List of French people of immigrant origin

Actors and filmmakers

• Isabelle Adjani
  Isabelle Adjani
  Isabelle Yasmine Adjani is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Awards for Best Actress with five, for Possession , One Deadly Summer , Camille Claudel , Queen Margot and Skirt Day...
  
  , actress, she holds the record for most César Awards for Best Actress
  César Award for Best Actress
  List of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Actress .-Winners and nominees:...
  
   with five awards.
• Jean-Pierre Bacri
  Jean-Pierre Bacri
  Jean-Pierre Bacri is a French actor and screenwriter who frequently works in collaboration with Agnès Jaoui.-Life:One of his earliest film appearances was Subway...
  
  , actor
• Leïla Bekhti
  Leïla Bekhti
  Leïla Bekhti is a French film and television actress of Algerian origin. She is best known for her roles in Sheitan, Tout ce qui brille and Paris, je t'aime.-Life and career:...
  
   (1984–), actress, César Award for Most Promising Actress
  César Award for Most Promising Actress
  The following is the list of winners of the César Award for Most Promising Actress . Since its inception in 1983, the award is given as part of the French film industry's annual César Awards....
  
   in 2011
• Catherine Belkhodja
  Catherine Belkhodja
  Catherine Belkhodja is a French artist, actress and film director.-Early life:Catherine Belkhodja was born in Paris to a Kabyle Algerian father and a French mother on 15 April 1955. She first lived and studied in Algiers where she started to write her first short stories...
  
   (1955–), artist, and her daughters Isild Le Besco
  Isild Le Besco
  Isild Le Besco is a French actress and the daughter of Catherine Belkhodja. She is of mixed Breton, Vietnamese, French and Algerian descent....
  
   and Maïwenn Le Besco
  Maïwenn Le Besco
  Maïwenn |Île-de-France]]) is a French actress and film director.-Biography and career:She is the daughter of actress Catherine Belkhodja, who ushered her into the entertainment industry at a young age, an experience later chronicled by Le Besco in her one-woman shows "Le Pois Chiche" and "I'm an...
  
  , actress
• Yamina Benguigui
  Yamina Benguigui
  Yamina Benguigui is a French-Algerian film director. She is known for her films on gender issues in the North African immigrant community in France.-Life:...
  
  , film director
• Rachida Brakni
  Rachida Brakni
  Rachida Brakni is a French actress of Algerian origin. She is married to the football hero turned film actor Eric Cantona, whom she met on the filmset of Outremangeur in 2002....
  
  , actress
• Jean Benguigui
  Jean Benguigui
  Jean Benguigui is a French actor of the screen, stage and on television, he born April 8 1944 in Oran. He is of Jewish descent. In 2006 and 2007 he played the role of impresario Cartoni in a new adaptation of the operetta Le Chanteur de Mexico at the Theatre du Chatelet.-Filmography:* La croisière...
  
  , actor
• Richard Berry
  Richard Berry (actor)
  Richard Berry is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He has appeared in nearly 100 films since 1972. He starred in The Violin Player, which was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
  
  , actor
• Dany Boon
  Dany Boon
  Dany Boon is a French comedian who has acted both on the stage and the screen. He takes his stage name from the television show Daniel Boone.-Life and career:...
  
   (1966–), actor, comedian
• Alain Chabat
  Alain Chabat
  Alain Chabat is a French actor and director who appeared in La Cité de la peur, French Twist, The Taste of Others and The Science of Sleep.- Life and career :Chabat was born in Oran, French Algeria. He is Jewish....
  
  , comedian, film director, scriptwriter and producer
• Élie Chouraqui
  Élie Chouraqui
  Élie Chouraqui is a French film director and scriptwriter of Jewish origin.-Filmography:*1978: Mon premier amour*1980: Une page d'amour*1982: Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David?*1985: Paroles et musique...
  
  , film director, producer and scriptwriter
• Farid Chopel
  Farid Chopel
  Farid Chopel was a French actor, comedian and singer. He was of Algerian descent.- Filmography :*1983 - Les Princes *1983 - La Femme de mon pote...
  
   (1952–2008), actor
• Gérard Darmon
  Gérard Darmon
  Gérard Darmon is a French movie actor and singer.Second husband to Mathilda May.He has three children: Virginie and the last two by Mathilda May, daughter Sarah and son Jules...
  
  , actor
• Roger Hanin
  Roger Hanin
  Roger Hanin is a French actor , best known for playing the title role in the 1989-2006 TV crime series, Navarro.-Personal life:...
  
  , actor filmmaker
• Salim Kechiouche
  Salim Kéchiouche
  Salim Kechiouche is a French actor.- Early life :While only 15 years old, he was first discovered by French actor director Gaël Morel. Morel gave him his first role in a feature film, À Toute Vitesse , released in 1996...
  
  , actor
• Claude Lelouch, film director, producer, scriptwriter and actor
• Samy Naceri
  Samy Naceri
  Samy Naceri is a French actor known for his work in the four Taxi movies and The Code .-Childhood and Career:...
  
   (1961–), actor
• Marie-José Nat
  Marie-José Nat
  Marie-José Nat is a French film and television actress.-Early life and family:Marie-José Nat was born Mary-José Benhalassa in Bonifacio, Corse-du-Sud, to a Kabyle father and a Corsican mother...
  
  , actress, Best Actress
  Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of films at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.-Award Winners:-External links:* * ....
  
   at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival
  1974 Cannes Film Festival
  - Jury :*René Clair *Jean-Loup Dabadie *Kenne Fant *Félix Labisse *Irwin Shaw *Michel Soutter *Monica Vitti *Alexander Walker *Rostislav Yurenev -Feature film competition:...
  
   for her performance in Les Violons du bal
  Violins at the Ball
  Violins at the Ball is a 1974 French drama film directed by Michel Drach. It was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival where Marie-José Nat won the award for Best Actress.-Cast:* Jean-Louis Trintignant - Lui...
  
  
• Daniel Prévost
  Daniel Prévost
  Daniel Prévost is a French actor and humorist.Daniel Prevost is notably known for his part in the French television series Le Petit Rapporteur.-Early life and Family:...
  
   (1939–), actor and comedian and his son Sören Prévost, comedian.
• Tahar Rahim
  Tahar Rahim
  Tahar Rahim is a French actor of Algerian origin. Born in Belfort, France, his family is originally from the region of Oran, Algeria....
  
   (1981–), actor, César Award for Best Actor
  César Award for Best Actor
  This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Actor .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...
  
   in 2010, European Film Award for Best Actor
  European Film Award for Best Actor
  -1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:-External links:*...
  
   in 2009
• Nora Hamdi (1968–), film director
• Jacques Villeret
  Jacques Villeret
  Jacques Villeret was a French actor.-Early life and Family:Born Jacky Boufroura in Loches, Indre-et-Loire, France, to an Algerian father and a French mother, he is most famous internationally for his role as François Pignon in Le Dîner de Cons, both on the stage and in the later film...
  
   (1951–2005), actor
• Michaël Youn
  Michaël Youn
  Michaël Youn is a French actor, singer, comedian, and TV and radio personality.- Biography :...
  
  , actor
• Malik Zidi
  Malik Zidi
  Malik Zidi is a French film, television and theater actor. Zidi is a four-time nominated and one time César Award recipient for Most Promising Actor.-Career:...
  
   (1975–), actor
• Claude Zidi
  Claude Zidi
  Claude Zidi is a French film director and screenwriter who is noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies. Born in Paris, he started as a cameraman and then cinematographer, and made his directorial and screenwriting debut in 1971...
  
  , filmmaker

Others

• Robert Abdesselam, tennis player
• Alain Afflelou
  Alain Afflelou
  Alain Afflelou is a French retail chain specializing in optical services and sales of the Alain Afflelou brand of eyewear. Created in 1972 in Bouscat by Alain Afflelou , as of 2007 the company had over 894 stores, 201 of which were in Spain.In 2006, Bridgepoint Capital, a UK investment firm,...
  
  , Alain Afflelou SA is one of the leading optical retailers in France
• Fadela Amara
  Fadela Amara
  Fadéla Amara, also known as Fatiha Amara is a French feminist and politician, who began her political life as an advocate for women in the impoverished banlieues. She was the Secretary of State for Urban Policies in the conservative Union for a Popular Movement government of French Prime Minister...
  
  , Secretary of State
  Secretary of State
  Secretary of State or State Secretary is a commonly used title for a senior or mid-level post in governments around the world. The role varies between countries, and in some cases there are multiple Secretaries of State in the Government....
  
  
• Franck Amsallem
  Franck Amsallem
  Franck Amsallem is a French jazz pianist, composer and also singer. He was born in 1961 in Oran, then in French Algeria, but grew up in Nice, France.He started learning the piano at age 7 and also took up the classical saxophone at the local conservatory...
  
  , pianist
• Jacques Attali
  Jacques Attali
  Jacques Attali is a French economist, writer and senior civil servant.Former adviser to President François Mitterrand and first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, he founded the non-profit organization PlaNet Finance and was nominated President of the Commission for...
  
  , economist, writer
• Chimène Badi
  Chimène Badi
  -Early life:Chimène Badi was born in Melun, in the Paris suburbs but she spent her entire childhood in the south-west of France, growing up in Villeneuve-sur-Lot with her parents, Chérifa and Mohammed, her sister, Déborah, and her brother, Karim...
  
  , singer
• Alain Bashung
  Alain Bashung
  Alain Bashung was a French singer, songwriter and actor.- Youth :Alain Bashung was the son of a Breton factory worker and French Kabyle father, whom he never knew. His mother remarried, and at the age of one, Bashung was sent to Strasbourg to live with his new stepfather's parents...
  
   (1947–), author, composer, performer and comedian
• Azouz Begag
  Azouz Begag
  Azouz Begag, is a French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS. He was the delegate minister for equal opportunities of France in the government of French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin till 5 April 2007...
  
   (1957), writer, politician.
• Paul Bénichou
  Paul Bénichou
  Paul Bénichou, was a French writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian.Bénichou first achieved prominence in 1948 with Morales du grand siècle, his work on the social context of the French seventeenth-century classics...
  
  , historian
• Amel Bent
  Amel Bent
  Amel Bent is a French singer.- Biography :Amel Bent grew up in the French commune of La Courneuve with her Algerian father and a Moroccan mother. She has a brother and a sister...
  
   (1985-), singer
• Nina Bouraoui
  Nina Bouraoui
  Nina Bouraoui is a French writer born in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, of an Algerian father and a French mother. She spent the first fourteen years of her life in Algiers, then Zürich and Abu Dhabi...
  
   (1967–), writer
• Patrick Bruel
  Patrick Bruel
  Patrick Bruel is a French singer, actor, and professional poker player of Algerian Jewish descent.-Biography:...
  
  , born Maurice Benguigui, singer
• Jean Daniel BenSaïd
  Jean Daniel
  Jean Daniel, is an Algerian-born French-Jewish journalist and author. He is the founder and executive editor of Le Nouvel Observateur weekly.Daniel is a Jewish humanist in the venerable tradition of the French Left...
  
   (1920–), director of Le Nouvel Observateur
  Le Nouvel Observateur
  Le Nouvel Observateur is a weekly French newsmagazine. Based in Paris, it is the most prominent French general information magazine in terms of audience and circulation ....
  
  
• Karim Benzema
  Karim Benzema
  Karim Benzema is a French international footballer who currently plays for Real Madrid in the Spanish La Liga. He primarily plays as a striker whose influence can extend out to the wings and is known for his technical ability, powerful style of play, and vast goal-scoring ability...
  
   (1987–), football player
• Hélène Cixous
  Hélène Cixous
  Hélène Cixous is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. She holds honorary degrees from Queen's University and the University of Alberta in Canada; University College Dublin in Ireland; the University of York and University College...
  
  , writer
• Annie Cohen-Solal
  Annie Cohen-Solal
  Annie Cohen-Solal is a French academic, writer, historian, and biographer. Born in pre-independence Algeria, she is part of the Jewish diaspora that left that country for France during the Algerian War of Independence. Her most famous work is a biography of Jean-Paul Sartre, Sartre: A Life, which...
  
  , writer
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
  Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
  Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist and Nobel Laureate. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms...
  
  , physician, Nobel Prize (1997)
• Jean-François Copé
  Jean-François Copé
  Jean-François Copé , is a French politician. He is currently Mayor of Meaux, Deputy for the 6th constituency of Seine-et-Marne, and acts as President of the Union for a Popular Movement Group in the French National Assembly...
  
   (his mother's name is Monique Ghanassia), politician
• Rachida Dati
  Rachida Dati
  Rachida Dati is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament, representing Île-de-France. Before her election, she held the cabinet post of Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice. She was a spokesperson for Nicolas Sarkozy during the French presidential election of 2007...
  
  , Minister of Justice
• Étienne Daho
  Étienne Daho
  Étienne Daho is a French singer, songwriter and record producer who has released a number of synth-driven and rock-surf influenced pop hit singles since 1981.- Career :...
  
  , singer
• Jacques Derrida
  Jacques Derrida
  Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...
  
  , philosopher
• Julien Dray
  Julien Dray
  Julien Dray was born on 5 March 1955 in Oran, French Algeria. He is currently a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Essonne department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.-Works:...
  
  , politician
• Jean-Pierre Elkabbach
  Jean-Pierre Elkabbach
  -Biography:Elkabbach was born in Oran in 1937, then the prefecture of the département Oran in French Algeria. He began his journalistic career in 1960 as a radio correspondent in Algiers, but having taken part in the strikes of May 1968 he was sidelined and sent to Toulouse. Elkabbach would later...
  
  , journalist
• Kenza Farah
  Kenza Farah
  Kenza Farah is an Algerian R&B singer. She is considered the second internet success story in the French music industry, after Yelle...
  
  , singer
• Faudel
  Faudel
  Faudel , born Faudel Belloua on June 6, 1978 in Mantes-la-Jolie, is a French singer of Algerian descent.-Early years:...
  
  , singer
• Pierre Fédida
  Pierre Fédida
  -References:* * Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, Publisher: French & European Pubns; 2nd edition 1988, Language: English, ISBN 0828822158...
  
  , psychanalyst
• Denis Guedj
  Denis Guedj
  Denis Guedj was a French novelist and a professor of the History of Science at Paris VIII University. He was born in Setif. He spent many years devising courses and games to teach adults and children math...
  
  , writer and mathematician
• Alphonse Halimi
  Alphonse Halimi
  Alphonse Halimi was a French boxer. He was nicknamed "la Petite Terreur."Time wrote of him: "Alphonse went to work with a street fighter's will. A grown-up guttersnipe from the back alleys of Algeria...
  
  , boxer
• Jenifer
  Jenifer Bartoli
  Jenifer Yaël Dadouche-Bartoli , better known as simply Jenifer, is a pop singer who has, since 2002, had a number of hit singles in the French, Belgium and Swiss charts...
  
  , singer
• Bernard-Henri Lévy
  Bernard-Henri Lévy
  Bernard-Henri Lévy is a French public intellectual, philosopher and journalist. Often referred to today, in France, simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the "Nouveaux Philosophes" movement in 1976.-Early life:...
  
  , writer and philosopher
• Enrico Macias
  Enrico Macias
  Gaston Ghrenassia, known by his stage name Enrico Macias, is an Algerian French Pied noir singer and musician...
  
  , singer
• Kad Merad
  Kad Merad
  Kad Merad, real name Kaddour Merad, is a French-Algerian actor who has acted both on stage and on screen.-As actor:* 2001: La Grande Vie ! - le motard* 2003: Bloody Christmas - l'homme...
  
  , comedian
• Alain Mimoun
  Alain Mimoun
  Alain Mimoun is a retired French runner and Olympic marathon champion.-Early life:Born in El Telagh, then in French Algeria, Mimoun lost several years of competition to World War II...
  
   (1921–), Olympic marathon champion
• Arnaud Montebourg
  Arnaud Montebourg
  Arnaud Montebourg is a French politician, and a deputy of the fifth district of Saône-et-Loire to the French National Assembly for the Socialist Party. He has also been elected president of the local assembly of Saône et Loire after local elections in 2008...
  
   (his mother's name is Leïla Ould Cadi), politician
• Marcel Mouloudji (1922–1994), poet and singer
• Juliette Noureddine
  Juliette Noureddine
  Juliette Noureddine, better known by her stage name of Juliette, is a French singer, songwriter and composer.-Biography:She was born on September 25, 1962 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. Her grandfather, of Algerian origin, arrived in France during the 1920s. Her father, Jacques Noureddine,...
  
   (1962–), singer, author and composer
• Ridan
  Ridan
  Ridan, real name Nadir Kouidri , is a French singer/songwriter launched into the limelight in 2004. He is known for his urban poetry in French suburbia. A recurring theme in his songs is the difficult life of Arab immigrants in France. One of his most famous and most popular songs is "Ulysse"...
  
  , singer
• Martial Solal
  Martial Solal
  Martial Solal is a French jazz pianist and composer, who is probably most widely known for the music he wrote for Jean-Luc Godard's debut feature film À bout de souffle .-Biography:...
  
  , Jazz pianist
• Benjamin Stora
  Benjamin Stora
  Benjamin Stora is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family in Constantine, then in French Algeria, which left the country following its War of Independence in 1962. Stora holds...
  
  , historian
• Zinedine Zidane
  Zinedine Zidane
  Zinedine Yazid Zidane is a retired French footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. Zidane was a leading figure of a generation of French players that won the 1998 World Cup and 2000 European Championship...
  
  , soccer player

Morocco

• Richard Anconina
  Richard Anconina
  Richard Anconina is a French actor.-Filmography:*1977 : Comment se faire réformer directed by Philippe Clair*1978 : Les Réformés se portent bien*1979 : Démons de midi directed by Christian Paureilhe...
  
  , actor
• Pierre Assouline
  Pierre Assouline
  Pierre Assouline is a writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco. He has published several novels and biographies, and also contributes articles for the print media and broadcasts for radio....
  
  , journalist
• Aure Atika
  Aure Atika
  Aure Atika is a French actress, writer and director. Born in Portugal to a Moroccan mother and a French father, Aure Atika grew up in Paris. She was born to Ode Atika Bitton and Michel Fournier who are also film actors and directors...
  
   (1970-), actress
• Robert Benayoun
  Robert Benayoun
  Robert Benayoun was a French film critic and author, and one-time member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival of 1980. He wrote books on Tex Avery, Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, and Alain Resnais.He wrote screenplays for and directed three films...
  
  , movie critic
• José Bénazéraf
  José Bénazéraf
  José Bénazéraf is a French filmmaker and producer.After having finished his studies in political sciences, he started his career by producing Les lavandières du Portugal in 1958, a film of Pierre Gaspard-Huit...
  
  , film director, scriptwriter and producer
• Frida Boccara
  Frida Boccara
  Frida Boccara was a French singer.Frida Boccara was born in Casablanca, Morocco. She submitted the song "Autrefois" to the French Eurovision Song Contest selection panel in 1964 but she was unsuccessful...
  
  , singer
• Jamel Debbouze
  Jamel Debbouze
  Jamel Debbouze is an actor, comedian and producer of Moroccan descent.-Biography:Debbouze is the oldest of five brothers. He was born in Paris, France, but his family moved to Morocco the following year...
  
  , humorist
• Roger Karoutchi
  Roger Karoutchi
  Roger Karoutchi is the French Ambassador to the OECD. He is a former Secretary of State to the French Prime Minister, with responsibility for Relations with Parliament.-Early life:...
  
   (his mother's name is Solange Fedida), politician
• Yasmine Lafitte
  Yasmine Lafitte
  Yasmine Lafitte is a Moroccan pornographic actress who performs under the mononym "Yasmine." She acquired French nationality by marriage...
  
   (née Hafida El Khabchi), pornstar
• Gad Elmaleh
  Gad Elmaleh
  Gad Elmaleh is a French-Moroccan stand-up comedian and actor. His latest show is called Papa est en haut . He has starred in several feature films, including Coco, Hors de prix, La Doublure and Midnight in Paris.- Early years :Elmaleh was born in Casablanca, Morocco...
  
  , humorist
• David Guetta
  David Guetta
  Pierre David Guetta , known professionally as David Guetta , is a French house music producer and DJ. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded Gum Productions and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, in 2002. Later, he released Guetta Blaster and Pop Life...
  
  , DJ de house
• Larusso
  Larusso
  Larusso, real name Laetitia Serero, is a French singer .Popularized with songs like Tu m'oublieras, Je survivrai, sung by Régine in the 80's, and French adaptation of I will survive by Gloria Gaynor....
  
  , singer
• Édith Piaf
  Édith Piaf
  Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...
  
   (1915–1963), singer.
• Sapho
  Sapho (singer)
  Sapho is a French singer of Moroccan-Jewish descent. Her real name is Danielle Ebguy.-Biography:Born in Marrakech , Sapho emigrated to France when she was 16. By 18, she was living on her own in Paris, taking acting lessons, playing guitar and singing on the streets...
  
  , singer
• Elisa Tovati
  Elisa Tovati
  Elisa Tovati born Elisa Touati is a French singer and television celebrity.- Early years :Elisa Tovati was born in 1976 of Russo-Moroccan Jewish origins in Paris, France. She showed interest in theatre early in her life, and her teenage years saw her co-presenting a French programme Y'a pas d'lézard...
  
  , actress
• Said Taghmaoui
  Saïd Taghmaoui
  Saïd Taghmaoui is a French actor and screenwriter. One of his defining screen roles was that of Saïd in the award winning 1995 French film La Haine directed by Mathieu Kassovitz...
  
  , actor
• Roschdy Zem
  Roschdy Zem
  Roschdy Zem is a French actor of Moroccan descent. He shared the award for Best Actor for his role in the film "Days of Glory" at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival....
  
   (1965-), actor

Tunisia

• Michel Boujenah
  Michel Boujenah
  Michel Boujenah is a French actor, comedian, film director and screenwriter.-Career:Boujenah has appeared in over twenty-five films and almost ten television productions...
  
  , humorist
• Paul Boujenah
  Paul Boujenah
  Paul Boujenah, born 20 May 1958 in Tunis, Tunisia, is a film director.He is the brother of Michel Boujenah and the uncle of Matthieu Boujenah.-Filmography:...
  
  , director
• Dany Brillant
  Dany Brillant
  Dany Brillant, born Daniel Cohen-Biran in Tunis, Tunisia. He is a Tunisian-French vocalist.In June 2005, Brillant appeared on Les stars chantent leurs idoles, on France 2, alongside stars such as Julio Iglesias and Il Divo....
  
  , singer
• David Charvet
  David Charvet
  David Charvet is a French singer and actor.-Personal life:Charvet was born in Lyon, France. His father is the Tunisian Jewish businessman Paul Guez. David Charvet's mother, Christiane Charvet, is French. He and his siblings speak French as their first language. He won a green card through the...
  
  , actor
• Georges Cravenne
  Georges Cravenne
  Georges Cravenne , real name Joseph-Raoul Cohen, was a French film producer, publicity agent and founder of the César Award. He received an Honorary César in 2000.-Marriages:...
  
  , founder of the César Award
• Marcel Dadi
  Marcel Dadi
  Marcel Dadi was a Tunisia-born Jewish French guitarist known for his finger-picking style which faithfully recreated the instrumental styles of American guitarists such as Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Jerry Reed...
  
  , guitar player
• Pierre Darmon
  Pierre Darmon
  Pierre Darmon was a French tennis player.In 1963, he reached his highest world ranking, # 8. He was also ranked in the top 10 worldwide in 1958 and 1964.-Tennis career:...
  
  , tennis player
• Mabrouk El Mechri
  Mabrouk El Mechri
  Mabrouk el Mechri is a French director, screenwriter and actor.El Mechri was born in Versailles, France of Tunisian origin. He is married to actress Audrey Dana. He has directed a number of films...
  
  , film director
• Félix Gray
  Félix Gray
  Félix Boutboul, most know under the pseudonym of Félix Gray , is a French singer and songwriter.He has a daughter named Marie-Charlotte, born on 7 January 1991.-Compositions:He has composed texts for various artists :...
  
  , singer
• Gisèle Halimi
  Gisèle Halimi
  Gisèle Halimi, born Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb in 1927, is a French-Tunisian lawyer, feminist activist, and essayist.-Career:Born in La Goulette, to a Jewish mother and father, she was educated at a French lycée in Tunis, and then attended the University of Paris, graduating in law and philosophy...
  
  , lawyer
• Serge Halimi
  Serge Halimi
  Serge Halimi is a journalist with the Le Monde diplomatique since 1992. In March 2008 he became the editorial director. He is also the author of Le Grand Bond en Arrière.-Biography:...
  
  , journalist
• Agnès Jaoui
  Agnès Jaoui
  Agnès Jaoui is a French screenwriter, film director, actress and singer of Tunisian Jewish descent. She frequently works in collaboration with her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri.-Actress:* Le Faucon...
  
  , actress
• David Jemmali
  David Jemmali
  David Jemmali is a French-Tunisian football defender who is currently play with Grenoble Foot 38.Hoping for a selection to the French national team, he turned down several opportunities to represent Tunisia...
  
  , soccer player
• Lââm
  Lââm
  Lââm is a French female singer of Tunisian descent. She has sold more than 500,000 albums and more than 2 million singles.-Biography:...
  
  , singer
• Pierre Lellouche
  Pierre Lellouche
  Pierre Lellouche is a French politician and a member of the Union for a Popular Movement party. He is Secretary of State for Foreign Trade under the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry, Christine Lagarde. He was also the President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from November 2004 to 17...
  
  , politician
• Alain Mamou-Mani
  Alain Mamou-Mani
  Alain Mamou-Mani, born 26 December 1949 in Nabeul, Tunisia is a French film producer and writer.-Filmography:* 2003 : Rire et Chatiment directed by Isabelle Doval* 2003 : Alila directed by Amos Gitai* 2004 : Promised Land directed by Amos Gitai...
  
  , producer
• Didier Marouani
  Didier Marouani
  Didier Marouani is a French composer and musician. He is one of the pioneers in the Electronic music genre.Didier started his career as a pop singer and made his first album with Etienne Roda-Gil as lyricist, he's done concerts tour with Johnny Hallyday, Claude François and Joe Dassin...
  
  , composer and musician
• Albert Memmi
  Albert Memmi
  Albert Memmi is a Tunisian Jewish writer and essayist who migrated to France.- Biography :Born in colonial Tunisia,from a Tunisian Jewish mother and a Tunisian-Italian Jewish father, he speaks Hebrew and Tunisian-Arabic...
  
  , writer
• Serge Moati
  Serge Moati
  Serge Moati is a French artist, journalist, film director and writer. Serge Moati is the brother of Nine Moati, author of the novel Les Belles de Tunis...
  
  , journalist and film director
• Yael Naim
  Yael Naim
  Yael Naïm , is a French-Israeli singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in 2008 in the US after her hit single "New Soul" was used by Apple in an advertising campaign for its MacBook Air. The song peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100.-Biography:Yael Naïm was born in Paris, France to Tunisian Jewish...
  
  , singer
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn
  Dominique Strauss-Kahn
  Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn , often referred to in the media, and by himself, as DSK, is a French economist, lawyer, politician, and member of the French Socialist Party...
  
   (his mother's name is Jacqueline Fellus), politician
• Jacqueline Taïeb
  Jacqueline Taïeb
  Jacqueline Taïeb is a French singer and songwriter, of Tunisian descent, who achieved her greatest success as a pop and yé-yé singer in France in the 1960s....
  
  , singer
• Maurice Taieb
  Maurice Taieb
  Maurice Taieb, is a French geologist and paleoanthropologist who discovered the Hadar formation, recognised its potential importance to paleoanthropology and founded the International Afar Research Expedition...
  
  , geologist
• Ariel Zeitoun
  Ariel Zeitoun
  Ariel Zeitoun is a French director, producer, and screenwriter.Ariel Zeitoun started as a producer in 1979 with L'école est finie...
  
  , film director, scriptwriter and producer
• Tunisiano
  Tunisiano
  Bachir Baccour better known by his stage name Tunisiano is a French rapper of Tunisian origin.- Career :...
  
  , rapper

Egypt

• Richard Anthony
  Richard Anthony (French singer)
  Richard Anthony is a French singer, born 13 January 1938 in Cairo, Egypt, as Ricardo Btesh.-Biography:Richard's father was an industrialist, and his mother was the daughter of an English diplomat...
  
  
• Guy Béart
  Guy Béart
  Guy Béart is a French singer and songwriter.-Biography:He was born Guy Béhart-Hasson in Cairo, Egypt, to a family of Spanish, Swiss, and Russian background. His religious background is unclear, having been referred to as both Jewish and Christian...
  
  , author, composer and performer
• Emmanuelle Béart
  Emmanuelle Béart
  Emmanuelle Béart is a French film actress, who has appeared in over 50 film and television productions since 1972. Béart won a César Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Manon des Sources . She has been nominated a further seven times for Most Promising Actress and Best Actress.- Early...
  
  , actress
• Nagui
  Nagui
  Nagui Fam is an Egyptian-born French TV and radio personality of Egyptian and Italian descent. In his professional life, he goes by his first name Nagui.- Biography :...
  
  , animateur de radio and de télévision
• Andrée Chedid
  Andrée Chedid
  Andrée Chedid was a French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent.-Life:Chedid was born in Cairo on 20 March 1920. When she was ten, she was sent to a boarding school, where she learned English and French. At fourteen, she left for Europe. She then returned to Cairo to go...
  
  , poet and novelist
• Louis Chedid
  Louis Chedid
  Louis Chedid is a French singer-songwriter of Lebanese origin.-Biography:Louis Chedid is the son of the writer Andrée Chedid and the father of Matthieu Chedid ....
  
  , singer
• Matthieu Chedid
  Matthieu Chedid
  Matthieu Chedid is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player.-Biography:...
  
  , author-composer- rock performer

England

• Jeanne Moreau
  Jeanne Moreau
  Jeanne Moreau is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director.She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française...
  
  , actress and singer
• Jane Birkin
  Jane Birkin
  Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE is an English-born actress and singer who lives in France. In recent years she has written her own album, directed a film and become an outspoken proponent of democracy in Burma.- Early life :...
  
  
• Charlotte Gainsbourg
  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...
  
  
• Emily Loizeau
  Emily Loizeau
  Emily Loizeau is a French author, composer, and singer. Her debut album, released in 2006, was titled L'autre bout du monde .- Biography :...
  
  

Spain

• Manu Chao
  Manu Chao
  Manu Chao , is a French singer of Spanish roots . He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Galician, Arabic and Portuguese and occasionally in other languages...
  
  , singer and musician
• Michel Del Castillo
  Michel del Castillo
  Michel del Castillo is a French writer, born in Madrid.-Biography:Michel del Castillo was born in Madrid...
  
  , writer
• Luis Fernandez
  Luis Fernández
  Luis Fernández is a Spanish-French footballer who played as a defender / midfielder. He retired as a player in 1993 to become a manager....
  
  , soccer player
• Louis de Funès
  Louis de Funès
  Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza was a very popular French actor who is one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel...
  
  , actor
• José Garcia
  José Garcia (actor)
  José Garcia , sometimes credited as José Luis Garcia, is a French film and television actor.- Early life and education :He was born in Paris, France.- Career :...
  
  , actor
• David Pujadas
  David Pujadas
  David Pujadas was born in Barcelona , Spain, on December 2, 1964, to a Spanish father and a French mother.A former news broadcaster for TF1's LCI, he now is an anchorman on France 2's weeknight newscast, Le Journal de 20 Heures, at 8:00 CET in Metropolitan France...
  
  , journalist
• Jean Reno
  Jean Reno
  Jean Reno is a French actor. Working in French, English, Spanish and Italian, he has appeared not only in numerous successful Hollywood productions such as The Pink Panther, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, Ronin and Couples Retreat, but also in European productions such as the...
  
  , actor
• Manuel Valls
  Manuel Valls
  Manuel Valls is a French Socialist Party politician, deputy since 2002 and mayor of Évry.Valls was born in Barcelona and became a naturalized French citizen in 1982. He is a prominent supporter of F.C...
  
  , French Socialist Party (PS) politician
• Ray Ventura
  Ray Ventura
  Raymond Ventura was a French jazz bandleader. He played a significant role in popularizing jazz in France in the 1930s.-Career:...
  
  , jazz bandleader

Greece

• Vassilis Alexakis, writer
• Kostas Axelos, philosopher
• Georges Moustaki
  Georges Moustaki
  Giuseppe Mustacchi, known as Georges Moustaki , is a French singer and songwriter of Italo-Greek Jewish origin, best known for his poetic rhythm, eloquent simplicity and his hundreds of romantic songs...
  
  , singer
• Iannis Xenakis
  Iannis Xenakis
  Iannis Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...
  
  , composer

Hungary

• Michel Jonasz
  Michel Jonasz
  Michel Jonasz is a French composer-songwriter, singer and actor. His compositions include: La boîte de jazz, Joueurs de blues and Les vacances au bord de la mer....
  
  , singer
• Mathieu Kassovitz
  Mathieu Kassovitz
  Mathieu Kassovitz is a French director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for his Cannes-winning drama La Haine. Kassovitz is also the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company....
  
  , film director
• Joseph Kosma
  Joseph Kosma
  Joseph Kosma was a Hungarian-French composer, of Jewish background.-Biography:Kosma was born József Kozma in Budapest, where his parents taught stenography and typing. He had a brother, Akos. A maternal relative was the photographer László Moholy-Nagy, and another relative was the conductor Georg...
  
  , composer
• Nicolas Sarkozy
  Nicolas Sarkozy
  Nicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating the Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal 10 days earlier....
  
  , French president
• Béatrice Schönberg
  Béatrice Schönberg
  Béatrice Schönberg is a French TV journalist on France 2 for the 8 pm weekend news. Her newscasts can be seen on TV5 in Canada on weekends at 6:30 pm North American Eastern Time...
  
  , journalist

Italy

• Dalida
  Dalida
  Dalida , born with Italian name of Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a world-famous singer and actress born in Egypt with Italian origins but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti. She spent her early years in Egypt amongst the Italian Egyptian community, but she lived most of her adult...
  
  , singer
• Jean Alesi
  Jean Alesi
  Jean Alesi is a French racing driver of Italian origin. His Formula One career included spells at Tyrrell, Benetton, Sauber, Prost, Jordan and most notably Ferrari where he proved very popular among the tifosi...
  
  , racing driver
• Jean-Paul Belmondo
  Jean-Paul Belmondo
  Jean-Paul Belmondo is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.-Career:Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football."Did you box professionally very long?" "Not very long...
  
  , actor
• Georges Brassens
  Georges Brassens
  Georges Brassens , 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981), was a French singer-songwriter and poet.Brassens was born in Sète, a town in southern France near Montpellier...
  
  , singer
• François Cavanna
  François Cavanna
  François Cavanna is a French author and satirical newspaper editor.He contributed to the creation and success of Hara-Kiri and Charlie Hebdo...
  
  , writer
• Francis Cabrel
  Francis Cabrel
  Francis Cabrel is a well-known French singer-songwriter and guitarist. Inspired heavily by Bob Dylan, he has released a number of albums falling mostly within the realm of folk, with occasional forays into blues or country. Several of his songs, such as "L'encre de tes yeux" and "Petite Marie"...
  
  , singer
• Philippe Candeloro
  Philippe Candeloro
  Philippe Candeloro is a French figure skater who medalled at the 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics.-Early years:Philippe Candeloro was born in Courbevoie, in France, the youngest of four children...
  
  , patineur
• Benjamin Castaldi
  Benjamin Castaldi
  Benjamin Castaldi is a French television personality of Italian origin and current host of Secret Story, the spinoff of Loft Story. And, La Ferme Célébrités....
  
  , television personality
• Coluche
  Coluche
  Michel Colucci , better known as Coluche, was a French comedian and actor, famous for his irreverent sense of humour....
  
  , humorist
• Léo Ferré
  Léo Ferré
  Léo Ferré was a Franco-Monegasque poet, composer, singer and musician.Born in Monaco, Ferré mixed love and melancholy with moral anarchy, lyricism with slang, rhyming verse with prose monologues...
  
  , singer
• Raymond Forni
  Raymond Forni
  Raymond Forni was a French Socialist politician.-Biography:Son of an Italian immigrant, Raymond Forni was born in Belfort, in 1941. His father died when he was 11. At 17, he had to stop studying, and he started to work as an unskilled worker in Peugeot factories...
  
  , politician
• Claude François
  Claude François
  Claude François was a French pop singer, songwriter and dancer. He wrote "Comme d'habitude," the original version of "My Way."-Early life:...
  
  , singer
• Joseph Gallieni
  Joseph Gallieni
  Joseph Simon Gallieni was a French soldier, most active as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies and finished his career during the First World War. He was made Marshal of France posthumously in 1921...
  
  , Marshal of France
• Jean Giono
  Jean Giono
  Jean Giono was a French author who wrote works of fiction set in the Provence region of France.-First period:...
  
  , writer
• Fabrice Luchini
  Fabrice Luchini
  Fabrice Luchini is a French stage and film actor.-Biography:Fabrice Luchini was born in Île-de-France, Paris, into an Italian immigrant family, who were fruit and vegetable vendors. He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte d'Or in Paris's 18th arrondissement...
  
  , actor
• Elsa Lunghini
  Elsa Lunghini
  Elsa Lunghini, stage name Elsa , is a French singer and actress. She was a famous teenage pop-star in the late-1980s. In 1986, she was the youngest singer ever to reach number one in the French charts with the single T'en va pas, and she went on to sell millions of records during the decade...
  
  , singer
• Léon Gambetta
  Léon Gambetta
  Léon Gambetta was a French statesman prominent after the Franco-Prussian War.-Youth and education:He is said to have inherited his vigour and eloquence from his father, a Genovese grocer who had married a Frenchwoman named Massabie. At the age of fifteen, Gambetta lost the sight of his right eye...
  
  , politician
• Yves Montand
  Yves Montand
  -Early life:Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker. Montand's mother was a devout Catholic, while his father held strong Communist beliefs. Because of the Fascist regime in Italy, Montand's family left for France in...
  
   (Ivo Livi), actor
• Roger Piantoni
  Roger Piantoni
  Roger Piantoni is a former French international footballer.-Honors:* 3rd place at the 1958 FIFA World Cup with France.* Finalist of the European Champions Cup in 1959 with Reims....
  
  , soccer player
• Michel Platini
  Michel Platini
  Michel François Platini is a former French football player, manager and current president of UEFA. Platini was a member of the French national team that won the 1984 European Championship, a tournament in which he was the top goalscorer and voted the best player. He participated in the 1978, 1982...
  
  , soccer player
• Serge Reggiani
  Serge Reggiani
  Serge Reggiani was an Italian-born French singer and actor. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight...
  
  , actor
• Albert Uderzo
  Albert Uderzo
  Albert Uderzo is a French comic book artist, and scriptwriter. He is best known for his work on the Astérix series, but also drew other comics such as Oumpah-pah, also in collaboration with René Goscinny.-Early life:...
  
  , writer, humorist and cartoonist, father of Asterix
• Emile Zola
  Émile Zola
  Émile François Zola was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism...
  
  , writer

Poland

• Guillaume Apollinaire
  Guillaume Apollinaire
  Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
  
  , writer
• Robert Badinter
  Robert Badinter
  Robert Badinter is a high-profile French criminal lawyer, university professor and politician mainly known for his struggle against the death penalty, the abolition of which he successfully sponsored in Parliament in 1981...
  
  , lawyer, academic, essayist and politician
• Claude Berri
  Claude Berri
  Claude Berri , born Claude Berel Langmann, was one of the great all-rounders of French cinema: an actor, writer, producer, director and distributor. "Out of my failure as an actor was born my desire to direct. Then my relative failure as a director forced me to become a producer. In order to get my...
  
  , film director
• Marie-George Buffet
  Marie-George Buffet
  Marie-George Buffet is a French politician. She was the head of the French Communist Party from 2001 to 2010. She joined the Party in 1969, and was the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports from June 4, 1997 to May 5, 2002. Ms...
  
  , politician
• Marie Curie
  Marie Curie
  Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry...
  
  , physicist
• Laurent Fabius
  Laurent Fabius
  Laurent Fabius is a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister from 17 July 1984 to 20 March 1986. He was 37 years old when he was appointed and is, so far, the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic.-Early life:...
  
  , politician
• Alain Finkielkraut
  Alain Finkielkraut
  Alain Finkielkraut is a French essayist, and son of a Jewish-Polish manufacturer of fine leather goods who had been deported to Auschwitz and survived. He currently teaches at the École polytechnique as professor of the "history of ideas and modernity" in the department of humanities and social...
  
  , philosopher, writer and essayist
• Jean-Pierre Foucault
  Jean-Pierre Foucault
  Jean-Pierre Foucault is a French television and radio host.He is the host of Qui Veut Gagner des Millions ?, the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? He has been hosting the Miss France pageant since 1996.Foucault played himself in the 2006 film Mon Meilleur Ami directed by Patrice...
  
  , television personality
• Romain Gary
  Romain Gary
  Romain Gary was a French diplomat, novelist, film director, World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice .- Early life :Gary was born in Vilnius under the name Roman Kacew...
  
  , romancier
• Jean-Jacques Goldman
  Jean-Jacques Goldman
  Jean-Jacques Goldman is a Grammy Awards-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French living pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday.- Biography :...
  
  , singer
• René Goscinny
  René Goscinny
  René Goscinny was a French comics editor and writer, who is best known for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.-Early life:Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to a family...
  
  , writer, humorist, known around the world for the Asterix
  Asterix
  Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo . The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on October 29, 1959...
  
   books
• Michel Jazy
  Michel Jazy
  Michel Jazy is a former French middle distance runner, who won the silver medal over 1500 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. The race was won by Herb Elliott in a new world record time...
  
  , middle distance runner
• Raymond Kopa
  Raymond Kopa
  Raymond Kopa , is a former French football offensive midfielder, integral to the French national team of the 1950s....
  
  , soccer player
• Henri Krasucki
  Henri Krasucki
  Henri Krasucki was a French trade-unionist, former secretary general of the Confédération générale du travail from 1982 to 1992.-Early life :...
  
  , politician
• Jean-Marie Lustiger, Archbishop of Paris
• Jean Malaquais
  Jean Malaquais
  Jean Malaquais was a French novelist.He was born as Wladimir Malacki in Warsaw in 1908 of a non-religious Polish family of Jewish descent...
  
  , writer
• Jean-Pierre Mocky
  Jean-Pierre Mocky
  Jean-Pierre Mocky is the pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer...
  
  , film director
• Georges Pérec
  Georges Perec
  Georges Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist and essayist. He is a member of the Oulipo group...
  
  , writer
• Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...
  
  , film director
• Michel Poniatowski
  Michel Poniatowski
  Michel Poniatowski was a Polish Prince and French politician. He was a founder of the Independent Republicans and a part of the administration for President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Poniatowski served as Minister of Health from 1973 to 1974 and Minister of the Interior in the d'Estaing government...
  
  , politician
• Régine
  Régine
  - External links :*...
  
  , artist
• Catherine Ringer
  Catherine Ringer
  Catherine Ringer is a French singer, musician, songwriter, dancer, choreographer, and actress.Ringer started her professional career on stage in the late 1970s in productions with Michael Lonsdale's Théâtre de Recherche Musicale as well as musical and dance productions...
  
  , singer
• Simone Signoret
  Simone Signoret
  Simone Signoret was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest movie stars. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in Room at the Top...
  
  , actress
• Michel Wieviorka
  Michel Wieviorka
  Michel Wieviorka is a French sociologist, noted for his work on violence, terrorism, racism, social movements and the theory of social change....
  
  , sociologue
• Georges Wolinski
  Georges Wolinski
  Georges Wolinski is a French cartoonist and comics writer.-Biography:After discontinuing his architecture studies in Paris, Georges Wolinski began cartooning in 1960, contributing political and erotic cartoons and comic strips to the satirical monthly Hara-Kiri.During the student revolts of May...
  
  , cartoonist and comics writer

Romania

• Paul-Loup Sulitzer
  Paul-Loup Sulitzer
  Paul Loup Karl Sulitzer is a French financier and author. Before he turned seventeen, he was already a self-made millionaire. Sulitzer used his financial experience and knowledge in his books which often related to the business world.His novel, The Green King , was made into a comic series...
  
  , writer
• Jean-François Copé
  Jean-François Copé
  Jean-François Copé , is a French politician. He is currently Mayor of Meaux, Deputy for the 6th constituency of Seine-et-Marne, and acts as President of the Union for a Popular Movement Group in the French National Assembly...
  
  , politician
• Michel Drucker
  Michel Drucker
  Michel Drucker, CQ is a popular French journalist and TV host.Michel Drucker was born in Vire, Calvados, in Normandy. Jacques Drucker, a doctor, is Michel's younger brother, and Jean Drucker, a TV top executive, is Michel's older brother. He started a journalistic career in 1965 at the ORTF as...
  
  , French journalist and TV host
• Pierre Moscovici
  Pierre Moscovici
  Pierre Moscovici is a French politician, a member of the Departmental Council of Doubs and a Member of the French Parliament. He is a member of the French Socialist Party ; part of the Party of European Socialists...
  
  , politician
• Claude Berri
  Claude Berri
  Claude Berri , born Claude Berel Langmann, was one of the great all-rounders of French cinema: an actor, writer, producer, director and distributor. "Out of my failure as an actor was born my desire to direct. Then my relative failure as a director forced me to become a producer. In order to get my...
  
  , film director
• Cédric Pioline
  Cédric Pioline
  Cédric Pioline is a retired French professional tennis player who played on the professional tour from 1989 to 2002. He reached the men's singles final at the 1993 US Open and at Wimbledon in 1997...
  
  , former tennis player
• Élisabeth Roudinesco
  Elisabeth Roudinesco
  Élisabeth Roudinesco is a French academic historian and psychoanalyst. She is an independent guest researcher at University of Paris VII – Denis Diderot...
  
  , historian
• Maria Schneider
  Maria Schneider (actress)
  Maria Schneider was a French actress. She was best known for playing Jeanne, opposite Marlon Brando, in the 1972 film Last Tango in Paris.-Career:...
  
  , actress
• Michèle Laroque
  Michèle Laroque
  Michèle Laroque is a French actress, comedian and humorist, who has appeared in almost 60 film and television productions since 1988.She was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France...
  
  , actress
• Pierre Vassiliu
  Pierre Vassiliu
  Pierre Vassiliu is a French singer and songwriter.His first record, "Armand", co-written with his brother Michel, appeared in 1962. It was an enormous success, selling 150,000 copies. This opened the doors of the Olympia in Paris to him, where he opened for the Beatles in 1964...
  
  , singer
• Marcel Dalio
  Marcel Dalio
  Marcel Dalio was a French character actor. He had major roles in two of Jean Renoir's most famous films, Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game.- Biography :...
  
  , actor

Russia

• Pierre Bérégovoy
  Pierre Bérégovoy
  Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy was a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1992 to 1993.-Early career:...
  
  , politician
• Marc Chagall
  Marc Chagall
  Marc Chagall Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."According to art historian Michael J...
  
  , painter
• Carlos
  Carlos (singer)
  Carlos , born Yvan-Chrysostome Dolto, and sometimes called Jean-Christophe Doltovitch, was a leading French singer, entertainer and actor.-Biography:...
  
  , singer
• Joe Dassin
  Joe Dassin
  Joseph Ira Dassin , more commonly known as Joe Dassin, was an American singer-songwriter best known for his French songs of the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  , singer
• Sacha Distel
  Sacha Distel
  Sacha Distel was a French singer and guitarist who had hits with a cover version of the Academy Award-winning "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" , "Scoubidou", and "The Good Life". He was born in Paris.-Career:Sacha Distel, born Alexandre Distel, was a son of Russian White émigré Leonid Distel...
  
  , singer
• François Feldman
  François Feldman
  François Feldman is a French singer. He had a great success in the 1980s and the 1990s in France.-Biography:The young François Feldman spent his adolescence listening soul music, including songs by Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and James Brown, among other artists...
  
  , singer
• Serge Gainsbourg
  Serge Gainsbourg
  Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize...
  
  , singer
• Judith Godrèche, actress
• Émile Meyerson
  Émile Meyerson
  Emile Meyerson was Polish-born French epistemologist, chemist, and philosopher of science. Emile Meyerson was born in Lublin, Poland. He died in his sleep of a heart attack at the age of 74....
  
  , philosopher
• Gérard Oury
  Gérard Oury
  Gérard Oury was a French film director, actor and writer. His real name was Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum.- A commercially successful French filmmaker :...
  
  , film director
• Léon Poliakov
  Leon Poliakov
  Léon Poliakov was a French historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.Born into a Russian Jewish family, Poliakov lived in Italy and Germany until he settled in France....
  
  , historian
• Michel Polnareff
  Michel Polnareff
  Michel Polnareff, born in Nérac on 3 July 1944, is a French singer-songwriter who was very popular from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s...
  
  , singer
• Maxime Rodinson
  Maxime Rodinson
  Maxime Rodinson was a French Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist. He was the son of a Russian-Polish clothing trader and his wife who both died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. After studying oriental languages, he became a professor of Ethiopian at EPHE...
  
  , historian
• Nathalie Sarraute
  Nathalie Sarraute
  Nathalie Sarraute was a French lawyer and writer of Russian Jewish origin.-Life:Sarraute was born Natalia/Natacha Tcherniak in Ivanovo , 300 km north-east of Moscow in 1900 , and, following...
  
  , writer
• Pierre-André Taguieff
  Pierre-André Taguieff
  Pierre-André Taguieff is a philosopher and director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in an Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris laboratory, the CEVIPOF...
  
  , philosopher
• Jacques Tati
  Jacques Tati
  Jacques Tati was a French filmmaker, working as a comedic actor, writer and director. In a poll conducted by Entertainment Weekly of the Greatest Movie Directors Tati was voted the 46th greatest of all time...
  
  , film director and actor
• Marina Vlady
  Marina Vlady
  Marina Vlady is a French actress.She won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for The Conjugal Bed. From 1955 to 1959 she was married to actor/director Robert Hossein...
  
  , actress
• Léon Zitrone
  Léon Zitrone
  Léon Zitrone was a Russian-born French journalist and television presenter.- Biography :Léon Zitrone was born in Petrograd, Russia on 25 November 1914. He died on 25 November 1995, in Levallois-Perret ....
  
  , journalist

Armenia

• Simon Abkarian
  Simon Abkarian
  Simon Abkarian is a French-Armenian actor.Born in Gonesse, Val d'Oise, of Armenian descent, Abkarian spent his childhood in Lebanon. He moved to Los Angeles, where he joined an Armenian theater company managed by Gerald Papazian. He returned to France in 1985, settling in Paris...
  
  , actor
• Rosy Armen
  Rosy Armen
  Rosy Armen , born on May 1, is a French singer of Armenian descent. She is a multilingual singer, with most songs in French and Armenian, but also in English, German, Spanish and Italian.- Biography :...
  
  , singer
• Serge Avédikian
  Serge Avedikian
  Serge Avedikian , sometimes credited as Serje Avetikian, is an Armenian-French film and theatre actor, director, writer and producer, winner of Cannes Festival prize.-Early life:...
  
  , producer
• Charles Aznavour
  Charles Aznavour
  Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...
  
  , singer
• Édouard Balladur
  Édouard Balladur
  Édouard Balladur is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 29 March 1993 to 10 May 1995.-Biography:Balladur was born in İzmir, Turkey, to an Armenian Catholic family with five children and long-standing ties to France...
  
  , former Prime Minister
• Alain Boghossian
  Alain Boghossian
  Alain Boghossian is a retired French-Armenian football player and now assistant coach for the French national team.-Club career:...
  
  , soccer player
• Jean Carzou
  Jean Carzou
  Jean Carzou , born Garnik Zouloumian, was a French-Armenian artist. Jean arrived in Paris in 1924 to study architecture. He started working as a theater decorator but he then quickly realized he preferred drawing and painting...
  
  , painter
• Patrick Devedjian
  Patrick Devedjian
  Patrick Devedjian is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement party...
  
  , ministre
• Youri Djorkaeff
  Youri Djorkaeff
  Youri Raffi Djorkaeff is a former French international footballer who played as a forward or as an attacking midfielder. With the French national team, Djorkaeff won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000...
  
  , soccer player
• Patrick Fiori
  Patrick Fiori
  Patrick Fiori is a French singer.-Biography:Fiori was born to an Armenian father and a Corsican mother in Marseille, France. When he was only 12 years old, he was offered his first role in the musical La légende des santonniers...
  
  , singer
• Georges Garvarentz
  Georges Garvarentz
  Georges Garvarentz was an Armenian-French composer, noted for his music for Charles Aznavour's songs.-Biography:Georges Garvarents was born in Athens, Greece, to a family of Armenian immigrants...
  
  , composer
• Marie Laforêt
  Marie Laforêt
  Marie Laforêt is a French singer and actress, .In 1978 she moved to Geneva, Switzerland and took out Swiss nationality.-The sources of her birth name:...
  
  , actress
• Missak Manouchian
  Missak Manouchian
  Missak Manouchian was a French poet of Armenian birth, a militant communist in the MOI , and military commissioner of the FTP-MOI in the Paris region...
  
  
• André Manoukian
  André Manoukian
  André Manoukian, is an French-Armenian songwriter, arranger, and jazz musician.Since 2002, he is also one of the four judges in the French version of Pop Idol, Nouvelle Star.-Early years and education:...
  
  , composer, musician
• Alain Prost
  Alain Prost
  Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur is a French racing driver. A four-time Formula One Drivers' Champion, Prost has won more titles than any driver except for Juan Manuel Fangio , and Michael Schumacher . From 1987 until 2001 Prost held the record for most Grand Prix...
  
  , racing driver
• Hélène Ségara
  Hélène Ségara
  Hélène Ségara is a French female singer revealed in her interpretation of Esmeralda in the french musical Notre Dame de Paris.-Her childhood in the French Riviera:...
  
  , singer
• Henri Troyat
  Henri Troyat
  Henri Troyat was a Russian born French author, biographer, historian and novelist.-Biography:Troyat was born Lev Aslanovich Tarasov, in Moscow to parents of mixed heritage, including Armenian, Russian, German and Georgian...
  
  , writer
• Sylvie Vartan
  Sylvie Vartan
  Sylvie Vartan is a French singer. She was one of the first rock girls in France. Vartan was the most productive and active of the yé-yé style artists, considered as the toughest-sounding of those. Her performance often featured elaborate show-dance choreography. She made many appearances on French...
  
  , singer
• Henri Verneuil
  Henri Verneuil
  Henri Verneuil was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who enjoyed a successful career in France.-Biography:...
  
  , filmmaker
• Francis Veber
  Francis Veber
  Francis Paul Veber is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and theater playwright. Many of his French comedies feature recurring types of characters, named François Pignon and François Perrin...
  
  , filmmaker

Cameroon

• Dieudonné M'bala M'bala
  Dieudonné M'bala M'bala
  Dieudonné M'bala M'bala , generally known simply as Dieudonné, is a French comedian, actor and political activist....
  
  , humorist
• Yannick Noah
  Yannick Noah
  Yannick Noah is a former professional tennis player from France. He is best remembered for being the last French man to win the French Open in 1983, and as a highly-successful captain of France's Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams...
  
  , former tennis player and singer

Turkey

• Edouard Balladur
  Édouard Balladur
  Édouard Balladur is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 29 March 1993 to 10 May 1995.-Biography:Balladur was born in İzmir, Turkey, to an Armenian Catholic family with five children and long-standing ties to France...
  
  , prime minister
• Françoise Giroud
  Françoise Giroud
  Françoise Giroud, born France Gourdji was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer and politician.-Biography:...
  
  , writer
• Tchéky Karyo
  Tchéky Karyo
  -Early life:Karyo was born in Istanbul to a Greek mother and Sephardic-Jewish father and raised in Paris, France. He studied drama at the Cyrano Theatre and later became a member of the Daniel Sorano Company, playing many classical roles.-Career:...
  
  , actor
• Mathilda May
  Mathilda May
  Mathilda May is a French film actress.-Early life:May was born in Paris. Her father is playwright Victor Haïm, who is of Greek and Turkish descent. Her mother is Swedish ballet teacher and choreographer Margareta Hanson...
  
  , actress