inventor
Sylvie Méléard
b. 1958
mathematician
Adelaide of Burgundy
1233 – 1273
politician
Jean-David Morvan
b. 1969
comics writer
Léon Charles Thévenin
1857 – 1926
engineer
Benoît Rousseau
b. 1969
entrepreneur
Nicolas Chevalier
1562 – 1630
magistrate
Laurent Degos
b. 1945
university teacher
Claude-Sixte Sautreau de Marsy
1740 – 1815
journalist
François-Léon Benouville
1821 – 1859
painter
Jeanne van Bar
1295 – 1361
aristocrat
Georges Goven
b. 1948
tennis player
Alice Dubois
b. 1970
judoka
Roland Iche
b. 1947
canoeist
Michel Debidour
b. 1947
historian
Serge Marcotoune
1890 – 1971
lawyer
Marie Louis Henry de Granet-Lacroix de Chabrières
1807 – 1859
military personnel
Pierre Mauroy
1928 – 2013
politician
Victor-Amédée Barbié du Bocage
1832 – 1890
geographer
Fernand Versini
1887 – 1939
field hockey player
François de Rivoyre
1884 – 1946
military personnel
Irena Salina
b. 1968
film director
Gaston du Bousquet
1839 – 1910
engineer
Diane Mazloum
b. 1980
novelist
Évelyne Didi
b. 1949
film actor
Mamignan Touré
b. 1994
basketball player
Pierre Bailet
b. 1988
chess player
Ronny Labonne
b. 1997
association football player
Louise Rosalie Allan-Despreaux
1810 – 1856
stage actor
Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild
1868 – 1949
art collector
Jean Barreteau
1922 – 2010
rugby league player
Stéphane Gombauld
b. 1997
basketball player
Chantal Langlacé
b. 1955
marathon runner
André Buffière
1922 – 2014
basketball player
Terai Bremond
b. 2001
association football player
Pierre Attaingnant
1494 – 1552
composer
Albert Thibaudet
1874 – 1936
essayist
Moïse Gorendiawé
1938 – 2001
association football player
Christine of France
1606 – 1663
politician
Margaret Maruani
1954 – 2022
sociologist
Isabelle Ledoux-Rak
b. 1957
physicist
Sandy Scordo
b. 1985
karateka
Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy
1845 – 1917
neurologist
Charles Asselineau
1820 – 1874
writer
Albert Pel
1849 – 1924
serial killer
Stéphane Poulat
b. 1971
triathlete
Loup Durand
1933 – 1995
screenwriter
Michel Ragon
1924 – 2020
art historian
Étienne Denisse
1785 – 1861
botanist
Henri Joseph Dugué
1835 – 1914
politician
Robert Hubert
1640 – 1666
watchmaker
Claude Le Roy
b. 1948
association football player
Antoine de Seguiran
1701 – 1800
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