List of French People - Others

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.