List of Famous people born in France

Jean Topart

Jean Pierre Camille Henri Topart
First Name Jean
Last Name Topart
Born on April 13, 1922
Died on December 29, 2012 (aged 90)

Jean Topart was a French actor and voice actor. He was considered one of the best known voices on French television for decades. In addition to providing the voices and narration for television series and animated films, Topart often dubbed American and other foreign films into French.

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Jean-Luc Nancy

Jean-Luc Roland Louis André Nancy
First Name Jean-Luc
Born on July 26, 1940
Died on August 23, 2021 (aged 81)

Jean-Luc Nancy was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre, a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Nancy is the author of works on many thinkers, including La remarque spéculative in 1973 on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Le Discours de la syncope (1976) and L'Impératif catégorique (1983) on Immanuel Kant, Ego sum (1979) on René Descartes, and Le Partage des voix (1982) on Martin Heidegger.

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Boulaye Dia

First Name Boulaye
Last Name Dia
Born on November 16, 1996 (age 29)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Boulaye Dia is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Stade de Reims in the French Ligue 1. Born in France, he represents the Senegal national team.

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André Le Nôtre

First Name André
Last Name Nôtre
Born on March 12, 1613
Died on September 15, 1700 (aged 87)

André Le Nôtre, originally rendered as André Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. He was the landscape architect who designed the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, and his work represents the height of the French formal garden style, or jardin à la française.

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Valentin Belaud

First Name Valentin
Last Name Belaud
Born on September 16, 1992 (age 34)
Height 181 cm | 5'11

Valentin Belaud is a French modern pentathlete. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the men's event.

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Marie-Noëlle Lienemann

First Name Marie-Noëlle
Born on July 12, 1951 (age 75)

Marie-Noëlle Lienemann is a French politician who served as Member of the European Parliament for the North West of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. She studied chemistry at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan.

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Yves Klein

First Name Yves
Died on June 6, 1962

Yves Klein was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art.

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Philippe Leroy

Philippe Marie Paul Leroy-Beaulieu
First Name Philippe
Last Name Leroy
Born on October 15, 1930 (age 96)

Philippe Leroy, full name Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu is a French film actor. He has appeared in over 150 films since 1960. Leroy has been living mostly in Italy since the 1960s and has worked extensively in Italian cinema, as well as in his native country. He is sometimes credited under his full name.

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Michel Desjoyeaux

First Name Michel
Last Name Desjoyeaux
Born on July 16, 1965 (age 61)
Born in France, Brittany

Michel Desjoyeaux is a French sailor, known for competing successfully in several long-distance single-handed races. He won the Vendée Globe race in 2000-01 and 2008–09, making him the only person to win that race more than once. In 2014-15, he was watch captain, on leg 1 on Mapfre in the Volvo Ocean Race.

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Annabella

Suzanne Georgette Charpentier
Died on September 18, 1996 (aged 26)

Annabella was a French cinema actress who appeared in 46 films between 1927 and 1952, including some Hollywood films during the late 1930s and 1940s.

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