, France * Jules Dalou (1838–1902), sculptor * Mireille Darc (1938–2017), model and actress * Gabriel Davioud (1824–1881), architect * Pierre David-Weill (1900–1975), banker, Chairman of Lazard Frères * Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil (1900–1989), lover and, later, wife of Samuel Beckett * Jacques Demy (1931–1990), film director * Édouard Deperthes (1833–1898), architect * Paul Deschanel (1855–1922), former President of France * Robert Desnos (1900–1945), Surrealist poet * Porfirio Díaz (1830–1915), longest serving Mexican President, Dictator, General * Marie Dorval (1798–1849), actress * Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935), Jewish military officer falsely accused of treason (the Dreyfus affair) * Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842), explorer of South Pacific & discoverer of Venus de Milo *