List of French people

French people of note include:

Actors

A–C

D–L

M–Z

Architects

Artists

Auguste Rodin

Painters

Main article: List of French painters

Photographers

Sculptors

Athletes

A–J

André the Giant
Sarah Abitbol
Jessica Fox

K–Z

Alexander Lévy

Authors

See also: List of French-language authors, List of French-language poets, and List of French novelists

A–E

F–O

Victor Hugo

P–Z

Aviators

Business

Chefs

Colonial administrators

Comedians

Composers

Craftspeople and inventors

Criminals

For collaboration with Nazi Germany see also the politicians section.

Dancers

Economists

Fashion

Filmmakers

Humorists

Military leaders

See also: Constable of France, Marshal of France, and French nobility

Monarchs and royals

See also: List of French monarchs

Musicians

A–J

K–Z

Philosophers

Politicians

See also: List of Prime Ministers of France, List of Presidents of France, and List of foreign-born French politicians

Popes

Resistance workers

Resistance workers during the German military administration in occupied France during World War II

  • Lucie Samuel-Aubrac (1912–2007), human rights activist
  • Raymond Aubrac (1914–2012), statesman
  • Robert Benoist (1895–1944), SOE operative, champion race car driver
  • Denise Bloch (1915–1945), SOE operative: King's Commendation for Brave Conduct, Legion of Honor, French Resistance Medal
  • Andrée Borrel (1919–1944), SOE operative: Croix de guerre
  • Bernadette Cattanéo (1899–1963), trade unionist and communist activist
  • Madeleine Damerment (1917–1944), SOE operative: Legion of Honor, Croix de guerre, Médaille combattant volontaire de la Résistance
  • Marie Louise Dissard (1880–1957), U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
  • William Grover-Williams (1903–1945), SOE operative, champion race car driver
  • Aimée Lallement (1898–1988), Righteous Among the Nations
  • Cecily Lefort (1900–1945), SOE operative: Croix de guerre
  • Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982), lawyer, statesman
  • Jean Moulin (1899–1943), statesman
  • Agnès de La Barre de Nanteuil (1922–1944), assisted allied airmen
  • Abbé Pierre (1912–2007), priest and founder of Emmaus
  • Christian Pineau (1904–1995), statesman
  • Eliane Plewman (1917–1944), SOE operative: Croix de guerre
  • Danielle Georgette Reddé (1911–2007), SOE operative: MBE, Croix de guerre, Légion d’Honneur
  • Germaine Ribière (1917–1999), Righteous among the Nations
  • Élise Rivet (1890–1945), nun executed by Nazis for aiding the resistance
  • Lilian Rolfe (1914–1945), SOE agent executed by the Nazis
  • Odette Sansom (1912–1995), SOE operative: George Cross, MBE, Legion of Honor
  • Suzanne Spaak, Belgian-born agent: "Red Orchestra" intelligence network; executed 1944
  • Violette Szabo (1921–1945), SOE operative: George Cross, Croix de guerre
  • Jean-Pierre Wimille (1908–1949), SOE operative, champion race car driver

Scientists

Social activists

  • Hubertine Auclert, journalist and feminist leader
  • Simone de Beauvoir, author, philosopher, and feminist
  • Christian de Boisredon, social activist
  • Geneviève de Brunelle, counter-revolutionary
  • Sophie de Condorcet, feminist
  • Maria Deraismes, feminist
  • Camille Drevet, anti-colonialist, feminist and pacifist activist
  • Marguerite Durand, journalist and feminist leader
  • Anna Féresse-Deraismes feminist activist
  • Olympe de Gouges, feminist
  • Floresca Guépin, feminist and teacher
  • Alice Jouenne, educator and socialist activist
  • Samir Kassir, journalist
  • Jean Théophile Victor Leclerc, radical revolutionist, newspaper publisher
  • Marie Léopold-Lacour, feminist activist, writer, and storyteller
  • Félix Pécaut, education proponent and pastor
  • Gabrielle Petit, feminist activist, anticlerical, libertarian socialist, newspaper editor
  • Élisabeth Renaud, teacher, socialist activist, feminist
  • Colette Reynaud, feminist, socialist, pacifist, journalist
  • Victor Schœlcher, abolitionist
  • Pierre Seel, homosexual concentration camp survivor, activist, author
  • Séverine, feminist
  • Madeleine Tribolati (1905–1995), trade unionist
  • Flora Tristan, feminist
  • Jane Valbot, suffragist and pacifist

Soldiers

Spationauts

Theologians

O.P. (Ordo Praedicatorum) is the abbreviation used to indicate that someone is/was a member of the Dominican Order, a Catholic religious order. S.J. (Societas Iesu) is the abbreviation used to indicate that someone is/was a member of the Society of Jesus, another Catholic religious order.

Others

  • Marie-Louise Arconati-Visconti (1840–1923), art collector, philanthropist
  • Fabrice Balanche, geographer
  • Christophe Balaÿ (1949–2022), professor, linguist, and translator
  • Marcel Bardiaux, sailor
  • Suzanne Borel, first French woman diplomat
  • Charles Burlureaux, physician and psychiatrist
  • Jean-Gérard Bursztein, psychoanalyst
  • Jeanne Calment, title claimant for the longest documented human lifespan – 122 years and 164 days
  • Pierre de Coubertin, initiator of the modern Olympic Games
  • The Countess, transgender courtesan, demimondaine, singer, artist, and writer
  • Jean Crépin, Army general
  • François Louis Castelnaux Darrac, upholsterer
  • Solange d'Ayen, noblewoman and journalist
  • Ninon de l'Enclos, courtesan, patron of the arts
  • Cavalier de la Salle, explorer
  • Maurice Debesse, educator
  • Suzanne Deutsch de la Meurthe, philanthropist, aviation supporter
  • Eliot Deval, journalist, television presenter, and radio host
  • René Dumont, agronomist engineer and sociologist and ecology activist
  • Jules Dumont d'Urville, sea navy army and explorer
  • Maurice Duverger, jurist
  • Gustave Eiffel, engineer
  • Pierre Charles L'Enfant, city planner responsible for Washington, D.C.
  • Charles-Michel de l'Épée, founder of world's first public school for deaf people
  • Norbert Ferré, illusionist
  • Hervé Gattegno, journalist
  • Robert Gloton, educator
  • Arthur de Gobineau, diplomat, author of An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races
  • Lucie Grange, medium and feminist prophet
  • Heldrad of Novalese, Benedictine monk and Catholic Church saint
  • Marie de Hennezel, psychologist, psychotherapist and writer
  • Jean Baptiste Marie Jaubert, physician and ornithologist
  • Yann Kerr, electrical engineer
  • René Lacoste, olympian tennis player and businessman, creator of the Lacoste tennis shirt
  • Daniel Le Hirbec, navigator
  • Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds, explorer and canal engineer
  • Marie-Antoinette Lix, governess and resistance fighter
  • Brigitte Macron, high school teacher, first lady of France
  • Virginie Mauvais, educator, philanthropist
  • Léon Marchand, olympian athlete swimmer
  • Carlos Mazure, engineer
  • Philippe Méaille, contemporary art collector
  • Montgolfier brothers, balloonists
  • François Henri de la Motte, French spy executed for treason 1781 in London
  • Nostradamus, physician, author, translator, astrological consultant
  • Charles François Adrien le Paulmier, diplomat, nobleman, and slaveholder
  • Anne Quemere, sailor and sportswoman
  • Lucile Randon (1904–2023), supercentenarian and the 4th oldest known person in history
  • Jean-Marie Raoul, lawyer, musician
  • Élisée Reclus, geographer and anarchist
  • Jean-François Ricard (born 1956), prosecutor of the French National Terrorism Prosecution Office
  • Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, magician, namesake of "Harry Houdini"
  • Pierre Seel, homosexual survivor of the concentration camps, activist, author
  • Odette Teissier du Cros (1906–1997), ethnologist, museum curator
  • Vauban, engineer
  • Eugène François Vidocq, French convict-turned-spy considered the father of modern forensics

See also

  • List of French Jews
  • List of French people of immigrant origin

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