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Actors/Actresses

A

B-C

D-L

M-V

Architects

Authors

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

A

B

C-E

F-I

L

M-N

P-R

S-Z

Aviators

Business

Colonial administrators

Composers

Criminals

For Collaboration with Nazi Germany see also the politicians section.

Dancers

See also Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergeres

Economists

Fashion

Fictional characters

Filmmakers

Humorists

Monarchs

See also French monarchs, members of the French Royal Families

Musicians, singers

Painters

Philosophers

Politicians

See also: Prime Ministers of France, Presidents of France

Popes

See List of French popes

Resistance workers

See also French Resistance

Scientists

A-C

D-M

P-V

  • 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

Social Activists

Soldiers


Sportsmen and -women

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, which is a Catholic religious order too.

Others

See also

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