List of French People - Resistance Workers

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), Righteous among the Nations
  • 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
  • See also French Resistance

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