Lists of French People - Politicians

Politicians

See also: Prime Ministers of France, Presidents of France

  • Robert Badinter, lawyer, statesman and anti death sentence activist
  • François Bayrou, UDF party leader
  • Léon Blum, politician, Socialist party leader, prime minister
  • José Bové, anti-globalization activist, altermondialist
  • Aristide Briand
  • Jacques Chirac, politician, member of center-right wing party, former city mayor of Paris, two-term French president
  • Georges Clemenceau
  • Gaspard de Coligny
  • Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris
  • Jacques Delors
  • Félix Faure, President of France who died of a heart attack while making love to his mistress
  • Charles de Gaulle, World War II general, commander of the Free French Forces, heroic French president
  • Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
  • François Guizot, Prime Minister
  • Gisèle Halimi lawyer and feminist activist
  • François Hollande, PS (Socialist Party) leader, current French president
  • Jean Jaurès, politician, pacifist
  • Lionel Jospin, socialist, former prime minister
  • Bernard Kouchner, founder of Médecins du Monde
  • Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme right party in France, Front National, presidential candidate
  • Louis Lépine, Paris police chief, governor of Algiers, founder of the Concours Lépine
  • Émile Loubet, President of France who was elected in 1899, after the death of Félix Faure
  • Henri-Auguste Lozé,Paris police chief, senator of the Third Republic
  • Jean-Claude Martinez, lawyer and European deputy
  • Pierre Mendès France, lawyer and statesman, prime minister
  • Honoré Mirabeau
  • François Mitterrand, lawyer and statesman, president
  • Jean Monnet
  • Philippe Pétain, head of Vichy France
  • Alexandre de Prouville, Viceroy of New France
  • Marthe Richard
  • Ségolène Royal, politician, Socialist party, presidential candidate
  • Nicolas Sarkozy, politician, President of the right wing party
  • Victor Schoelcher, anti-slavery activist
  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Maurice Thorez
  • Jacques Toubon
  • Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France
  • Dominique Voynet, physician and Green party politician

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