List of French people of immigrant origin

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Below are lists of famous French people of immigrant origin (at least one great-grandparent).

Algeria[]

Actors and filmmakers
Isabelle Adjani
Dany Boon
Sofia Boutella
  • Kev Adams, actor
  • Isabelle Adjani, actress
  • Daniel Auteuil, actor
  • Jean-Pierre Bacri, actor
  • Leïla Bekhti, actress
  • Yamina Benguigui, film director, Junior Minister for French Nationals Abroad and Relations with La Francophonie (French-speaking 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
  • Alain Chabat, comedian, film director, scriptwriter and producer
  • Élie Chouraqui, film director, producer and scriptwriter
  • Gérard Darmon, actor
  • Samir Guesmi, actor
  • Roger Hanin, actor filmmaker
  • Hafsia Herzi, actress
  • Salim Kechiouche, actor
  • Claude Lelouch, film director, producer, scriptwriter and actor
  • Jalil Lespert, actor
  • Maïwenn, actress, film director
  • Kad Merad, actor
  • Samy Naceri, actor
  • Marie-José Nat, actress
  • Mehdi Nebbou, actor
  • Safy Nebbou, actor
  • Daniel Prévost, actor and comedian
  • Tahar Rahim, actor
  • Sabrina Ouazani, actress
  • Samy Seghir, actor
  • Zinedine Soualem, actor
  • Michaël Youn, actor
  • Malik Zidi, actor
Singers and musicians
Amel Bent
Jenifer
  • Chimène Badi, singer
  • Amel Bent, singer
  • Cheb Mami, singer
  • Chico Bouchikhi, singer, co-founder of the Gipsy Kings
  • Patrick Bruel, singer
  • Étienne Daho, singer
  • DJ Mam's, DJ, music producer
  • DJ Snake, DJ
  • Quentin Elias, singer, part of Alliage
  • Kenza Farah, singer
  • Faudel, singer
  • Indila, singer
  • Jenifer, singer
  • Camélia Jordana, singer
  • Khaled, singer
  • Sheryfa Luna, singer
  • Slimane, singer
  • Enrico Macias, singer
  • Médine, rapper
  • Marcel Mouloudji, poet and singer
  • Merwan Rim, singer
  • Martial Solal, jazz pianist
Sportsmen
Zinedine Zidane
Samir Nasri
Others
Rachida Dati
  • Fadela Amara, Secretary of State
  • Kader Arif, Junior Minister for Veterans at the French Ministry of Defence
  • Jacques Attali, economist, writer
  • Amin Maalouf, author
  • Alain Bashung, author, composer, performer and comedian
  • Azouz Begag, writer and politician
  • Nabilla Benattia, reality TV personality
  • Nina Bouraoui, writer
  • Hélène Cixous, writer
  • Annie Cohen-Solal, writer
  • Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, physicist, Nobel Prize (1997)
  • Jean-François Copé, politician
  • Rachida Dati, Minister of Justice
  • Jacques Derrida, philosopher
  • Julien Dray, politician
  • Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, journalist
  • Bernard-Henri Lévy, writer and philosopher
  • Arnaud Montebourg, France's Minister of Industrial Renewal since May 2012[1]
  • Benjamin Stora, historian

Argentina[]

Bérénice Bejo

Armenia[]

Charles Aznavour
Hélène Ségara

Australia[]

Austria[]

Marie Antoinette
  • Marie Antoinette, last queen of France, from 1774 until 1792
  • Nora Arnezeder, actress
  • Yael Grobglas, actress
  • Romy Schneider, actress
  • Erich von Stroheim, actor

Bangladesh[]

  • Zamor, servant of Madame du Barry

Belgium[]

Johnny Hallyday
  • Booba, rapper
  • Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, dauphine of France
  • Raymond Devos, humorist
  • Fiona Ferro, tennis player
  • David Guetta, house music DJ
  • Johnny Hallyday, singer
  • Pierre Louÿs, poet and writer
  • Olivier Minne, television presenter
  • Iris Mittenaere, Miss France 2016
  • Agnès Varda, film director

Benin[]

Flora Coquerel

Bermuda[]

Bosnia[]

  • Josiane Balasko, actress

Brazil[]

Florent Amodio

Bulgaria[]

Sylvie Vartan
  • Tzvetan Todorov, essayist and historian
  • Sylvie Vartan, singer

Cambodia[]

Cameroon[]

Kylian Mbappé

Canada[]

Garou

Cape Verde[]

Patrice Evra
  • Patrice Evra, footballer
  • Lisandro Cuxi, singer
  • Sara Martins, actress

Central Africa Republic[]

Chile[]

  • Sergio Coronado, politician
  • Jena Lee, singer
  • Marisol Touraine, politician

China[]

Frédéric Chau

Comores[]

  • Rohff, rapper
  • Soprano, singer

Congo, Democratic Republic of the[]

Maître Gims

Congo, Republic of the[]

Croatia[]

Josiane Belsako

Cuba[]

Marie de Régnier

Cyprus[]

Denmark[]

  • Anna Karina, actress
  • Ingeborg of Denamrk, queen of France in 1193

Egypt[]

Indila
  • Richard Anthony, singer
  • Guy Béart, author, composer and performer
  • Emmanuelle Béart, actress
  • Andrée Chedid, poet and novelist
  • Louis Chedid, singer
  • Matthieu Chedid, author, composer, and rock performer
  • Indila, singer
  • Nagui, TV and radio personality

England[]

Emma Watson
Olivia de Havilland
  • Jane Birkin, actress
  • Claudette Colbert, actress
  • Nancy Cunard, writer
  • Deanna Durbin, actress and singer
  • Henrietta of England, English princess
  • James FitzJames, military leader and son of James II of England
  • Emma, Lady Hamilton, model and actress
  • Olivia de Havilland, actress
  • Delilah, singer
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg, actress
  • François Grosjean, psycholinguist and specialist on bilingualism
  • Louise de Kérouaille, mistress of Charles II of England
  • Emily Loizeau, singer
  • Michael Lonsdale, actor
  • Alexis Michalik, actor
  • Diana Mitford, socialite
  • Jeanne Moreau, actress and singer
  • Oswald Mosley, politician
  • Charlotte Rampling, actress
  • Matthew Raymond-Barker, singer
  • Louisa Maria Stuart, princess, daughter of James II of England
  • Peter Townsend, Royal Air Force officer
  • Uffie, singer
  • Lucy Walter, mistress of Charles II of England
  • Emma Watson, actress
  • Eadgifu of Wessex, queen of France

Fiji[]

Georgia[]

Germany[]

Jean-Jacques Goldman
Madame Palatine
  • Isabelle Adjani, actress
  • Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, princess
  • Anne Henriette of Bavaria, princess
  • Isabeau of Bavaria, queen of France from 1385 until 1422
  • Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria, dauphine of France
  • Sophie Charlotte of Bavaria, duchess consort of Alençon
  • Daniel Cohn-Bendit, politician
  • Laurent Fabius, politician
  • Claire Feuerstein, tennis player
  • Marina Foïs, actress
  • Jean-Jacques Goldman, singer
  • Antoine Griezmann, footballer
  • Robert Guédiguian, film director
  • Adèle Haenel, actress
  • Stéphane Hessel, diplomat, writer
  • Patricia Kaas, singer
  • Gérard Lenorman, singer
  • Louane, singer
  • Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Crown Princess
  • Jacques Offenbach, composer and cellist
  • Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern, count
  • Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine, princess
  • Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate, princess, abbess and painter
  • Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, princess
  • Gerberga of Saxony, queen of France from 939 to 954
  • Romy Schneider, actress
  • Albert Schweitzer, theologian, organist and writer
  • Gertrude Stein, novelist, poet and playwright
  • Wendelin Werner, mathematician

Greece[]

Nikos Aliagas

Guinea[]

Paul Pogba
  • Black M, rapper
  • Mohamed Sylla, rapper
  • Paul Pogba, footballer

Haiti[]

Alexandre Dumas

Hungary[]

Nicolas Sarkozy
  • Lorànt Deutsch, actor and writer
  • Clementia of Hungary, queen of France from 1315 until 1316
  • Mathieu Kassovitz, film director
  • Nicolas Sarkozy, French president
  • Sylvie Vartan, singer

India[]

Indonesia[]

  • Anggun, singer

Iran[]

Golshifteh Farahani
  • Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, queen of Iran from 1951 until 1958
  • Golshifteh Farahani, actress
  • Robert Hossein, actor, filmmaker
  • Yasmina Reza, filmmaker
  • Aravane Rezaï, tennis player
  • Marjane Satrapi, cartoonist and film director

Ireland[]

Oscar Wilde
  • Samuel Beckett, novelist and writer
  • Anastasia Griffith, actress
  • Margaret Kelly, dancer
  • Jeanne Moreau, actress
  • Marie-Louise O'Murphy, mistress of Louis XV
  • Oscar Wilde, writer

Israel[]

  • Tal, singer

Italy[]

Jules Bianchi
Edith Piaf
Dalida
Catherine de'Medici
Emile Zola
  • Roberto Alagna, tenor
  • Jean Alesi, racing driver
  • Claude Bartolone, President of the National Assembly
  • Jean-Paul Belmondo, actor
  • Jules Bianchi, motor racing driver
  • Caroline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon and queen of Naples from 1808 to 1815
  • Elisa Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon and duchess of Toscany from 1809 to 1814
  • Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon and king of Westphalia from 1807 to 1813
  • Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon and king of Spain from 1808 to 1813
  • Letizia Bonaparte, noblewoman and mother of Napoleon
  • Louis Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon and king of Holland from 1806 to 1810
  • Lucien Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon
  • Pauline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon and duchess of Guastalla in 1806
  • Napoleon Bonaparte, statesman and military leader
  • Maria Carolina of Bourbon Two-Sicilies, princess
  • Georges Brassens, singer
  • Carla Bruni, singer and ex-First Lady of France
  • Carlo Buonaparte, lawyer, diplomat and father of Napoleon
  • Calogero, singer
  • Laetitia Casta, actress and model
  • François Cavanna, writer
  • Francis Cabrel, singer
  • Lorenzo Callegari, football player
  • Philippe Candeloro, patineur
  • Eric Cantona, actor and footballer
  • Concino Concini, politician
  • Nicolas Cozza, football player
  • Dalida, singer
  • Edgar Degas, artist
  • Leonora Dori, courtier
  • Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este, princess
  • Laurence Ferrari, journalist
  • Léo Ferré, singer
  • Aurélie Filippetti, Minister of Culture and Communication
  • Geneviève Fioraso, Minister of Higher Education and Research
  • Marina Foïs, actress
  • Florence Foresti, comedian and actress
  • Raymond Forni, politician
  • Claude François, singer
  • Joseph Gallieni, marshal of France
  • Max Gallo, writer and historian
  • Léon Gambetta, politician and statesman
  • Emma of Italy, queen of France from 965 until 986
  • Rozala of Italy, queen of France from 988 until 996
  • Fabrice Luchini, actor
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer
  • Elsa Lunghini, singer
  • Gilles Marini, actor
  • Anne Marie Martinozzi, aristocrat
  • Chiara Mastroianni, actress
  • Cardinal Mazarin, cardinal, diplomat and politician
  • Catherine de'Medici, queen of France from 1547 until 1559
  • Marie de' Medici, queen of France from 1600 until 1610
  • Amedeo Modigliani, painter
  • Yves Montand (Ivo Livi), actor
  • Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, queen of France from 1830 until 1848
  • Edith Piaf, singer
  • Michel Platini, soccer player
  • Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, dauphine of France
  • Hélène Ségara, actress
  • Sylvie Testud, actress
  • Albert Uderzo, writer, humorist and cartoonist, creator of Asterix
  • Valentina Visconti, duchess consort of Orléans
  • Mario Zatelli, footabller
  • Émile Zola, writer

Ivory Coast[]

Didier Drogba

Jamaica[]

Japan[]

Kenzo Takada

Lebanon[]

Mika
  • Louis Chedid, singer, songwriter
  • Matthieu Chedid, aka -M-, rock guitarist
  • Gilbert Collard, writer, barrister and politician; one of his great grandfathers, Fatallah Tarrazi, was from Lebanon
  • Carlos Ghosn, chairman and CEO of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance
  • Eid Hourany, nuclear physicist
  • Antoine Karam, politician, President of the Regional Council of French Guiana
  • Vénus Khoury-Ghata, writer, poet
  • Thomas Langmann, film producer, actor of Lebanese Jewish descent
  • Amin Maalouf, author, novelist
  • Ibrahim Maalouf, musician, trumpet player, composer
  • Pierre-Antoine Melki, aka Nius, music producer
  • Mika (singer), singer

Lithuania[]

Michel Hazanavicius
  • Joseph Kessel, writer
  • Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher
  • Michel Hazanavicius, film director

Mali[]

Mauritius[]

Willy William

Mexico[]

Moldova[]

Morocco[]

Jamel Debbouze
Gad Elmaleh
Amir

Netherlands[]

Vincent van Gogh
  • Mata Hari, exotic dancer and a spy
  • Tony Parker, basketball player
  • Vincent van Gogh, painter
  • Bertha of Holland, queen of France from 1072 until 1092
  • Ary Scheffer, painter

New Zealand[]

  • Katherine Mansfield, writer

Norway[]

  • Eva Joly, politician and former judge
  • Alexis Pinturault, alpine ski racer
  • Yann Tiersen, musician

Peru[]

  • Jorge Chávez, aviator
  • Elodie Frenck, actress
  • Flora Tristan, socialist writer and activist

Philippines[]

  • Alphonse Areola, footballer

Poland[]

M. Pokora
Juliette Binoche
Guillaume Apollinaire
  • Guillaume Apollinaire, writer
  • Robert Badinter, lawyer, academic, essayist and politician
  • Stephane Bern, journalist, radio host and television presentator
  • Claude Berri, film director
  • Juliette Binoche, actress
  • Marie-George Buffet, politician
  • Frédéric Chopin, pianist
  • Eve Curie, writer
  • Marie Curie, physicist and chemist
  • Alain Finkielkraut, philosopher, writer and essayist
  • Jean-Pierre Foucault, television personality
  • Judith Godrèche, actress
  • Jean-Jacques Goldman, singer
  • René Goscinny, writer, humorist, known around the world for the Asterix books
  • Władysław Czartoryski, noble
  • Constance Jablonski, model
  • Michel Jazy, middle distance runner
  • Irène Joliot-Curie, scientist
  • Raymond Kopa, football player
  • Laurent Koscielny, football player
  • Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, politician
  • Marie Leszczyńska, queen of France from 1725 until 1768
  • Louane, singer
  • Jean-Marie Lustiger, Archbishop of Paris
  • Frédéric Michalak, rugby player
  • Alexis Michalik, actor
  • Jean-Pierre Mocky, film director
  • Natoo, YouTuber
  • Ludovic Obraniak, football player
  • Damien Perquis, football player
  • M. Pokora, singer
  • Roman Polanski, film director
  • Michel Poniatowski, politician
  • Catherine Ringer, singer
  • Maria Josepha of Saxony, dauphine of France
  • Simone Signoret, actress
  • Marie Walewska, noblewoman and mistress of Napoleon I
  • Michel Wieviorka, sociologue
  • Georges Wolinski, cartoonist and comics writer

Portugal[]

Antoine Griezmann
  • Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, musician (Daft Punk member)
  • Linda de Suza, singer
  • Kevin Gameiro, footballer
  • Antoine Griezmann, footballer
  • Louane, singer
  • Marie Myriam, singer
  • Morgan Parra, rugby player
  • Robert Pires, footballer
  • Lisandro Cuxi, singer

Romania[]

Michèle Laroque

Russia[]

Serge Gainsbourg
Pom Klementieff
  • Irina Alexandrovna, Russian princess
  • Natalia Brasova, Russian noblewoman
  • Amira Casar, actress
  • Carlos, singer
  • Marc Chagall, painter
  • Joe Dassin, singer
  • Catherine Dolgorukov, mistress of tsar Alexander II of Russia
  • François Feldman, singer
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg, actress
  • Serge Gainsbourg, singer, poet, actor and director
  • Judith Godrèche, actress
  • Olga Khokhlova, ballet dancer
  • Pom Klementieff, actress
  • Olga Kurylenko, actress
  • Rudolf Nureyev, dancer
  • Gérard Oury, film director
  • Léon Poliakov, historian
  • Michel Polnareff, singer
  • Maxime Rodinson, historian
  • Thierry Roland, TV commentator
  • Nathalie Sarraute, writer
  • Jacques Tati, film director and actor
  • Marina Vlady, actress
  • Felix Yusupov, Russian aristocrat
  • Irina Yusupova, Russian princess
  • Léon Zitrone, journalist

Rwanda[]

Sonia Rolland
  • Sonia Rolland, actress and Miss France 2000

Scotland[]

Senegal[]

Omar Sy
  • Booba, rapper
  • Patrice Evra, footballer
  • Bafétimbi Gomis, footballer
  • Aïssa Maïga, actress
  • Benjamin Mendy, footballer
  • MC Solaar, rap and hip hop artist
  • Omar Sy, actor
  • Patrick Vieira, footballer
  • Rama Yade, politician

Serbia[]

Kristina Mladenovic

South Africa[]

South Korea[]

Joachim Son-Forget

Spain[]

Albert Camus
Manuel Valls
Astrid Bergès-Frisbey
Anne of Austria
  • Anne of Austria, queen of France from 1615 until 1643
  • Ruben Aguilar, footballer
  • Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, actress
  • Albert Camus, Nobel Prize-winning author
  • Eric Cantona, actor and footballer
  • Blanche of Castile, queen of France from 1223 until 1226
  • Manu Chao, singer and musician
  • Raymond Domenech, former Manager of the French national soccer team
  • Anh Duong, actress and model
  • Luis Fernández, football player
  • Louis de Funès, actor
  • José Garcia, actor
  • Lucas Hernandez, footballer
  • Theo Hernandez, footballer
  • Anne Hidalgo, politician
  • Raphaël Ibañez, rugby player
  • Virginie Ledoyen, actress
  • Frédéric Lopez, television host
  • Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of France from 1660 until 1683
  • Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain, dauphine of France
  • Maria Malibran, mezza-soprano
  • Olivier Martinez, actor
  • Jean-Luc Mélenchon, politician
  • Eugénie de Montijo, the last Empress of France from 1853 until 1870
  • La Belle Otero, actress and dancer
  • Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor
  • Paloma Picasso, fashion designer
  • Robert Pires, footballer
  • David Pujadas, journalist
  • Jean Reno, actor
  • Olivia Ruiz, singer
  • Jaime Semprún, essayist and translator
  • Fernando Sor, guitarist and composer
  • André Téchiné, film director
  • Mathieu Valbuena, footballer
  • Manuel Valls, French Socialist Party (PS) politician, Minister of the Interior
  • Ray Ventura, jazz bandleader
  • Pauline Viardot, mezza-soprano

Sweden[]

Eva Green
  • Eva Green, actress
  • Mathilda May, actress
  • Max von Sydow, actor

Switzerland[]

  • Benjamin Constant, activist and writer
  • Fabrice Ehret, football player
  • Joseph Favre, chef
  • Françoise Giroud, journalist, writer ans politician
  • Eugène Grasset, artist
  • Jean-Luc Godard, film director
  • Romain Grosjean, racing driver
  • Le Corbusier, architect
  • Jean-Paul Marat, journalist and politician during French Revolution
  • Quentin Mosimann, musician
  • Jacques Necker, banker
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, writer and composer

Thailand[]

Togo[]

Tunisia[]

Danny Brillant
Michel Boujenah
  • Ary Abittan, actor
  • Kev Adams, actor
  • Sami Bouajila, actor
  • Michel Boujenah, humorist
  • Dany Brillant, singer
  • Georges Cravenne, founder of the César Award
  • Marcel Dadi, guitar player
  • Hamida Djandoubi, murderer and last person executed in France
  • Gisèle Halimi, lawyer
  • Serge Halimi, journalist
  • Cyril Hanouna, television presenter, producer and comedian
  • Agnès Jaoui, actress
  • David Jemmali, soccer player
  • Abdellatif Kechiche, film director
  • Lââm, singer
  • Pierre Lellouche, politician
  • Didier Marouani, composer and musician
  • Albert Memmi, writer
  • Serge Moati, journalist and film director
  • Yael Naim, singer
  • Dominique Strauss-Kahn, politician
  • Ariel Zeitoun, film director, scriptwriter and producer
  • Tunisiano, rapper

Turkey[]

Tchéky Karyo

Ukraine[]

United States[]

Lily-Rose Depp
Tony Parker
Edgar Degas
  • Josephine Baker, dancer
  • Mickey Baker, guitarist
  • Sylvia Beach, bookseller
  • Sidney Bechet, jazz saxophonist
  • Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, actress
  • Leos Carax, film director
  • Leslie Caron, actress
  • Natalie Clifford Barney, writer
  • Alexa Davalos, actress
  • Edgar Degas, artist
  • Lily-Rose Depp, actress
  • Isadora Duncan, dancer
  • Carole Fredericks, singer
  • Loïe Fuller, dancer
  • Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, socialite
  • Guy Georges, serial killer
  • Franz-Olivier Giesbert, television presenter
  • Anastasia Griffith, actress
  • Rosella Hightower, dancer
  • Andrea King, actress
  • Brice Lelonde, politician
  • Tonie Marshall, film director
  • Chloé Mortaud, actress and Miss France 2009
  • Tony Parker, basketball player
  • Mary Pierce, tennis player
  • Man Ray, painter and photographer
  • Nina Simone, singer
  • Yeardley Smith, actress and voice actress
  • Gertrude Stein, novelist, poet and playwright

Uruguay[]

Venezuela[]

  • Serge Blanco, former rugby union footballer
  • Marisol Escobar, sculptor

Vietnam[]

Linh Dan Pham

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ « Berbéritude républicaine»
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