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Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
Georges Cuvier
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition" (1772-1844)
René Lesson
French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist (1794-1849)
Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
French naturalist (1752–1804)
Nicolas Baudin
French explorer (1754-1803)
Antoine de Jussieu
French botanist (1686-1758)
Joseph Paul Gaimard
French naval surgeon and naturalist (1793-1858)
Paul-Émile Botta
French archaeologist (1802–1870)
Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau
French biologist (1810–1892)
Théodore Monod
French naturalist and explorer (1902-2000)
Charles Alexandre Lesueur
French naturalist, artist, and explorer (1778–1846)
Pierre Sonnerat
French botanist (1748-1814)
François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau
French explorer and entomologist (1802–1880)
Joseph Deniker
Russian-French naturalist, librarian and anthropologist (1852-1918)
Alfred Moquin-Tandon
French naturalist (1804-1863)
Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles
French judge and politician (1759-1794)
Alfred Malherbe
French magistrate and amateur naturalist (1804-1865)
Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet
French scientist (1761-1807)
Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison
French antiquary and naturalist (1759-1818)
Jacques Bernard Hombron
French naval surgeon and naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Audebert
French artist and naturalist (1759-1800)
François Péron
French scientist and explorer
Prosper Garnot
French scientist
Pierre Borel
French scholar (1620-1671)
Dominique Alexandre Godron
French botanist (1807-1880)
François Leguat
French explorer and colon (1637-1735)
Joseph-François Lafitau
French missionary, ethnologist, naturalist (1681-1746)
Édouard Verreaux
French ornithologist (1810-1868)
Jean-Charles Chenu
French naturalist (1808–1879)
Florent Prévost
French naturalist (1794-1870)
Emmanuel Le Maout
naturalist (1799-1877)
Charles Victor Naudin
French naturalist and botanist (1815-1899)
Benoît de Maillet
French naturalists, biologist and diplomat (1656-1738)
Antoine Louis Dugès
French zoologist (1797-1838)
Esprit Requien
French naturalist (1788-1851)
Noël-Antoine Pluche
French naturalist
Antoine Gouan
French naturalist (1733-1821)
André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac
French naturalist specialized in malacology (1786-1836)
Henri Filhol
French medical doctor, malacologist and naturalist (1843-1902)
Denis Dodart
French naturalist, physician (1634-1707)
Pierre Denys de Montfort
French zoologist (1766-1820)
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix
French Jesuit priest and historian
Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt
French naturalist (1751-1812)
Henri Biva
French painter (1848-1929)
Henri François Anne de Roussel
French naturalist (1748-1812)
Georges Pouchet
French naturalist and anatomist (1833-1894)
Émile Deville
zoologist (1824-1853)
Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare
French botanist and naturalist (1731-1807)
Pierre-Médard Diard
French naturalist and explorer (1794–1863)
François Désiré Roulin
French explorer and scientist
Jacques Marie François Bigot
French entomologist (1818–1893)
Adolphe-Simon Neboux
French surgeon and naturalist (1806–1885)
Charles Joseph Devillers
naturalist
Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville
French academic (1769-1853)
Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois
French naturalist and botanist (1797–1876)
Paul Lucas
French merchant (1664-1737)
Pierre Joseph Buchoz
French scientist (1731-1809)
Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux
French scientist (1802–1841)
Pierre Antoine Delalande
French naturalist, with the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, was sent 1818 to South Africa in order to find animals and plants at the Cape of Good Hope, returned to France 1820 bringing 800-900 living plants.