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This is a list of French people of note.
[edit] Actors/actresses
[edit] Architects
[edit] Authors
See also: French language authors, French language poets, French novelists
[edit] Aviators
[edit] Business
- Bernard Arnault (born 1949), entrepreneur
- Liliane Bettencourt, cosmetics, one of the richest persons in Europe
- Marcel Bich, (1914-1994), Bic pens
- Vincent Bolloré (born 1952), transportation and engineering
- Marcel Boussac, textiles, fashion, newspapers, race horse breeding
- Ettore Bugatti (1881-1947), automobile manufacturer
- André Citroën (1878-1935), automobile manufacturer
- Marcel Dassault (1892-1986), aviation
- Alexandre Darracq (1855-1931), automotive pioneer
- Louis Delâge (1874-1947) automotive pioneer
- Emile Delahaye (1843-1905), automotive pioneer
- Philippe Camus Former EADS co-CEO
- 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 (19..-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
- Gérard Mulliez, entrepreneur (Auchan, Decathlon, Flunch...), whose family is considered as one of the richest in Europe
- Charles Pathé, pioneer of film industry
- Armand Peugeot, (1849-1915) automobile manufacturer
- 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
[edit] Colonial administrators
[edit] Composers
[edit] Criminals
For collaboration with Nazi Germany see also the politicians section.
[edit] Dancers
See also Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergeres
[edit] Economists
[edit] Fashion
[edit] Fictional characters
[edit] Filmmakers
[edit] Humorists
[edit] Monarchs and Royals
See also French monarchs, members of the French Royal Families
- Philip IV the Fair
- King François I
- King Henri 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, grandson of Joesphine by her first marriage, 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
[edit] Musicians, singers
[edit] Painters
[edit] Philosophers
[edit] Photographers
[edit] 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
- Jean-Claude Martinez, lawyer and European deputy
- Émile Loubet, President of France that elected in 1899, after the death of Félix Faure
- 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
- 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
- Marthe Richard
See List of French popes
[edit] 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)
- 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
[edit] Scientists
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