Category
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Paul Verlaine
French poet (1844-1896)

Eric Cantona
French footballer and actor (born 1966)
Abraham de Moivre
French mathematician (*1667 – †1754)
Isabella of France
Queen consort of England

Ghislaine Maxwell
Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell is a British former socialite and convicted child sex offender. In 2021 she was convicted of child sex trafficking, and in 2022 was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Napoléon, Prince Imperial
French prince (1856–1879)

John Theophilus Desaguliers
French-born British natural philosopher and clergyman
E. D. Morel
British politician (1873-1924)

Jean Chardin
French jeweler, traveler and author
Cyrille Regis
English footballer (1958-2018)
Louise de Keroual, Duchess of Portsmouth
English and French noble (1649-1734)
Yvonne Furneaux
French actress (1926–2024)
Isaac Oliver
British painter (1556-1617)
Mohamed-Ali Cho
French-British footballer
Michel Roux
French chef
Lucien Pissarro
French painter (1863-1944)
Vernon Dobtcheff
British actor
Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway
British Army general
Arnold Dolmetsch
French musician and instrument maker in England (1858-1940)
Space Cowboy
British musician
Philip James de Loutherbourg
Franco-British painter of Swiss descent (1740–1812), born in Alsace region
Albert Roux
French-British chef and restaurateur (1935–2021)
Philip Hermogenes Calderon
British artist (1833-1898)
George Psalmanazar
French writer (1679–1763)
Ben Bocquelet
French-British animator, director, writer, and producer
J. B. Blanc
French actor
Alexis Soyer
French chef (1810–1858)

James Armand de Rothschild
French-born British politician and philanthropist (1878-1957)
Eugène Goossens
Belgian-French musician
Constance Wachtmeister
French-English Theosophist and countess
Gilles Peterson
French-Swiss DJ, record producer and radio presenter
Michel Maittaire
French classical scholar (1668–1747)
André Maranne
French actor
Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham
French noble
Dan Nlundulu
English, French and DR Congolese footballer footballer
Yvonne Arnaud
pianist, singer, actress (1890–1958)
Michel Mossessian
French architect
Elisabeth Beresford
English author of children's books, creator of The Wombles (1926–2010)

Louis Laguerre
French painter (1663-1721)
Pierre Allix
French Protestant pastor and author (1640-1717)

Arthur Fery
British tennis player
Abel Boyer
French-English lexicographer, journalist and writer
Simone Silva
French actress (1928-1957)
Peter Anthony Motteux
English writer
Ethel Léontine Gabain
British artist (1883-1950)
Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville
Catholic archbishop (1929–2007)
Pierre Coste
French theologian (1668-1747)
Augustus Charles Pugin
Anglo-French artist, architectural draughtsman, and writer on medieval architecture (1762-1832)
Elinor Sneshell
English barber surgeon
Claude Duval
French highwayman
Christopher Boyadji
French pair skater
Gladys Marie Deacon
second wife of Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough (1881-1977)
Nicholas Briot
French sculpteur and medalist (1579–1646)
Lewis de Beaumont
Bishop of Durham
Ernest Tassart
French fencer (1869–1930)
Fabienne Delsol
French singer

Henri Gascar
French painter (1635-1701)
Pierre des Maizeaux
French writer
Caroline Bergvall
French-norwegian author (born 1962)
Véronique Marot
British athlete