France
People of this nationality
André Villiers
1915 – 1983
entomologist
Cédric Lavanne
b. 1980
athletics competitor
Jean Puget de la Serre
1594 – 1665
choreographer
Noël Brazès
1920 – 2010
rugby union player
Caroline Attia
b. 1960
alpine skier
Claudine Longet
1942 – 2026
singer
Claude Morinière
b. 1960
athletics competitor
Michel Roussin
b. 1939
politician
Odile Pierre
1932 – 2020
organist
Andre Grapperon
motorcycle racer
Hyacinthe Deleplace
b. 1989
athletics competitor
Patrice Collazo
b. 1974
rugby union player
Florence Aubenas
b. 1961
journalist
Jean Benedicti
theologian
Perrette Souplex
1930 – 2024
actor
Jacques-Antoine de Révérony Saint-Cyr
1767 – 1829
playwright
Kylian Portal
b. 2006
athlete
Joan II of Navarre
1311 – 1349
politician
Michel Siffre
1939 – 2024
geologist
Marie-Thérèse Sanchez-Schmid
b. 1957
politician
André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac
1786 – 1836
naturalist
Hubert Sagnières
b. 1955
engineer
Amédée Forestier
1854 – 1930
painter
Jean Maréchal
1910 – 1993
sport cyclist
José Bové
b. 1953
farmer
Christian Baudry
b. 1955
association football player
Slimane Sissoko
b. 1991
association football player
Casimir-Louis-Victurnien de Rochechouart de Mortemart
1787 – 1875
diplomat
Adolphe Bazaine-Vasseur
1809 – 1893
engineer
Joseph-Adolphe Gandy
1839 – 1909
missionary
Georges Davy
1883 – 1976
academic
Charles de Tubières de Caylus
1698 – 1750
colonial administrator
Pauline Delabroy-Allard
b. 1988
documentalist
Georges Villiers
1899 – 1982
business executive
José Sentis
1888 – 1983
composer
Lionel Deluy
b. 1962
photographer
Géraud Duroc
1772 – 1813
diplomat
Paul Féret
1901 – 1984
tennis player
Camille Bazbaz
b. 1967
singer-songwriter
Henri de Gissey
1621 – 1673
painter
Charles Buterne
composer
Hugo Hay
b. 1997
athletics competitor
Françoise Arnoul
1931 – 2021
film actor
Dominique Baratelli
b. 1947
association football player
Jean-Pierre Limosin
b. 1949
film director
Isabelle Ealet
b. 1963
Asset management
Martial Fesselier
b. 1961
athletics competitor
Julie Rechagneux
b. 1996
politician
Albert Monnier
1815 – 1869
writer
Borel
b. 1750
playwright
Raoul Dufy
1877 – 1953
painter
Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers
1764 – 1813
military personnel
René Floriot
1902 – 1975
lawyer
Élisabeth Loisel
b. 1963
association football player
Rouben Melik
1921 – 2007
poet
Charles Cottet
1863 – 1925
painter
Jakob Abbadie
1654 – 1727
theologian
Adam Rayski
1913 – 2008
journalist
Anne-Louise Élie de Beaumont
1729 – 1783
woman of letters
André Buffard
1925 – 2017
athlete
Jade Maraval
b. 2002
javelin thrower
Yves Pomeau
b. 1942
physicist
Jacques Dorfmann
1945 – 2025
actor
Shaïn Boumedine
b. 1996
actor
Raoul Péret
1870 – 1942
politician
Édouard Gaumont
1915 – 2008
politician
Erwan Evenou
1940 – 2020
writer
Roger Walkowiak
1927 – 2017
sport cyclist
Hélène Bons
1903 – 1999
athletics competitor
Michael Calfan
b. 1990
disc jockey
Sarah Duhamel
1873 – 1926
actor
Soualiho Meïté
b. 1994
association football player
Cécilia Cara
b. 1984
actor
Jean d'Abundance
1501 – 1555
poet
Malik M'Baye
1921 – 1993
athletics competitor
Francesco Morelli
1767 – 1830
painter
Pierrette Glotin
1933 – 1994
athletics competitor
Élie Benoist
1640 – 1728
historian
Jean-Baptiste Blanchard
1602 – 1665
painter
Jean Trembley
1749 – 1811
mathematician
Louis Dejean
1786 – 1879
director
Jean-François Millot
b. 1944
canoeist
Marie of Champagne
1174 – 1204
consort
Pierre-François Veil
1954 – 2026
lawyer
Hubert Benoit
1904 – 1992
psychiatrist
Didier Casadeï
b. 1971
rugby union player
Alice Caffarel
b. 1961
linguist
Jane Bathori
1877 – 1970
opera singer
Dosseh
b. 1986
rapper
Pierre Matignon
1943 – 1987
sport cyclist
Joseph Bernard-Attanoux
1853 – 1921
journalist
Gérard Boyer
b. 1951
rower
Daniel Blumenthal
1860 – 1930
politician
François Villeroy de Galhau
b. 1959
official
Georges Frêche
1938 – 2010
politician
Lucien Muhlfeld
1870 – 1902
librarian
Antoine Héroet
1492 – 1568
poet
Stephan Martinière
b. 1962
artist
Jérémy Kapone
b. 1990
actor
Brian Coles
rugby league player