Statistics for 50 Famous People from France

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Military leader during the French Revolution and the first 'Emperor of the French'	Napoleon Bonaparte	89%
President of France since 2017	Emmanuel Macron	88%
Heroine of France for her role in the Hundred Years War	Joan of Arc	85%
The ruler of France, considered to be the longest ruling monarch in Europe	Louis XIV	85%
Author of the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame	Victor Hugo	85%
Statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II	Charles de Gaulle	80%
French fashion designer and businesswoman in the post-World War I era	Coco Chanel	78%
Author of the novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth	Jules Verne	77%
Actress known as one of the sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s	Brigitte Bardot	76%
FIFA World Player of the Year in 1998, 2000 and 2003	Zinedine Zidane	75%
Painter whose most famous paintings include the Waterlily pond in Giverny	Claude Monet	72%
Author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas	70%
Architect and engineer, designed the famous tower for the world expo in Paris	Gustave Eiffel	70%
President of France from 1981 until 1995	Francois Mitterrand	67%
Star of the movie Léon: The Professional	Jean Reno	67%
Scientist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination	Louis Pasteur	67%
Nominated for Oscar for Best Actor for movie Cyrano de Bergerac	Gerard Depardieu	65%
One of the best football players in the world who plays for PSG since 2017	Kylian Mbappé	65%
The architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror	Maximilien Robespierre	65%
Founder of fashion brand of leather goods	Louis Vuitton	64%
His best known philosophical statement is "cogito, ergo sum"	Rene Descartes	63%
Author of The Stranger	Albert Camus	61%
Philosopher famous for his criticism of the Roman Catholic Church	Voltaire	60%
Naval officer and explorer who studied the sea and all forms of life in water	Jacques Cousteau	58%
Four-time Formula One Drivers' Champion	Alain Prost	57%
Actress who won Oscar for Best Actress for playing in the movie La Vie en Rose	Marion Cotillard	57%
Composer and pianist of the famous Bolero	Maurice Ravel	56%
Astrologer, physician and reputed seer, best known for his book Les Prophéties	Nostradamus	54%
Actor, director and footballer who played for Manchester United	Eric Cantona	53%
DJ who performed the official song for the UEFA 2016	David Guetta	52%
Footballer who won the Ballon d'Or three times, in 1983, 1984 and 1985	Michel Platini	52%
Writer of The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupery	51%
First French actor who won Academy Award for Best Actor (The Artist)	Jean Dujardin	49%
Author of Tartuffe, ‎Don Juan and ‎The Misanthrope	Moliere	47%
Played 17 seasons for San Antonio Spurs in the NBA	Tony Parker	43%
Actress who won Oscar for playing in The English Patient	Juliette Binoche	42%
Unit of pressure was named after him.	Blaise Pascal	41%
One of Europe's most prominent actors and screen sex symbols in 1960s and 1970s	Alain Delon	39%
International singer-songwriter and cabaret performer	Edith Piaf	39%
Actress who played Amélie Poulain in 2001 movie	Audrey Tautou	36%
Director or producer of the films The Big Blue and La Femme Nikita	Luc Besson	32%
One of the biggest French film stars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s	Jean-Paul Belmondo	31%
Actress who played in Braveheart and The World Is Not Enough	Sophie Marceau	31%
Painter who created Woman with a Hat, The Joy of Life and Nu bleu	Henri Matisse	30%
Painter who is considered as a bridge between Impressionism and Cubism	Paul Cezanne	28%
First person who mapped the St Lawrence River in Northern America.	Jacques Cartier	26%
Racer who won World Rally Championship a record 9 times in a row	Sebastien Loeb	26%
Composer with one of his most famous works the Mazurka	Claude Debussy	24%
Author of the novel Father Goriot	Honore de Balzac	24%
Regarded as one of the greatest players in handball history	Nikola Karabatic	24%