Aviators
- Clément Ader
- Jacqueline Auriol
- Louis Blériot
- Henri Farman
- René Fonck
- 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
- Les Frères Robert – balloonists Anne-Jean Robert and Nicolas-Louis Robert
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author and aviator
- André Turcat
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