France
People of this nationality
Agnès Bihl
b. 1974
singer-songwriter
Paul Raymond
1833 – 1878
historian
Joseph Passerat
1772 – 1858
Catholic priest
Paul-Marie Reynaud
1854 – 1926
Catholic priest
Elizabeth Garouste
b. 1946
interior designer
Marie Thérèse Péroux d’Abany
1753 – 1821
writer
Édouard Lockroy
1838 – 1913
politician
Jean-Baptiste Tuby
1635 – 1700
sculptor
Robert Besson
1903 – 1978
politician
Claude Lapointe
1938 – 2024
illustrator
Morad Sari
b. 1973
Thai boxer
Richard Gasquet
b. 1986
tennis player
Constant Pierre
1855 – 1918
musicologist
Pierre de Coubertin
1863 – 1937
historian
Laurie Mougel
b. 1988
alpine skier
Bérengère Schuh
b. 1984
archer
Georges Burdeau
1905 – 1988
jurist
Jacky Bade
b. 1945
association football player
Bertrand Chameroy
b. 1989
television presenter
Assemian Moularé
b. 2003
basketball player
Henry de Triqueti
1803 – 1874
sculptor
Eugénie de Guérin
1805 – 1848
diarist
Hervé Alicarte
b. 1974
association football player
José Silbert
1862 – 1936
painter
Gérard Spinelli
b. 1954
politician
Boris Mahon de Monaghan
b. 1986
association football player
Jean de Quen
1603 – 1659
explorer
Marcel Rainaud
1940 – 2020
politician
Charles-Ernest Paulmier
1848 – 1907
politician
Julien Malzieu
b. 1983
rugby union player
Claude Rolley
1933 – 2007
archaeologist
Stéphanie Guardia
figure skater
Frank Giroud
1956 – 2018
comics writer
Raymond Gabutti
1908 – 1985
production designer
Antoine de Rivarol
1753 – 1801
writer
Severin Cornet
1530 – 1582
composer
Pierre-Simon Girard
1765 – 1836
mathematician
Eugène Hubert
1846 – 1904
banker
André Génovès
1941 – 2012
film director
Mathis Lebeau
b. 1999
sport cyclist
Jean Médecin
1890 – 1965
politician
Mela Muter
1876 – 1967
painter
Suzette Defoye
1741 – 1787
actor
Franck Barre
b. 1966
athletics competitor
Jacques Suzanne
1880 – 1967
actor
Charles of Artois, Count of Pézenas
1328 – 1385
Paul Lapeyre
1910 – 1991
Louis-Antoine-François de Marchangy
1782 – 1826
advocate general
David Durand
1680 – 1763
pastor
Valentin Favre
b. 1987
ski mountaineer
Fatima Daas
b. 1995
writer
Albina du Boisrouvray
b. 1939
film producer
Odo of Châteauroux
1190 – 1273
philosopher
Sébastien Foucras
b. 1971
freestyle skier
Christophe de Thou
1508 – 1582
politician
Primrose Bordier
1929 – 1995
designer
Louis of Bourbon, Lord of Préaux
1400 – 1415
military personnel
Jean Binot
1867 – 1909
microbiologist
Marie of Valois, Duchess of Bar
1344 – 1404
aristocrat
Michel Thierry
1928 – 2021
industrialist
Pierre Weiss
1865 – 1940
physicist
Dunan Mousseux
1825 – 1868
singer
A. Porcher
sport cyclist
Sol Bamba
1985 – 2024
association football player
Hubert Julien-Laferrière
b. 1966
economist
Philippe Gomès
b. 1958
politician
Michel Delaporte
1806 – 1872
playwright
Bertrand Renouvin
b. 1943
politician
René Le Bègue
1856 – 1914
photographer
Grégoire Blanc
b. 1996
classical musician
Jean-Michel Bony
b. 1942
mathematician
Pascal Wintzer
b. 1959
Catholic priest
Boris Cyrulnik
b. 1937
neurologist
Mireille Dumas
b. 1953
television producer
Tzvetan Todorov
1939 – 2017
non-fiction writer
Manasses I
b. 1001
Catholic priest
Fernand Gabriel
1878 – 1943
racing automobile driver
Nordine Taleb
b. 1981
mixed martial arts fighter
Willy Braque
1933 – 2022
actor
Michel Sogny
b. 1947
pianist
Clara Liberman
b. 2000
middle-distance runner
Louis Charles César Le Tellier
1695 – 1771
military personnel
Olivier Metzner
1949 – 2013
lawyer
Anne de Chantraine
1605 – 1622
Pierre François le Courayer
1681 – 1776
university teacher
François Antommarchi
1789 – 1838
physician
Joseph Dutens
1765 – 1848
engineer
Henry de Monfreid
1879 – 1974
writer
Jacques Duchesne
1837 – 1918
military officer
Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire
1772 – 1845
botanist
Justin Jules
b. 1986
sport cyclist
François Lanzi
1916 – 1988
painter
Pierre Benoît Soult
1770 – 1843
politician
Alexandre Jallier
b. 1992
basketball player
Théobald René de Kergariou-Locmaria
1739 – 1795
naval officer
Florence Gauvain
b. 1962
tennis player
Thierry Aubin
1942 – 2009
mathematician
Paul Foulquié
1893 – 1983
philosopher
Georges Vendryès
1920 – 2014
physicist
Miriama Bono
b. 1977
exhibition curator