France
People of this nationality
Joseph Bigot
1807 – 1894
architect
Romuald Figuier
1938 – 2026
singer
Claude Dejoux
1732 – 1816
sculptor
Praxis Rabemananjara
b. 1987
association football player
Alain Defossé
1957 – 2017
writer
Jehan Chardavoine
1530 – 1580
composer
Quentin Bernard
b. 1989
association football player
Laurence Auer
b. 1959
diplomat
Mathilde Sternat
b. 2000
music arranger
Vincent Pelo
b. 1988
rugby union player
Jean-Baptiste des Gallois de La Tour
jurist
Armand d'Artois
1788 – 1867
librettist
Henri Milne-Edwards
1800 – 1885
zoologist
Laurence Debray
b. 1976
writer
Joseph Ravaisou
1865 – 1925
painter
Anne Gilbert de Laval
1762 – 1810
military officer
Louis Delamare
1921 – 1981
diplomat
Antoine Huby
b. 2001
sport cyclist
Émile Boeswillwald
1815 – 1896
architect
Georges Dandelot
1895 – 1975
choreographer
Ugo Bellagamba
b. 1972
legal historian
Vanessa Demouy
b. 1973
actor
Philippe de Corguilleray
b. 1505
explorer
Manoubi Haddad
b. 1996
association football player
Jacques Louis Marin DeFrance
1758 – 1850
malacologist
Caroline Afonso
b. 1985
golfer
Pierre Joxe
b. 1934
politician
Matthieu Huard
b. 1998
association football player
Albert Capellani
1874 – 1931
film director
Édouard Pottier
1839 – 1903
naval officer
Piem
1923 – 2020
caricaturist
Michel Blavet
1700 – 1768
composer
Magdeleine Goüin
1901 – 1949
racing automobile driver
Jehan Buhan
1912 – 1999
fencer
Roland Gransart
b. 1954
association football player
Anne-Sophie Le Paranthoën
b. 1977
swimmer
Yves Leopold Germain Gaston
patriarch
Baptiste Jauneau
b. 2003
rugby union player
Nina Meurisse
b. 1988
actor
Gabriel-Marie Garrone
1901 – 1994
Catholic priest
Claude-Louis Châtelet
1753 – 1795
painter
Félix Moati
b. 1990
film actor
Michel Rostain
b. 1942
theatre director
Mathieu Billot
b. 1985
equestrian
man in the Iron Mask
1640 – 1703
prisoner
Evelyne Elien
b. 1964
sprinter
Amadou Ba
b. 1998
association football player
Sue Nabi
b. 1968
entrepreneur
Martin Bouquet
1685 – 1754
historian
Pierre Martin
b. 1938
sport cyclist
Pierre Auger
1899 – 1993
physicist
Laetitia Pujol
b. 1975
choreographer
Jean Belmain
1546 – 1559
theologian
Madeleine Suffel
1899 – 1974
actor
Fanny Riberot
b. 1983
sport cyclist
Françoise Pollet
b. 1949
opera singer
Abdelmajid Djae
b. 2005
association football player
Bruno Chevillon
b. 1959
bassist
Paul-Louis Huvelin
1873 – 1924
legal historian
Adrienne Jouclard
1882 – 1972
painter
Alban Joinel
b. 1979
association football player
Damien de Martel
1878 – 1940
diplomat
Frédéric de Janzé
1896 – 1933
writer
Louis Dimier
1865 – 1943
art historian
Macéo Capietto
b. 2006
racing driver
Stefanie Stantcheva
b. 1986
economist
Amélie Mirkowitch
b. 1942
swimmer
Jean-François Picheral
1934 – 2024
politician
Claude Olry de Loriande
1600 – 1700
engraver
Henri Adamczewski
1929 – 2005
linguist
Rémy Raffalli
1913 – 1952
military personnel
Jean Launay
b. 1952
politician
Jean-Michel Lucenay
b. 1978
fencer
Amélie Perrin
b. 1980
hammer thrower
Lucien Musset
1922 – 2004
historian
Marceau Somerlinck
1922 – 2005
association football player
Jean-Pierre Darras
1927 – 1999
film director
Michel-Jacques-François Achard
1778 – 1865
politician
Xena Ngomateke
b. 1998
athletics competitor
Andrée Ehresmann
1935 – 2026
mathematician
André de Montbard
1103 – 1156
Pierre Crozat
1665 – 1740
art collector
Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps
1824 – 1873
landscape architect
Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella
1636 – 1697
painter
Jean Arné
1891 – 1917
rower
Michel Vermeulin
b. 1934
sport cyclist
Richard Kolinka
b. 1953
musician
Jean Marcel Honoré
1920 – 2013
Catholic deacon
Charlemagne de Maupas
1818 – 1888
diplomat
Marco Ilaimaharitra
b. 1995
association football player
Léonie d'Aunet
1820 – 1879
novelist
Henri Joutel
1643 – 1725
explorer
Jean-François Dandrieu
1682 – 1738
organist
Alberto Queiros
b. 1978
association football player
Quentin Delapierre
b. 1992
sailor
Bruno Rodzik
1935 – 1998
association football player
Nasreddine Dinet
1861 – 1929
painter
Jacques Bruyas
1635 – 1712
missionary
Louis Fuzelier
1672 – 1752
chansonnier
Christophe Negrel
b. 1977
taekwondo athlete