Cameroonians in France consist of migrants from

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

and their descendants living and working in France.

History

The first

ian immigrants in

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

came in the

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, like the Congolese, some years after the first immigrant wave from Sub-Saharan Africa (Senegal Valley) to France. This immigration has sped up in the

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(due to the social and economic crisis in

)

Notable people

* Samuel Umtiti, professional footballer *

Françoise Mbango Etone Françoise Mbango Etone (born 14 April 1976 in Yaoundé) is a Cameroonian-born female track and field athlete. She has competed internationally for France since 2010. While competing for Cameroon, Etone was a 2-time Olympic gold medalist in the ...

, track and field athlete * Kylian Mbappé, professional footballer *

Griedge Mbock Bathy Griedge Yinda Colette Mbock Bathy Nka (born 26 February 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Division 1 Féminine club Lyon and the France national team. Career Mbock Bathy was born in Brest, Brittany to a ...

, professional footballer * Gévrise Émane, judoka *

Véronique Mang Véronique Ngo Mang (born December 15, 1984) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France. Biography She arrived in France with her mother, brother and sister in 1995. She represented Cameroon until 2003 when she gai ...

, track and field athlete * Bryan Mbeumo, professional footballer * Loïc Mbe Soh , professional footballer *

Francis Ngannou Francis Zavier Ngannou (born 5 September 1986) is a Cameroonian professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Heavyweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current UFC Heavyweight Champion. A ...

, mixed martial artist *

Dany Bill Dany Bill (born 28 April 1973) is a Cameroonian former kickboxer and seven-time Muay Thai World Champion. Biography When growing up as a kid in France Dany used to play soccer, but the day he saw muay thai on TV changed his life. Right after ...

, kickboxer *

Teddy Tamgho Teddy Tamgho (born 15 June 1989) is a French triple jumper and long jumper. He specialises in the triple jump. He is the current triple jump world indoor record holder at 17.92 m, achieved in winning the final and gold medal at the 2011 Europe ...

, track and field athlete * Calixthe Beyala, writer * Emil Abossolo-Mbo, actor *

Vencelas Dabaya Vencelas Dabaya Tientcheu (born 28 April 1981 in Kumba, Cameroon) is a French weightlifter. He is a former World Champion, European champion and Olympic silver medalist in weightlifting. At the 2004 Summer Olympics he ...

, weightlifter * Serge Betsen, rugby union player *

Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam (born 18 February 1984) is a French Cameroonian professional boxer. He has held a middleweight world championship twice, including the WBO title in 2012 and the WBA (Regular) title in 2017, and has challenged once for a ...

, professional boxer * Antoinette Nana Djimou, heptathlete, pentathlete * Cedric Doumbe, kickboxer *

Carlos Takam Armand Carlos Netsing Takam (born 6 December 1980) is a Cameroonian-born French professional boxer. He has challenged once for the unified WBA (Super), IBF, and IBO heavyweight titles against in 2017. As an amateur, he represented Cameroo ...

, professional boxer * Gaëlle Nayo-Ketchanke, weightlifter * Benoît Assou-Ekotto, professional footballer * Adolphe Teikeu, professional footballer *

Zacharie Noah Zacharie Noah (2 February 1937 – 8 January 2017) was a Cameroonian professional footballer who won the Coupe de France in 1961 with Sedan-Torcy. Noah, who played as a defender, had previously played for Stade Saint-Germain. He was the fathe ...

, former professional footballer *

Yannick Noah Yannick Noah (; born 18 May 1960) is a French former professional tennis player and singer. Noah won the French Open in 1983, and is currently the captain of both France's Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup teams. During his nearly two-decade ...

, singer and tennis player *

Joakim Noah Joakim Simon Noah ( ; born February 25, 1985) is an American-born French-Swedish former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Florida Gators, winning back-to-back NCAA championships in 2006 and 2007. The Chicago B ...

, basketball player * William Saliba

References

African diaspora in France Society of France *French people of Cameroonian descent Ethnic groups in France Immigration to France by country of origin {{cameroon-stub