Category
page 1French Resistance members
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
Édith Piaf
French singer (1915–1963)
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
François Mitterrand
21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995 (1916–1996)
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
French official and politician (1926–2020)
André Malraux
French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976)
Josephine Baker
American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)
Simone Weil
French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)
Claude Simon
French writer (1913–2005)
Léopold Sédar Senghor
first president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906–2001)
Georges Charpak
French physicist (1924-2010)
Jacques Monod
French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate (1910-1976)
Romain Gary
French writer and diplomat (1914–1980)
Henri Cartier-Bresson
French photographer (1908–2004)
Marc Bloch
French historian (1886–1944)
Émile Borel
French mathematician and politician (1871-1956)
Jacques Le Goff
French historian (1924-2014)
Alain Poher
French politician (1909-1996)
René Char
French poet (1907–1988)
Stéphane Hessel
French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor (1917–2013)
Edmond Debeaumarché
French Resistance member
Abbé Pierre
French Catholic priest, founder of the Emmaus movement, subject of sexual abuse scandals
Jean Moulin
French resistance fighter and civil servant (1899-1943)
Jean-Pierre Melville
French filmmaker and actor (1917–1973)
Georges Bidault
French politician (1899-1983)
Gilbert Bécaud
French singer, composer, pianist and actor (1927–2001)
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
82nd Prime Minister of France (1915–2000)
Robert Desnos
French writer
Nancy Wake
New Zealander and Australian war heroine
Edgar Faure
French politician (1908-1988)
Claude Lanzmann
French documentary filmmaker (1925–2018)
Sessue Hayakawa
Japanese actor (1889–1973)
Pierre Bérégovoy
90th Prime Minister of France (1925-1993)
Louis Jourdan
French actor (1921–2015)
Jean Paulhan
French writer (1884–1968)
Félix Gouin
French politician and jurist, temporary Prime Minister of France (1884-1977)
Guy Mollet
French politician (1905-1975)
Violette Szabo
French-British SOE spy
Chris Marker
French filmmaker (1921–2012)
Claude Cahun
French artist (1894–1954)
Shapour Bakhtiar
Iranian politician
Danielle Mitterrand
wife of François Mitterrand (1924-2011)
Félix Gaillard
Prime Minister of France (1919–1970)
Jean-François Revel
French writer and philosopher (1924–2006)
Edmonde Charles-Roux
French writer (1920–2016)
Henri Queuille
French Prime Minister (1884-1970)
Paul Ramadier
Prime Minister of France (1888–1961)
Armand Salacrou
French dramatist (1899-1989)
André Marie
French politician (1897-1974)
Henryk Jabłoński
Polish historian and politician (1909-2003)
Joseph Paul-Boncour
French politician and diplomat (1873–1972)
Maurice Herzog
French mountaineer and politician (1919-2012)
Louise Weiss
French journalist, writer, feminist & politician (1893-1983)
Joseph Laniel
Prime Minister of France (1889-1975)
Roger Vailland
French writer (1907–1965)
Ivan Bek
Serbian and French footballer (1909-1963)
Virginia Hall
American spy with the British Special Operations Executive (1906-1982)
Georges Canguilhem
French philosopher (1904-1995)
Jean Prouvé
French architect and designer (1901-1984)
Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
French Prime Minister (1914–1993)