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.

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