France
People of this nationality
Pierre Louis-Dreyfus
1908 – 2011
racing automobile driver
Jean-Claude Forest
1930 – 1998
writer
Pierre Montastruc
1932 – 2021
politician
Jean-Pierre Saux
1928 – 2007
rugby union player
Jacques Soustelle
1912 – 1990
anthropologist
Gilles Joye
1424 – 1483
composer
Charles Deslys
1821 – 1885
writer
Brigitte Martin
1944 – 2018
figure skater
Madeleine du Fargis
1590 – 1639
lady-in-waiting
Anicia Berton
1974 – 2026
activist
Sylvie Retailleau
b. 1965
physicist
Jean-Marie Larrieu
b. 1965
film director
Pierre Humbourg
1901 – 1969
journalist
Tehaapapa III
1879 – 1917
politician
Jean-Claude Redon de Beaupréau
1738 – 1815
politician
Sabri Boumelaha
b. 1989
association football player
Charly Loubet
1946 – 2023
association football player
Noémie Pérugia
1903 – 1992
opera singer
Benjamin Feindouno
1983 – 2025
association football player
William Flageollet
1945 – 2019
audio engineer
Jules Vuillemin
1920 – 2001
philosopher
Émile Sacré
1861 – 1933
sailor
Guy Gilbert
b. 1935
Catholic priest
Max Spring
b. 2001
rugby union player
Jean-Jacques Barthe
1936 – 2022
politician
Pierre Passereau
1500 – 1547
Catholic priest
Nathalie Gastineau
b. 1981
kayaker
Guy de Montfort, Count of Bigorre
1200 – 1220
feudatory
Alfred Motté
1887 – 1918
high jumper
Lenny Chanteur
b. 2006
athletics competitor
Mireille Darc
1938 – 2017
actor
Alfred Nakache
1915 – 1983
swimmer
Hélène Viannay
1917 – 2006
teacher
Prince Louis Bonaparte
1864 – 1932
military personnel
Émile Achard
1860 – 1944
physician
Enguerrand Quarton
1411 – 1466
painter
Henri Amédée de Broglie
1849 – 1917
military personnel
Pierre Blanchard
b. 1945
sailor
Jacques Fey
b. 1989
association football player
François-Antoine Jecker
1765 – 1834
inventor
Laurent Joubert
1529 – 1583
physician
Jean François Bastide
1724 – 1798
writer
Ernest Cosson
1819 – 1889
botanist
Henri de Bailly
1501 – 1637
composer
Guyon Guérin de Bouscal
1617 – 1664
writer
Lesly Malouda
b. 1983
association football player
Georges Balandier
1920 – 2016
anthropologist
Jean-Baptiste Olivier
1765 – 1813
military personnel
Étienne Martin
1856 – 1945
painter
David Despin
b. 1975
rugby league player
Halima Soussi
b. 1965
basketball player
Jean Dehelly
1896 – 1964
actor
Benoît Pedretti
b. 1980
association football player
Thomas II de Gadagne
1495 – 1543
merchant
Agnès Verlet
b. 1947
university teacher
Arthur Dillon, Count Dillon
1670 – 1733
military personnel
Edgard Pisani
1918 – 2016
politician
Hippolyte Castille
1820 – 1886
journalist
Djibril Diawara
b. 1975
association football player
Félix Dujardin
1801 – 1860
biologist
Casimir Koza
1935 – 2010
association football player
Philippe Coindreau
b. 1959
military officer
Audrey Merle
b. 1995
triathlete
Kalash
b. 1988
rapper
Jean Périmony
1931 – 2017
actor
Cécile Rol-Tanguy
1919 – 2020
resistance fighter
René Libeer
1934 – 2006
boxer
Laurent Greilsamer
1953 – 2023
journalist
Mareva Tourneux
b. 1952
physician
Denis Avril
b. 1972
rugby union player
Charles-Maurice Descombes
1782 – 1869
playwright
Étienne Colaud
1450 – 1540
illuminator
Robert Joyaut
1900 – 1966
association football player
Laura Cox
b. 1990
musician
Jean-Paul Fitoussi
1942 – 2022
economist
Timothé Sivignon
b. 2003
freestyle skier
Alexis Guérin
b. 1992
sport cyclist
Philippe Vilamitjana
b. 1955
journalist
Georges Guiraud
1868 – 1928
organist
Lylian Lecomte-Guyonneau
1922 – 2004
fencer
Gilbert Bayiha N'Djema
b. 1979
association football player
Jean Clouet
1480 – 1541
painter
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1707 – 1788
botanist
Emmanuelle de Dampierre
1913 – 2012
aristocrat
Mélanie Thomin
b. 1984
politician
Charles-Élie de Ferrières
1741 – 1804
politician
Étienne Pascal
1588 – 1651
jurist
Ould Lamine Fares Abdallah
1929 – 2022
athletics competitor
Aurélie Malaussena
b. 1993
artistic gymnast
Marcel Delépine
1871 – 1965
chemist
Ferdinand Baston de La Riboisière
1856 – 1931
politician
Léon Carré
1878 – 1942
painter
Fernand Guyou
1891 – 1944
flying ace
Nadine Juillard
1954 – 2016
association football player
Mattéo Vercher
b. 2001
sport cyclist
Léon Bel
1878 – 1957
cheesemaker
Jean Taillandier
b. 1938
association football player
Stéphanie Vivenot
b. 1970
basketball player
Geneviève Touraine
1903 – 1982
opera singer
Pierre Rabischong
1932 – 2025
physician