Famous People

Charles de Coulomb

French physicist (1736-1806)

1736 — 1806

Hector Abel Hector Léveillé

French botanist (1864–1918)

1864 — 1918

Samir Hadji

Moroccan and French footballer

1989 — present

Fabrice Pancrate

French footballer (born 1980)

1980 — present

Moshe Lewin

French historian (1921-2010)

1921 — 2010

Marina Hands

French actress (born 1975)

1975 — present

Roman Gary

French writer and diplomat (1914–1980)

Sofia Boutella

Algerian and French actress, dancer and former rhythmic gymnast

Andrea Masséna

French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1758-1817)

Sara Forestier

French actress

Sara Sarah

French-Egyptian saint

Valentin Madouas

French cyclist

Valentin Porte

French handball player

Valentin Alkan

French composer and pianist (1813–1888)

Valentin François Valentin About

French writer and critic (1828-1885)

Onema Grace Geyoro

DR Congolese and French association football player

Kayra Özdemir

Turkish-French judoka (born 1988)

Deniz Gamze Ergüven

Turkish-French film director (born 1978)

Alen Berbérian

French filmmaker (1953–2017)

Luka Mkheidze

French judoka of Georgian origin

Luka Karabatic

French handball player

Luka Ferrat

French singer-songwriter and poet

Savely Tartakower

Polish and French chess player (1887–1956)

Osip Zadkine

French sculptor and painter of Russian origin (1888–1967)

Ippolit Taine

French literary critic and historian (1828-1893)

Zhanna Litvinne

Russian-born, French-based dramatic soprano

Varvara Gracheva

Russian and French tennis player

Inna Modja

Malian-French female singer and model.

Milana Terloeva

French-speaking Chechen writer

Polina Polina

Russian/French pornographic actress

Ilya Metchnikoff

Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist

Vladislav Milosz

French-Lithuanian poet and representative of Lithuania at the League of Nations (1877-1939)

Mariya Bashkirtseva

Ukrainian-French artist

Irina Némirovsky

French novelist (1903–1942)

Maksim Kontsevich

Russian-born French mathematician and Fields Medallist

Aleksandr Alekhine

Russian-French chess player (1892–1946)

Kristina Mladenovic

French and Serbian tennis player

Irena Pavlovic

French tennis player

Hadi Sacko

French footballer (born 1994)

Hui Hui

Chinese-born French Go player

Galia Ackerman

French and Russian journalist, writer, historian, translator and blogger, born in the Soviet Union

Elvira Popescu

Romanian-born French stage and film actress and theatre director (1894–1993)

Filippa Hamilton

French model

Filippa Élisabeth d'Orléans

French princess (1714-1734)

Loris Néry

French footballer

Loris Arnaud

French footballer

Loris Baz

French motorcycle racer

Katia Benth

French athlete