People from France
21 people remembered here.
Alain Delon1935 – 2024 · ActorFrench cinema icon; Le Samourai, Purple Noon, The Leopard.
462 candles · 44 tributes
Édouard Balladur1929 – 2026 · EconomistFrench prime minister from 1993 to 1995, the courteous technocrat of the second cohabitation.
412 candles · 10 tributes
Coco Chanel1883 – 1971 · Fashion designerFashion fades, only style remains the same.
191 candles · 12 tributes
Marie Curie1867 – 1934 · Physicist and chemistNothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
129 candles · 13 tributes
Philippe Bouvard1929 – 2026 · JournalistFather of Les Grosses Tetes. 60 years on RTL. Wit that never retired.
95 candles · 5 tributes
Jean-François Leroy1956 – 2026 · PhotojournalistHe made Perpignan a beacon: go and see, never look away.
91 candles · 4 tributes
Michel Paulin1933 – 2026 · ActorNarrator of Les Mystérieuses Cités d'or; French voice of Chinatown's Jake Gittes.
87 candles · 4 tributes
Didier Decoin1945 – 2026 · NovelistGoncourt storyteller; Cotentin sea; high idea of language.
87 candles · 9 tributes
Yves Brunier1941 – 2026 · puppeteerThe man inside Casimir, France's gentle orange dinosaur.
71 candles · 7 tributes
Mireille Calle-Gruber1945 – 2026 · Literary criticCritic and professor who kept Claude Simon, Butor and the créatrices vividly alive.
65 candles · 9 tributes
Francois Rosse1945 – 2026 · ComposerAlsatian-born composer and pianist who treated improvisation as a way of thinking composition.
64 candles · 8 tributes
Charles Josselin1938 – 2026 · PoliticianBreton socialist who renamed the Côtes-d'Armor and beat Big Oil.
63 candles · 7 tributes
Yvette Roudy1929 – 2026 · PoliticianFrance's first women's rights minister. She made abortion reimbursable and wrote equality into working life.
52 candles · 8 tributes
Jean-Pierre Clar1942 – 2026 · Rugby league lock/loose forward (later hooker)Villeneuve XIII legend; France RL World Cup finalist 1968; champion at XV and XIII.
42 candles · 6 tributes
Michel Fano1929 – 2026 · ComposerHe taught cinema to listen as one composition.
41 candles · 5 tributes
Husky Kihal1961 – 2026 · Actor (cinemaHenri Fournier of Astrid et Raphaelle, who made the morgue human.
37 candles · 9 tributes
Tony Gatlif1948 – 2026 · Film directorHe filmed music, exile and freedom until the road ran out. Latcho drom.
0 candles · 0 tributes
Jean-Paul Rappeneau1932 – 2026 · Film directorHe made French cinema gallop: Cyrano, screwball grace, and the art of the fugue.
0 candles · 0 tributes