List of Famous people born in France

Yannick Bru

First Name Yannick

Born on May 22, 1973 (age 53)

Born in France, Occitania

Height 180 cm | 5'11

Yannick Bru is a French rugby union coach, currently serving as head coach at Aviron Bayonnais in the top level of French rugby, the Top 14. Bru was capped 18 times for the French national side.

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Michel Guyot

First Name Michel

Last Name Guyot

Born on March 22, 1947 (age 79)

Born in France, Centre-Val de Loire

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Roland Duval

Roland Léon Duval

First Name Roland

Last Name Duval

Born on September 21, 1933

Died on September 13, 2018 (aged 84)

Born in France, Île-de-France

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Jean-Philippe Chauveau

First Name Jean-Philippe

Born on November 30, 1949 (age 76)

Born in France, Île-de-France

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Robert Porchon

First Name Robert

Last Name Porchon

Born on January 23, 1894

Died on February 20, 1915 (aged 21)

Born in France, Centre-Val de Loire

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Sonia Saviange

Christiane Vecchiali

First Name Sonia

Born on March 25, 1923

Died on June 22, 1987 (aged 64)

Born in France, Corsica

Actor

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Henri Lefebvre

First Name Henri

Last Name Lefebvre

Born on June 16, 1901

Died on June 29, 1991 (aged 90)

Born in France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Henri Lefebvre was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of social space, and for his work on dialectics, alienation, and criticism of Stalinism, existentialism, and structuralism. In his prolific career, Lefebvre wrote more than sixty books and three hundred articles. He founded or took part in the founding of several intellectual and academic journals such as Philosophies, La Revue Marxiste, Arguments, Socialisme ou Barbarie, Espaces et Sociétés.

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Laura Slimani

First Name Laura

Last Name Slimani

Born on August 23, 1989 (age 37)

Born in France, Normandy

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Pierre Unik

First Name Pierre

Last Name Unik

Born on January 5, 1909

Died on February 27, 1945 (aged 36)

Born in France, Île-de-France

Filmmaker

Pierre Unik was a French surrealist poet, screenwriter and journalist.

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Lionel Royer

First Name Lionel

Last Name Royer

Born on December 25, 1852

Died on June 30, 1926 (aged 73)

Born in France, Pays de la Loire

Lionel-Noël Royer was a French painter. He was most famous for painting large scenes of the life of Joan of Arc in the Basilica of Bois-Chenu in Domrémy.

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