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Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
Auguste Comte
French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
French official and politician (1926–2020)
Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician (1789–1857)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
French chemist and physicist (1778–1850)
Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)
Ferdinand Foch
French marchal and military theorist (1851–1929)
Nicolas Carnot
French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796–1832)
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French engineer and physicist (1788-1827)
Urbain Le Verrier
French astronomer (1811-1877)
Alfred Dreyfus
French artillery officer (1859–1935)
Bernard Arnault
French entrepreneur
Maurice Allais
French economist (1911–2010)
Jean-Baptiste Biot
French scientist (1774-1862)
Siméon Denis Poisson
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)
Jean Tirole
French economist
Albert François Lebrun
15th President of the French Republic (1871–1950)
Élisabeth Borne
Prime Minister of France from 2022 to 2024
Joseph Joffre
French general (1852–1931)
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
French mathematician, mechanical engineer, and scientist (1792–1843)
Sadi Carnot
5th president of France (1837–1894)
Charles Hermite
French mathematician (1822-1901)
Georges Sorel
French philosopher and sociologist
Jean-Victor Poncelet
French engineer and mathematician (1788-1867)
Henry Louis Le Châtelier
French chemist (1850–1936)
Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron
French physicist (1799-1864)
André Citroën
French businessman (1878-1935)
Camille Jordan
French mathematician (1838-1922)
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician and engineer (1809–1882)
Étienne-Louis Malus
French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (1775-1812)
Michel Chasles
French mathematician (1793–1880)
Robert Nivelle
French general who participated in the First World War (1856–1924)
Claude-Louis Navier
French engineer and physicist (1785–1836)
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
French general and politician (1802-1857)
Antoine César Becquerel
French scientist and pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena (1788-1878)
Jacques Attali
French economist
Henri Victor Regnault
French physicist (1810–1878)
Gabriel Lamé
French mathematician and physicist (1795-1870)
Pierre Louis Dulong
French scientist (1785-1838)
Auguste Bravais
French physicist (1811-1863)
Joseph Bertrand
French mathematician (1822-1900)
Charles Fabry
French physicist
Louis Poinsot
French mathematician and physicist (1777-1859)
Pierre Schaeffer
French composer and musicologist (1910-1995)
Serge Dassault
French businessman and politician (1925–2018)
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play
French engineer, sociologist and economist (1806-1882)
Anselme Payen
French chemist
Charles de Freycinet
politician of the French Third Republic (1828-1923)
Guillaume Henri Dufour
Swiss army officer, bridge engineer and topographer (1787-1875)
Charles Bernard Renouvier
French philosopher
Charles-Eugène Delaunay
French astronomer and mathematician (1816-1872)
Carlo Matteucci
Italian politician and physicist (1811–1868)
Charles Koechlin
French composer, teacher and writer on music
Henry Darcy
French engineer (1803–1858)
Bernard Courtois
chemist (1777-1838)
Marie Alfred Cornu
French physicist (1841–1902)
Paul Andreu
French architect (1938-2018)
Joachim Barrande
geologist, paleontologist and engineer (1799–1883)