France
People of this nationality
André Abellon
1375 – 1450
painter
Marcel Couraud
1912 – 1986
conductor
Bernard Bouley
b. 1950
politician
Delphine Guehl
b. 1978
handball player
Hyppolite Ballue
1820 – 1867
painter
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey
1804 – 1892
photographer
Marie-Jeanne Schellinck
1757 – 1840
military personnel
Francis Bernard
b. 1928
painter
Jean-Marc Tennberg
1924 – 1971
actor
Gaël Quérin
b. 1987
athletics competitor
Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully
1560 – 1641
politician
Princess Maria Letizia, Duchess of Aosta
1866 – 1926
aristocrat
Nathalie Amiel
b. 1970
rugby union player
Laurence Bensimon
b. 1963
swimmer
Ernest Alexandre Lauth
1803 – 1837
anatomist
Pierre Lavraie
swimmer
Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon
1636 – 1721
Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon
1705 – 1765
Jérôme Carrein
1941 – 1977
Éric Poulliat
b. 1974
politician
Claude Balon
1671 – 1744
choreographer
Jean-Loup Philippe
1936 – 2025
actor
Alexandre-François Vivien
1799 – 1854
politician
Jean-Pascal Fontaine
b. 1989
association football player
Adrien Aron
1902 – 1969
tennis player
Jean-Pierre Vial
b. 1951
politician
Monique Teillaud
b. 1961
mathematician
Céline Monsarrat
b. 1954
actor
Jean-Joseph de Mondonville
1711 – 1772
composer
Joseph Charles Marin
1759 – 1834
sculptor
Aimé Olivier de Sanderval
1840 – 1919
explorer
Albert Périlhou
1846 – 1936
organist
Martial Robin
b. 1977
association football player
François Blanchet
1707 – 1784
writer
Raymond Polin
1910 – 2001
philosopher
Cora Vaucaire
1918 – 2011
singer
Dominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret
1760 – 1829
politician
Prosper Lucas
1808 – 1885
psychiatrist
Daniël van Goens
1858 – 1904
cellist
Joseph Tellechéa
1926 – 2015
association football player
Pierre Wertheimer
1888 – 1965
entrepreneur
François Jules Edmond Got
1822 – 1901
actor
Alphonse Beau de Rochas
1815 – 1893
inventor
Jean-Baptiste Delille
1912 – 1993
sport cyclist
Claude Antonini
1946 – 2026
singer-songwriter
Richard Dembo
1948 – 2004
film director
Antonin Perbosc
1861 – 1944
poet
Bernard Perrut
b. 1957
politician
John II, Duke of Alençon
1409 – 1476
military personnel
Benjamin Longue
b. 1980
association football player
Norbert Carbonnaux
1918 – 1997
film director
Gustave Michel
1851 – 1924
sculptor
François Antoine Marie Constantin de Méan et de Beaurieux
1756 – 1831
politician
Albert Michelet
1869 – 1928
sailor
Michele Deconet
1713 – 1799
musical instrument maker
Pierre Chevalier
1905 – 2001
explorer
René Souchon
b. 1943
politician
Achille Zo
1826 – 1901
painter
Gustave Achille Guillaumet
1840 – 1887
painter
Julien Brun
b. 1992
golfer
Marc Zamansky
1916 – 1996
mathematician
François Vezin
1937 – 2026
philosopher
Jacques Moisant de Brieux
1611 – 1674
poet
Romain Sans
b. 1999
association football player
René Delacroix
1900 – 1976
film director
Maurice Denuzière
1926 – 2025
writer
Marius François Gaillard
1900 – 1973
pianist
Christian Chevalier
b. 1966
artistic gymnast
Meriem Fekkaï
1889 – 1961
singer
Frédéric Chau
b. 1977
actor
Jacques Frantz
1947 – 2021
actor
Matthieu Verschuère
b. 1972
association football player
Alexandre Varille
1909 – 1951
Egyptologist
Louise Magadur
1899 – 1992
French resistance fighter
Josy Moinet
1929 – 2018
politician
Hermance Edan
1851 – 1934
inventor
Jean-Jacques Rebière
b. 1952
sport cyclist
Francis Hardy
1923 – 2021
politician
Emmeline Ndongue
b. 1983
basketball player
Victor André Cornil
1837 – 1908
politician
Joël Santoni
1943 – 2018
film director
André Donnet
1922 – 1963
bobsledder
Corinne Maury
film director
Antoine Grauss
b. 1984
association football player
Luc Rosenzweig
1943 – 2018
journalist
Victor Archenoul
b. 1871
equestrian
Nicolas Rossard
b. 1990
volleyball player
Joseph-Francis Olliffe
1808 – 1869
physician
Cali
b. 1968
singer-songwriter
Auguste Lecerf
1872 – 1943
university teacher
Anne Ducros
b. 1959
singer
Bernard Brizay
b. 1941
journalist
Valerie Muzzolini Gordon
harpist
Jean Pierre Solié
1755 – 1812
composer
Karen Hughes
b. 1956
diplomat
Serge Gut
1927 – 2014
composer
Benjamin Thomas
b. 1995
sport cyclist
Folquet de Marseille
1155 – 1231
troubadour
Raoul Lachenal
1885 – 1956
ceramicist
Denise Legeay
1898 – 1968
actor