France
People of this nationality
Jérôme Simon
b. 1960
sport cyclist
Roger Grava
1922 – 1949
association football player
Ousmane Diarra
b. 1964
athletics competitor
Claude Guéant
b. 1945
politician
Olivier Veigneau
b. 1985
association football player
Emmanuel Séjourné
b. 1961
composer
Jean-Baptiste Dominique Rusca
1759 – 1814
physician
Emmanuel Faye
b. 1956
university teacher
Régine Veronnet
b. 1929
fencer
Sébastien Fauqué
b. 1977
rugby union player
Auguste Bouché-Leclercq
1842 – 1923
historian
Jean d'Orléans-Longueville
1484 – 1533
Catholic priest
François-Xavier Audouin
1765 – 1837
journalist
Claude Renoir
1913 – 1993
cinematographer
Jean-Michel Dubois
1943 – 2025
engineer
Eva Darlan
b. 1948
stage actor
Henri-Alexandre Danlos
1844 – 1912
physicist
Charles Albanel
1613 – 1696
explorer
Adrien van Beveren
b. 1991
motocross rider
Francoise, Duchess de Praslin
1807 – 1847
aristocrat
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume
1822 – 1905
sculptor
Auguste Poulet-Malassis
1825 – 1878
publisher
Jean Pierre Joseph Bruguière
1772 – 1813
military officer
Robert Lacour-Gayet
1896 – 1989
historian
Pierre Satre
1909 – 1980
military flight engineer
José Achache
b. 1953
scientist
Germaine François
1908 – 1970
politician
Samuel Nadeau
b. 1982
basketball player
Amédée Ronzel
1909 – 1973
bobsledder
Didier Santini
b. 1968
association football player
David Leblanc
b. 1968
swimmer
Julie Piga
b. 1998
association football player
Adolphe de Leuven
1802 – 1884
librettist
Michelle Demessine
b. 1947
politician
Johann Kaspar Heilmann
1718 – 1760
painter
Estelle Paranque
university teacher
Christophe Auguin
b. 1959
navigator
Théo Faure
b. 1999
volleyball player
Francis Smerecki
1949 – 2018
association football player
Gillian Galan
b. 1991
rugby union player
James Bartholomew Blackwell
1760 – 1823
military personnel
André Pourny
1928 – 2018
politician
Louis-Alexandre Bottée
1852 – 1940
medalist
Louis Leygue
1905 – 1992
sculptor
Frederick IV, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg
1789 – 1859
politician
Nicolas Lancret
1689 – 1743
painter
Cécilia Berder
b. 1989
fencer
Alexandrine Charlotte de Rohan-Chabot
1763 – 1839
writer
Philippe d'Encausse
b. 1967
pole vaulter
Jean II d'Estrées
1624 – 1707
aristocrat
Jean-Paul Dubois
b. 1950
journalist
Sylvia Serfaty
b. 1975
mathematician
Marion Limal
b. 1987
handball player
Régis Lhuillier
b. 1980
sport cyclist
Christine Lipinska
b. 1951
film director
Arthur Chaussy
1880 – 1945
politician
Armand-François Jouslin de La Salle
1794 – 1863
lawyer
Émile Gilioli
1911 – 1977
sculptor
Charles de Freycinet
1828 – 1923
politician
Maurice Ducos
1904 – 1983
swimmer
Léon Halévy
1802 – 1883
journalist
Guillaume VI de Vienne
1400 – 1407
prelate
Antoine Cardon
1739 – 1822
painter
Louis-Sébastien Lenormand
1757 – 1837
physicist
Georges Rostan
1938 – 2020
actor
Julie Dufour
b. 2001
association football player
Frédéric Mistral
1893 – 1968
romanist
Élodie Thomis
b. 1986
association football player
Arthur Hermann
1893 – 1958
artistic gymnast
Pierre Follenfant
b. 1951
Stéphane Hoffmann
b. 1958
journalist
Claudine Monteil
b. 1949
writer
Joséphine Jacques-André-Coquin
b. 1990
fencer
Paul Lambert
1908 – 1996
swimmer
Aurélia Mengin
b. 1980
film director
André-Charles Cailleau
1731 – 1798
publisher
Bernard Aubertin
1934 – 2015
textile artist
Philippe Moggio
b. 1973
professional tennis player
Victor de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon
1782 – 1865
diplomat
Jeanne de Brigue
Eugène Devic
1858 – 1930
neurologist
Emile van Marcke
1827 – 1890
painter
Rachid Bourabia
b. 1985
association football player
Jacques Linard
1597 – 1645
painter
Noémie Lvovsky
b. 1964
actor
Catherine Perret
b. 1956
linguist
Louis Hector Leroux
1829 – 1900
painter
Jean Cau
1875 – 1921
rower
Mixel Berhokoirigoin
1952 – 2021
farmer
Charles de Condren
1588 – 1641
philosopher
Claude Franclet
b. 1964
archer
François Pouqueville
1770 – 1838
explorer
Pierre Étienne Rémillieux
1811 – 1856
painter
Nicolas Henri de Grimouard
1743 – 1794
naval officer
Childebert III
678 – 711
monarch
Thomas Goyard
b. 1992
windsurfer
Yann Capet
b. 1975
politician
François Guiter
1928 – 2014
Dimitri Houbron
b. 1991
politician
Annick Billon
b. 1967
politician