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Serge Betsen, Cameroon-born French citizen, rugby player; Serge Blanco, Venezuela-born French citizen, rugby player; Jean Bloch, Olympic silver football player; Louison Bobet, cyclist; Surya Bonaly, figure skater; Sébastien Bourdais, Indycar driver; Frédéric Bourdillon (born 1991), French-Israeli basketball player in the Israel Basketball ...
The Canadian province of Quebec (2006 census population of 7,546,131), where more than 95 percent of the people speak French as either their first, second or even third language, is the center of French life on the Western side of the Atlantic; however, French settlement began further east, in Acadia. Quebec is home to vibrant French-language ...
Yamina Benguigui, film director, Junior Minister for French Nationals Abroad and Relations with La Francophonie (French-language countries worldwide) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Jean Benguigui, actor; Richard Berry, actor; Dany Boon, actor, comedian; Rachid Bouchareb, film director; Sofia Boutella, actress; Rachida Brakni, actress
Jacques Cheminade – politician, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Frédéric François Chopin - composer and virtuoso pianist, born in , Żelazowa Wola, Poland; William Christie – musician, born in Buffalo, New York, United States
List of chairs of the National Museum of Natural History (France) List of people granted honorary French citizenship during the French Revolution; List of French royal consorts; List of Corsican people
Arouet adopted the name Voltaire in 1718, following his incarceration at the Bastille. Its origin is unclear. It is an anagram of AROVET LI, the Latinized spelling of his surname, Arouet, and the initial letters of le jeune ("the young"). [26]
Napoleon Bonaparte [b] (born Napoleone Buonaparte; [1] [c] 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
Arnaud Montebourg French father and Algerian-French mother, former minister [2] Sami Nair, Euro-MP (1999-2004) Daphna Poznanski-Benhamou, national MP (2012-2013) Tokia Saïfi, Euro-MP, former Secretary of State; Gérard Sebaoun, national MP (2012-) Dominique Strauss-Kahn politician, French Jewish father and Tunisian Jewish mother