FAMOUS FRENCH PEOPLE

Actors/Actresses

· Isabelle Adjani

· Renée Adorée

· Anouk Aimée

· Antonin Artaud, actor, playwright, poet, essayist

· Fanny Ardant

· Jean-Pierre Aumont

· Daniel Auteuil

· Charles Aznavour

· Brigitte Bardot

· Emmanuelle Béart

· Jean-Paul Belmondo

· Charles Berling

· Sarah Bernhardt

· Suzanne Bianchetti

· Juliette Binoche, Academy Award for role in The English Patient

· Sandrine Bonnaire

· Élodie Bouchez

· Bourvil

· Charles Boyer

· Guillaume Canet

· Capucine

· Leslie Caron

· Vincent Cassel

· Maurice Chevalier

· Aurore Clément

· Claudette Colbert

· Clotilde Courau

· Lili Damita

· Alain Delon

· Julie Delpy

· Catherine Deneuve

· Gérard Depardieu

· Patrick Dewaere

· Fernandel

· Louis de Funès

· Jean Gabin

· Annie Girardot

· Judith Godrèche

· Eva Green

· Sacha Guitry

· Isabelle Huppert

· Irène Jacob

· Valérie Kaprisky

· Virginie Ledoyen

· Marcel Marceau

· Sophie Marceau, Princess Isabelle in Braveheart, a "Bond" Girl

· Jean Marais

· Miou-Miou

· Mistinguett

· Yves Montand

· Jeanne Moreau

· Michèle Morgan

· Michel Piccoli

· Yvonne Printemps

· Pérette Pradier

· Pierre Richard

· Jean Rochefort

· Philippine de Rothschild

· Emmanuelle Seigner

· Delphine Seyrig

· Simone Signoret

· Audrey Tautou

· Jean-Louis Trintignant

· Marie Trintignant

· Michael Vartan

· Hervé Villechaize

Architects

· Le Corbusier

· Étienne-Louis Boullée

· Fontaine architect

· Hector Guimard

· Charles Percier

· Claude Nicolas Ledoux

· Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Authors

See also: French language authors, French language poets, French novelists

· Marcel Achard -- playwright and scriptwriter

· Alain-Fournier

· Jean Anouilh -- 20th century dramatist

· Guillaume Apollinaire -- (born Russian) poet

· Antonin Artaud

· Honoré de Balzac -- realist author

· Henri Barbusse

· Charles Baudelaire, 19th century poet

· Pierre Beaumarchais, comedy playwright

· Simone de Beauvoir -- 20th century author

· Cyrano de Bergerac

· Georges Bernanos

· Tristan Bernard

· Maurice Blanchot

· Pierre Boulle

· Fernand Braudel

· André Breton

· Restif de le Bretonne

· Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

· Michel Butor

· Albert Camus -- existentialist author

· Louis-Ferdinand Céline -- 20th century author

· Blaise Cendrars

· Aimé Césaire-- 20th century author

· Chamfort

· René Char, 20th century poet

· François-René de Chateaubriand

· E. M. Cioran

· Paul Claudel

· Jean Cocteau -- 20th century poet and playwright

· Colette-- 20th century author

· Benjamin Constant

· Pierre Corneille -- classicist playwright

· Marquis de Custine -- travel writer

· Denis Diderot

· Alexandre Dumas, père, Author

· Alexandre Dumas, fils -- Playwright/author

· Marguerite Duras - 20th century novelist

· Mircea Eliade

· Paul Eluard

· Frantz Fanon -- 20th century author, psychiatrist

· Léon-Paul Fargue

· Georges Feydeau

· Alain Finkielkraut - essayist

· Gustave Flaubert -- realist author

· Anatole France

· Marie de France -- poet

· Romain Gary

· Jean Genet

· André Gide, Nobel Prize Winner

· Jean Giono

· Jean Giraudoux

· Françoise Giroud

· Julien Gracq

· Julien Green

· Pierre Guyotat

· Victor Hugo -- novelist, poet, and playwright

· Joris-Karl Huysmans

· Eugène Ionesco

· Jean de La Bruyère

· Jean de La Fontaine

· Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

· Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse)

· Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

· Leconte de Lisle -- parnassian poet

· Alphonse de Lamartine

· Jacques Lacan - psychoanalyst

· Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - historian

· Jules Laforgue

· Valéry Larbaud

· Stéphane Mallarmé -- poet

· Hector Malot -- 19th century author

· André Malraux

· Pierre de Marivaux - playwright

· Clément Marot -- poet

· Guy de Maupassant novelist

· François Mauriac - Roman Catholic writer

· Prosper Mérimée - 19th century novelist

· Henri Michaux

· Patrick Modiano

· Jean Baptiste Poquelin dit Molière -- 17th century comedic playwright and actor

· Alfred de Musset -- 19th century poet

· Anaïs Nin

· Marcel Pagnol

· Charles Péguy -- 20th century poet

· Charles Perrault -- Mother Goose Tales

· Georges Perec

· Saint-John Perse

· Jean Piaget - psychologist

· Christine de Pizan, historian, poet, philosopher

· Jacques Prevert -- 20th century poet

· Abbé Prévost

· Marcel Prevost

· Marcel Proust -- novelist

· François Rabelais -- Renaissance writer

· Raymond Radiguet

· Jean Racine -- classicist playwright

· Pauline Réage, novelist

· Arthur Rimbaud -- symbolist poet

· Alain Robbe-Grillet

· Pierre de Ronsard

· Edmond Rostand -- neo-romantic playwright

· Raymond Roussel

· Marquis de Sade -- erotic and philosophic author

· Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

· George Sand -- feminist author

· Nathalie Sarraute

· Victor Segalen

· Madame de Sévigné

· Madame de Staël

· Antoine de Saint-Exupery , humanist author and aviators.

· Claude Simon

· Stendhal -- novelist (born Henry Beyle)

· Paul Valéry -- 20th century poet

· Paul Verlaine -- symbolist poet

· Jules Verne -- novelist

· Boris Vian -- 20th century author

· Alfred de Vigny -- 19th century poet

· François Villon

· Émile Zola -- naturalist author

Aviators

· Clément Ader

· Jacqueline Auriol

· Louis Blériot

· Henry Farman

· Georges Guynemer

· Jean Mermoz

· Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, humanist author and aviators.

· Roland Garros, First to cross the mediterranean sea. French Open is named after him.

Business

· Bernard Arnault (born 1949), entrepreneur

· Marcel Bich, (1914-1994), Bic pens

· Vincent Bolloré (born 1952), transportation and engineering

· Ettore Bugatti (1881-1947), automobile manufacturer

· André Citroen (1878-1935), automobile manufacturer

· Marcel Dassault (1892-1986), aviation

· Gerard Louis-Dreyfus (born 1932), agricultural commodities

· 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

· Paul-Louis Halley (1934-2004), supermarket tycoon

· Max Hymans (1900-1961), aviation

· Jean-Marie Messier (born 1957), former Vivendi CEO

· François Pinault (born 1936), entrepreneur

· Jacques-Donatien Le Ray (1726-1803), shipping magnate and a "Father of the American Revolution"

· Marcel Renault (1872-1903), automobile manufacturer

· James Mayer Rothschild (1792-1868), banker

· Philippe de Rothschild (1902-1988), wine maker

· Eugene Schueller (1881-1954), founder of L'Oreal

· Bernard Tapie (born 1943), entrepreneur

Composers

· Georges Auric

· Hector Berlioz

· Georges Bizet -- composer of Carmen

· Pierre Boulez -- avant garde composer

· Marc Antoine Charpentier

· François Couperin

· Michel Richard Delalande

· Georges Delerue

· Claude Debussy -- Impressionist composer

· Paul Dukas -- composer of The Sorcerer's Apprentice

· Gabriel Fauré

· César Franck -- also considered Belgian

· Jean-Jacques Goldman*

· Reynaldo Hahn

· Pierre Henry -- writer of musique concrète and electronic music

· Jean-Michel Jarre

· Maurice Jarre -- film music composer

· Michel Legrand

· Jean François Lesueur

· Jean Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV

· Darius Milhaud

· Jacques Offenbach -- noted for his operettas

· Francis Poulenc

· Jean Philippe Rameau

· Maurice Ravel

· Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle -- composer of "La Marseillaise", French National Anthem

· Edmond Roussel

· Camille Saint-Saëns

· Erik Satie composer of Musiques d'ameublement

· Pierre Schaeffer -- inventor of musique concrète

· Les Six -- group of composers

· Germaine Tailleferre

· Charles-Marie Widor

Dancers

· Roland Petit

· Jane Avril (1868-1943), singer/dancer

· See also Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergeres

Economists

· Maurice Allais

· Frederic Bastiat

· Jules Dupuit

· Alain Lipietz -- green economist

· François Quesnay

· Pascal Salin

· Jean-Baptiste Say

· Turgot

Fashion

· Liliane de Bettencourt, majority owner of L'Oreal, wealthiest person in France

· Coco Chanel -- fashion designer

· Edouard de Givenchy

· Christian Dior -- fashion designer

· Jean-Paul Gaultier

· Madame Grey

· Daniel Hechter -- inventor of ready-to-wear

· Paul Poiret

· Yves Saint-Laurent -- fashion designer

Fictional characters

· Asterix, Obelix and Idefix (René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo) -- Gaul warriors

· Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan (Alexandre Dumas) -- Musketeers of the King of France

· Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand) -- not fictional but there's no better category ;)

· Rastignac (Honoré de Balzac) -- The most ambitious man in Paris?

· The Man in the Iron Mask -- Not fictional either, but who knows who he was?

Filmmakers

· Olivier Assayas

· Jacques Becker

· Jean-Jacques Beineix

· Luc Besson

· Bertrand Blier

· Catherine Breillat

· Robert Bresson

· André Cayatte

· Jean Cocteau

· Jacques Cousteau -- inventor of the modern aqua lung

· Jacques Demy

· Abel Gance

· Jean-Luc Godard

· Jean-Pierre Jeunet

· Mathieu Kassovitz -- also actor

· Patrice Leconte

· Claude Lelouch

· Louis Malle

· André Malraux

· Georges Méliès

· Maurice Pialat

· Roman Polanski

· Jean Renoir

· Alain Resnais

· Alain Sarde

· Jacques Tati

· Maurice Tourneur (1878-1961), director

· François Truffaut, director

· Roger Vadim -- director

· Agnès Varda

· Jean Vigo

Humorists

· Coluche

· Francis Blanche

· Pierre Dac humorist and Resistance worker

· Pierre Desproges

Monarchs

See also French monarchs, members of the French Royal Families

· Charlemagne

· Henri IV

· Louis XIV, the Sun King -- King of France

· Louis XVI -- King of France when the Revolution started.

· Marie Antoinette -- Austrian born Queen of France, wife of Louis XVI.

· Napoléon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais -- Emperor and Empress of France

· Napoleon III -- Président and Emperor

Musicians, singers

· Charles Aznavour

· Josephine Baker, American born entertainer

· Jane Bathori, opera singer

· Barbara

· Guy Béart

· Michel Berger

· Lucienne Boyer

· Georges Brassens

· Aristide Bruant

· Manu Chao

· Dalida

· Damia

· Marie Dubas

· Claude François -- popular singer 1960s-1970s

· Fréhel

· France Gall

· Serge Gainsbourg

· Yvette Guilbert

· Gipsy Kings

· Jean-Jacques Goldman

· Georgius

· Stéphane Grappelli -- jazz musician

· Juliette Gréco

· Gribouille (Marie-France Gaîté)

· Johnny Hallyday

· David Hallyday

· Joëlle

· Kiki -- "Queen of Montparnasse"

· La Goulue

· Claudine Longet

· Luis Mariano

· Didier Marouani — musician and composer

· Félix Mayol

· Mireille Mathieu

· Mireille

· Mistinguett

· Ginette Neveu

· Pierre Perret

· Edith Piaf

· Lily Pons - opera singer (naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1940)

· Tino Rossi

· Jean Sablon

· Alain Souchon

· Charles Trenet

· Sylvie Vartan

· Pauline Garcia-Viardot - opera singer & composer

Painters

· François Boucher

· Pierre Brissaud

· Gustave Caillebotte

· Paul Cézanne

· Jules Chéret

· Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

· Gustave Courbet

· Thomas Couture

· Jacques Louis David

· Edgar Degas

· Eugène Delacroix

· Robert Delaunay

· André Derain

· Marcel Duchamp

· Suzanne Duchamp

· Henri Fantin-Latour

· Jean-Honoré Fragonard

· Antonio de La Gandara

· Paul Gauguin

· Jean-Baptiste Gros

· Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

· Charles de La Tour

· Georges Lacombe

· Fernand Léger

· Edouard Manet

· Henri Matisse

· Claude Monet

· Gustave Moreau

· Berthe Morisot

· 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

· Philippe Watteau

Philosophers

· Louis Althusser

· Jean le Rond d'Alembert

· Georges Bataille

· Roland Barthes

· Jean Baudrillard -- philosopher and sociologist

· Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist

· Julien Benda

· Henri Bergson

· Emile Boutroux

· Jean de Crèvecoeur

· Michel de Certeau

· Guy Debord

· Gilles Deleuze

· Jacques Derrida

· René Descartes -- scientist and philosopher

· Denis Diderot -- Enlightenment author and atheist philosopher

· Elisabeth Bourdiau de Fontenay

· 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 -- corsaireand ethnologist, anti-racism acivist

· Emmanuel Lévinas

· Jean-François Lyotard

· Nicolas Malebranche

· Gabriel Marcel -- philosopher

· Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- phenomenologist

· Michel de Montaigne -- philosopher essayist

· Montesquieu, political philosopher

· Emmanuel Mounier -- philosopher

· Jean Luc Nancy -- philosopher

· Blaise Pascal -- scientist, Christian philosopher and author

· Paul Ricoeur

· Jean-Jacques Rousseau

· Jean-Paul Sartre -- existentialist philosopher

· Michel Serres

· Jean-Marie Arouet dit Voltaire -- Enlightenment author, deist/agnostic philosopher

· Simone Weil

Politicians

See also: Prime Ministers of France, Presidents of France

· Robert Badinter -- lawyer, statesman and anti death sentence activist

· Léon Blum

· José Bové -- anti-globalization activist

· Marcel Cachin -- founder of the daily periodic L'Humanité

· Jacques Chirac

· Samuel de Champlain -- 1st governor of Canada

· Georges Clemenceau

· Gaspard de Coligny

· Bertrand Delanoë

· Jacques Delors

· Félix Faure, President of France who died of a heart attack while making love to his mistress

· Charles de Gaulle

· Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

· Guizot, Prime Minister

· Gisèle Halimi lawyer and feminist activist

· Jean Jaurès, politician, pacifist

· Lionel Jospin

· Bernard Kouchner -- founder of Medecins du Monde and other "French Doctors"

· Jean-Marie Le Pen

· Alain Lipietz -- green economist

· Pierre Mendès-France -- Lawyer and Statesman

· Honoré Mirabeau

· François Mitterrand -- Lawyer and Statesman

· Jean Monnet

· Henri Philippe Pétain -- Head of Vichy France

· Alexandre de Prouville, Viceroy of New France

· Jean-Pierre Raffarin -- Prime Minister of France since 2002

· Victor Schoelcher -- anti-slavery activist

· Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

· Maurice Thorez

· Jacques Toubon

· Dominique Voynet -- Physician and Green politician

Popes

· Pope Urban IV (1261-1264): Jacques Pantaléon

· Pope Clement IV (1265-1268): Guy Foulques

· Pope Innocent V (1276)

· Pope Martin IV (1281-1285): Simon de Brie

· Pope Clement V (1305-1314): Bertrand de Got

· Pope John XXII (1316-1334): Jacques d'Euse

· Pope Benedict XII (1334-1342): Jacques Fournier

· Pope Clement VI (1342-1352): Pierre Roger

· Pope Innocent VI (1352-1362): Stephen Aubert

· Pope Urban V (1362-1370): Guillaume de Grimoard

· Pope Gregory XI (1370-1378): Pierre Roger de Beaufort

Resistance workers

See also French Resistance

· Lucie Samuel-Aubrac(born 1912), 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

· 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- ), Priest and founder of Emmaus

· Christian Pineau(1904-1995), statesman

· Eliane Plewman (1917-1944), SOE operative: Croix de Guerre

· Germaine Ribière

· Elise 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

· Louis Agassiz -- geologist

· André-Marie Ampère -- scientist

· François Arago -- physicist, astronomer (and also politician)

· Antoine Arbogast -- mathematician

· Jean Baptiste Biot -- physicist

· Jean-Charles de Borda -- mathematician, physicist, political scientist

· Henri Braconnot -- chemist and pharmacist

· Louis de Broglie -- 1929 Physics Nobel Prize winner.

· Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot -- physicist

· Augustin Louis Cauchy -- mathematician

· Jean-François Champollion -- egyptologist

· Emilie du Chatelet -- 18th century mathematician

· Georges Charpak -- physicist, Nobel price winner

· Marquis de Condorcet -- philosopher, mathematician and political scientist

· Charles-Augustin de Coulomb -- physicist, mathematician, engineer

· Jacques Cousteau, Marine scientist

· Joseph Cugnot

· Irène Joliot-Curie -- scientist

· Marie Curie -- scientist

· Pierre Curie -- scientist

· Guillaume Delisle, cartographer

· René Descartes -- scientist and philosopher

· Girard Desargues -- mathematician

· Georges Duby -- historian

· Pierre de Fermat -- mathematician

· Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier -- mathematician and physicist

· Pierre Gassendi -- philosopher mathematician

· Pierre-Gilles de Gennes -- physicist, Nobel prize winner

· Evariste Galois -- mathematician

· Frédéric Joliot -- scientist

· Joseph Louis Lagrange -- mathematician

· Pierre-Simon Laplace -- mathematician and physicist

· Antoine Lavoisier

· Jean-Marie Lehn -- chemist, Nobel prize winner in 1987

· Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist

· Antoine Lévi-Leblond -- physicist

· Albert Matthiez -- historian

· André Michaux -- botanist and explorer

· Jules Michelet -- historian

· Abraham de Moivre -- mathematician

· Theodore Monod -- naturalist and theologian

· Claude Mossé -- (Ms), historian

· Denis Papin

· 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

· Albert Soboul -- historian

· Jean-Pierre Vernant -- historian

· Pierre Vidal-Naquet -- historian and Civil Rights activist

· Pierre Vilar, historian

· Christophe Victor -- geographer

· Paul-Emile Victor -- ethnologist

Sculptors

· Frédéric Bartholdi

· Antonin Carlés

· Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

· César

· Antoine-Denis Chaudet

· Camille Claudel

· Paul Dubois

· Raymond Duchamp-Villon

· Alexandre Falguière

· Jean Antoine Houdon

· Antonin Idrac

· Georges Lacombe

· Antonin Mercié

· Hippolyte Moulin

· Auguste Préault

· Auguste Rodin

· Francois Rude

· Niki de Saint Phalle

Sportsmen and -women

· Tariq Abdul-Wahad -- NBA player (born Olivier Saint-Jean)

· Louis Acaries -- boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter

· Jacques Anquetil -- cyclist

· Fabien Barthez -- football player

· Louison Bobet -- cyclist

· Surya Bonaly - figure skater

· Philippe Candeloro - figure skater

· Eric Cantona -- football player

· Georges Carpentier -- world champion boxer

· Marcel Cerdan -- world champion boxer

· Eugene Criqui -- world champion boxer

· Jean Cruguet -- jockey of Seattle Slew

· Emile Delahaye -- race car pioneer

· Marcel Desailly -- Ghana born French citizen, football player

· David Douillet -- judo

· Laurent Fignon -- cyclist

· Lucien Gaudin -- fencer

· Thierry Henry -- football player

· Bernard Hinault -- cyclist

· Constant Huret -- cyclist

· Olivier Jacque -- motorcycle rider

· Rene Jacquot -- boxer, underdog who became world champion

· Laurent Jalabert -- cyclist

· Jean-Claude Killy -- skier

· Suzanne Lenglen -- tennis player

· Bixente Lizarazu - football player

· Jeannie Longo -- cyclist

· Laure Manaudou -- swimmer

· Amelie Mauresmo -- tennis player

· Jose Meiffret -- cyclist

· Alain Mimoun -- athlete

· Antoine Monteiro -- boxer, lost to Santos Laciar for the world title

· Carole Montillet -- skier

· Yannick Noah -- tennis player

· Tony Parker -- Belgian born French citizen, NBA player

· Marie-José Perec -- athlete

· Mary Pierce-- Canadian born French citizen, tennis player

· Julien Pillet -- fencer

· Michel Platini -- football player

· Alain Prost -- automobile racer

· Georges Stern -- thoroughbred racing jockey

· Marcel Thil -- world champion boxer

· Christophe Tiozzo -- world champion boxer

· Fabrice Tiozzo -- world champion boxer, Christophe's brother

· Damien Touya -- fencer

· Patrick Vieira -- Senegal born French citizen, football player

· Richard Virenque -- cyclist

· Jean-Pierre Wimille, race car driver

· Zinédine Zidane -- football player

Theologians

· Marie-Emile Boismard o.p.

· Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

· Jean Calvin

· Sebastian Castellion -- translator of the Bible

· Bernard of Clairvaux

· Yves Congar o.p.

· André Gounelle

· Pierre Lagrange o.p. -- founder of the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique de Jérusalem

· Hubert Languet

· Maurice Leenhardt -- ethnologist, theologien

· Etienne Mennegoz

· Wilfred Monod

· Etienne Nodet o.p.

· Rachi de Champagne

· Pierre Teilhard de Chardin s.j.

· Auguste Sabatier

· Antonin Sertillanges o.p. -- founder of the Revue Thomiste

· Bernard Sesboué s.j.

Others

· André the Giant, professional wrestler

· Paul Bocuse -- Chief cook

· Charles Cros -- poet and inventor

· Jeanne d'Arc -- (Joan of Arc) warrior, Saint.

· Pierre de Coubertin -- initiator of the modern Olympic Games

· Bob Denard -- mercenary

· Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt

· Ninon de l'Enclos -- courtesan, patron of the arts

· Cavalier de la Salle -- explorer

· Marcel Deprez, electrical engineer

· Alfred Dreyfus

· René Dumont -- agronomist engineer and sociologist and ecology activist

· Jules Dumont d'Urville

· Marguerite Durand -- journalist and feminist leader

· Maurice Duverger -- jurist

· Gustave Eiffel -- engineer

· Pierre Charles L'Enfant -- planned Washington, D.C.

· Marquis de la Fayette -- military leader in the American Revolution

· Ferdinand Foch -- general

· Paul Héroult -- inventor

· Claude de Jouffroy d'Abbans, designed the first steamship in 1783

· René Lalique -- artist

· Charles Leclerc -- general

· Auguste and Louis Lumière -- inventors

· Jean Paul Marat

· Marcel Mazoyer -- agronomist

· Montgolfier brothers -- balloonists

· Jean-Marie Pelt -- botanist

· Lionel Poilâne -- boulanger

· Elisée Reclus -- geographer and anarchist

· Maximilien Robespierre

· Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin -- magician, namesake of "Harry Houdini"

· Philippe Starck - designer

· Vauban - engineer