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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