Haitians in France

Demographics

List of notable Haitians in France

Artists

• Edgar Degas, artist
• Edouard Duval-Carrié, painter and sculptor
• Philippe Dodard, graphic artist and painter
• Gérard Fombrun, sculptor

Athletes

• Ronald Agénor, professional tennis player
• Bryan Alceus, professional football player
• Gary Ambroise, professional football player
• Ernst Atis-Clotaire, professional football player
• Jean-Kévin Augustin, professional football player
• Hervé Bazile, professional football player
• Kervens Belfort, professional football player
• Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, professional football player
• Frantz Bertin, professional football player
• Davidson Charles, professional football player
• Rochel Chery, professional basketball player
• Yves Desmarets, professional football player
• Belony Dumas, professional football player
• Jean-Kévin Duverne, professional football player
• Wagneau Eloi, professional football player
• Gabriel Flambert, professional football player
• Herby Fortunat, professional football player
• Yassin Fortune, professional football player
• Romain Genevois, professional football player
• Marc Hérold Gracien, professional football player; was considered as the fastest player in France by beating Nicolas Anelka's record after a physical test at Clarefontaine
• Constantin Henriquez, first person of color to compete in the Olympic Games and by extension to win a gold medal; rugby union footballer
• Max Hilaire, professional football player
• Lecsinel Jean-François, professional football player
• Dominique Jean-Zéphirin, professional football player
• Jean-Dimmy Jéoboam, professional basketball player
• Georgi Joseph, professional basketball player
• Steeven Joseph-Monrose, professional football player
• Presnel Kimpembe, professional football player
• Kevin Lafrance, professional football player
• Alexandre Lippmann, fencer
• Jeff Louis, professional football player
• Mike Maignan, professional football player
• Jean-Eudes Maurice, professional football player
• Pierre Mercier, professional football player
• Rénald Metelus, professional football player
• Soni Mustivar, professional football player
• Wilner Nazaire, professional football player
• Alexis Nicolas, professional kickboxer
• Ralph Noncent, professional football player
• Windsor Noncent, professional football player
• Vladimir Pascal, professional football player
• Jean-Jacques Pierre, professional football player
• Listner Pierre-Louis, professional football player
• Johny Placide, professional football player
• Yves Pons, professional basketball player
• Dylan Saint-Louis, professional football player
• Abel Thermeus, professional football player
• William Vainqueur, professional football player
• Ronaël Pierre-Gabriel

Entertainment

• Jeanne Duval, actress
• Raoul Peck, filmmaker

Historical personalities

• Eugene Bullard, first African-American military pilot, whose ancestors where Haitian slaves who fled the Haitian Revolution.
• Charles Terres Weymann, racing pilot, who flew for Nieuport during World War I as a test pilot and was awarded the rank of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
• Jean-Baptiste Belley, former slave from Saint Domingue
• Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche, engineer and the only passenger of known African ancestry on the ill-fated voyage of the RMS Titanic.
• Michèle Bennett, ex-wife of former President for Life of Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier.
• Serge Gilles, exiled leader of the Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats political party of Haiti.

Literature

• Alexandre Dumas, writer
• Alexandre Dumas, fils, writer and dramatist
• Félix Morisseau-Leroy, writer
• Gary Klang, poet and novelist
• Ida Faubert, writer
• Jacques Bins, comte de Saint-Victor, poet
• Jacques Roumain, writer, politician, and advocate of Marxism
• Jean-Baptiste Dureau de la Malle, writer and translator
• Jean-Baptiste Romane, poet and one poem, Vers à la France, he was awarded a gold medallion by the French government
• Jean Dominique, journalist
• Joel Dreyfuss, journalist, editor, and writer
• John James Audubon, ornithologist, naturalist, and painter
• Maggy de Coster, writer
• Paul Arcelin, writer
• Pierre Faubert, poet and playwright
• René Depestre, poet and former communist activist
• Roger Gaillard, historian and novelist
• Solon Ménos, author and politician
• Thomas Madiou, historian
• Victor Séjour, author

Medicine

• François Fournier de Pescay, first person of color to have practiced medicine and surgery in Europe.

Models

• Misty Jean, former Miss West Indies and singer

Music

• Célimène Daudet, pianist
• Alibi Montana, rapper
• Kery James, rapper and singer
• Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon, violinist, composer and writer
• Roi Heenok, rapper, producer and entrepreneur

Political figures

• Alexandre Pétion
• André Rigaud
• Dumarsais Estimé
• Franck Lavaud, military general and politician
• François-Ferdinand Christophe
• Jean-Baptiste Mills
• Jean-Claude Bajeux, political activist and professor of Caribbean literature
• Joseph Bunel
• Jules DeMun
• Léon Thébaud, lawyer and ambassador
• Lysius Salomon
• Michaëlle Jean
• Paul Arcelin, political activist
• Paul Lafargue, revolutionary Marxist socialist
• Philippe Kieffer, French officer and political personality, and a hero of the Free French Forces
• Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
• Toussaint Louverture