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{{Short description|None}} {{BLP sources|list|date=July 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{dynamic list|date=July 2013}} [[French people]] of note include: {{TOC right}} ==Actors== {{Main|List of French actors}} ===A–C=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Carole Achache]] *[[Isabelle Adjani]] *[[Renée Adorée]] *[[Anouk Aimée]] *[[Flo Ankah]] *[[Arletty]] *[[Antonin Artaud]] *[[Fanny Ardant]] *[[Jeanne Aubert]] *[[Jean-Louis Aubert]] *[[Jean-Pierre Aumont]] *[[Claude Autant-Lara]] *[[Daniel Auteuil]] *[[Charles Aznavour]] *[[Brigitte Bardot]] *[[Emmanuelle Béart]] *[[Loleh Bellon]] *[[Jean-Paul Belmondo]] *[[François Berléand]] *[[Charles Berling]] *[[Adam Bessa]] *[[Suzanne Bianchetti]] *[[Juliette Binoche]] *[[Bernard Blier]] *[[Sandrine Bonnaire]] *[[Élodie Bouchez]] *[[Bourvil]] *[[Dany Boon]] *[[Angelique Boyer]] *[[Charles Boyer]] *[[Guillaume Canet]] *[[Capucine]] *[[Martine Carol]] *[[Leslie Caron]] *[[Isabelle Carré]] *[[Vincent Cassel]] *[[Jean-Pierre Cassel]] *[[Laetitia Casta]] *[[Robert Clary]] *[[Grégoire Colin]] *[[Marion Cotillard]] *[[Clotilde Courau]] *[[Darry Cowl]] {{div col end}} ===D–L=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Béatrice Dalle]] *[[Lili Damita]] *[[Danielle Darrieux]] *[[Alain Delon]] *[[Danièle Delorme]] *[[Julie Delpy]] *[[Catherine Deneuve]] *[[Élisabeth Depardieu]] *[[Gérard Depardieu]] *[[Guillaume Depardieu]] *[[Patrick Dewaere]] *[[Arielle Dombasle]] *[[Michel Drucker]] *[[Morgane Dubled]] *[[Jean Dujardin]] *[[Anny Dupérey]] *[[Romain Duris]] *[[Nicolas Duvauchelle]] *[[Fernandel]] *[[Brigitte Fossey]] *[[Louis de Funès]] *[[Félicité Du Jeu]] *[[Jean Gabin]] *[[Julie Gayet]] *[[Annie Girardot]] *[[Judith Godrèche]] *[[Eva Green]] *[[Sacha Guitry]] *[[Isabelle Huppert]] *[[Irène Jacob]] *[[Claude Jade]] *[[Marlène Jobert]] *[[Valérie Kaprisky]] *[[Louise Labèque]] *[[Mélanie Laurent]] *[[Jean-Pierre Léaud]] *[[Virginie Ledoyen]] *[[Noémie Lenoir]] *[[Max Linder]] *[[Sheryfa Luna]] {{div col end}} ===M–Z=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Philippe Maidenberg]] *[[Marcel Marceau]] *[[Sophie Marceau]] *[[Jean Marais]] *[[Jean-Pierre Marielle]] *[[Ali Marhyar]] *[[Olivier Martinez]] *[[Jean-Baptiste Maunier]] *[[Bernard Minet]] *[[Miou-Miou]] *[[Mistinguett]] *[[Yves Montand]] *[[Jeanne Moreau]] *[[Michèle Morgan]] *[[Musidora]] *[[Pierre Niney]] *[[Gérard Philipe]] *[[Michel Piccoli]] *[[Clémence Poésy]] *[[Alexia Portal]] *[[Yvonne Printemps]] *[[Marguerite Priola]], stage name of Marguerite–Marie–Sophie Polliart *[[Pérette Pradier]] *[[Jérôme Pradon]] *[[Rachel (actress)|Rachel]], pseudonym for [[Elisa-Rachel Félix]] *[[Gabrielle Réjane]] *[[Jean Reno]] *[[Marine Renoir]] *[[Pierre Richard]] *[[Sebastian Roché]] *[[Jean Rochefort]] *[[Béatrice Romand]] *[[Philippine de Rothschild]] *[[Nathalie Roussel]] *[[Michel Roux (actor)|Michel Roux]] *[[Emmanuelle Seigner]] * [[David Serero (singer)|David Serero]] *[[Léa Seydoux]] *[[Delphine Seyrig]] *[[Simone Signoret]] *[[Audrey Tautou]] *[[Jean-Louis Trintignant]] *[[Marie Trintignant]] *[[Gaspard Ulliel]] *[[Michael Vartan]] *[[Hervé Villechaize]] *[[Mallory Wanecque]] *[[Lambert Wilson]] {{div col end}} ==Architects== {{main|List of French architects}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Jacques-François Blondel]] *[[Germain Boffrand]] *[[Étienne-Louis Boullée]] *[[Salomon de Brosse]] *[[Libéral Bruant]] *[[Androuet du Cerceau|Androuet du Cerceau family]] *[[Le Corbusier]] ''pseudonym for [[Charles Edouard Jeanneret]]'' (Swiss-born) *[[Philibert de l'Orme]] *[[Gustave Eiffel]] *[[Pierre François Léonard Fontaine]] *[[Ange-Jacques Gabriel]] *[[Charles Garnier (architect)|Charles Garnier]] *[[Tony Garnier (architect)|Tony Garnier]] *[[Hector Guimard]] *[[Villard de Honnecourt]] *[[Pierre Jeanneret]] (Swiss-born) *[[Henri Labrouste]] *[[Claude Nicolas Ledoux]] *[[Pierre Lescot]] *[[André Lurçat]] *[[Robert Mallet-Stevens]] *[[François Mansart]] *[[Jules Hardouin Mansart]] *[[Louis Métezeau]] *[[Michel Mimran]] (born 1954) *[[Jean Nouvel]] *[[Charles Percier]] *[[Claude Perrault]] *[[Dominique Perrault]] *[[Auguste Perret]] *[[Christian de Portzamparc]] *[[Jean Prouvé]] *[[Alain Provost]] *[[Henri Sauvage]] *[[Jacques-Germain Soufflot]] *[[Louis Le Vau]] *[[Eugène Viollet-le-Duc]] {{div col end}} ==Artists== [[File:Rodin-cropped.png|thumb|[[Auguste Rodin]]]] {{main|List of French artists}} ===Painters=== {{main|List of French painters}} ===Photographers=== {{main|List of French photographers}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Carole Achache]] *[[Yann Arthus-Bertrand]] *[[Brassaï]] born in Hungary *[[Henri Cartier-Bresson]] *[[Raymond Depardon]] *[[Robert Doisneau]] *[[Pierre Dubreuil]] *[[Jules Gervais-Courtellemont]] *[[Nadar (photographer)|Nadar]] *[[Willy Ronis]] {{div col end}} ===Sculptors=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Frédéric Bartholdi]] *[[Antoine Bourdelle]] *[[Antonin Carlès]] *[[Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]] *[[César Baldaccini|César]] *[[Antoine-Denis Chaudet]] *[[Camille Claudel]] *[[Paul Dubois (sculptor)|Paul Dubois]] *[[Raymond Duchamp-Villon]] *[[Alexandre Falguière]] *[[Jean-Antoine Houdon]] *[[René Iché]] *[[Antonin Idrac]] *[[Antonin Mercié]] *[[Hippolyte Moulin]] *[[Émile Louis Picault]] *[[Jean-Baptiste Pigalle]] *[[Antoine-Augustin Préault]] *[[Auguste Rodin]] *[[René Rozet]] *[[François Rude]] *[[Niki de Saint Phalle]] *[[Sacha Sosno]] *[[Marie-Renée Ucciani]] {{div col end}} ==Athletes== {{main|List of French sportspeople|Category:French athletes}} ===A–J=== [[File:André the Giant in the late '80s.jpg|thumb|180px|[[André the Giant]]]] [[File:Abitbol bernadis.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Sarah Abitbol]]]] [[File:Slalom canoeing 2012 Olympics W K1 AUS Jessica Fox.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Jessica Fox (canoeist)|Jessica Fox]]]] {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[André the Giant]], professional wrestler *[[Tareq Abdesselem]], Karateka *[[Sarah Abitbol]], pairs figure skater (with [[Stéphane Bernadis]]); [[World Figure Skating Championship]] bronze<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X5WAzo00SGgC&q=jewish+%22sarah+abitbol%22|title=A Year in Figure Skating |publisher=McClelland & Stewart |author1=Smith, Beverley |author2=Diamond, Dan |year=1997|isbn= 0-7710-2755-9 |access-date=1 July 2010}}</ref> *[[Tariq Abdul-Wahad]] (born Olivier Saint-Jean), basketball player *[[Luc Alphand]], Alpine skier *[[Jacques Anquetil]], cyclist *[[Jonathan Assous]], France/Israel, defensive midfielder ([[Beitar Ramat Gan F.C.|Beitar Ramat Gan]])<ref>{{cite news |first=Or |last=Spunder |script-title=he:הקשר ג'ונתן אסוס מועמד למכבי ת"א |url=http://www.one.co.il/Article/109149.html |publisher=One.co.il |date=24 January 2008 |access-date=28 January 2008 |language=he |quote=קשרה היהודי/צרפתי של ראים מהליגה ה-2 בצרפת עשוי להגיע להתרשמות במכבי.}}</ref> *[[Fabien Barthez]], football player and racing driver * [[Elliot Benchetrit]], tennis player *[[Brice Blanc]], jockey *[[Marion Bartoli]], tennis player *[[Fabrice Benichou]], world-champion [[super bantamweight]] boxer *[[Stéphane Bernadis]], pairs figure skater (with [[Sarah Abitbol]]) *[[Alain Bernard]], Olympic swimmer *[[Serge Betsen]], [[Cameroon]]-born French citizen, rugby player *[[Serge Blanco]], [[Venezuela]]-born French citizen, rugby player *[[Jean Bloch]], Olympic silver football player *[[Louison Bobet]], cyclist *[[Surya Bonaly]], figure skater *[[Sébastien Bourdais]], Indycar driver * [[Frédéric Bourdillon]] (born 1991), French-Israeli basketball player in the [[Israel Basketball Premier League]] *[[Andrée Brunet]] and [[Pierre Brunet (figure skater)|Pierre Brunet]], 1928 and 1932 Olympic skating gold medalists *[[Jean-Luc Cairon]] (born 1962), gymnast and coach *[[Alain Calmat]], figure skater, Olympic silver, world championship gold, silver, two-time bronze *[[Philippe Candeloro]], figure skater *[[Eric Cantona]], football player *[[Georges Carpentier]], world-champion boxer *[[Marcel Cerdan]], world-champion boxer *[[François Cevert]] (born François Goldenberg), [[Formula One]] driver *[[Eugène Christophe]], cyclist *[[Albert Clément]] (c. 1878–1907), motor racing driver *[[Robert Cohen (boxer)|Robert Cohen]], world-champion bantamweight boxer *[[Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro]], tennis player *[[Eugène Criqui]], world-champion boxer *[[Jean Cruguet]], jockey of [[Seattle Slew]] *[[Richard Dacoury]], basketball player *[[Pierre Darmon]], tennis player, highest world ranking # <nowiki>8</nowiki> *[[André Darrigade]], cyclist *[[Mathieu Debuchy]], football player *[[Émile Delahaye]], race car pioneer *[[Marcel Desailly]], [[Ghana]]-born French citizen, football player *[[Abou Diaby]], football player *[[Boris Diaw]], basketball player *[[David Douillet]], [[judoka]] *[[Yves Dreyfus]], épée fencer, Olympic bronze medal, French champion *[[Isabelle Duchesnay]] and [[Paul Duchesnay]], ice dancers * [[Alojzy Ehrlich]], Poland, table tennis, 3x won silver and 1x won bronze in the World Championships, incarcerated by the Nazis in Auschwitz, represented France after 1945. *[[Andre Ethier]], [[Major League Baseball]] outfielder for the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] *[[Patrice Evra]], football player for [[AS Monaco FC|Monaco]] and [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] *[[André Fabre]], horse trainer *[[Evan Fournier]], basketball player *[[Laurent Fignon]], cyclist *[[Jeremy Flores]], surfer *[[Just Fontaine]], football player *[[Jacques Fouroux]], rugby union player and coach * [[Jessica Fox (canoeist)|Jessica Fox]] (born 1994), French-born Australian, [[Whitewater slalom|slalom canoer]], Olympic and world champion gold medalist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jta.org/2012/08/05/news-opinion/world/jewish-australian-kayaker-jessica-fox-takes-silver-medal|title=Jewish Australian kayaker Jessica Fox takes silver medal|date=5 August 2012}}</ref> *[[Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi]], [[Whitewater slalom|slalom canoer]], Olympic bronze (K-1 slalom), five golds at [[ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships]] (two-time K-1, three-time K-1 team) *[[Pierre Galle]], basketball player and coach *[[Pierre Gasly]], racing driver currently competing in Formula One with [[Alpine F1 Team]] *[[Camille du Gast]], race car driver *[[Lucien Gaudin]], fencer * [[Fabien Gilot]], Olympic and world champion swimmer *[[Yoann Gourcuff]], football player *[[Stéphane Haccoun]], boxer *[[Rudy Haddad]], soccer midfielder ([[Hapoel Ashkelon F.C.|Hapoel Ashkelon]] & U21 national team)<ref>{{cite news |script-title=he:דיווחים בצרפת: מכבי ת"א מעוניינת ברודי חדד |url=http://www.one.co.il/cat/articles/article.aspx?id=94947&bz=8 |publisher=One.co.il |date=7 July 2007 |access-date=7 July 2007 |language=he |quote=האם הקשר היהודי, רודי חדד, בדרך למכבי תל-אביב? }}</ref> *[[Alphonse Halimi]] ("la Petite Terreur"), world-champion bantamweight boxer *[[Marlène Harnois]] (born 1986), taekwondo practitioner *[[Thierry Henry]], football player *[[Bernard Hinault]], cyclist *[[Jaylen Hoard]] (born 1999), French-American basketball player for [[Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C.|Hapoel Tel Aviv]] of the [[Israeli Basketball Premier League]] *[[Pierre Houseaux]], triathlete *[[Cristobal Huet]], hockey player *[[Constant Huret]], cyclist *[[Olivier Jacque]], motorcycle rider *[[Rene Jacquot]], boxer, underdog who became world champion *[[Laurent Jalabert]], cyclist *[[Max Jean]], [[Formula One]] driver *[[Brian Joubert]], figure skater * [[Natan Jurkovitz]] (born 1995), French-Swiss-Israeli basketball player for [[Hapoel Be'er Sheva B.C.|Hapoel Be'er Sheva]] of the [[Israeli Basketball Premier League]] {{div col end}} ===K–Z=== [[File:Alexander Levy.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Alexander Lévy]]]] {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Tidjan Keita]] (born 1996), French-Guinean basketball player in the [[Israeli Basketball Premier League]] *[[Jean-Claude Killy]] (born 1943), skier *[[Raymond Kopa]], football player *[[Pascal Lavanchy]], ice dancer (with [[Sophie Moniotte]]) *[[Claude Legrand (skier)|Claude Legrand]], skier *[[Suzanne Lenglen]], tennis player *[[Alexander Lévy]] (born 1990), American-born professional golfer *[[Alexandre Lippmann]] (1881–1960), épée fencer, two-time Olympic champion, two-time silver, bronze *[[Bixente Lizarazu]], football player *[[Sébastien Loeb]] (born 1974), rally driver and five-time champion *[[Jeannie Longo]], cyclist *[[Mickaël Madar]] (born 1968), footballer *[[André Mahé]], cyclist *[[Claude Makélélé]], football player *[[Laure Manaudou]], swimmer *[[Amélie Mauresmo]], tennis player *[[Jacques Mayol]], freediver *[[Kylian Mbappé]], football player *[[Jose Meiffret]], cyclist *[[Éric Millot]], figure skater *[[Alain Mimoun]], athlete *[[Sophie Moniotte]], ice dancer (with [[Pascal Lavanchy]]) *[[Carole Montillet]], skier *[[Armand Mouyal]] (1925–1988), épée fencer, Olympic bronze, world champion *[[Moustapha N'Diaye]] (born 1984), basketball player *[[Alfred Nakache|Alfred "Artem" Nakache]] (1915–1983), swimmer, world record (200 m breaststroke), one-third of French two-time world record (3x100 relay team) *[[Claude Netter]] (1924–2007), foil fencer, Olympic champion, silver *[[Hellé Nice]], pioneer female race car driver *[[Joakim Noah]], NBA basketball player ([[Chicago Bulls]]) *[[Yannick Noah]], tennis player * [[Jacques Ochs]] (1883–1971), French-born Belgian artist and Olympic fencing champion *[[Esteban Ocon]], [[Formula One]] driver *[[Micheline Ostermeyer]], Olympic champion in discus and shot put, bronze in high jump *[[Frédéric Ouvret]] (born 1970), former professional footballer *[[Simon Pagenaud]], Indy car driver<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/26/us/indianapolis-indy-500-trnd/index.html|title=Simon Pagenaud becomes the first French driver to win Indianapolis 500 in more than a century|publisher=CNN|access-date=26 May 2019}}</ref> *[[Tony Parker]], Belgian-born French citizen, basketball player *[[Gwendal Peizerat]], ice dancer *[[Marie-José Pérec]], athlete *[[Mary Pierce]], Canadian-born French citizen, tennis player *[[Stéphane Peterhansel]], car and motor racer, nine-time [[Dakar Rally]] winner *[[Julien Pillet]], fencer *[[Michel Platini]], football player *[[Alain Prost]], [[Formula One]] driver and four-time champion *[[Antoine Rigaudeau]], basketball player * [[Arthur Rozenfeld]] (born 1995), basketball player in the [[Israeli Basketball Premier League]] * [[François Rozenthal]] (born 1975), ice hockey player * [[Maurice Rozenthal]] (born 1975), ice hockey player * [[Michel Sebastiani]], modern pentathlete and Olympic fencing coach * [[Georges Stern]] (1882–1928), jockey *[[Jean Stern (fencer)|Jean Stern]] (1875–1962), épée fencer, Olympic champion *[[Léon Théry]], race car driver *[[Marcel Thil]], world-champion boxer *[[Christophe Tiozzo]], world-champion boxer; brother of [[Fabrice Tiozzo]] *[[Fabrice Tiozzo]], world-champion boxer; brother of [[Christophe Tiozzo]] *[[David Trezeguet]], football player *[[Tristan Vautier]], Indy car driver *[[Patrick Vieira]], [[Senegal]]-born French citizen, football player *[[Richard Virenque]], [[Morocco]]-born French citizen, cyclist *[[Roger Walkowiak]], cyclist *[[Jean-Pierre Wimille]], race car driver *[[Albert Wolff (fencer)|Albert Wolff]] (1906–1989), French-born American Olympic fencer *[[Zinedine Zidane]], football player {{div col end}} ==Authors== {{see also|List of French-language authors|List of French-language poets|List of French novelists}} ===A–E=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[David Abbasi]] *[[Carole Achache]] *[[Marcel Achard]] *[[Alain-Fournier]] *[[Mathilde Alanic]], novelist, short story writer *[[Olivier Ameisen]] *[[Alix André]], romance novelist *[[Jean Anouilh]], 20th-century dramatist *[[Guillaume Apollinaire]] *[[Louis Aragon]] *[[Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé]], writer, biographer, and historian *[[Antonin Artaud]] *[[Marcel Aymé]] *[[Jean-Louis Baghio'o]] *[[Honoré de Balzac]], [[Literary realism|realist]] author *[[Henri Barbusse]] *[[Charles Baudelaire]], 19th-century poet *[[Pierre Beaumarchais]], comedy playwright *[[Simone de Beauvoir]], 20th-century author *[[Dany Bébel-Gisler]] *[[Cyrano de Bergerac (writer)|Cyrano de Bergerac]] *[[Jean Bernabé]] *[[Georges Bernanos]] *[[Tristan Bernard]] *[[Maurice Blanchot]] *[[Stella Blandy]] *[[Antoine Blondin]] *[[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux|Nicolas Boileau]] *[[Lucie Boissonnas]], 19th-century author *[[Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet]] *[[Pierre Boulle]] *[[Fernand Braudel]] *[[André Breton]] *[[Retif de la Bretonne]] *[[Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin]] *[[Michel Butor]] *[[Albert Camus]], [[existentialist]] author *[[Marie-Magdeleine Carbet]] *[[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]], 20th-century author *[[Blaise Cendrars]] *[[Aimé Césaire]], 20th-century poet *[[Nicolas Chamfort]] *[[Patrick Chamoiseau]] *[[René Char]], 20th-century poet *[[Victorine Chastenay]] *[[François-René de Chateaubriand]] *[[Pierre Choderlos de Laclos]] *[[Emil Cioran]] *[[Fanny Clar]], journalist and author *[[Paul Claudel]] *[[Jean Cocteau]], 20th-century poet and playwright *[[Colette]], 20th-century author *[[Henri Collomb]], psychiatrist *[[Joséphine Colomb]], 19th-century children's writer *[[Maryse Condé]] *[[Raphaël Confiant]] *[[Benjamin Constant]] *[[Tristan Corbière]] *[[Pierre Corneille]], [[classicism|classicist]] playwright *[[Marquis de Custine]], travel writer *[[Jean-Marie Dallet]] *[[Joseph Dallois]] *[[Myriam David]], psychoanalyst *[[Jeanine Delpech]], journalist, translator, novelist *[[Robert Desnos]], 20th-century poet *[[Gisèle d'Estoc]], writer, sculptor, and feminist *[[Charles Dezobry]], historian and historical novelist *[[Denis Diderot]] *[[Clotilde Dissard]], journalist and feminist *[[Pierre Drieu La Rochelle]], novelist *[[Alexandre Dumas]], père, author *[[Alexandre Dumas, fils]], playwright/author *[[Marguerite Duras]], 20th-century novelist *[[Vanessa Duriès]] *[[Paul Éluard]] *[[Salvat Etchart]] {{div col end}} ===F–O=== [[File:Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Victor Hugo]]]] {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Frantz Fanon]], 20th-century author, psychiatrist *[[Léon-Paul Fargue]] *[[Georges Feydeau]] *[[Marc Ferro]] *[[Amanda Filipacchi]], novelist (French and U.S. citizenship, writes in English) *[[Alain Finkielkraut]], essayist *[[Gustave Flaubert]], [[Literary realism|realist]] author *[[Anatole France]] *[[Marie de France]], poet *[[Romain Gary]] *[[Jean Genet]] *[[André Gide]], [[Nobel Prize]] winner *[[Jean Giono]] *[[Jean Giraudoux]] *[[Françoise Giroud]] *[[Édouard Glissant]] *[[Edmond de Goncourt]], writer, critic, and founder of the [[Académie Goncourt]] *[[Julien Gracq]] *[[Julien Green]] *[[Pierre Guyotat]] *[[Nahema Hanafi]], historian *[[Jean-Edern Hallier]] *[[Juliette Heuzey]], novelist, biographer *[[Auguste Himly]], historian *[[Victor Hugo]], novelist, poet, and playwright *[[Joris-Karl Huysmans]] *[[Eugène Ionesco]] *[[Martine L. Jacquot]] *[[Marie-Reine de Jaham]] *[[Alain Jouffroy]], poet, art critic, plastician *[[Fabienne Kanor]] *[[Jean de La Bruyère]] *[[Jean de La Fontaine]] *[[Pierre Choderlos de Laclos]] *[[Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse)]] *[[Leconte de Lisle]], [[parnassian]] poet *[[Alphonse de Lamartine]] *[[Jacques Lacan]], psychoanalyst *[[Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie]], historian *[[Paul Lafargue]] *[[Jules Laforgue]] *[[Valery Larbaud]] *[[Maurice Leblanc]], created [[Arsène Lupin]] *[[Clotilde Leguil]], psychoanalyst and philosopher, university professor *[[Marie Léra]], journalist, novelist, and translator *[[Gaston Leroux]], journalist and author, credited with creating the locked room puzzle mystery novel ''[[Le Mystère de la chambre jaune]]'' ''(The Mystery of the Yellow Room)'' and author of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (novel)|Le Fantôme de l'Opéra]]'' ''(The Phantom of the Opera)'' *[[Pauline de Lézardière]], 18th-century historian *[[Stéphane Mallarmé]], poet *[[Hector Malot]], 19th-century author *[[André Malraux]] *[[Matthieu Marais]], 18th-century lawyer and writer *[[Marcel Marceau]], 20th-century mime (and member of the [[French Resistance]] in World War II) *[[René Maran]] *[[Pierre de Marivaux]], playwright *[[Clément Marot]], poet *[[Guy de Maupassant]], novelist *[[François Mauriac]], [[Roman Catholic]] writer *[[Daniel Maximin]] *[[Prosper Mérimée]], 19th-century novelist *[[Catherine Millet]], art expert, editor and erotic memoirist *[[Patrick Modiano]] *[[Molière|Jean Baptiste Poquelin dit Molière]], 17th-century comedic playwright and actor *[[Alfred de Musset]], 19th-century poet *[[Claire Julie de Nanteuil]], 19th-century writer *[[Gérard de Nerval]] *[[Paul Niger]] *[[Anaïs Nin]] *[[Mona Ozouf]], historian {{div col end}} ===P–Z=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Marcel Pagnol]] *[[Gisela Pankow]], psychoanalyst *[[Ève Paul-Margueritte]], novelist *[[Lucie Paul-Margueritte]], writer and translator *[[Charles Péguy]], 20th-century poet *[[Charles Perrault]], ''Mother Goose Tales'' *[[Georges Perec]] *[[Saint-John Perse]] *[[Roger Peyrefitte]] *[[Jean Piaget]], psychologist *[[Jean Piat]] *[[Gisèle Pineau]] *[[Christine de Pizan]], historian, poet, philosopher *[[Jacques Prévert]], 20th-century poet *[[Abbé Prévost]] *[[Marcel Prévost]] *[[Marcel Proust]], novelist *[[Raymond Queneau]] *[[François Rabelais]], Renaissance writer *[[Raymond Radiguet]] *[[Jean Racine]], [[classicism|classicist]] playwright *[[Pauline Réage]], novelist *[[Gabrielle Réval]], novelist and essayist *[[Arthur Rimbaud]], [[Symbolism (arts)|symbolist]] poet *[[Alain Robbe-Grillet]] *[[Pierre de Ronsard]] *[[Edmond Rostand]], [[neo-romantic]] playwright *[[Raymond Roussel]] *[[Maximilien Rubel]] *[[Marquis de Sade]], erotic and philosophic author *[[Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve]] *[[George Sand]], [[feminist]] author *[[Jean-Paul Sartre]], 20th-century existentialist philosopher *[[Nathalie Sarraute]] *[[André Schwarz-Bart]] *[[Simone Schwarz-Bart]] *[[Pierre Seel]], homosexual survivor of the concentration camps, activist, author *[[Victor Segalen]] *[[Madame de Sévigné]] *[[Audrey Spiry]] *[[Germaine de Staël|Madame de Staël]] *[[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry|Antoine de Saint-Exupery]], author and aviator *[[Claude Simon]] *[[Stendhal]], novelist (born Henry Beyle) *[[Alain Tasso]], poet, painter, essayist, art critic, literary critic *[[Raphaël Tardon]] *[[Guy Tirolien]] *[[François Truffaut]], 20th-century filmmaker *[[Paul Valéry]], 20th-century poet *[[Jean Bruller|Vercors]], pseudonym of Jean Bruller *[[Paul Verlaine]], [[Symbolism (arts)|symbolist]] poet *[[Jules Verne]], novelist *[[Boris Vian]], 20th-century author *[[Alfred de Vigny]], 19th-century poet *[[Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam]] *[[François Villon]] *[[Voltaire]] *[[Myriam Warner-Vieyra]] *[[Marguerite Yourcenar]] *[[Joseph Zobel]] *[[Émile Zola]], [[natural history|naturalist]] author {{div col end}} ==Aviators== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Clément Ader]] *[[Jacqueline Auriol]] *[[Louis Blériot]] *[[Henri Farman]] *[[René Fonck]] *[[Roland Garros (aviator)|Roland Garros]], first to cross the Mediterranean; [[French Open]] is named after him. *[[Georges Guynemer]] *[[Raymonde de Laroche]] *[[Hubert Latham]] *[[Léon Lemartin]] *[[Marie Marvingt]] *[[Jean Mermoz]] *[[Robert brothers|Les Frères Robert]], balloonists Anne-Jean Robert and Nicolas-Louis Robert *[[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]], author and aviator *[[André Turcat]] *[[Gabriel Voisin]] {{div col end}} ==Business== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Bernard Arnault]] (born 1949), entrepreneur *[[Marie-Claude Beaud]] (born 1946), museumist *[[Liliane Bettencourt]], cosmetics *[[Marcel Bich]] (1914–1994), Bic pens *[[Vincent Bolloré]] (born 1952), transportation and engineering *[[Marcel Boussac]], textiles, fashion, newspapers, race horse breeding *[[Anne Bouverot]] (born 1966), telecommunications business executive *[[Bugatti|Ettore Bugatti]] (1881–1947), automobile manufacturer *[[André Citroën]] (1878–1935), automobile manufacturer *[[Adolphe Clément-Bayard]] (1855–1928), transportation manufacturer *[[Marcel Dassault]] (1892–1986), aviation *[[Alexandre Darracq]] (1855–1931), automotive pioneer *[[Claude Dauphin (businessman)|Claude Dauphin]] (1951–2015), commodities trader *[[Pierre Dauzier]] (1939–2007), businessman, former president of [[Havas]] *[[Louis Delâge]] (1874–1947), automotive pioneer *[[Émile Delahaye]] (1843–1905), automotive pioneer *[[Gérard Louis-Dreyfus]] (1932–2016), agricultural commodities *[[Eleuthère Irénée du Pont|Eleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours]] (1771–1834), founder of [[DuPont]] *[[Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours]] (1739–1817), entrepreneur *[[Jacques Foccart]] (1913–1997), import-export *[[Léon Gaumont]], pioneer film inventor *[[Paul-Louis Halley]] (1934–2004), supermarket tycoon *[[Max Hymans]] (1900–1961), aviation *[[Jean-Marie Messier]] (born 1957), former [[Vivendi]] CEO *[[Gérard Mestrallet]] (born 1949), chairman and CEO of [[Suez (company, 2015)|Suez]] *[[Gérard Mulliez]], entrepreneur *[[Xavier Niel]] (born 1967), entrepreneur and businessman at [[Iliad (company)|Iliad]] *[[Charles Pathé]], film industry pioneer *[[Armand Peugeot]] (1849–1915), automobile manufacturer *[[François Pinault]] (born 1936), entrepreneur *[[Benoît Ramognino]] (born 1968), art dealer, design furniture and pop culture expert *[[Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont]] (1726–1803), shipping magnate and a "Father of the [[American Revolution]]" *[[Marcel Renault]] (1872–1903), co-founder of automobile manufacturer [[Renault]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://group.renault.com/en/our-company/heritage/the-beginning/|title=The beginning – The history of Renault|work=group.renault.com|access-date=12 June 2019}}</ref> *[[César Ritz]], hotelier *[[James Mayer de Rothschild]] (1792–1868), banker *[[Philippe de Rothschild]] (1902–1988), winemaker *[[Eva Sadoun]] (birn 1980), social entrepreneur *[[Jeanne de La Saulcée]] (died 1559), Lyon publisher, printer, bookseller *[[Eugène Schueller]] (1881–1954), founder of [[L'Oréal]] *[[Bernard Tapie]] (1943–2021), entrepreneur *[[Pierre Vidoue]] (c. 1490–1543), Parisian printer and bookseller {{div col end}} ==Chefs== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Raymond Blanc]] *[[Paul Bocuse]] *[[Daniel Boulud]] *[[Michel Bras]] *[[Pascal Caffet]] *[[Marie-Antoine Carême]] *[[Alain Ducasse]] *[[Adolphe Dugléré]] *[[Auguste Escoffier]] *[[Pierre Gagnaire]] *[[Michel Guérard]] *[[Victor Hirtzler]] *[[Marc Lanteri]] *[[Ludovic Lefebvre]] *[[Jacques Pépin]] *[[Georges Perrier]] *[[Fernand Point]] *[[Charles Ranhofer]] *[[Eric Ripert]] *[[Joël Robuchon]] *[[Albert Roux]] *[[Michel Roux]] *[[Michel Roux, Jr.]] *[[Julien Royer]] *[[Guy Savoy]] *[[Paul Thalamas]] *[[François Vatel]] *[[Marc Veyrat]] *[[Jean-Georges Vongerichten]] *[[Philippe Etchebest]] *[[Hélène Darroze]] *[[Paul Pairet]] *[[Michel Sarran]]{{div col end}} ==Colonial administrators== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Félix Éboué]], Governor General of [[French Equatorial Africa]] *[[Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza]], French Congo *[[Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac]], Louisiana *[[Samuel de Champlain]], [[New France]] *[[François Caron]], first Governor of French territories of India *[[François Martin (Pondicherry)|François Martin]], Governor for French territories in India *[[Pierre Christoph Le Noir]], Governor for French territories in India *[[Pierre Benoît Dumas]], Governor for French territories in India *[[Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais]], French naval officer and administrator, in the service of the [[John Law's Company|French East India Company]]. *[[Joseph François Dupleix]], Governor for French territories in India *[[Lally-Tollendal]], Governor for French territories in India *[[Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau]], Governor for French territories in India *[[Louis Faidherbe]], [[Senegal]] *[[Joseph Gallieni]], [[Madagascar]] *[[Francis Garnier]], [[French Indochina]] (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos) *[[Émile Gentil]], [[French Congo]] *[[Hubert Lyautey|Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey]], [[Algeria]] *[[Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville]], [[Louisiana]] *[[Jean Talon]], Canada {{div col end}} ==Composers== {{main|List of French composers}} ==Craftspeople and inventors== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[André Charles Boulle]], cabinet maker *[[Louis Braille]], blind inventor *[[Charles Cros]], poet and inventor *[[Paul Héroult]], inventor *[[Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans|Claude de Jouffroy d'Abbans]], designed the first steamship in 1783 *[[René François Lacôte]], luthier *[[René Lalique]], glass designer *[[Marie-Anne Leroudier]], embroiderer *[[Auguste and Louis Lumière]], inventors *[[Yelken Octuri]], industrial designer *[[Benoît Raclet]], inventor *[[Philippe Starck]], industrial architect and designer *[[Franky Zapata]], inventor of flyboard and [[flyboard Air]] {{div col end}} ==Criminals== For [[Collaborationism|collaboration]] with [[Nazi Germany]] see also the ''politicians'' section. {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Jacques de Bernonville]] (1897–1972), war criminal sentenced to death *[[Bonnot Gang|Jules Bonnot]] *[[Léon Lacombe]], [[anarchist]] burglar and murderer *[[Henri Désiré Landru]], serial killer *[[Émile Louis]] *[[Jacques Mesrine]] *[[Zacarias Moussaoui]] *[[Maurice Papon]], politician and war criminal *[[Marcel Petiot]], serial killer *[[Gilles de Rais]], prolific serial killer *[[Jean-Claude Romand]], murderer *[[Albert Spaggiari]] *[[Charles Sobhraj]], killer *[[Paul Touvier]], one of only two Frenchmen to be convicted of crimes against humanity {{div col end}} ==Dancers== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Josette Amiel]] *[[Jane Avril]] *[[La Goulue]] *[[Sylvie Guillem]] *[[Marcelle Lender]] *[[Cléo de Mérode]] *[[Claire Motte]] *[[Antonine Meunier]] *[[Jacqueline Moreau]] *[[Hellé Nice]] *[[François Perron]] *[[Roland Petit]] *[[Jeanne Schwarz]] *[[Solange Schwarz]] *[[Les Twins]], Larry and Laurent Bourgeois {{div col end}} ==Economists== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Antoine Augustin Cournot]] *[[Maurice Allais]], Nobel Prize *[[Raymond Barre]], economist and politician *[[Frédéric Bastiat]] *[[Fernand Braudel]] *[[Alexandre Cazeau de Roumillac]] *[[Jules Dupuit]] *[[Gérard Debreu]], Nobel memorial prize 1983 *[[Charles Gide]] *[[Dominique Guellec]] *[[Achille-Nicolas Isnard]], political economist and engineer *[[Jean-Jacques Laffont]] *[[Pierre Émile Levasseur]] *[[Alain Lipietz]], green economist *[[Bernard Maris]] *[[Thomas Piketty]] *[[Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours]] *[[François Quesnay]] *[[Pascal Salin]] *[[Jean-Baptiste Say]] *[[Jean Tirole]] *[[Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune|Turgot]] *[[Léon Walras]] {{div col end}} ==Fashion== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Christian Audigier]], fashion designer and business man *[[Liliane Bettencourt]], majority owner of ''L'Oréal'', one of the wealthiest people in Europe *[[Pierre Cardin]], fashion designer *[[Laetitia Casta]], model *[[Coco Chanel]], fashion designer *[[Jean-Charles de Castelbajac]] *[[Hubert de Givenchy]] *[[Inès de La Fressange]], model and fashion designer *[[Christian Dior]], fashion designer *[[Morgane Dubled]], model *[[Julien Fournié]] *[[Jean Paul Gaultier]] *[[Daniel Hechter]], inventor of ready-to-wear *[[Christian Lacroix]] *[[Jeanne Lanvin]], fashion designer *[[Noémie Lenoir]], model *[[Christian Louboutin]], shoe designer *[[Iris Mittenaere]], model, [[Miss France 2016]] and [[Miss Universe 2016]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.france24.com/en/20151220-france-miss-france-crowned-lille|title=Meet Miss France 2016|work=france24.com|access-date=20 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/30/entertainment/miss-universe-winner/index.html|title=Miss France beats Hati and Colombia to clinch Miss Universe title|publisher=CNN|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref> *[[Jennifer Messelier]], model *[[Claude Montana]] *[[Thierry Mugler]] *[[Paul Poiret]] *[[Nina Ricci (designer)|Nina Ricci]], fashion designer *[[Sonia Rykiel]] *[[Yves Saint Laurent (designer)|Yves Saint Laurent]], fashion designer *[[Hedi Slimane]] *[[Louis Vuitton (designer)|Louis Vuitton]], fashion designer {{div col end}} ==Filmmakers== {{see also|List of French film directors}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Mona Achache]] *[[Olivier Assayas]] *[[Jacques Audiard]] *[[Jacques Becker]] *[[Jean-Jacques Beineix]] *[[Luc Besson]] *[[Yves Billon]] *[[Alice Guy-Blaché]] *[[Bertrand Blier]] *[[Patrick Bokanowski]] *[[Bertrand Bonello]] *[[Martin Bourboulon]] *[[Catherine Breillat]] *[[Robert Bresson]] *[[Laurent Cantet]] *[[Yves Caumon]] *[[André Cayatte]] *[[Claude Chabrol]] *[[Jean-Paul Civeyrac]] *[[René Clair]] *[[René Clément]] *[[Henri-Georges Clouzot]] *[[Jean Cocteau]] *[[Romain Cogitore]] *[[Fabien Cousteau]] *[[Jacques Cousteau]] *[[Jacques Demy]] *[[Claire Denis]] *[[Arnaud Desplechin]] *[[Henri Diamant-Berger]] *[[Abel Gance]] *[[Jean-Luc Godard]] *[[Michel Gondry]] *[[Michel Hazanavicius]] *[[Vanessa Filho]] *[[Jean-Pierre Jeunet]] *[[Mathieu Kassovitz]] *[[Jan Kounen]] *[[Hélène Lam Trong]] *[[Patrice Leconte]] *[[Claude Lelouch]] *[[Philippe Lioret]] *[[Teddy Lussi-Modeste]] *[[Louis Malle]] *[[André Malraux]] *[[Georges Méliès]] *[[Jean-Pierre Melville]] *[[Maurice Pialat]] *[[Jean Renoir]] *[[Alain Resnais]] *[[Jacques Rivette]] *[[Yves Robert]] *[[Éric Rohmer]] *[[Jean Rollin]] *[[Alain Sarde]] *[[Claude Sautet]] *[[Ramzi Ben Sliman]] *[[Straub-Huillet]] *[[Jacques Tati]] *[[Jacques Tourneur]] *[[Maurice Tourneur]] *[[François Truffaut]] *[[Roger Vadim]] *[[Agnès Varda]] *[[Flore Vasseur]] *[[Jean Vigo]] {{div col end}} ==Humorists== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Alain Chabat]] *[[Coluche]] *[[Pierre Dac]], humorist and Resistance worker *[[Jamel Debbouze]] *[[Pierre Desproges]] *[[Raymond Devos]] *[[Gad Elmaleh]] *[[Florence Foresti]] *[[Thierry Le Luron]] *[[Dieudonné M'bala M'bala]] *[[Elie Semoun]] *[[Cabu]] *[[Stef and Jim]] {{div col end}} ==Military leaders== {{main|List of French military leaders}} {{see also|Constable of France|Marshal of France|French nobility}} ==Monarchs and royals== {{See also|List of French monarchs|}} ==Musicians== {{see also|List of French composers|List of French singers}} ===A–J=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Dominique A]] *[[Air (French band)|Air (band)]] *[[Alizée]] *[[Charles Aznavour]] *[[Josephine Baker]], American-born entertainer *[[Thomas Bangalter]], member of [[Daft Punk]] *[[Jane Bathori]], opera singer *[[Barbara (singer)|Barbara]] *[[Guy Béart]] *[[Bénabar]] *[[Carla Bruni]] *[[Michel Berger]] *[[Didier Bocquet]] *[[Pierre Bouvier]] *[[Lucienne Boyer]] *[[Georges Brassens]] *[[Breakbot]] *[[Aristide Bruant]] *[[Yelle|Julie Budet]] *[[Manu Chao]] *[[Sébastien Charlier]] *[[Matthieu Chedid]] *[[Richard Clayderman]], pianist *[[Chuck Comeau]] *[[Marie-Anne Couperin]] *[[Dalida]] *[[Marie-Louise Damien|Damia]] *[[Claude Debussy]] *[[David Desrosiers]] *[[Natalie Dessay]], opera singer *[[Dimitri from Paris]] *[[Sacha Distel]], heartthrob: covered "[[Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head]]" *[[Marie Dubas]] *[[Jacques Dutronc]] *[[Kenza Farah]] *[[Mylène Farmer]] *[[Jean Ferrat]] *[[Léo Ferré]] *[[Nino Ferrer]] *[[Thomas Fersen]] *[[Claude François]], popular singer during the 1960s and 1970s *[[Fréhel]] *[[Charlotte Gainsbourg]] *[[Serge Gainsbourg]] *[[France Gall]] *[[Laurent Garnier]] *[[Gipsy Kings]] *[[Georges Guibourg|Georgius]] *[[Gesaffelstein]] *[[Jean-Jacques Goldman]] *[[Stéphane Grappelli]], jazz musician *[[Juliette Gréco]] *[[Gribouille]] (born Marie-France Gaîté) *[[Hélène Grimaud]], classical pianist *[[David Guetta]], house-music producer and DJ *[[Yvette Guilbert]] *[[Arthur H]] *[[David Hallyday]] *[[Johnny Hallyday]], born in Belgium, served in the [[French Army]] *[[Françoise Hardy]] *[[Jacques Higelin]] *[[Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo]], member of [[Daft Punk]] *[[Indila]] *[[Sébastien Izambard]], member of the quartet [[Il Divo]] *[[IAM (band)|IAM]] *[[Joëlle Mogensen|Joëlle]] *[[Justice (band)|Justice]] {{div col end}} ===K–Z=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Patricia Kaas]] *[[Kaoma]] *[[Kassav']] *[[Kavinsky]] *[[Rina Ketty]] *[[Alice Prin|Kiki]], "Queen of [[Montparnasse]]" *[[La Goulue]] *[[Larusso]] *[[Boby Lapointe]] *[[Bernard Lavilliers]] *[[Maxime Le Forestier]] *[[Sébastien Lefebvre]] *[[Gérard Lenorman]] *[[Nolwenn Leroy]] *[[Lilly Wood and the Prick]] *[[Claudine Longet]] *[[Didier Lucchesi]] *[[Sheryfa Luna]] *[[M83 (band)|M83]] *[[Madeon]] *[[Christophe Maé]] *[[Mano Negra (band)|Mano Negra]] *[[Luis Mariano]] *[[Anna Marly]] *[[Alain Marion]] *[[Didier Marouani]], musician and composer *[[Mireille Mathieu]] *[[Félix Mayol]] *[[Miossec]] *[[Mireille Hartuch|Mireille]] *[[Mistinguett]] *[[Ginette Neveu]] *[[Yannick Noah]] *[[Claude Nougaro]] *[[Vincent Niclo]] *[[Suprême NTM|NTM]] *[[Noir Désir]] *[[Vanessa Paradis]] *[[Pierre Perret]] *[[Augustin Pesnon]] *[[Michel Petrucciani]] *[[Édith Piaf]] *[[Michel Polnareff]] *[[Lily Pons]], opera singer (naturalized as a United States citizen in 1940) *[[Rene Rancourt]] *[[Renaud]] *[[Tino Rossi]] *[[Jean Sablon]] *[[Sebastian (French musician)|Sebastian]] *[[David Serero (opera singer)|David Serero]] *[[Bob Sinclar]] *[[Skip the Use]] *[[Alain Souchon]] *[[Mano Solo]] *[[Jeff Stinco]] *[[Sébastien Tellier]] *[[Yann Tiersen]] *[[Charles Trenet]] *[[Christian Vander (musician)|Christian Vander]] *[[Sylvie Vartan]] *[[Boris Vian]] *[[Pauline Viardot]], opera singer and composer *[[Pedro Winter]] *[[Zazie]] {{div col end}} ==Philosophers== {{main|List of French philosophers}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Pierre Abélard]] *[[Louis Althusser]] *[[Raymond Aron]], sociologist and philosopher *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] *[[Gaston Bachelard]] *[[Georges Bataille]] *[[Roland Barthes]] *[[Jean Baudrillard]], philosopher and sociologist *[[Pierre Bourdieu]], sociologist *[[Julien Benda]] *[[Henri Bergson]] *[[Louis de Bonald]] *[[Émile Boutroux]] *[[Fabienne Brugère]] *[[Michel de Certeau]] *[[François-René de Chateaubriand]] *[[Auguste Comte]] *[[André Comte-Sponville]] *[[J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur|Jean de Crèvecœur]] *[[Guy Debord]] *[[Gilles Deleuze]] *[[Natalie Depraz]] *[[Jacques Derrida]] *[[René Descartes]], scientist and philosopher *[[Denis Diderot]], [[the Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] author and deist philosopher *[[Frantz Fanon]] *[[Michel Foucault]] *[[Camille Froidevaux-Metterie]] *[[Édouard Glissant]] *[[Félix Guattari]] *[[René Guénon]] *[[Vladimir Jankélévitch]] *[[Étienne de La Boétie]], philosopher and politician *[[Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe]] *[[Félicité de Lamennais]] *[[Henri Lefèbvre]] *[[Marcel Légaut]], Christian philosopher *[[Jean de Léry]], ''corsaire'' and ethnologist, anti-racism activist *[[Emmanuel Lévinas]] *[[Jean-François Lyotard]] *[[Joseph de Maistre]] *[[Nicolas Malebranche]] *[[Gabriel Marcel]], philosopher *[[Jacques Maritain]], philosopher *[[Maurice Merleau-Ponty]], phenomenologist *[[Michel de Montaigne]], philosopher essayist *[[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]], political philosopher *[[Edgar Morin]] *[[Emmanuel Mounier]], philosopher *[[Jean-Luc Nancy]], philosopher *[[Blaise Pascal]], scientist, mathematician, Christian philosopher, and author *[[Juliette Rennes]], sociologist *[[Jean-François Revel]] *[[Paul Ricœur]] *[[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] *[[Jean-Paul Sartre]], existentialist philosopher *[[Michel Serres]] *[[Hippolyte Taine]] *[[Alexis de Tocqueville]] *[[Voltaire|François-Marie Arouet]] (Voltaire), [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] author, [[deist]]/[[agnostic]] philosopher *[[Éric Weil]], philosopher *[[Simone Weil]] {{div col end}} ==Politicians== {{see also|List of Prime Ministers of France|List of Presidents of France|List of foreign-born French politicians}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[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 {{div col end}} ==Popes== {{main|List of French popes}} ==Resistance workers== Resistance workers during the [[German military administration in occupied France during World War II]] {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Lucie Aubrac|Lucie Samuel-Aubrac]] (1912–2007), human rights activist *[[Raymond Aubrac]] (1914–2012), statesman *[[Robert Benoist]] (1895–1944), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] operative, champion race car driver *[[Denise Bloch]] (1915–1945), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] operative: King's Commendation for Brave Conduct, Legion of Honor, French Resistance Medal *[[Andrée Borrel]] (1919–1944), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] operative: Croix de guerre *[[Bernadette Cattanéo]] (1899–1963), trade unionist and communist activist *[[Madeleine Damerment]] (1917–1944), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] operative: Legion of Honor, Croix de guerre, Médaille combattant volontaire de la Résistance *[[Marie Dissard|Marie Louise Dissard]] (1880–1957), U.S. [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] recipient *[[William Grover-Williams]] (1903–1945), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] operative, champion race car driver *[[Aimée Lallement]] (1898–1988), Righteous Among the Nations *[[Cecily Lefort]] (1900–1945), [[Special Operations Executive|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), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] operative: Croix de guerre *[[Germaine Ribière]] (1917–1999), [[Righteous among the Nations]] *[[Élise Rivet]] (1890–1945), nun executed by Nazis for aiding the resistance *[[Lilian Rolfe]] (1914–1945), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent executed by the Nazis *[[Odette Sansom]] (1912–1995), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] operative: George Cross, MBE, Legion of Honor *[[Suzanne Spaak]], Belgian-born agent: "Red Orchestra" intelligence network; executed 1944 *[[Violette Szabo]] (1921–1945), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] operative: George Cross, Croix de guerre *[[Jean-Pierre Wimille]] (1908–1949), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] operative, champion race car driver {{div col end}} *See also [[French Resistance]] ==Scientists== {{main|List of French scientists}} ==Social activists== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[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)|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 {{div col end}} ==Soldiers== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Joan of Arc]], commander and saint *[[Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard|Chevalier Bayard]] *[[François Achille Bazaine]] *[[Charles XIV John of Sweden|Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte]] *[[Georges Boulanger]] *[[Thomas Robert Bugeaud]] *[[Raymond H. A. Carter]] *[[François de Charette]] *[[Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé]], known as ''le Grand Condé''. *[[Gaspard II de Coligny|Gaspard de Coligny]] *[[François Darlan]] *[[Louis-Nicolas Davout]] *[[Bob Denard]] *[[Alfred Dreyfus]] *[[Charles François Dumouriez]] *[[Ferdinand Foch]] *[[Louis Franchet d'Espèrey]] *[[Joseph Gallieni]] *[[Maurice Gamelin]] *[[Henri Gouraud (French Army officer)|Henri Gouraud]] *[[Bertrand du Guesclin]] *[[Joseph Joffre]] *[[Edmond Jouhaud]] *[[Jean-Baptiste Jourdan]] *[[Alphonse Juin]] *[[Marie-Pierre Kœnig]] *[[Jacques de la Palice]] *[[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette|Marquis de Lafayette]] *[[Charles Leclerc (general, born 1772)|Charles Leclerc]] *[[Jean Lannes]] *[[Jean de Lattre de Tassigny]] *[[Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque]] *[[François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg]] *[[Hubert Lyautey]] *[[Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta|Patrice MacMahon]] *[[Charles Mangin]] *[[Claude Martin]] *[[André Masséna]] *[[Jacques Massu]] *[[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] *[[Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester|Simon de Montfort]] *[[Philippe Morillon]] *[[Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte]] *[[Joachim Murat]] *[[Michel Ney]] *[[Robert Nivelle]] *[[Philippe Pétain]] *[[Comte de Rochambeau]] *[[Raoul Salan]] *[[Maurice Sarrail]] *[[Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult|Nicolas Soult]] *[[Louis Jules Trochu]] *[[Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne|Henri de Turenne]] *[[Étienne de Vignolles]], called La Hire *[[Claude Louis Hector de Villars]] *[[Maxime Weygand]] {{div col end}} ==Spationauts== {{main|List of French spationauts}} ==Theologians== '''O.P.''' (''Ordo Praedicatorum'') is the abbreviation used to indicate that someone is/was a member of the [[Dominican Order]], a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[religious order (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 Church|Catholic]] religious order. {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Jean Arnauld]], philosopher and theologian *[[Denis Bérardier]], priest and theologian *[[Marie-Émile Boismard]] O.P. *[[Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet]] *[[John Calvin|Jean Calvin]] *[[Sebastian Castellio]], translator of the Bible *[[Pierre Cauchon]], condemned Joan of Arc *[[Robert Ciboule]], Roman Catholic theologian *[[Bernard of Clairvaux]] *[[Jean Claude]] *[[Yves Congar]], O.P. *[[Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange]], O.P. *[[Hubert Languet]] *[[Maurice Leenhardt]], ethnologist, theologian *[[Jean Louail]], theologian *[[André Paul]], scholar in the fields of theology, biblical studies and ancient Judaism *[[François Picquet]], 18th-century missionary in [[New France]] *[[Jean Porthaise]], theologian *[[Alexander de Rhodes]] S.J., 17th-century missionary to Indochina *[[Richard of Saint-Laurent]], canon at [[Rouen]] *[[Auguste Sabatier]] *[[Antonin Sertillanges]] O.P., founder of the ''Revue Thomiste'' *[[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin]] S.J. *[[Simon-Michel Treuvé]] {{div col end}} ==Others== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[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 [[Oldest people|longest documented human lifespan]] – 122 years and 164 days *[[Pierre de Coubertin]], initiator of the modern [[Olympic Games]] *[[The Countess (trans woman)|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 *[[René Dumont]], agronomist engineer and sociologist and ecology activist *[[Jules Dumont d'Urville]] *[[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]]'' *[[Caroline Goldman]], psychologist and author *[[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 *[[Marie-Pierre Lannelongue]], journalist *[[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 *[[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 *[[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 {{div col end}} ==See also== {{portal|Biography|France|Lists}} *[[List of French Jews]] *[[List of French people of immigrant origin]] {{clear}} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:French people}} [[Category:Lists of French people| ]]
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