France
People of this nationality
Nicole Robinet de La Serve
1791 – 1842
journalist
Cécile Duflot
b. 1975
politician
Marquise-Thérèse de Gorla
1633 – 1668
ballet dancer
Thierry Zéphir
art historian
André Ruffet
1929 – 2011
sport cyclist
Catherine Malandrino
b. 1963
fashion designer
Philippe Lemaire
1927 – 2004
film actor
Yann Daniélou
b. 1966
association football player
Jacques Généreux
b. 1956
economist
Jonathan Rivas
b. 1992
association football player
Ferdinand Prenom
b. 1991
basketball player
Princess Louise of Orléans
1882 – 1958
aristocrat
Florian Faure
b. 1983
rugby union player
Dominique Gardères
b. 1856
jockey
Claude Darciaux
b. 1942
politician
Ememem
mosaicist
Valentine de Saint-Point
1875 – 1953
painter
Charles Renaud de Vilbac
1829 – 1884
composer
Alphonse de Tonty
1659 – 1727
explorer
Mascarose II, Countess of Armagnac
b. 1250
feudatory
Michel Mézy
b. 1948
association football player
Alain-Michel Boudet
b. 1940
biologist
Michel Bécot
b. 1939
politician
Henri Languedoc
1885 – 1917
flying ace
Anthony Ammirati
b. 2003
pole vaulter
Frédéric Biancalani
b. 1974
association football player
Albert Lebrun
1871 – 1950
politician
René Schützenberger
1860 – 1916
painter
Mila Racine
1919 – 1945
resistance fighter
Claude Mantoulan
1936 – 1983
rugby union player
Thérèse Delpech
1948 – 2012
political scientist
Jean IV de Mauquenchy
1350 – 1391
military personnel
Anaïs Volpé
b. 1988
screenwriter
Auguste Clot
1858 – 1936
lithographer
Jean-Joseph Sue
1710 – 1792
anatomist
Georges Jean
1920 – 2011
poet
Jacques Isorni
1911 – 1995
lawyer
François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg
1628 – 1695
military officer
Dominique Darbois
1925 – 2014
photographer
Jean Gautheroux
1909 – 1986
association football player
Benjamin Leroy
b. 1989
association football player
Jacques Thibaud
1880 – 1953
violinist
Antoine Marie Frézouls
b. 1860
military personnel
Michel Marmin
b. 1943
essayist
Albert Courquin
1875 – 1953
sport shooter
Katia Santibañez
b. 1964
visual artist
Laurent Gagnier
b. 1979
association football player
Jacques de Castelnau
1620 – 1658
soldier
Henri Bosc
1884 – 1967
actor
Jefferson Dahite
b. 1991
association football player
Brigitte Lesage
b. 1964
volleyball player
Jérôme Lindon
1925 – 2001
editor
Milan Kundera
1929 – 2023
writer
Jean Castelbert de Castelverd
1743 – 1820
military personnel
Marcel Poblome
1921 – 2009
association football player
Patrick Le Rolland
1943 – 2014
dressage rider
Alain Acart
1951 – 2023
canoeist
Benjamin Gaulon
b. 1979
new media artist
Ginette Aumassip
1931 – 2025
anthropologist
Hadelin de La Tour du Pin
1951 – 2024
diplomat
Laurence Bennett
b. 2000
art director
Bertilia
hermit
Amaury Vassili
b. 1989
opera singer
Mioara Mugur-Schächter
b. 1953
physicist
Marie-Paule Pileni
b. 1945
university teacher
Pascal Bonitzer
b. 1946
writer
Jean Prouvost
1885 – 1978
politician
Bénigne Poissenot
1537 – 1587
short story writer
Marguerite Laugier
1896 – 1976
astronomer
Sophie Lienard
1801 – 1875
portrait painter
Yolande Beekman
1911 – 1944
spy
Victor Pierre Lotin
1810 – 1903
painter
Goudji
b. 1941
sculptor
Roger Lhermitte
1920 – 2016
meteorologist
Cyril Cassese
b. 1972
association football player
François Pyrard de Laval
1578 – 1621
explorer
Joris Lacoste
b. 1973
playwright
Laurence Zitvogel
b. 1963
oncologist
Bertrand Toën
b. 1973
mathematician
Saint Drogo
1105 – 1186
shepherd
Patrick El Mabrouk
1928 – 1994
middle-distance runner
Laurence de Cambronne
b. 1951
journalist
Jordan Bonel de Confolens
troubadour
Stéphane Lenormand
b. 1964
politician
Christian M'billi
b. 1995
boxer
Sophie Le Saint
b. 1968
journalist
Étienne de Poncins
b. 1964
diplomat
Jean-Marie Leclair
1697 – 1764
composer
Jean Poyer
1445 – 1503
illuminator
Lionel D
1961 – 2020
radio personality
Olivier Séchan
1911 – 2006
translator
Alexander Louis Leloir
1843 – 1884
painter
Claude II de l'Aubespine, baron de Châteauneuf
1510 – 1567
diplomat
Louis Blanc
1811 – 1882
journalist
Joseph Comiti
1920 – 2000
politician
Thomas Bourgeron
b. 1965
biologist
Félix Klein
1862 – 1953
Catholic priest
Claude Vigée
1921 – 2020
poet
Clara Chappaz
b. 1989
company director
Eugène-Louis Lequesne
1815 – 1887
sculptor