Editing List of French people (section)

==Politicians==
{{see also|List of Prime Ministers of France|List of Presidents of France|List of foreign-born French politicians}}
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*[[Manuel Aeschlimann]], member of the [[National Assembly (France)|National Assembly]], mayor of [[Asnières-sur-Seine]]
*[[Robert Badinter]], lawyer, statesman and anti-death-sentence activist
*[[François Bayrou]], UDF party leader
*[[Léon Blum]], politician, Socialist party leader, prime minister
*[[José Bové]], anti-globalization activist, altermondialist
*[[Aristide Briand]]
*[[Jacques Chirac]], politician, member of center-right wing party, former city mayor of Paris, two-term French president
*[[Georges Clemenceau]]
*[[Gaspard II de Coligny|Gaspard de Coligny]]
*[[Bertrand Delanoë]], mayor of Paris
*[[Jacques Delors]]
*[[Félix Faure]], President of France who died of a heart attack while making love to his mistress
*[[Charles de Gaulle]], heroic World War II general, commander of the [[Free French Forces]], French president
*[[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]]
*[[François Guizot]], Prime Minister
*[[Gisèle Halimi]], lawyer and feminist activist
*[[François Hollande]], former PS (Socialist Party) leader, former French president (15 May 2012 – 14 May 2017)
*[[Jean Jaurès]], politician, pacifist
*[[Lionel Jospin]], socialist, former prime minister
*[[Bernard Kouchner]], founder of [[Médecins du Monde]]
*[[Jean-Marie Le Pen]], leader of the extreme right party in France, Front National, presidential candidate
*[[Louis Lépine]], Paris police chief, governor of Algiers, founder of the [[Concours Lépine]]
*[[Émile Loubet]], President of France who was elected in 1899, after the death of [[Félix Faure]]
*[[Henri-Auguste Lozé]], Paris police chief, senator of the Third Republic
*[[Emmanuel Macron]], founder and current President of [[Renaissance (French political party)|Renaissance]], current President of France (from 14 May 2017)
*[[Jean-Paul Marat]], politician during the Revolution, journalist, physician, scientist
*[[Jean-Claude Martinez]], lawyer and European deputy
*[[Pierre Mendès France]], lawyer and statesman, prime minister
*[[Honoré Mirabeau]]
*[[François Mitterrand]], lawyer and statesman, president
*[[Jean Monnet]]
*[[Claude Panier]], member of the [[National Assembly (France)#French Fourth Republic (1946–1958)|National Assembly]] of [[French Fourth Republic|France]] in 1956–1958
*[[Philippe Pétain]], head of ''Vichy'' France
*[[Alexandre de Prouville]], Viceroy of [[New France]]
*[[Marthe Richard]]
*[[Maximilien Robespierre]], statesman and major figure in the French Revolution
*[[Gilberte Roca]] (1911–2004), Communist
*[[Jacques Rolland]] (1914–1999), politician
*[[Ségolène Royal]], politician, Socialist party, presidential candidate
*[[Nicolas Sarkozy]], politician, President of the right wing party
*[[Victor Schœlcher]], anti-slavery activist
*[[Charles Maurice de Talleyrand]]
*[[Maurice Thorez]]
*[[Jacques Toubon]]
*[[Dominique de Villepin]], former Prime Minister of France
*[[Dominique Voynet]], physician and Green party politician
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