France
See also: List of French playwrights; List of French language authors
- (died ca. 1210) Jean Bodel
- (ca. 1237–ca. 1288) Adam de la Halle
- (ca. 1460/70–ca. 1515) Andrieu de La Vigne
- (ca. 1470/80–ca. 1538/39) Pierre Gringoire
- (1532–1573) Étienne Jodelle
- (ca. 1535–ca. 1607) Jean de La Taille
- (1540–1619) Pierre de Larivey
- (1542–1562) Jacques de La Taille
- (1544–1590) Robert Garnier
- (c. 1570 – 1632) Alexandre Hardy
- (1595–1676) Jean Desmaretz de Saint-Sorlin
- (1601–1667) Georges de Scudéry
- (1604–1686) Jean Mairet
- (1606–1658) Pierre Du Ryer
- (1606–1684) Pierre Corneille
- (1622–1673) Molière
- (1625–1709) Thomas Corneille
- (1635–1688) Philippe Quinault
- (1638–1701) Edme Boursault
- (1639–1699) Jean Racine
- (1640–1723) David-Augustin de Brueys
- (1650–1721) Jean Palaprat
- (1653–1708) Antoine d'Aubigny de La Fosse
- (1654–1724) Charles Rivière Dufresny
- (1659–1741) Augustin Nadal
- (1661–1725) Florent Carton Dancourt
- (1668–1747) Alain-René Lesage
- (1674–1762) Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
- (1680–1754) Philippe Néricault Destouches
- (1688–1763) Pierre Carlet de Marivaux
- (1692–1754) Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée
- (1694–1778) Voltaire
- (1709–1777) Jean-Baptiste Louis Gresset
- (1713–1784) Denis Diderot
- (1732–1799) Pierre de Beaumarchais
- (1740–1814) Louis-Sébastien Mercier
- (1750–1794) Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine
- (1793–1843) Casimir-Jean-François Delavigne
- (1798–1855) Adam Mickiewicz (Polish language and French language)
- (1799–1850) Honoré de Balzac
- (1802–1870) Alexandre Dumas, père
- (1802–1885) Victor Hugo
- (1804–1876) George Sand
- (1805–1882) Henri Auguste Barbier
- (1810–1857) Alfred de Musset
- (1811–1899) Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery
- (1812–1859) Zygmunt Krasiński (Polish language)
- (1815–1888) Eugène Marin Labiche
- (1820–1889) Émile Augier
- (1823–1891) Théodore de Banville
- (1824–1895) Alexandre Dumas, fils
- (1831–1897) Henri Meilhac
- (1834–1908) Ludovic Halévy
- (1837–1899) Henry Becque
- (1840–1897) Alphonse Daudet
- (1842–1908) François Coppée
- (1848–1912) Alexandre Bisson
- (1848–1917) Octave Mirbeau
- (1848–1918) Georges Ohnet
- (1853–1914) Jules Lemaître
- (1854–1928) François de Curel
- (1857–1915) Paul Hervieu
- (1858–1922) Alfred Capus
- (1858–1929) Georges Courteline
- (1858–1932) Eugène Brieux
- (1859–1940) Henri Lavedan
- (1859–1945) Maurice Donnay
- (1861–1949) Lucien Descaves
- (1862–1921) Georges Feydeau
- (1862–1949) Maurice Maeterlinck
- (1866–1947) Tristan Bernard
- (1867–1942) Georges Berr
- (1868–1918) Edmond Rostand
- (1868–1952) Romain Coolus
- (1868–1955) Paul Claudel
- (1869–1915) Gaston de Caillavet
- (1869–1955) Émile Fabre
- (1872–1922) Henri Bataille
- (1872–1927) Robert de Flers
- (1872–1955) Lucien Besnard
- (1873–1907) Alfred Jarry
- (1874–1931) Fernand Nozière
- (1875–1937) Henri Duvernois
- (1875–1944) Henri Ghéon
- (1876–1953) Henri Bernstein
- (1877–1937) Francis de Croisset
- (1879–1949) Jacques Copeau
- (1880–1918) Guillaume Apollinaire
- (1881–1958) Roger Martin du Gard
- (1882–1941) James Joyce (English language)
- (1882–1944) Jean Giraudoux
- (1882–1951) Henri-René Lenormand
- (1882–1962) René Fauchois
- (1884–1973) Alexandre Arnoux
- (1884–1975) Émile Mazaud
- (1884–1977) Denys Amiel
- (1885–1957) Sacha Guitry
- (1885–1970) François Mauriac
- (1885–1983) Paul Géraldy
- (1886–1970) Fernand Crommelynck
- (1887–1945) Édouard Bourdet
- (1887–1961) Simon Gantillon
- (1888–1972) Jean-Jacques Bernard
- (1889–1958) Paul Nivoix
- (1889–1963) Jean Cocteau
- (1889–1973) Gabriel Marcel
- (1890–1974) André Birabeau
- (1891–1952) Léopold Marchand
- (1892–1975) André Obey
- (1893–1986) André Lang
- (1894–1972) Jacques Deval
- (1895–1970) Jean Giono
- (1896–1948) Antonin Artaud
- (1896–1972) Henry de Montherlant
- (1899–1965) Jacques Audiberti
- (1899–1974) Marcel Achard
- (1900–1982) Georges Neveux
- (1900–1998) Julien Green (French language and English language)
- (1902–1967) Marcel Aymé
- (1905–1980) Jean Paul Sartre
- (1906–1989) Samuel Beckett (English language and French language)
- (1908–1970) Arthur Adamov
- (1909–1985) Jean Bernard-Luc
- (1909–1988) Thierry Maulnier
- (1909–1994) Eugene Ionesco (French language and Romanian language)
- (1910–1986) Jean Genet
- (1910–1987) Jean Anouilh
- (1912–1978) Albert Husson
- (1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy (French language and Creole language)
- (1913–1960) Albert Camus
- (born 1913) Félicien Marceau
- (1914–1996) Marguerite Duras
- (1917–1987) Georges Arnaud
- (born January 1920) Jean Dutourd
- (born August 1920) Jean-Pierre Grédy
- (born 1923) Pierre Barillet
- (born 1924) Armand Gatti
- (1927–1991) François Billetdoux
- (born 1930) Sławomir Mrożek (Polish language)
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