Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, professionally known as Dalida, was an Italian-French singer and actress, born in Egypt. With around 140 million records sold worldwide, she is one of the best-selling music artists to have come from Italy. Her best known songs are "Bambino", "Gondolier", "Les enfants du Pirée", "Le temps des fleurs", "Darla dirladada", "J'attendrai", "Le jour où la pluie viendra", "Gigi l'amoroso", "Salama ya salama", and "Paroles, paroles" featuring spoken word by Alain Delon.
Paco Peña is a Spanish flamenco composer and guitarist. He is regarded as one of the world's foremost traditional flamenco players.
Amanda Lear is a French singer, songwriter, painter, television presenter, actress, and former model.
Élie Thitia Yaffa, better known under his stage name Booba, is a French rapper. After a brief stint as a break dancer in the early 1990s, Booba partnered with his friend Ali to form Lunatic. The duo released a critically acclaimed album in 2000 but disbanded in 2003. Booba has since embarked on a successful solo career, selling more than 10 million discs over his career and becoming the most legally downloaded artist in French history. Booba is praised for the quality of his flow and beats but often criticized because of the controversial nature of his lyrics. He has also established the rap label Tallac Records, and developed a line of jewellery.
Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo, more commonly known under the pseudonym of Paco Rabanne, was a Spanish fashion designer.
Paco is a Spanish nickname for Francisco. According to folk etymology, the nickname has its origins in Saint Francis of Assisi, who was the father of the Franciscan order; his name was written in Latin by the order as pater communitatis ; hence "Paco" was supposedly obtained by taking the first syllable of each word.
Marie Laforêt was a French singer and actress, particularly well known for her work during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, she moved to Geneva, and acquired Swiss citizenship.
Alessandra Martines is an Italian-French dancer and actress mainly working in the English, French and Italian speaking-worlds. She started young in ballet on opera stages in Switzerland, France, the United States and then Italy before becoming a lead on television for RAI captured ballets and entertainment shows in the eighties.
Patrick Dupond was a French ballet dancer and artistic director.
Marthe Mercadier was a French actress.
Raphaële Billetdoux is a French novelist.
Mathieu Blanc-Francard, stage name Sinclair, is a French musician and singer-songwriter.
Thomas Leleu is a French tuba player. He was born in Lille, France. He is the first tuba player to have ever won the award "Revelation Instrumental Soloist of the Year" at the annual French classical music award event, the Victoires de la musique classique. At only 28 years of age, Thomas Leleu is considered as "the young world star of the tuba". He is the younger brother of French trumpet player Romain Leleu.
Maurizio Serra is a contemporary Italian writer and diplomat. Maurizio Serra was Italian Ambassador to the Unesco. He writes in Italian and French. He was elected to the Académie Française on 9 January 2020.
Clément Loret was an organist, music educator, and composer of Belgian origin, French naturalized.
Pierre Lacotte was a French ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher, and company director. He specialised in the reconstruction of lost choreographies of romantic ballets.
Sveva Alviti is an Italian actress and former model who works in both Italian and French-language films.
Hsia-Fei Chang is Taiwanese artist. She currently lives and works in Paris.
Jean-Louis Livi is a French film producer.
Philippe Caroit is a French actor, painter, and writer.
