During the French Revolution, France granted honorary French citizenship to those deemed champions of the cause. However, not all were sympathizers with the Revolution.
- Joel Barlow
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Jeremy Bentham
- Robert Burns
- Johann Heinrich Campe
- Thomas Clarkson
- Anacharsis Cloots
- Cornelius de Pauw
- Giuseppe Gorani
- Alexander Hamilton
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
- Tadeusz Kościuszko
- James Mackintosh
- James Madison
- Thomas Paine
- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
- Joseph Priestley
- Friedrich Schiller
- George Washington
- William Wilberforce
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- David Williams
- Thomas Muir
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