List of French People Information
For collaboration with Nazi Germany see also the politicians section.
- Jacques de Bernonville (1897–1972), war criminal sentenced to death
- Jules Bonnot
- Émile Louis
- Henri Désiré Landru, serial killer
- 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
Dancers
- Jane Avril
- La Goulue
- Sylvie Guillem
- Marcelle Lender
- Cléo de Mérode
- Hellé Nice
- François Perron
- Roland Petit
See also Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère
Economists
- Antoine Augustin Cournot
- Maurice Allais, Nobel Prize
- Raymond Barre, economist and politician
- Frederic Bastiat
- Fernand Braudel
- Jules Dupuit
- Gerard Debreu, Nobel memorial prize 1983
- Charles Gide
- Dominique Guellec
- Jean-Jacques Laffont
- Pierre Émile Levasseur
- Alain Lipietz, green economist
- Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
- François Quesnay
- Pascal Salin
- Jean-Baptiste Say
- Turgot
- Léon Walras
Fashion
- 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
- 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
- Noemie Lenoir, model
- Jennifer Messelier, model
- Paul Poiret
- Yves Saint-Laurent, fashion designer
- Louis Vuitton, fashion designer
Fictional characters
- Astérix, Obelix and Dogmatix (French: Idéfix) (René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo), Gaul warriors
- Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan (Alexandre Dumas, père), Musketeers of the King of France
- Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand; fictionalized version of a real person)
- Lestat de Lioncourt, infamous vampire creation of Anne Rice
- Louis de Pointe du Lac, French-born vampire companion of Lestat de Lioncourt
- Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), captain of three Federation starships within one television series and four motion pictures
- Le Petit Prince (Antoine de Saint Exupéry), famous "little prince"
- Erik, The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux), The "Opera Ghost" who haunted the Palais Garnier
- Vicomte Raoul de Chagny (Gaston Leroux), childhood friend of Christine Daae and brother of Comte Phillipe; competed for the affections of Christine Daae with Erik.
- Rastignac (Honoré de Balzac), fictional character from La Comédie humaine series of novels by Honoré de Balzac
- The Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner who was held in a number of jails, including the Bastille and the Fortress of Pinerolo, during the reign of Louis XIV of France
- Corporal Louis LeBeau, POW, Stalag 13
- Inspector Jacques Clouseau, bumbling French detective, star of the Pink Panther movies
- Inspector Tarconi, bumbling French detective, star of The Transporter movies
- Amélie Poulain, shy but kind-hearted waitress, star of 2001 film Amélie.
- Jean Valjean, protagonist of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
- Inspector Javert, antagonist of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
- Le Peregrine – Alain Racine, Superhero in the Marvel Universe
- Tanguy et Laverdure, duet of pilots known as Les Chevaliers du ciel
- Glass Joe, boxer from Nintendo's Punch-Out!! series of boxing video games
- Aiber (Real name Thierry Morello), professional con-man in the employ of L from popular manga and anime Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Nationally, he is French.
- Pepé Le Pew, character from the Looney Tunes.
Filmmakers
- Olivier Assayas
- Jacques Becker
- Jean-Jacques Beineix
- Luc Besson
- Alice Guy-Blaché
- Bertrand Blier
- Catherine Breillat
- Robert Bresson
- Yves Caumon
- André Cayatte
- Claude Chabrol
- Jean-Paul Civeyrac
- René Clair
- René Clément
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Jean Cocteau
- Fabien Cousteau
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Jacques Demy
- Henri Diamant-Berger
- Abel Gance
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Michel Gondry
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Jan Kounen
- Patrice Leconte
- Claude Lelouch
- Philippe Lioret
- Louis Malle
- André Malraux
- Georges Méliès
- Maurice Pialat
- Jean Renoir
- Alain Resnais
- Yves Robert
- Éric Rohmer
- Jean Rollin
- Alain Sarde
- Claude Sautet
- Jacques Tati
- Jacques Tourneur
- Maurice Tourneur
- François Truffaut
- Roger Vadim
- Agnès Varda
- Jean Vigo
Humorists
- Alain Chabat
- Coluche
- Pierre Dac, humorist and Resistance worker
- Jamel Debbouze
- Pierre Desproges
- Raymond Devos
- Thierry Le Luron
- Dieudonné M'bala M'bala
- Florence Foresti
Military leaders
Main article: List of French military leaders See also: Constable of France, Marshal of France, and French nobilityMonarchs and Royals
See also French monarchs, members of the French Royal Families
- Charlemagne
- Charles Martel
- Philip IV the Fair
- King Francis I
- King Henry IV
- Louis XIV, the Sun King, reigned 1643–1715
- Henriette Marie, Queen of England, wife of Charles I of England and mother to Charles II and James II
- Philip V of Spain, grandson of Louis XIV through male line, born and bred in France, became King of Spain aged 17
- King Louis XV, reigned 1715–1774
- King Louis XVI, reigned 1774–1792, executed in 1793 in Revolution
- Emperor Napoleon I, first to be styled 'Emperor of the French', reigned 1799–1814 and again in 1815
- Joséphine de Beauharnais, first wife of above
- King Louis Philippe, only monarch styled King of the French; reigned 1830–1848
- Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon I, President (1848–1852) and Emperor (1852–1871); last French monarch
- Charles-Marie David de Mayréna I, King of the Kingdom of Sedang
- Henri Marie Jean André, Prince Consort of Denmark, married to Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
- Marie Agathe Odile Cavallier, Princess of Denmark, married to Prince Joachim of Denmark
Musicians, singers
- Kenza Farah
- Dominique A
- Air (band)
- Alizée
- Charles Aznavour
- Josephine Baker, American born entertainer
- Jane Bathori, opera singer
- Barbara
- Guy Béart
- Bénabar
- Michel Berger
- Pierre Bouvier
- Lucienne Boyer
- Georges Brassens
- Aristide Bruant
- Julie Budet
- Manu Chao
- Richard Clayderman, pianist
- Daft Punk
- Dalida
- Damia
- Natalie Dessay, opera singer
- Sacha Distel, heartthrob covered "Raindrops keep falling on my head"
- Marie Dubas
- Jacques Dutronc
- Mylène Farmer
- Jean Ferrat
- Léo Ferré
- Nino Ferrer
- Thomas Fersen
- Claude François, popular singer 1960s and 1970s
- Fréhel
- David Desrosiers
- Sebastien Lefebvre
- Chuck Comeau
- France Gall
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Gipsy Kings
- Georgius
- Jean-Jacques Goldman
- Stéphane Grappelli, jazz musician
- Juliette Gréco
- Gribouille (Marie-France Gaîté)
- David Guetta
- Yvette Guilbert
- Arthur H
- David Hallyday
- Johnny Hallyday, born in Belgium, served in the French army
- Françoise Hardy
- Jacques Higelin
- Sébastien Izambard, member of the quartet Il Divo
- IAM
- Joëlle
- Justice (French band)
- Patricia Kaas
- Kassav'
- Rina Ketty
- Kiki, "Queen of Montparnasse"
- La Goulue
- Boby Lapointe
- Bernard Lavilliers
- Maxime Le Forestier
- Gérard Lenormand
- Claudine Longet
- Sheryfa Luna
- Matthieu Chedid
- Christophe Maé
- Mano Negra
- Luis Mariano
- Alain Marion
- Anna Marly
- Didier Marouani, musician and composer
- Mireille Mathieu
- Félix Mayol
- Miossec
- Mireille
- Mistinguett
- Ginette Neveu
- Yannick Noah
- Claude Nougaro
- NTM
- Noir Désir
- Vanessa Paradis
- Pierre Perret
- Michel Petrucciani
- Édith Piaf
- Yann Tiersen
- Michel Polnaref
- Lily Pons, opera singer (naturalized as a United States citizen in 1940)
- Tino Rossi
- Rene Rancourt
- Jean Sablon
- Renaud
- Bob Sinclar
- Alain Souchon
- Mano Solo
- Jeff Stinco
- Charles Trenet
- Christian Vander
- Sylvie Vartan
- Boris Vian
- Pauline Viardot, opera singer and composer
- Zazie
Painters
- Jean René Bazaine
- Maurice Boitel
- François Boucher
- Pierre Brissaud
- Bernard Buffet
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Paul Cézanne
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
- Jules Chéret
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
- Gustave Courbet
- Thomas Couture
- Jacques Louis David
- Edgar Degas
- Georges de la Tour
- Eugène Delacroix
- Robert Delaunay
- André Derain
- Marcel Duchamp
- Suzanne Duchamp
- Henri Fantin-Latour
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- Antonio de La Gandara
- Pierre Gandon
- Paul Gauguin
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Georges Lacombe
- Pierre Laffillé
- Fernand Léger
- Édouard Manet
- Henri Matisse
- Claude Monet
- Gustave Moreau
- Berthe Morisot
- Gen Paul
- Francis Picabia
- Camille Pissarro
- Nicolas Poussin
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Georges Seurat
- Nicolas de Staël
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Maurice Utrillo
- Suzanne Valadon
- Horace Vernet
- Jacques Villon
- Antoine Watteau
- Félix Ziem
Philosophers
Main article: List of French philosophers- Pierre Abélard
- Louis Althusser
- Raymond Aron, sociologist & philosopher
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- Gaston Bachelard
- Georges Bataille
- Roland Barthes
- Jean Baudrillard, philosopher and sociologist
- Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist
- Julien Benda
- Henri Bergson
- Emile Boutroux
- Michel de Certeau
- André Comte-Sponville
- Jean de Crèvecoeur
- Guy Debord
- Gilles Deleuze
- Jacques Derrida
- René Descartes, scientist and philosopher
- Denis Diderot, Enlightenment author and deist philosopher
- Michel Foucault
- Félix Guattari
- Vladimir Jankelevitch
- Étienne de La Boétie, philosopher and politician
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
- Henri Lefèbvre
- Marcel Légaut, Christian philosopher
- Jean de Léry, corsaire and ethnologist, anti-racism activist
- Emmanuel Lévinas
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Gabriel Marcel, philosopher
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty, phenomenologist
- Michel de Montaigne, philosopher essayist
- Montesquieu, political philosopher
- Edgar Morin
- Emmanuel Mounier, philosopher
- Jean Luc Nancy, philosopher
- Blaise Pascal, scientist, Christian philosopher and author
- Jean-François Revel
- Paul Ricoeur
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher
- Michel Serres
- François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), Enlightenment author, deist/agnostic philosopher
- Éric Weil, philosopher
- Simone Weil
Photographers
Main article: List of French photographers- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
- Brassaï born in Hungary
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Raymond Depardon
- Robert Doisneau
- Pierre Dubreuil
- Jules Gervais-Courtellemont
- Willy Ronis
Politicians
See also: Prime Ministers of France, Presidents of France
- 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 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, World War II general, commander of the Free French Forces, heroic French president
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
- Guizot, Prime Minister
- Gisèle Halimi lawyer and feminist activist
- François Hollande, PS (Socialist Party) leader
- Jean Jaurès, politician, pacifist
- Lionel Jospin, socialist, former prime minister
- Bernard Kouchner, founder of Medecins du Monde and other "French Doctors"
- 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
- 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
- Henri Philippe Pétain, head of Vichy France
- Alexandre de Prouville, Viceroy of New France
- Marthe Richard
- Ségolène Royal, politician, Socialist party, presidential candidate
- Nicolas Sarkozy, politician, President of the right wing party, current French president
- Victor Schoelcher, 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
Popes
Resistance workers
Resistance workers during the German occupation of France in World War II
- Lucie Samuel-Aubrac (1912–2007), human rights activist
- Raymond Aubrac (born 1914), 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
- 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
- Cecily Lefort (1900–1945), SOE operative: Croix de Guerre
- Pierre Mendès-France (1907–1982), lawyer, statesman
- Jean Moulin (1899–1943), statesman
- Abbé Pierre (1912–2007), Priest and founder of Emmaus
- Christian Pineau (1904–1995), statesman
- Eliane Plewman (1917–1944), 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), 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
- See also French Resistance
Scientists
A–M
- André-Marie Ampère, physicist and mathematician
- Marcelin Berthelot, chemist
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, physicist and military engineer
- Henri Cartan, mathematician
- Georges Charpak, physicist, Nobel prize winner 1992
- Alain Connes, mathematician; Fields Medalist 1982
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist
- Marie Curie, physicist and chemist
- Pierre Curie, physicist and chemist
- Jean Dausset, biologist, Nobel prize winner 1980
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, mathematician and astronomer
- Guillaume Delisle, cartographer
- René Descartes, scientist and philosopher
- Girard Desargues, mathematician
- Georges Duby, historian
- Robert Debré, physician
- Pierre de Fermat, mathematician
- Hervé Faye, astronomer
- Joseph Fourier, mathematician and physicist
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel, physicist
- Pierre Gassendi, philosopher mathematician
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, physicist, Nobel prize winner 1991
- Évariste Galois, mathematician
- Camille Guérin, biologist
- Alexander Grothendieck, mathematician; Fields Medalist 1966 (German-born)
- Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
- François Jacob, biologist, Nobel prize winner 1965
- Irène Joliot-Curie, physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie, physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1935
- Daniel Kahneman, psychologist, Nobel Prize winner in Economics 2006
- Laurent Lafforgue, mathematician; Fields Medalist 2002
- Joseph Louis Lagrange, mathematician
- Paul Langevin, physicist
- Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician and physicist
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher
- Jean-Marie Lehn, chemist, Nobel prize winner in 1987
- Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, physicist
- Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist
- Pierre-Louis Lions, mathematician; Fields Medalist 1994
- Edmond Locard
- André Lwoff, biologist, Nobel prize winner 1965
- Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician
- Albert Mathiez, historian
- André Michaux, botanist and explorer
- François André Michaux, botanist
- Jules Michelet, historian
- Abraham de Moivre, mathematician
- Jacques Monod, biologist, Nobel prize winner 1965
- Theodore Monod, naturalist and theologian
N–Z
- Louis Néel, physicist, Nobel prize winner 1970
- Denis Papin, physicist, mathematician and inventor
- Louis Pasteur, scientist
- Blaise Pascal, mathematician and philosopher
- Étienne Pascal, mathematician
- Henri Poincaré, mathematician and physicist
- Simeon Poisson, mathematician and physicist
- Michel Rolle, mathematician
- Jean Rostand, biologist and philosopher.
- Paul Rohmer, physician
- Laurent Schwartz, mathematician; Fields Medalist 1950
- Jean-Pierre Serre, mathematician; Fields Medalist 1954
- Célestin Sieur, physician
- Albert Soboul, historian
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie, chemist, physicist, and two time Nobel Prize winner
- René Thom, mathematician; Fields Medalist 1958
- Jean-Pierre Vernant, historian
- Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian and Civil Rights activist
- Jean-Christophe Victor, geographer
- Paul-Emile Victor, ethnologist
- Wendelin Werner, mathematician; Fields Medalist 2006 (German-born)
- Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, mathematician; Fields Medalist 1994
Sculptors
- Frédéric Bartholdi
- Antonin Carlès
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
- César
- Antoine-Denis Chaudet
- Camille Claudel
- Paul Dubois
- Raymond Duchamp-Villon
- Alexandre Falguière
- Jean Antoine Houdon
- René Iché
- Antonin Idrac
- Antonin Mercié
- Hippolyte Moulin
- Émile Louis Picault
- Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
- Auguste Préault
- Auguste Rodin
- Francois Rude
- Niki de Saint Phalle
- Sacha Sosno
Social activists
- Hubertine Auclert, journalist and feminist leader
- Simone de Beauvoir, author, philosopher, and feminist
- Sophie de Condorcet, feminist
- Maria Deraismes, feminist
- Marguerite Durand, journalist and feminist leader
- Olympe de Gouges, feminist
- Samir Kassir, journalist
- Jean Theophile Victor Leclerc, radical revolutionist, newspaper publisher
- Victor Schoelcher, abolitionist
- Pierre Seel, homosexual concentration camp survivor, activist, author
- Séverine,feminist
- Flora Tristan, feminist
Soldiers
- Jeanne d'Arc
- Chevalier Bayard
- François Achille Bazaine
- Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
- Georges Boulanger
- Thomas Robert Bugeaud
- François de Charette
- Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, known as le Grand Condé.
- 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
- Bertrand du Guesclin
- Joseph Joffre
- Edmond Jouhaud
- Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
- Alphonse Juin
- Marie Pierre Koenig
- Jacques de la Palice
- Charles Leclerc
- Jean Lannes
- Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
- Philippe Leclerc de Hautecloque
- François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg
- Hubert Lyautey
- Patrice MacMahon
- Charles Mangin
- Claude Martin
- André Masséna
- Jacques Massu
- Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
- 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 Soult
- Louis Jules Trochu
- Henri de Turenne
- Étienne de Vignolles, called La Hire
- Claude Louis Hector de Villars
- Maxime Weygand
Theologians
O.P. (Ordo Praedicatorum) is the abbreviation used to indicate that someone is/was a member of 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.
- Marie-Émile Boismard O.P.
- Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
- Jean Calvin
- Sebastian Castellion, translator of the Bible
- Pierre Cauchon, condemned Joan of Arc
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Jean Claude
- Yves Congar, O.P.
- Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.
- Pierre Lagrange O.P., founder of the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique de Jérusalem
- Hubert Languet
- Maurice Leenhardt, ethnologist, theologian
- Alexandre de Rhodes S.J., 17th c. missionary to Indochina
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin S.J.
- Auguste Sabatier
- Antonin Sertillanges O.P., founder of the Revue Thomiste
Others
- André Charles Boulle, cabinet maker
- Louis Braille, blind inventor
- Charles Cros, poet and inventor
- Jeanne Calment, who reached the longest lifespan in human history at 122 years and 164 days
- Jean René Champion, first Free French Forces soldier to enter the city of Paris on its liberation in August 1944.
- Pierre de Coubertin, initiator of the modern Olympic Games
- Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc), commander and Saint
- Jean-Louis David, hairdresser
- Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt
- Ninon de l'Enclos, courtesan, patron of the arts
- Cavalier de la Salle, explorer
- Marcel Deprez, electrical engineer
- René Dumont, agronomist engineer and sociologist and ecology activist
- Jules Dumont d'Urville
- Maurice Duverger, jurist
- Jean-Baptiste Ebrard, founder of Liverpool, a chain of department stores in Mexico
- Gustave Eiffel, engineer
- Pierre Charles L'Enfant, planned Washington, D.C.
- Charles Michel de l'Épée, founder of world's first public school for deaf people
- Marquis de la Fayette, military leader in the American Revolution
- Arthur de Gobineau, diplomat, author of An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races
- Paul Héroult, inventor
- Claude de Jouffroy d'Abbans, designed the first steamship in 1783
- René Lalique, artist
- Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds, explorer and canal engineer
- Auguste and Louis Lumière, inventors
- Jean Paul Marat
- Jacques Mayol, freediver
- Montgolfier brothers, balloonists
- Jean-Marie Pelt, botanist
- Elisée Reclus, geographer and anarchist
- César Ritz, hotelier
- Maximilien Robespierre
- Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, magician, namesake of "Harry Houdini"
- Pierre Seel, homosexual survivor of the concentration camps, activist, author
- Philippe Starck, designer
- Vauban, engineer
- François Henri de la Motte, French spy executed for treason 1781 in London
- 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
- List of people by nationality: Belgians, Catalans, Monégasque people, Quebecers, Swiss
References
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