French atheists

Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)

President of France from 2012 to 2017 (born 1954)

French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)

French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)

French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)

French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)

French artist (1869-1954)

French painter (1840–1926)

French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)

French physicist (1859–1906)

French philosopher (1926–1984)

French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)

French-Polish filmmaker (born 1933)

French scientist (1897–1956)

French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works

French composer (1875–1937)

French composer (1838–1875)

French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

Prime Minister of France, 1906–1909 and 1917–1920 (1841–1929)

French film director (1932–1984)

French writer, archaeologist and historian (1803–1870)

Spanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983)

Argentine writer (1914–1984)

French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)

French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896–1966)

Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist

French philosopher (1925–1995)

French physicist (1870–1942)

French chemist and physicist (1778–1850)

French poet (1895–1952)

French / Occitan Socialist leader (1859-1914)

French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate (1910-1976)

French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)

French physician

politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate from France (1862-1932)

French intellectual and literary figure (1897–1962)

French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743-1794)

French politician (born 1951)

93rd Prime Minister of France (1997–2002)

French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965

French film director (1922-2014)

Prime Minister of France in 2024

French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818)

French chemist

Spanish–French politician

French chemist and politician (1827-1907)

French philosopher and sociologist

French mathematician (1865–1963)

French astronomer (*1732 – †1807)

French chemist (1748-1822)

French author, politician, poet, and critic (1868–1952)

Stéphane Jean-Abel Michel Charbonnier (; 21 August 1967 – 7 January 2015), better known as Charb (), was a French satirical caricaturist and journalist. He was assassinated during the Charlie Hebdo shooting on 7 January 2015.

French physician, anatomist and anthropologist (1824-1880)

French mathematician (1915-2002)

French philosopher

French mathematician and astronomer

French computer scientist (born 1960)

French actress

French novelist, conspiracy theorist and writer

French writer (1854–1907)