- Samir Nasri
Samir Nasri (born 26 June 1987 in Marseille) is a French attacking midfielder. He is Algerian by ethnicity and like many other soccer stars in France comes from a family of immigrants who had settled in France. - Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane, popularly nicknamed Zizou, is a French former football midfielder who played for four European clubs, including Juventus FC and Real Madrid. As a member and later captain of the French national team he participated in two World Cup finals - including winning the tournament in 1998 - and in three European Championships, winning that tournament in 2000. Having gained fame in Europe as a playmaker for Juventus, … - Eric Cantona
Éric Daniel Pierre Cantona is a French former footballer of the late 1980s and 1990s. He ended his professional footballing career at Manchester United where he won four Premiership titles in five years, including two League and FA Cup "doubles". Cantona is often regarded as having played a major talismanic role in the revival of Manchester United as a footballing powerhouse and he enjoys iconic status at the club. In 2001 he was voted their player of the century, … - Jean-Claude Izzo
Jean-Claude Izzo (June 20, 1945 - January 1, 2000) was a French poet, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist who achieved sudden fame in the mid-1990s with the publication of his three detective novels, "Total Kheops", "Chourmo", and "Solea", widely known as the Marseilles Trilogy, featuring as protagonist ex-cop Fabio Montale, and set in the author's native city of Marseille. All have been translated into English by Howard Curtis. - Rolland Courbis
Rolland Courbis (born 12 August, 1953 is a French former football defender, currently managing Montpellier HSC. - Adolphe Thiers
Louis Adolphe Thiers (Marseille, April 16, 1797-September 3 1877) was a French politician and historian. Thiers was a prime minister under King Louis-Philippe of France. Following the overthrow of the Second Empire he again came to prominence as the French leader who suppressed the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871. From 1871 to 1873 he served initially as "Head of State" (effectively a provisional President of France), then provisional President. - Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier, was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, sculptor, and one of the most gifted and prolific draftsmen of his time. - Frédéric Dutoit
Frédéric Dutoit is a French politician from the French Communist Party. - Désirée Clary
Desideria, Queen of Sweden and Norway (November 8, 1777 - December 17, 1860) was the wife of King Charles XIV of Sweden and a one-time fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte. She was born in Marseille, France, the daughter of François Clary (1725-1794), a wealthy silk manufacturer and merchant, and his wife Françoise Rose Somis (1737-1815). Her sister, Julie Clary, married Joseph Bonaparte, and later became Queen of Naples and Spain. - Joseph Autran
Joseph Autran (June 20 1813 - March 6 1877) was a French poet - Sébastien Grosjean
Sébastien René Grosjean (born May 29, 1978, Marseille, France) is a professional tennis player from France. He currently resides in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, where he trains at the Evert tennis academy. His career-high ATP Entry ranking is No. 4 (achieved on October 28, 2002). - Louis Jourdan
Louis Jourdan (* June 19, 1919 in Marseilles; bourgeois name Louis Gendre ) is a French actor. Jourdan grew up in France, Turkey and England and was at the Ecole Dramatique in Paris for the actor trained. His first appearance as a movie actor, he had 1939. During the Second World War he turned to movies, until he was asked to propaganda films of the Nazis cooperate, he dismissed the call back and joined the Resistance to. - Frank Leboeuf
Frank Leboeuf (sometimes Franck or Lebœuf<sup>(1)</sup>; born January 22, 1968 in Bouches-du-Rhône near Marseille) is a former French football (soccer) defender. With the French national team, Leboeuf won the 1998 FIFA World Cup. After starting his career in 1986 in the lower divisions of the French league, Leboeuf moved to Laval in 1988. In 1991, he moved to Strasbourg and played there until 1996, … - André Roussin
André Roussin, was a French playwright. Born in Marseille, he was elected to the Académie française April 12, 1973. - Romain Barnier
Romain Barnier (born May 10, 1976 in Marseille) is a freestyle swimmer from France, who won the bronze medal in the 100m Freestyle at the European SC Championships 2001. He competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 2000. - Paul Mauriat
Paul Mauriat (Marseille, 4 March 1925 - 3 November 2006 in Perpignan) was a French orchestra leader, specializing in light music. He is best known in the United States for his hit (#1 for 5 weeks in 1968) recording of AndrA Popp 's "L'Amour est bleu" , originally recorded by Vicky Leandros . Mauriat grew up in Marseilles and began leading his own band during the Second World War. - Charles-Joseph-Eugene de Mazenod
Saint Eugene de Mazenod (August 1 1782-May 21 1861) commonly known as Eugene de Mazenod, was a French Catholic clergyman, canonised by Pope John Paul II in 1995. - Marc Panther
real name, is a rapper, singer, and co-producer born on February 27, 1970 in Marseille, France. His father is French and his mother is Japanese, and he goes by Marc Jule Pinsonnat in France. He is a member of the JPop groups globe and 245. He currently lives with his family in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. He is also sometimes credited as Marc. - David Vuillemin
David Vuillemin is a French professional motocross rider born on October 18, 1977 in Berre-l'Étang, France, near Marseille. - Georges Chappe
Georges Chappe is a retired cyclist from France, who was nicknamed "Jojo" during his professional career. He was a professional from 1965 to 1975. In 1970 he won the Critérium International. - Pavlos Melas
Pavlos Melas was an officer of the Hellenic Army, and he was among the first who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia. He was born in Marseilles, France in a family with origin from Northern Epirus (present day Albania). Melas, with the cooperation of Kastorian Ion Dragoumis, consul of Greece in then Ottoman occupied Monastir (now Bitola), Christos Kottas, or in original Kote Hristov (Macedonian-Slav renegade from VMRO) and Germanos Karavangelis, … - Laurent Merlin
Laurent Merlin (born September 17, 1984 in Marseille, France) is a French youth international currently at MLS team, Chivas USA. Merlin is a centre forward. Merlin started his career as a youngster with the Olympique de Marseille reserve team, where he quickly progressed into the senior squad and earned two caps over two seasons with the seniors. He was then snapped up by Corsica based French league team, AC Ajaccio. - Julie Clary
Julie Bonaparte, Queen Consort of Naples, Queen Consort of Spain (December 26, 1771 - April 7, 1845) was the daughter of François Clary (1725-1794), a wealthy Marseille silk merchant, and his second wife Françoise Rose Somis (1737-1815). On August 1, 1794 at Cuges she married Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoléon Bonaparte, and later King of Naples and King of Spain. - Pierre Paul Puget
Pierre Paul Puget (October 31, 1622 - December 2, 1694) was a French painter, sculptor, architect and engineer - Patrick Blondeau
Patrick Blondeau (born January 27, 1968 in Marseille) is a French former international footballer. - Folquet de Marselha
Folquet de Marselha, alternatively Folquet de Marseille, Foulques de Toulouse, Fulk of Toulouse (b. circa 1150 - d. 25 December 1231) came from a Genoese merchant family who lived in Marseille. Initially famed as a troubadour, he began composing songs in the 1170s and was known to Raymond Geoffrey II of Marseille, Richard Coeur de Lion, Raymond V of Toulouse, Raimond-Roger of Foix, … - Benjamin Gavanon
Benjamin Gavanon (born August 91980) is a French professional football (soccer) player, currently with AS Nancy. Born in a suburb of Marseille, Gavanon started his career at his local club, Olympique de Marseille. However, Gavanon found it difficult to break into the Marseille first team, and played a total of seven minutes in six years as a professional at at the club. At the end of his time at Marseille, Gavanon spent a spell on loan at English club Nottingham Forest, … - France Nuyen
France Nuyen is a French actress. She was born in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France as France Nguyen Van-Nga. Her mother was French and her father was Vietnamese; French is Nuyen's first language and she speaks no Asian languages. During the Second World War, her mother and grandfather were persecuted by the Nazis for being Gypsies. She was raised in Marseille by a cousin, … - Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès
Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès, French politician, fought on the barricades during the revolution of July. He was a keen promoter of reform, and was a leading spirit in the affair of the reform banquet fixed for February 22 1848. He was a member of the provisional government of 1848, and was named mayor of Paris. On March 5, 1848 he was made minister of finance, and incurred great unpopularity by the imposition of additional taxes. - Roger Garaudy
Roger Garaudy or Ragaa (born July 17, 1913, in Marseille) is a French author and Muslim convert who drew public attention for his stance and writings as a Holocaust denier. - Pascal Payet
Pascal Payet is a French criminal who has gained notoriety for his daring prison escapes using helicopters. He was initially sentenced to a 30 year jail term for a murder committed during the robbery of a security van. - Hamida Djandoubi
Hamida Djandoubi (c. 1949-10 September, 1977) was the last person to be guillotined in France, at Baumettes Prison in Marseille. He was a Tunisian immigrant who had been convicted of the torture and murder of 21-year-old Elisabeth Bousquet, his former girlfriend, in Marseille. Marcel Chevalier served as chief executioner. Born in Tunisia around 1949, Djandoubi started living and working in Marseille, France in 1968, as a packer. - Georges Santos
Georges Santos (born 15 August, 1970 in Marseille) is a French-born Cape Verde professional football player who plays as a defender and is currently without a club. He most recently played for Oxford United on loan from Brighton & Hove Albion. Santos turned professional with Toulon, before moving to England to join Tranmere. On transfer-deadline day in 1999-2000 he moved to West Bromwich Albion, and helped the club preserve their Division One status. - Ibrahim Ali
Ibrahim Ali (1978 - 1995) was a seventeen-year-old French-man with Comorian origins killed in Marseille, France, on February 21 1995. He was walking with a group of ten other young men in Marseilles' XVth arrondissement, when they encountered three supporters of Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National party who had been posting campaign signs nearby, armed with guns. The latter group opened fire on them. Ibrahim Ali was shot in the back. - Christophe Galtier
Christophe Galtier is a French former football defender who currently works as an assistant for Olympique Lyonnais. He spent most of his career in France before ending his career with stints in Italy and China. He has been working with coach Alain Perrin for some years now, first at Olympique de Marseille, but also at Al Ain FC, Portsmouth F.C. and FC Sochaux-Montbéliard. - Camille Jullian
Camille Jullian was a French historian, philologist, archaeologist and historian of French literature, student of Fustel de Coulanges, whose posthumous work he published. Julian was born in Marseille. Specialising in Gaul and the Roman epoch, he was notably a student of the École Normale Supérieure, member of the École française de Rome and professor of national antiquities at the Collège de France. - Jean-Pierre Ricard
Jean-Pierre Cardinal Ricard (born 25 September 1944) is a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic church and archbishop of Bordeaux et Bazes. - Éric Bernard
Éric Bernard was a Formula One driver who raced for the Ligier, Larrousse and Lotus teams. He started karting in 1976 and in the seven years that followed, won four French titles. In 1983 he attended racing school at Paul Ricard and was one of the finalists at the Volant Elf competition. He beat Jean Alesi and Bertrand Gachot to the prize, earning himself a fully-sponsored drive in Formula Renault for 1984. He finished sixth in the series, but won the following year, … - Marcel Dib
Marcel Dib, (born 10 August, 1960, in Marseille) France is a former football midfielder which notably played for AS Monaco FC and Olympique de Marseille, at that time in Ligue 2. - Luc Borrelli
Luc Borrelli (July 2, 1965 - February 3, 1999) was a French football goalkeeper. Borrelli was born in Marseille and began his career with ASPTT Marseille. In 1986 he moved to Toulon, where he played almost 150 times. In 1993 Borrelli joined Paris Saint Germain, but played just four times in two seasons, leaving for Caen in 1995. In 1998 Borrelli joined Lyon, but was killed in a road accident in February 1999. Lyon subsequently retired the number 16 shirt in his honour.
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