France
People of this nationality
André Rossinot
b. 1939
politician
Kate Delbarre
1925 – 2025
fencer
Delphine de Sabran Custine
1770 – 1826
women letter writer
William I, Count of Hainaut
1287 – 1337
politician
Guy-Marie Sallier
1763 – 1839
politician
Léon Homo
1872 – 1957
historian
Mathilde Bonaparte
1820 – 1904
salonnière
Bertrand Goldschmidt
1912 – 2002
chemist
Lina Guérin
b. 1991
rugby union player
Brigitte Fossey
b. 1946
film actor
Joseph Bédier
1864 – 1938
professor
Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers
1898 – 1988
Catholic priest
Étienne Dormoy
1885 – 1959
military flight engineer
Charles Théveneau de Morande
1741 – 1805
journalist
Gaston Bachelard
1884 – 1962
philosopher
Dominique David
b. 1963
politician
Youssef Sofiane
b. 1984
association football player
Charles Le Picq
1745 – 1806
choreographer
Olivier Roy
b. 1949
political scientist
Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre
1833 – 1905
botanist
Philippe Charbonneaux
1917 – 1998
designer
Pascal Garnier
1949 – 2010
writer
Bernard Pardo
b. 1960
association football player
Suzanne Lacascade
1884 – 1966
writer
Raoul Moretti
1893 – 1954
composer
Thierry Cazeneuve
1951 – 2026
journalist
René Daumal
1908 – 1944
poet
Joanna Truffaut
b. 1977
business executive
Tya Zebrowski
b. 2011
surfer
Christian-Georges Schwentzel
b. 1967
historian
Dominique Brieussel
b. 1962
dressage rider
Jean-Philippe Vassal
b. 1954
architect
Charles-Albert Demoustier
1760 – 1801
writer
Francis Veber
b. 1937
screenwriter
Napoléon Doumet-Adanson
1834 – 1897
botanist
Nicholas Briot
1579 – 1646
inventor
Laurent Preziosi
1912 – 2010
French resistance fighter
Benjamin Cavet
b. 1994
freestyle skier
Claude Ribbe
b. 1954
writer
Frank Mechaly
b. 1975
fashion designer
Valéry Grancher
b. 1967
artist
Louisette Fleuret
1919 – 1965
swimmer
Paul Bucher
1887 – 1966
Egyptologist
Didier Vavasseur
b. 1961
kayaker
Jacques Desallangre
1935 – 2020
politician
Josiane Bost
b. 1956
sport cyclist
Paul Vacher
perfumer
Romain Mesnil
b. 1977
pole vaulter
Lise Delamare
1913 – 2006
actor
Ernest Dimnet
1866 – 1954
priest
Yves Gominon
1933 – 2016
basketball player
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun
1748 – 1813
painter
Benoît Carrara
1926 – 1993
cross-country skier
Joël Henry
b. 1955
journalist
Christophe Cervoni
b. 1953
film producer
Abdourahman Waberi
b. 1965
writer
Fabrice Pancrate
b. 1980
association football player
Faraona Olivieri
b. 1730
painter
Jean-Sébastien Robicquet
b. 1966
business executive
Jules Férat
1829 – 1906
illustrator
Georges Salles
1889 – 1966
art historian
Olivier Charles
b. 1979
rugby league player
Jean Baptiste Senaillé
1687 – 1730
composer
Jean-Luc Seret
1951 – 2024
chess player
Mohamed Aboussalam
b. 1996
basketball player
Anne Laperrouze
b. 1956
politician
Bruno Wolkowitch
b. 1961
dub actor
Jacques Dupont
1928 – 2019
sport cyclist
Danièle Pistone
b. 1946
radio producer
Alain Gay-Hardy
b. 1949
association football player
François de Beauvilliers, 1st duc de Saint-Aignan
1607 – 1687
military officer
Françoise Huguier
b. 1942
photographer
Georges Washington de La Fayette
1779 – 1849
politician
Yann Piat
1949 – 1994
politician
Hippolyte Fortoul
1811 – 1856
politician
Louis La Caze
1798 – 1869
art collector
René Gagnet
1891 – 1951
sport cyclist
Pierre Carron
1932 – 2022
painter
Philippe Benetton
b. 1968
rugby union player
Claude Nicolet
1930 – 2010
historian
Princess Philomena d'Orléans
b. 1977
Sandra Boehringer
b. 1972
historian
Charles Ailleret
1907 – 1968
military personnel
Pokey LaFarge
b. 1983
singer-songwriter
Georges D'Aubusson de La Feuillade
1609 – 1697
Catholic priest
Frédéric Petit
1810 – 1865
astronomer
Ghislain Lemaire
b. 1972
judoka
Yacine Dekkiche
b. 1980
rugby league player
Pi Hongyan
b. 1979
badminton player
Idris Kadded
b. 1998
association football player
Anne Kuhm
b. 1996
artistic gymnast
Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille
1568 – 1629
aristocrat
Ngô Bảo Châu
b. 1972
mathematician
Jacques Gaultier
b. 1600
musician
Pierre Pochonet
1887 – 1970
Barthélémy Chardigny
1757 – 1813
sculptor
Carine Petit
b. 1974
politician
Edgar Stehli
1884 – 1973
actor
Arsène Herbinier
1869 – 1947
lithographer
Yves Pires
b. 1958
sculptor