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
- Élisée 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.
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