France
People of this nationality
Fulgence Fresnel
1795 – 1855
orientalist
Jean-Louis Aubert
b. 1955
singer
Olivier Libaux
1964 – 2021
composer
Gabin Delguel
b. 2001
association football player
Rafidine Abdullah
b. 1994
association football player
Maurice Leroy
b. 1959
politician
Ferdinand Le Drogo
1903 – 1976
sport cyclist
Marie-Claude Pietragalla
b. 1963
choreographer
Marie Angélique de Mackau
1723 – 1801
governess
Jonathan Coeffic
b. 1981
rower
Georges Bertier
1877 – 1962
pedagogue
Vincent Jérôme
b. 1984
sport cyclist
Georges Crozier
1882 – 1944
association football player
Pierre Patout
1879 – 1965
architect
Muriel Thomasset
b. 1971
physicist
Marie-Jeanne Bozzi
1955 – 2011
politician
Raphaël Pujazon
1918 – 2000
long-distance runner
Mike Maignan
b. 1995
association football player
Didier Motchane
1931 – 2017
official
Maurice Dupin de Francueil
1778 – 1808
military officer
Lucien Jaquelux
1894 – 1946
film director
Philippe Dreyfus
1925 – 2018
computer scientist
Dominique Bijotat
b. 1961
association football player
Moses ben Jacob of Coucy
rabbi
Laurent Korcia
b. 1964
violinist
Jean Quiquampoix
b. 1995
sport shooter
Jacques Chaudron
1889 – 1969
ice hockey player
Jean-Jacques Rocchi
b. 1989
association football player
Martine Broda
1947 – 2009
linguist
Nakibou Aboubakari
b. 1993
association football player
Odette Terrade
b. 1949
politician
Pierre Bourdieu
1930 – 2002
philosopher
Valérie Rabault
b. 1973
economist
Émile Bernard
1868 – 1941
painter
Michel Renault
1927 – 1993
dancer
Francis Blondet
b. 1943
diplomat
Jules Paul Brateau
1844 – 1923
jeweler
Ludovic Bernard
b. 1950
film director
William Hérisson
1894 – 1969
flying ace
Irène Waldspurger
b. 1989
mathematician
Alexandre de La Motte-Baracé
1781 – 1840
journalist
Mikel Dufrenne
1910 – 1995
philosopher
Jacques-Édouard Gatteaux
1788 – 1881
sculptor
Éric Colmet-Daage
1945 – 2025
journalist
Estel-Anaïs Hubaud
b. 1996
synchronized swimmer
Joseph Delteil
1894 – 1978
poet
Frédéric Geille
1896 – 1976
military personnel
Charlotte of Albret
1480 – 1514
Remy Ourdan
journalist
Gustave Raballand
1901 – 1973
Catholic priest
Robert Goute
1919 – 2014
French Air Force
Jean Sulpice
b. 1978
chef
Zahia Dahmani
b. 1972
athletics competitor
André Noël
1726 – 1801
cook
Jean Ango
1480 – 1551
ship-owner
Auguste Joseph Herlin
1815 – 1900
painter
Pierre Geoffroy
1939 – 1994
journalist
Gauthier Pinaud
b. 1988
association football player
Thomas Darracq
b. 1977
coach
Alessandro Ghiretti
b. 2002
racing driver
Auguste Jacques Nicolas Peureux de Mélay
1777 – 1835
explorer
Cecco Bravo
1601 – 1661
painter
Jacques Accambray
b. 1950
hammer thrower
Guy Laforgue
b. 1958
rugby league player
Joseph Vachal
1838 – 1911
politician
François Barrault
b. 1960
entrepreneur
Loïc Badiashile
b. 1998
association football player
Camille Petit
b. 1950
chemist
George Messier
1896 – 1933
chemist
David Dewaele
1976 – 2013
actor
Emile Broussard
b. 1895
sport cyclist
Isaac Bloch
1848 – 1925
rabbi
Francesco Menzocchi
1502 – 1574
painter
Yannick Fave
b. 1947
rower
Jacques Prévotat
b. 1939
historian
Julie Belgraver
b. 2002
tennis player
Mathieu Le Scornet
b. 1983
association football coach
Philippe Rebeyrol
1917 – 2013
diplomat
Kévin Sireau
b. 1987
sport cyclist
Agnès Poirier
b. 1975
journalist
Frédéric Besseyre
b. 1979
association football player
Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet
1697 – 1770
Catholic priest
Paul Héroult
1863 – 1914
chemist
Julien Toudic
b. 1985
association football player
Henri Thiolière
1922 – 2012
ski jumper
Yvonne Conte
1905 – 1959
fencer
Pierre Le-Tan
1950 – 2019
illustrator
Laurent Rigal
journalist
Guillaume de Van
1906 – 1949
musicologist
Aurore Kassambara
b. 1979
athletics competitor
Maurice Rostand
1891 – 1968
writer
Sébastien-Melchior Cornu
1804 – 1870
painter
Philippus Brietius
1601 – 1668
cartographer
Hoda Lattaf
b. 1978
association football player
Raymond Aron
1905 – 1983
journalist
François Mignet
1796 – 1884
journalist
André Vernet
1910 – 1999
historian
Saint Vincent of Digne
250 – 394
Catholic bishop
Éric Pénicaud
b. 1952
composer
Louis Pierre Vieillot
1748 – 1830
biologist