Most Famous People from France
100 French people in view out of 13,485
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Napoleon French Politician 1769 – 1821
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Victor Hugo French Poet 1802 – 1885
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Voltaire French Writer 1694 – 1778
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau French Writer 1712 – 1778
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René Descartes French Philosopher 1596 – 1650
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Charles de Gaulle French Statesperson 1890 – 1970
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Louis XIV of France French Monarch 1638 – 1715
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Louis Pasteur French Biologist 1822 – 1895
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Jules Verne French Novelist 1828 – 1905
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Charlemagne French Monarch 748 – 814
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Albert Camus French Writer 1913 – 1960
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Michel Foucault French Philosopher 1926 – 1984
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Honoré de Balzac French Novelist 1799 – 1850
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Émile Zola French Novelist 1840 – 1902
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Blaise Pascal French Mathematician 1623 – 1662
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Zinedine Zidane French Football Born 1972
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Marie Antoinette French Socialite 1755 – 1793
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Joan of Arc French Kirche 1410 – 1431
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Édith Piaf French Singer 1915 – 1963
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Arthur Rimbaud French Poet 1854 – 1891
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John Calvin French Theologian 1509 – 1564
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Henri Matisse French Painter 1869 – 1954
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Louis XVI of France French King 1754 – 1793
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Alexandre Dumas French Novelist 1802 – 1870
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Paul Cézanne French Painter 1839 – 1906
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry French Writer 1900 – 1944
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Simone de Beauvoir French Writer 1908 – 1986
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Montesquieu French Philosopher 1689 – 1755
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François Hollande French Politician Born 1954
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Claude Debussy French Composer 1862 – 1918
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Maximilien Robespierre French Politician 1758 – 1794
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Coco Chanel French Designer 1883 – 1971
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Jacques Chirac French Politician 1932 – 2019
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Denis Diderot French Novelist 1713 – 1784
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Emmanuel Macron French Politician Born 1977
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Alain Delon French Actor Born 1935
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Émile Durkheim French Anthropologist 1858 – 1917
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François Mitterrand French Politician 1916 – 1996
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Édouard Manet French Painter 1832 – 1883
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir French Painter 1841 – 1919
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Henry IV of France French King 1553 – 1610
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Johnny Hallyday French Singer 1943 – 2017
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Auguste Comte French Philosopher 1798 – 1857
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Guy de Maupassant French Writer 1850 – 1893
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Marcel Duchamp French Actor 1887 – 1968
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Maurice Ravel French Conductor 1875 – 1937
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Nostradamus French Physician 1503 – 1566
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing French Politician 1926 – 2020
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Gérard Depardieu French Actor Born 1948
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Eugène Delacroix French Artist 1798 – 1863
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Stendhal French Writer 1783 – 1842
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Philippe Pétain French Officer 1856 – 1951
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec French Artist 1864 – 1901
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Jacques Cousteau French Explorer 1910 – 1997
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Michel de Montaigne French Literary 1533 – 1592
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Jacques Derrida French Philosopher 1930 – 2004
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Thierry Henry French Football Born 1977
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Pierre Bourdieu French Philosopher 1930 – 2002
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Gilbert du Motier (Marquis de Lafayette) French Politician 1757 – 1834
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Louis de Funès French Comedian 1914 – 1983
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Louis XIII of France French Monarch 1601 – 1643
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Thérèse of Lisieux French Nun 1873 – 1897
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Claude Lévi-Strauss French Philosopher 1908 – 2009
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Hector Berlioz French Composer 1803 – 1869
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Serge Gainsbourg French Actor 1928 – 1991
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Jean Cocteau French Painter 1889 – 1963
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Jacques Lacan French Psychiatrist 1901 – 1981
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Juliette Binoche French Actor Born 1964
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Francis I of France French King 1494 – 1547
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Vanessa Paradis French Singer Born 1972
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Gustave Courbet French Painter 1819 – 1877
#1,058
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Isabelle Adjani French Actor Born 1955
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Camille Saint-Saëns French Composer 1835 – 1921
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Georges Bizet French Composer 1838 – 1875
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck French Botanist 1744 – 1829
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Marine Le Pen French Politician Born 1968
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Georges Clemenceau French Politician 1841 – 1929
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Jean Racine French Playwright 1639 – 1699
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Pierre-Simon Laplace French Mathematician 1749 – 1827
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Henri Poincaré French Mathematician 1854 – 1912
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Paul Verlaine French Poet 1844 – 1896
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Gustave Eiffel French Engineer 1832 – 1923
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François Rabelais French Writer 1494 – 1553
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Yves Saint Laurent (designer) French Fashion Designer 1936 – 2008
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Louis IX of France French King 1214 – 1270
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Jean de La Fontaine French Poet 1621 – 1695
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Jeanne Moreau French Actor 1928 – 2017
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Jean-Paul Marat French Theorist 1743 – 1793
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Michel Houellebecq French Poet Born 1956
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Henry III of France French Aristocrat 1551 – 1589
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Jean-Marie Le Pen French Politician Born 1928
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Charles X of France French King 1757 – 1836
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Roland Barthes French Philosopher 1915 – 1980
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Erik Satie French Composer 1866 – 1925
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Georges Pompidou French Politician 1911 – 1974
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André Breton French Poet 1896 – 1966
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Empress Joséphine French Queen 1763 – 1814
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Georges Braque French Sculptor 1882 – 1963
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François-René de Chateaubriand French Writer 1768 – 1848
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Pierre de Coubertin French Historian 1863 – 1937
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