Notable interments at Père Lachaise Cemetery
2388 notable figures are documented at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Wikidata's burial records, each with a Wikipedia article and a recorded place of burial. Listed alphabetically.
- Abbas Gharabaghi (1918–2000), politician
- Abbé Delille (1738–1813), linguist, translator, professor
- Abdelghani Bousta (1949–1998), automatician, politician, engineer
- Abdelhalim Hemche (1908–1979), painter, teacher
- Abdol Majid Majidi (1928–2014), civil servant, politician
- Abdol Majid Majidi (1928–2014), civil servant, politician
- Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou (1930–1989), academic staff, economist, politician
- Abel Aubert Dupetit Thouars (1793–1864), scientific collector, explorer, botanist
- Abel Faivre (1867–1945), designer, caricaturist, painter
- Abel Pavet de Courteille (1821–1889), orientalist, translator, professor
- Abel Tarride (1865–1951), film actor, theatre manager, playwright
- Abel-François Villemain (1790–1870), academic, historian, politician
- Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747–1823), mechanic, inventor, physicist
- Achille Fould (1800–1867), banker, politician
- Adam Prazmowski (1821–1885), astrophysicist, teacher, astronomer
- Adam Rayski (1913–2008), opinion journalist, journalist, resistance fighter
- Adélaïde de La Rochefoucauld, Countess of La Rochefoucauld (1769–1814), lady-in-waiting
- Adélaïde de La Rochefoucauld, Countess of La Rochefoucauld (1769–1814), lady-in-waiting
- Adélaïde Dufrénoy (1765–1825), salonnière, editor, translator
- Adélaïde Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho (1761–1836), novelist, salonnière, writer
- Adélaïde-Louise d'Eckmühl de Blocqueville (1815–1892), salonnière, poet, writer
- Adèle de Bellegarde (1772–1830), salonnière, aristocrat
- Adèle Romany (1769–1846), painter
- Adelina Patti (1843–1919), composer, opera singer
- Adolfo Kaminsky (1925–2023), rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, French resistance fighter, counterfeiter
- Adolphe Alphand (1817–1891), botanist, engineer
- Adolphe Belot (1829–1890), playwright, poet, writer
- Adolphe d'Ennery (1811–1899), novelist, librettist, playwright
- Adolphe Desbarrolles (1801–1886), lithographer, chiromancer, painter
- Adolphe Dureau de la Malle (1777–1857), philologist, botanist, geographer
- Adolphe Favre (1808–1886), poet, writer
- Adolphe Franconi (1801–1855), playwright
- Adolphe Monod (1802–1856), university teacher, theologian, preacher
- Adolphe Noël des Vergers (1805–1867), etruscologist, epigrapher, traveler
- Adolphe Osso (1893–1961), film producer
- Adolphe Schneider (1802–1845), ironmaster, financier, politician
- Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), journalist, historian, politician
- Adolphe-Edmond Blanc (1799–1850), jurist, politician, lawyer
- Adolphe-Marie Gubler (1821–1879), botanist, pharmacologist, pharmacist
- Adolphe-Marie Gubler (1821–1879), botanist, pharmacologist, pharmacist
- Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801–1876), botanist, botanical collector, paleontologist
- Adrien Barrère (1874–1931), lithographer, caricaturist, painter
- Adrien Decourcelle (1821–1892), chansonnier, playwright, writer
- Adrien Lejeune (1847–1942), communard, politician
- Adrien Loir (1862–1941), bacteriologist
- Adrien Proust (1834–1903), pathologist, university teacher, physician
- Agricol Perdiguier (1805–1875), joiner, carpenter, politician
- Agustarello Affre (1858–1931), opera singer
- Ahmet Kaya (1957–2000), Liedermacher, musician, singer
- Aimé Girard (1830–1898), agronomist, chemist
- Aimé Martin (1782–1847), literary historian, literary scholar, editor
- Aimé Paris (1798–1866), music educator, lawyer
- Aimé-Joseph de Fleuriau (1870–1938), diplomat, ambassador
- Aimée de Coigny (1769–1820), salonnière
- Aimée-Olympe Desclée (1836–1874), actor
- Alain (1868–1951), philosopher, journalist, teacher
- Alain Bashung (1947–2009), singer-songwriter, actor
- Alain Corneau (1943–2010), film actor, director, film producer
- Alain Decaux (1925–2016), historian
- Alain Erlande-Brandenburg (1937–2020), art historian, archivist, curator
- Alain Jouffroy (1928–2015), literary critic, art critic, film director
- Alain Rey (1928–2020), scholar, lexicographer, linguist
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922–2008), audiobook narrator, novelist, agricultural engineer
- Albert Auguste Perdonnet (1801–1867), railway engineer, civil engineer, university teacher
- Albert Ballu (1849–1939), architect
- Albert Bartholomé (1848–1928), draftsperson, sculptor, painter
- Albert Bertelin (1872–1951), composer
- Albert Cambriels (1816–1891), military officer, military personnel
- Albert Canet (1878–1930), tennis player
- Albert Capellani (1874–1931), film producer, film director, stage actor
- Albert Carré (1852–1938), director, librettist, opera director
- Albert Champion (1878–1927), motorcycle racer, sport cyclist, entrepreneur
- Albert de Bailliencourt (1908–1994), politician
- Albert Grisar (1808–1869), composer
- Albert Laprade (1883–1978), architect, writer
- Albert Roussin (1821–1896), Officer of the French Navy, politician
- Albert Soboul (1914–1982), French resistance fighter, historian
- Albert t'Serstevens (1885–1974), traveler, translator, playwright
- Albert Tissandier (1839–1906), anthropologist, draftsperson, science communicator
- Albert Tissandier (1839–1906), anthropologist, draftsperson, science communicator
- Albert Wolff (1825–1891), art critic, librettist, critic
- Alberto Blest (1830–1920), historian, diplomat, writer
- Albin Roussin (1781–1854), Officer of the French Navy, cartographer, diplomat
- Alejandro María Aguado, 1st Marquis of the Guadalquivir Marshes (1784–1842), patron of the arts, art collector, banker
- Aleksandar Petrović (1929–1994), film director, university teacher, screenwriter
- Aleksander Ignacy Lubomirski (1802–1893), financier
- Alexander Cochrane (1758–1832), naval officer, politician
- Alexander Ginzburg (1936–2002), publisher, journalist, human rights defender
- Alexander Guchkov (1862–1936), businessperson, bretteur, politician
- Alexander Khatisian (1874–1945), political scientist, public figure, official
- Alexander Kucharsky (1741–1819), painter
- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin (1807–1874), journalist, jurist, politician
- Alexandre Beaumont (1827–1909), librettist, novelist, playwright
- Alexandre Brongniart (1770–1847), historian of science, mineralogist, botanist
- Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810–1868), diplomat, politician, military personnel
- Alexandre Darracq (1855–1931), entrepreneur, engineer
- Alexandre de La Motte-Baracé (1781–1840), journalist, painter, military personnel
- Alexandre Desgoffe (1805–1882), painter
- Alexandre Du Sommerard (1779–1842), art collector, anthropologist, archaeologist
- Alexandre Falguière (1831–1900), sculptor, painter, artist
- Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes (1790–1860), Officer of the French Navy, politician
- Alexandre François Liautard (1835–1918), veterinarian, physician
- Alexandre Germain (1847–1938), stage actor
- Alexandre Hesse (1806–1879), painter
- Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont (1797–1881), military physician, psychologist, psychiatrist
- Alexandre Koyré (1892–1964), historian of science, philosopher, university teacher
- Alexandre Lapissida (1839–1907), theatre director, film director, opera singer
- Alexandre Louis Ducrest de Villeneuve (1777–1852), naval officer
- Alexandre Maurice Blanc de Lanautte, Comte d'Hauterive (1754–1830), diplomat, politician
- Alexandre Parodi (1901–1979), diplomat, politician
- Alexandre Pierre Chevalier Moline de Saint-Yon (1786–1870), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Alexandre Stavisky (1886–1934), con artist, financier, banker
- Alexandre-François Vivien (1799–1854), jurist, politician, lawyer
- Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart (1739–1813), architect
- Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth (1760–1829), official, military officer, politician
- Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth (1760–1829), official, military officer, politician
- Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu (1778–1850), opera singer, stage actor
- Alexei Harlamov (1840–1925), painter
- Alexis Bouvier (1836–1892), chansonnier, novelist, playwright
- Alexis Bouvier (1836–1892), chansonnier, novelist, playwright
- Alexis Paccard (1813–1867), architect
- Alexis Rosenberg (1922–2004), art collector, diarist, socialite
- Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791–1820), physicist
- Alfonso Arana (1927–2005), sculptor, painter
- Alfonso Arana (1927–2005), sculptor, painter
- Alfred Assollant (1827–1886), novelist, children's writer, journalist
- Alfred Bonnardot (1808–1884), bibliophile, draftsperson, essayist
- Alfred Capus (1857–1922), novelist, journalist, playwright
- Alfred de Curzon (1820–1895), painter
- Alfred de Dreux (1810–1860), painter
- Alfred de Dreux (1810–1860), painter
- Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), librettist, novelist, chess composer
- Alfred Desroziers (1807–1870), court reporter, librettist, playwright
- Alfred Duru (1829–1889), librettist, dramaturge, writer
- Alfred Edwards (1856–1914), newspaper proprietor, media proprietor, journalist
- Alfred Le Roux (1815–1880), banker, politician, poet
- Alfred Leblanc (1869–1921), balloonist
- Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817–1869), organist, pianist, composer
- Alfred Patusset (1853–1924), conductor, composer
- Alfred Philippe Roll (1845–1919), sculptor, painter
- Alfred Stevens (1823–1906), painter
- Alfred Velghe (1870–1904), racing automobile driver, painter
- Alfred-Amédée Dodds (1842–1922), military officer, military personnel
- Alfred-Nicolas Normand (1822–1909), architect, photographer
- Ali bin Hamud Al Busaidi (1884–1918), politician
- Ali-André Mécili (1940–1987), politician, lawyer
- Alice Babette Toklas (1877–1967), autobiographer, memoirist, writer
- Alice Heine (1858–1925), aristocrat
- Alice La Mazière (1880–1962), activist, traveler, journalist
- Alice Ozy (1820–1893), stage actor
- Alice Tissot (1890–1971), film actor, actor
- Alick-Maud Pledge (1893–1949), gymnast, dancer, pedagogue
- Aline Duval (1823–1903), actor
- Alix Joffroy (1844–1908), university teacher, neurologist, psychiatrist
- Allan Kardec (1804–1869), occultist, philosopher, head teacher
- Alphonse Bertillon (1853–1914), criminologist, anthropologist, criminal investigator
- Alphonse Brot (1807–1895), playwright, poet, writer
- Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897), autobiographer, prose writer, short story writer
- Alphonse de Chavanges (1791–1831), playwright, military officer
- Alphonse de Rayneval (1813–1858), botanical collector, diplomat, politician
- Alphonse Giroux (1776–1848), manufacturer, tabletier, restorer
- Alphonse Lavallée (1797–1873), businessperson
- Alphonse Liébert (1826–1913), naval officer, photographer
- Alphonse Royer (1803–1875), theatrologist, librettist, theatre director
- Alphonse Toussenel (1803–1885), journalist, writer
- Alphonsine (1825–1883), actor
- Ambroise Croizat (1901–1951), politician
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), draftsperson, sculptor, painter
- Amélie Beaury-Saurel (1848–1924), pastellist, painter, illustrator
- Amélie Boudet (1795–1883), educator, artist
- Amélie Faivre (1837–1897), opera singer
- Amélie Mesureur (1853–1926), novelist, poet, writer
- Amélie-Julie Candeille (1767–1834), opera singer, musician, playwright
- Anaïs de Bassanville (1803–1884), journalist, editor, writer
- Anai͏̈s Ségalas (1819–1895), novelist, playwright, poet
- Anatole de Montaiglon (1824–1895), palaeographer, literary historian, art historian
- Anatole Jakovsky (1907–1983), art collector, art critic, polyglot
- Anatole Litvak (1902–1974), film actor, director, film producer
- Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato (1812–1870), scientific collector, art collector, scientific explorer
- Andranik Ozanian (1865–1927), politician, military personnel
- André Auffray (1884–1953), sport cyclist
- Andre Barcat (1896–1918), aircraft pilot, military personnel
- André Boillot (1891–1932), racing automobile driver, motorcycle racer
- André Collin (1875–1966), architect
- André Devambez (1867–1944), lithographer, printmaker, etcher
- André Gill (1840–1885), draftsperson, chansonnier, caricaturist
- André Grétry (1741–1813), composer, writer
- André Joseph Abrial (1750–1828), magistrate, jurist, politician
- André Julien, Comte Dupuy (1753–1832), politician
- André Lefaur (1879–1952), film actor, actor
- André Lefaur (1879–1952), film actor, actor
- André Lefaur (1879–1952), film actor, actor
- André Lefaur (1879–1952), film actor, actor
- André Marie Constant Duméril (1774–1860), anatomist, herpetologist, ichthyologist
- André Masséna (1758–1817), politician, military personnel
- André Morellet (1728–1820), philosopher, encyclopédistes, translator
- André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909–1991), novelist, art critic, translator
- André Sauvage (1891–1975), director, film director, filmmaker
- André Slomszynski (1844–1909), printmaker, draftsperson, communard
- André Tardieu (1876–1945), journalist, politician, teacher
- André Thouin (1747–1824), botanist, agronomist, university teacher
- André-Antoine Ravrio (1759–1814), founder, goguettier, chansonnier
- André-Daniel Laffon de Ladebat (1746–1829), financier, ship-owner, politician
- André-Hippolyte Lemonnier (1794–1871), historian
- André-Jean-François-Marie Brochant de Villiers (1772–1840), mineralogist, geologist, politician
- Andréa Parisy (1930–2014), film actor, actor
- Ángel Parra (1943–2017), recording artist, film actor, novelist
- Angèle Chevrin-Giovoni (1911–1998), politician
- Angelo Mariani (1838–1914), biochemist, advertising person, chemist
- Angelo Tarchi (1760–1814), pedagogue, composer
- Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier (1743–1824), painter
- Anna de Noailles (1876–1933), novelist, model, salonnière
- Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856–1942), painter, artist
- Anna Karina (1940–2019), novelist, model, film actor
- Anne Bignan (1795–1861), linguist, translator, poet
- Anne Jean Marie René Savary (1774–1833), diplomat, politician, military personnel
- Anne Nompar de Caumont (1758–1842), lady-in-waiting
- Anne Victoire Dervieux (1752–1826), opera singer
- Anne-Alexandre-Marie de Montmorency-Laval (1747–1817), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Anne-Cécile Duret (1785–1862), singer
- Anne-François-Charles Trelliard (1764–1832), military personnel
- Anne-Louis Girodet (1767–1824), printmaker, painter, illustrator
- Anne-Marie Javouhey (1779–1851), Christian nun, founder of Catholic religious community, missionary
- Anne-Marie Marchand (1927–2005), costume designer
- Annie Girardot (1931–2011), film actor, television actor, stage actor
- Annie Soisbault (1934–2012), tennis player, racing automobile driver
- Antenor Patiño (1896–1982), art collector, socialite, entrepreneur
- Antoine Ansiaux (1764–1840), painter
- Antoine Ansiaux (1764–1840), painter
- Antoine Balthazar Joachim d'André (1759–1825), politician
- Antoine Beauvilliers (1754–1817), chef, restaurateur
- Antoine Blatin (1841–1911), politician, physician
- Antoine Blondin (1922–1991), sports journalist, literary critic, novelist
- Antoine Breguet (1851–1882), inventor, physicist, engineer
- Antoine Brutus Menier (1795–1853), industrialist, entrepreneur, pharmacist
- Antoine Christophe Merlin (1762–1833), politician
- Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754–1836), philosopher, economist, politician
- Antoine Elwart (1808–1877), music educator, musicologist, composer
- Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755–1809), entomologist, university teacher, encyclopédistes
- Antoine Germain Labarraque (1777–1850), university teacher, chemist, pharmacist
- Antoine Gustave Droz (1832–1895), painter, writer
- Antoine Laurent Dantan (1798–1878), sculptor
- Antoine Louis de Gourdon (1765–1833)
- Antoine Louis Popon de Maucune (1772–1824), military officer
- Antoine Marie Amant Lavalette (1769–1830), diplomat, politician, military personnel
- Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout (1782–1858), banker, official, civil servant
- Antoine Maurin (1771–1830), military officer
- Antoine Molteni (1786–1866), instrument maker, entrepreneur, photographer
- Antoine Morlot (1766–1809), military personnel
- Antoine Ritti (1844–1920), alienist
- Antoine Roy (1764–1847), finance minister, member of parliament, jurist
- Antoine Virgile Schneider (1779–1847), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Antoine Vollon (1833–1900), still life painter, printmaker, architectural drafter
- Antoine-Athanase Royer-Collard (1768–1825), psychiatrist, physician
- Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737–1813), Inspector general of the French Army, royal censor, botanist
- Antoine-Augustin Préault (1809–1879), medalist, sculptor
- Antoine-François Marmontel (1816–1898), music educator, musicologist, art collector
- Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835), visual artist, painter
- Antoine-Laurent Castellan (1772–1838), landscape painter, copper engraver, printmaker
- Antoine-Louis Barye (1795–1875), molding worker, founder, sculptor
- Antoine-Nicolas Bailly (1810–1892), architect
- Antonin Idrac (1849–1884), sculptor
- Antonin Jean Desormeaux (1815–1894), physician
- Antonin Mercié (1845–1916), sculptor, painter, artist
- Antonio de La Gandara (1861–1917), lithographer, designer, cartoonist
- Antonio Flores Jijón (1833–1915), diplomat, politician, military personnel
- Antonio Franconi (1737–1836), circus performer, rider, businessperson
- Apollinaire Bouchardat (1806–1886), university teacher, pharmacist, physician
- Archduchess Maria Isabella, Countess of Trapani (1834–1901)
- Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald (1748–1831), privatier, chemist, inventor
- Ariel Goldenberg (1951–2021), theatre manager
- Arman (1928–2005), sculptor, painter, illustrator
- Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt (1773–1827), diplomat, minister, politician
- Armand Blanquet du Chayla (1759–1826), military personnel
- Armand Blanquet du Chayla (1759–1826), military personnel
- Armand Castelmary (1834–1897), opera singer
- Armand Donon (1818–1902), banker
- Armand Joseph Bruat (1796–1855), politician
- Armand Lurville (1875–1955), actor
- Armand Malitourne (1796–1866), literary critic, journalist
- Armand Peugeot (1849–1915), racing automobile driver, entrepreneur
- Armand Trousseau (1801–1867), internist, politician, physician
- Armand-Charles Guilleminot (1774–1840), diplomat, military officer, politician
- Armand-Gaston Camus (1740–1804), archivist, jurist, politician
- Armand-Octave-Marie d'Allonville (1809–1867), politician, military personnel
- Arnail François, marquis de Jaucourt (1757–1852), diplomat, politician
- Aron Skrobek (1894–1943), trade unionist, journalist
- Arpik Missakian (1926–2015), journalist, editor-in-chief
- Arsène Arnaud Claretie (1840–1913), librettist, novelist, journalist
- Arsène Houssaye (1814–1896), literary critic, art collector, journalist
- Arthur de Rothschild (1851–1903), art collector, socialite
- Arthur Legrand (1833–1916), politician
- Arthur Meyer (1844–1924), journalist, playwright, writer
- Arthur Morin (1795–1880), university teacher, executive, inventor
- Arthur Ranc (1831–1908), journalist, communard, politician
- Artus de Penguern (1957–2013), film actor, film director, sculptor
- Athalie Manvoy (1843–1887), actor
- Aubert Lemeland (1932–2010), cellist, musician, pianist
- Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison (1759–1818), book collector, classical archaeologist, opinion journalist
- Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (1859–1927), neuroscientist, neurologist, physicist
- Auguste Anastasi (1820–1889), lithographer, painter
- Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (1806–1871), ghostwriter, playwright, writer
- Auguste Bottée de Toulmon (1797–1850), musicologist, librarian, composer
- Auguste Bottée de Toulmon (1764–1815), inventor
- Auguste Burdeau (1851–1894), textbook writer, secondary school teacher, translator
- Auguste Clésinger (1814–1883), visual artist, sculptor, painter
- Auguste Comte (1798–1857), philosopher, sociologist, repetitor
- Auguste Couder (1789–1873), draftsperson, designer, painter
- Auguste Dozon (1822–1890), slavist, albanologist, philologist
- Auguste Dreyfus (1827–1897), financier, banker
- Auguste Duméril (1812–1870), herpetologist, ichthyologist, entomologist
- Auguste Gendron (1817–1881), painter
- Auguste Guenepin (1780–1842), architect
- Auguste Lafollye (1828–1891), architect
- Auguste Luchet (1805–1872), journalist, playwright
- Auguste Maquet (1812–1888), novelist, playwright, writer
- Auguste Maquet (1812–1888), novelist, playwright, writer
- Auguste Mermet (1810–1889), musician, composer
- Auguste Nélaton (1807–1873), plastic surgeon, surgeon, politician
- Auguste Nélaton (1807–1873), plastic surgeon, surgeon, politician
- Auguste Nélaton (1807–1873), plastic surgeon, surgeon, politician
- Auguste O'Kelly (1829–1900), music publisher
- Auguste Panseron (1795–1859), voice teacher, composer
- Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838–1889), philosopher, science fiction writer, playwright
- Auguste Vinchon (1789–1855), painter, printer
- Auguste Vitu (1823–1891), literary scholar, journalist, writer
- Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize (1807–1893), lithographer, painter
- Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant (1793–1858), naval officer, politician
- Augustin Daniel Belliard (1769–1832), diplomat, politician, military personnel
- Augustin de Lespinasse (1737–1816), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Augustin Gabriel d'Aboville (1774–1820), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Augustin Grisolle (1811–1869), pathologist, physician
- Augustin Théodore de Lauzanne de Vauroussel (1805–1877), playwright, writer, actor
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827), civil engineer, physicist, engineer
- Augustin-Marie d'Aboville (1776–1843), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Avedis Aharonyan (1866–1948), politician, teacher, writer
- Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor (1789–1879), lithographer, draftsperson, classical scholar
- Baron Jean-Conrad Hottinguer (1764–1841), banker, politician
- Baron Jean–Henri Hottinguer (1803–1866), banker
- Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin (1796–1864), philosopher, journalist, economist
- Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild (1864–1934), art collector, socialite
- Béatrix Dussane (1888–1969), film actor, stage actor, university teacher
- Beer Léon Fould (1767–1855), banker, politician
- Behjat Sadr (1924–2009), painter
- Benjamin Antier (1785–1870), playwright
- Benjamin Constant (1767–1830), diarist, philosopher, politician
- Benoît Costaz (1761–1842), presbyter
- Benoît Fould (1792–1858), art collector, banker, politician
- Benoît Frachon (1893–1975), trade unionist, politician
- Benoît Georges de Najac (1748–1823), administrateur, official, politician
- Benoît Malon (1841–1893), trade unionist, socialist, journalist
- Benoit Mozin (1769–1857), composer
- Bernard Cassen (1937–2025), opinion journalist, journalist, university teacher
- Bernard Dhéran (1926–2013), film actor, dub actor, television actor
- Bernard Grasset (1881–1955), opinion journalist, publisher, editor
- Bernard Heidsieck (1928–2014), visual artist, graphic artist, poet
- Bernard Lyot (1897–1952), astronomer
- Bernard Poyet (1742–1824), architect
- Bernard Villaret (1909–2006), science fiction writer, physician, writer
- Bernard Vitet (1934–2013), jazz musician, trumpeter, film score composer
- Bernard-Georges-François Frère (1762–1826), pharmacist, military personnel
- Bertha Cushing Child (1871–1933), opera singer
- Berthe de Courrière (1852–1916), model, muse, art model
- Berthe Faure (1842–1920)
- Berthold Damcke (1812–1875), cellist, music teacher, school teacher
- Betty de Rothschild, Baronne James de Rothschild (1805–1886), patron of the arts, philanthropist, art collector
- Betty de Rothschild, Baronne James de Rothschild (1805–1886), patron of the arts, philanthropist, art collector
- Blanche d'Antigny (1840–1874), singer, actor
- Bogdan Konopka (1953–2019), art critic, photographer
- Boghos Nubar (1851–1930), patron of the arts, public figure, diplomat
- Bon-Joseph Dacier (1742–1833), linguist, archaeologist, classical scholar
- Boris Bazhanov (1900–1982), personal assistant, politician, secretary
- Boris Kochno (1904–1990), librettist, choreographer, ballet dancer
- Božidar Kantušer (1921–1999), classical composer, composer
- Brada (1847–1938), writer
- Brada (1847–1938), writer
- Brada (1847–1938), writer
- Brada (1847–1938), writer
- Bruno Bianchi (1955–2011), director, television director, comics artist
- Bruno Coquatrix (1910–1979), director of the concert hall, music executive, songwriter
- C. A. D. Barclay (1829–1896), politician
- Calmann Lévy (1819–1891), publisher, editor, businessperson
- Camille Crémer (1840–1876), military officer, military personnel
- Camille du Gast (1868–1942), feminist, fencer, explorer
- Camille Flers (1802–1868), draftsperson, dancer, painter
- Camille Jordan (1771–1821), politician
- Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), lithographer, architectural drafter, pastellist
- Camille Pleyel (1788–1855), pianist, composer
- Carel Hendrik Ver Huell (1764–1845), diplomat, admiral, politician
- Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo (1764–1842), diplomat, politician
- Carlo Evasio Soliva (1791–1853), chapelmaster, conductor, teacher
- Carlo Rosselli (1899–1937), opinion journalist, philosopher, journalist
- Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923–2019), light artist, serigrapher, installation artist
- Carlos José Gutiérrez de los Ríos y Sarmiento (1779–1822), diplomat
- Caroline Lacroix (1883–1948), aristocrat
- Caroline Letessier (1830–1893), courtesan, actor
- Caroline Letessier (1830–1893), courtesan, actor
- Caroline Letessier (1830–1893), courtesan, actor
- Caroline Letessier (1830–1893), courtesan, actor
- Caroline Marbouty (1803–1890), playwright, writer
- Caroline Montigny-Rémaury (1843–1913), pianist
- Casimir Davaine (1812–1882), botanist, physician
- Casimir Delavigne (1793–1843), librettist, playwright, librarian
- Casimir Perier (1777–1832), banker, politician
- Catherine Bouroche (1942–2015), sculptor
- Cathérine Hübscher (1753–1835), aristocrat
- Catherine-Dominique Pérignon (1754–1818), diplomat, military officer, politician
- Catherine-Joséphine Duchesnois (1777–1835), stage actor, actor
- Cathy Rosier (1945–2004), model, fashion model, musician
- Cécile Stanislas Xavier de Girardin (1762–1827), revolutionary, musician, official
- Célestine Galli-Marié (1837–1905), opera singer, singer
- César Mange de Hauke (1900–1965), art historian, art dealer
- Chantal Akerman (1950–2015), video installation artist, video artist, film producer
- Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884), university teacher, chemist, politician
- Charles Antoine Morand (1771–1835), politician, military personnel
- Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771–1852), arachnologist, novelist, philosopher
- Charles Auguste Désiré Filon (1800–1875), historian, writer
- Charles Bance (1771–1863), printseller, printmaker, editor
- Charles Barbier de La Serre (1767–1841), cryptographer, inventor
- Charles Baudiot (1773–1849), music educator, cellist, composer
- Charles Beslay (1795–1878), communard, official, entrepreneur
- Charles Beslay (1795–1878), communard, official, entrepreneur
- Charles Bilot (1883–1912), association football player, physician
- Charles Blagden (1748–1820), physical chemist, chemist, physicist
- Charles Blanc (1813–1882), printmaker, art critic, ministry official
- Charles Chanoine (1835–1915), politician, military personnel
- Charles Clément Bervic (1756–1822), copper engraver, printmaker, etcher
- Charles Combes (1801–1872), mining engineer, university teacher, engineer
- Charles d'Orbigny (1806–1876), entomologist, botanist, geologist
- Charles Davillier (1823–1883), traveler, art collector, collector
- Charles de la Bédoyère (1786–1815), military officer, politician
- Charles de Morny, Duke of Morny (1811–1865), art collector, librettist, financier
- Charles de Steuben (1788–1856), lithographer, painter
- Charles Dechamps (1882–1959), film actor, stage actor, actor
- Charles Degeorge (1837–1888), medalist, sculptor, artist
- Charles Delagrave (1842–1934), book printer, bookseller
- Charles Derosne (1780–1846), industrialist, chemist, pharmacist
- Charles Deslys (1821–1885), librettist, opinion journalist, playwright
- Charles Dupaty (1771–1825), sculptor
- Charles Duveyrier (1803–1866), librettist, journalist, playwright
- Charles Ernest Beulé (1826–1874), anthropologist, archaeologist, school teacher
- Charles Eugène de Lalaing d'Audenarde (1779–1859), military officer, politician
- Charles Floquet (1828–1896), official, jurist, politician
- Charles Fortin (1815–1865), painter
- Charles François Gand (1789–1845), musical instrument maker, luthier
- Charles Gondouin (1875–1947), rugby union player, rugby union match official, association football referee
- Charles Hugo (1826–1871), journalist
- Charles Jacque (1813–1894), animal painter, printmaker, etcher
- Charles Joseph Mathieu Lambrechts (1753–1825), canon law jurist, jurist-consultant, university teacher
- Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825–1891), draftsperson, printmaker, graphic artist
- Charles Jules Edmée Brongniart (1859–1899), entomologist, paleontologist, university teacher
- Charles Lallemand (1774–1839), military officer, lieutenant general, politician
- Charles Lambert de Sainte-Croix (1827–1889), politician
- Charles Lecocq (1832–1918), composer
- Charles Léopold Mayer (1881–1971), chemist, engineer
- Charles Longuet (1839–1903), journalist, communard, editing staff
- Charles Louis François de Paule de Barentin (1738–1819), politician
- Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746–1800), botanist
- Charles Louis Müller (1815–1892), painter
- Charles Malo François Lameth (1757–1832), politician, military personnel
- Charles Messier (1730–1817), astronomer
- Charles Michels (1903–1941), politician
- Charles Monselet (1825–1888), food critic, journalist, playwright
- Charles Nicolas Fabvier (1782–1855), diplomat, military officer, politician
- Charles Nodier (1780–1844), lexicographer, philologist, essayist
- Charles Otzenberger-Detaille (1881–1944)
- Charles Oudinot (1791–1863), soldier, military officer, politician
- Charles Oudinot (1791–1863), soldier, military officer, politician
- Charles Palissot de Montenoy (1730–1814), literary critic, playwright, librarian
- Charles Paul Landon (1760–1826), printmaker, art critic, journalist
- Charles Paul Landon (1760–1826), printmaker, art critic, journalist
- Charles Percier Bassant (1764–1838), art educator, designer, visual artist
- Charles Petit-Dutaillis (1868–1947), historian
- Charles Philippe Lafont (1781–1839), violinist, violist, singer
- Charles Rabot (1856–1944), glaciologist, explorer, mountaineer
- Charles Ritz (1891–1976), hotel owner, hotel manager
- Charles Rohault de Fleury (1801–1875), art historian, architect
- Charles Rohault de Fleury (1801–1875), art historian, architect
- Charles Varin (1798–1869), playwright, writer
- Charles Vincent (1828–1888), chansonnier, journalist, editing staff
- Charles Wagner (1852–1918), philosopher, theologian, pastor
- Charles William Doyle (1770–1842), military personnel
- Charles William Doyle (1770–1842), military personnel
- Charles William Martin (1828–1905), sailor
- Charles Xavier Thomas (1785–1870), patent inventor, mechanic, inventor
- Charles-Amable Battaille (1822–1872), bass singer, voice teacher, opera singer
- Charles-Arthur Gonse (1838–1917), military officer, military personnel
- Charles-Édouard Lefebvre (1843–1917), musicologist, university teacher, composer
- Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière (1768–1812), military personnel
- Charles-Étienne-François Ruty (1774–1828), military officer, politician
- Charles-Eugène Pénaud (1800–1864), Officer of the French Navy
- Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878), landscape painter, printmaker, painter
- Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance (1739–1824), linguist, financier, translator
- Charles-Frédéric-Henri de Goltz (1775–1822), soldier, military leader, diplomat
- Charles-Guillaume Étienne (1777–1845), literary critic, journalist, playwright
- Charles-Henri Plantade (1764–1839), cellist, harpsichordist, composer
- Charles-Jean-Marie Alquier (1752–1826), magistrate, diplomat, politician
- Charles-Jean-Marie Alquier (1752–1826), magistrate, diplomat, politician
- Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (1736–1798), book printer, publisher, journalist
- Charles-Louis Chassin (1831–1901), journalist, communard, historian
- Charles-Marie Philippes de Kerhallet (1809–1863), explorer, soldier, ship captain
- Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751–1812), herpetologist, botanist, politician
- Charlotte David (1764–1826), homemaker, art dealer
- Charlotte de Rothschild (1825–1899), painter, socialite, pianist
- Chen Zhen (1955–2000), conceptual artist, visual artist, university teacher
- Christian (1821–1889), opera singer, stage actor, actor
- Christian Bérard (1902–1949), draftsperson, designer, fashion designer
- Christian Fechner (1944–2008), producer, magician, film director
- Christian Fouchet (1911–1974), diplomat, politician
- Christian Jouanin (1925–2014), ornithologist
- Christian Manen (1934–2020), conductor, composer
- Christian Pineau (1904–1995), trade unionist, children's writer, diplomat
- Christian-Jaque (1904–1994), director, production designer, film director
- Christiane Rochefort (1917–1998), journalist, translator, writer
- Christine Fabréga (1931–1988), film actor, television actor, radio personality
- Christine Pascal (1953–1996), film actor, director, film director
- Chu Teh-Chun (1920–2014), painter
- Chu Teh-Chun (1920–2014), painter
- Cino Del Duca (1899–1967), philanthropist, film producer, publisher
- Claire Démar (1799–1833), journalist, writer
- Claire Goll (1891–1977), peace activist, journalist, translator
- Claude Allègre (1937–2025), geochemist, geologist, politician
- Claude Alphonse Delangle (1797–1869), magistrate, jurist, politician
- Claude Bernard (1813–1878), epistemologist, pharmacologist, physiologist
- Claude Brasseur (1936–2020), bobsledder, film actor, television actor
- Claude Chabrol (1930–2010), film screenwriter, producer, manufacturer
- Claude Chappe (1763–1805), inventor, engineer
- Claude Charles Fauriel (1772–1844), scholar, linguist, philologist
- Claude Dauphin (1903–1978), film actor
- Claude de Choiseul, Marquis of Francières (1632–1711), military personnel
- Claude Delvincourt (1888–1954), pianist, composer
- Claude Dufourmentel (1915–2012), plastic surgeon, surgeon, physician
- Claude Godard d'Aucour de Saint-Just (1769–1826), librettist
- Claude Grange (1883–1971), sculptor
- Claude Helffer (1922–2004), musician, pianist
- Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), civil engineer, philosopher, sociologist
- Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), civil engineer, philosopher, sociologist
- Claude Hochet (1772–1857), journalist, jurist, politician
- Claude Lecomte (1817–1871), military personnel
- Claude Marie Meunier (1770–1846), military officer
- Claude Montal (1800–1865), musical instrument maker, piano tuner, piano maker
- Claude Nicot (1925–2003), dub actor, television actor, director
- Claude Pouillet (1791–1868), physicist, politician
- Claude Tircuy de Corcelles (1768–1843), politician
- Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno (1764–1841), envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, major general, governor
- Claude-Aimé Chenavard (1798–1838), painter
- Claude-Alexandre Ysabeau (1754–1831), Catholic priest, politician
- Claude-Louis Navier (1785–1836), civil engineer, engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads, economist
- Claude-Marie Dubufe (1790–1864), painter
- Claude-Sylvestre Colaud (1754–1819), military officer, minister, politician
- Cléo de Mérode (1875–1966), dancer, muse, art model
- Clotilde de Vaux (1815–1846), poet, writer
- Clovis Thorel (1833–1911), explorer, botanist, physician
- Colette de Jouvenel (1913–1981), journalist, antiquarian seller
- Constance de Salm (1767–1845), literary scholar, salonnière, playwright
- Constance Mayer (1774–1821), painter, artist
- Constantin-François Chassebœuf (1757–1820), scholar, explorer, philosopher
- Consuelo de Saint Exupéry (1901–1979), journalist, sculptor, painter
- Consuelo Fould (1862–1927), painter
- Cornélie Falcon (1814–1897), opera singer
- Cyrus-Marie-Alexandre de Timbronne de Valence (1757–1822), soldier, military officer, politician
- Dalila Ennadre (1966–2020), film director, filmmaker, cinematographer
- Daniel Brent (1770–1841), diplomat, politician
- Daniel Brent (1770–1841), diplomat, politician
- Daniel Cordier (1920–2020), gallerist, art collector, resistance fighter
- Daniel François Esprit Auber (1782–1871), musicologist, choreographer, violinist
- Daniel Toscan du Plantier (1941–2003), film producer, executive producer
- Daniel Weisweiller (1813–1892), banker, diplomat
- Daniel Weisweiller (1813–1892), banker, diplomat
- Danièle Hoffman-Rispal (1951–2020), politician
- Darius Paul Dassault (1882–1969), French resistance fighter, resistance fighter, military officer
- David d'Angers (1788–1856), medalist, sculptor, illustrator
- Denis Decrès (1761–1820), count, admiral, politician
- Dennis Berry (1944–2021), director, film director, actor
- Denyse Clairouin (1900–1945), French resistance fighter, translator, literary agent
- Désiré Charnay (1828–1915), archaeologist, world traveler, translator
- Désiré Dalloz (1795–1869), jurist-consultant, editor, jurist
- Didier Bezace (1946–2020), theatre director
- Diego Pacheco Téllez-Girón Gómez de Sandoval (1754–1811), diplomat, politician
- Dieudonné Thiébault (1733–1807), grammarian, religious role, romanist
- DJ Mehdi (1977–2011), musician, record producer, disc jockey
- Dominique Honoré Antoine Vedel (1771–1848), military officer, military personnel
- Dominique Nohain (1925–2017), television actor, director, playwright
- Dominique Rolin (1913–2012), women's rights activist, autobiographer, novelist
- Dominique Zardi (1930–2009), writer, actor
- Dominique-Georges-Frédéric Dufour de Pradt (1759–1837), Catholic theologian, Catholic bishop, historian
- Dornac (1858–1941), photographer
- Dupré Barbancourt (?–1907), businessperson
- Edgar Humann (1838–1914), naval officer
- Edgard-Raoul Duval (1832–1887), politician
- Édith Girard (1949–2014), architect
- Edith Lefel (1963–2003), singer
- Édith Piaf (1915–1963), recording artist, chansonnier, street artist
- Edma Morisot (1839–1921), painter
- Edme Mentelle (1730–1815), cartographer, university teacher, geographer
- Edme Mentelle (1730–1815), cartographer, university teacher, geographer
- Edme Régnier (1751–1825), independent publisher, gunsmith, mechanic
- Edme-François Jomard (1777–1862), explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist
- Edme-François-Pierre Chauvot de Beauchêne (1780–1830), anatomist, physician, scientist
- Edmond Adam (1816–1877), politician
- Edmond Du Sommerard (1817–1885), lithographer, archaeologist, painter
- Edmond François Valentin About (1828–1885), science fiction writer, novelist, art critic
- Edmond Haraucourt (1856–1941), librettist, journalist, dramaturge
- Edmond Huet (1827–1906), engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads, engineer
- Edmond Paulin (1848–1915), architect
- Edmond Robert (1849–1907), official, politician, lawyer
- Edmond Tarbé des Sablons (1838–1900), novelist, journalist, music critic
- Edmond Vergnet (1850–1904), opera singer
- Edmund Bourke (1761–1821), diplomat
- Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier (1768–1835), duke, diplomat, marshal
- Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (1868–1949), polo player, art collector, financier
- Édouard André (1833–1894), art collector, banker, politician
- Édouard Batiste (1820–1876), music educator, music teacher, university teacher
- Édouard Bocher (1811–1900), official, politician
- Édouard Branly (1844–1940), university teacher, physicist, physician
- Édouard Brisebarre (1815–1871), librettist, tax collector, court clerk
- Édouard Bureau (1830–1918), paleobotanist, professeur des universités, botanist
- Édouard Colonne (1838–1910), violinist, concertmaster, conductor
- Édouard de Niéport (1875–1911), military flight engineer, sport cyclist, aircraft pilot
- Édouard Detaille (1848–1912), graphic artist, painter
- Édouard Drumont (1844–1917), pundit, journalist, politician
- Édouard Ernest Prillieux (1829–1915), mycologist, botanist, politician
- Édouard Fernand Jamont (1831–1918), military personnel
- Édouard Jaguer (1924–2006), draftsperson, art critic, visual artist
- Édouard Lockroy (1838–1913), journalist, minister, politician
- Édouard Mangin (1837–1907), musician, conductor, composer
- Édouard Mazères (1796–1866), librettist, official, playwright
- Édouard Molinaro (1928–2013), film actor, film director, director
- Édouard Monnais (1798–1868), librettist, journalist, playwright
- Édouard Pailleron (1834–1899), journalist, playwright, poet
- Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye (1811–1883), opinion journalist, journalist, pedagogue
- Édouard Riou (1833–1900), draftsperson, graphic artist, painter
- Édouard Riou (1833–1900), draftsperson, graphic artist, painter
- Édouard Risler (1873–1929), musician, pianist
- Eduard Wiiralt (1898–1954), draftsperson, printmaker, sculptor
- Eduardo Serra (1943–2025), film director, cinematographer
- Edward Forster (1769–1828), Anglican priest
- Eileen Agar (1899–1991), collagist, sculptor, painter
- Eileen Gray (1878–1976), designer, architect
- Eileen Gray (1878–1976), designer, architect
- Élémir Bourges (1852–1925), theatre critic, journalist, writer
- Elena Andreianova (1819–1857), dancer, ballet dancer
- Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne (1787–1868), lady-in-waiting
- Éléonore Duplay (1768–1832), painter
- Éliane Brault (1895–1982), French resistance fighter, journalist, politician
- Élie-Miriam Delaborde (1839–1913), pianist, composer
- Elisa Mercœur (1809–1835), essayist, poet, writer
- Elisabeta Alexandrovna Stroganova (1779–1818), salonnière
- Elisabeth Chojnacka (1939–2017), harpsichordist
- Élisabeth de Mac Mahon (1834–1900), official
- Élisabeth de Miribel (1915–2005), resistance fighter, biographer, translator
- Élisabeth Le Bas (1772–1859)
- Élise Thiers (1818–1880)
- Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1786–1840)
- Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1786–1840)
- Éloi Laurent Despeaux (1761–1856), military personnel
- Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), assemblage artist, draftsperson, performance artist
- Elsie de Wolfe (1865–1950), interior architect, theatre designer, designer
- Elvira Popescu (1894–1993), film actor, theatre director, stage actor
- Émile Drain (1890–1966), actor
- Émile Eudes (1843–1888), communard, journalist, military officer
- Émile Gentil (1866–1914), explorer
- Émile Joseph Nestor Carlier (1849–1927), sculptor
- Émile Jungfleisch (1839–1916), chemist, pharmacist, professor
- Émile Jungfleisch (1839–1916), chemist, pharmacist, professor
- Émile Louis Vernier (1829–1887), lithographer, painter
- Émile Marie Laurent (1852–1930), official, lawyer
- Émile Ogier (1862–1932), official, politician
- Emile Pessard (1843–1917), university teacher, composer
- Émile Rivière (1835–1922), prehistorian, speleologist, archaeologist
- Émile Souvestre (1806–1854), children's writer, science fiction writer, novelist
- Émile Souvestre (1806–1854), children's writer, science fiction writer, novelist
- Émile-Bernard Donatien (1887–1955), film actor, film director, actor
- Émile-Jules Dubois (1853–1904), school teacher, politician, physician
- Émile-Justin Menier (1826–1881), entrepreneur, politician, businessperson
- Émilie Bigottini (1764–1858), dancer, ballet dancer
- Émilie Bigottini (1764–1858), dancer, ballet dancer
- Emilie Bounieu (1767–1831), miniature painter, botanical illustrator, painter
- Emilie Bounieu (1767–1831), miniature painter, botanical illustrator, painter
- Émilie de Beauharnais (1781–1855), lady-in-waiting
- Émilie-Sophie de Montullé (1756–1816), painter
- Emmanuel Arago (1812–1896), theatre critic, official, diplomat
- Emmanuel Benner (1836–1896), painter
- Emmanuel Bondeville (1898–1987), radio personality, organist, composer
- Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy (1766–1847), soldier, marshal, politician
- Emmanuel Deutz (1763–1842), rabbi
- Emmanuel Deutz (1763–1842), rabbi
- Emmanuel Dupaty (1775–1851), chansonnier, naval officer, journalist
- Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen (1811–1884), military officer, military personnel
- Emmanuel Gaillard (1952–2021), university teacher, jurist, lawyer
- Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836), political theorist, non-fiction writer, essayist
- Emmanuel Michel Benner (1873–1965), painter
- Emmanuel-Étienne Duvillard (1755–1832), economist, mathematician, politician
- Emmanuela Potocka (1852–1930), salonnière
- Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751–1818), classical archaeologist, archaeologist, art historian
- Enrico Tamberlik (1820–1889), opera singer
- Enrico Tamberlik (1820–1889), opera singer
- Enrique Gómez Carrillo (1873–1927), literary critic, journalist, diplomat
- Éric Hazan (1936–2024), publisher, surgeon, historian
- Ernest Archdeacon (1863–1950), racing automobile driver, aircraft pilot, Esperantist
- Ernest Arrighi de Casanova (1814–1888), politician
- Ernest Blum (1836–1907), librettist, journalist, playwright
- Ernest Breton (1812–1875), draftsperson, anthropologist, archaeologist
- Ernest Chausson (1855–1899), pianist, conductor, composer
- Ernest Courtot de Cissey (1810–1882), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Ernest Courtot de Cissey (1810–1882), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Ernest Daudet (1837–1921), journalist, historian, writer
- Ernest de Royer (1808–1877), politician, lawyer
- Ernest Guiraud (1837–1892), music educator, choreographer, university teacher
- Ernest Guiraud (1837–1892), music educator, choreographer, university teacher
- Ernest Hamel (1826–1898), journalist, biographer, historian
- Ernest Hamel (1826–1898), journalist, biographer, historian
- Ernest Hébrard (1875–1933), anthropologist, archaeologist, urban planner
- Ernest Henri Demanne (1870–1938), stage actor
- Ernest Laurent (1859–1929), lithographer, painter
- Ernest Mandel (1923–1995), philosopher, journalist, university teacher
- Ernest Picard (1821–1877), politician, lawyer
- Ernest Roche (1850–1917), trade unionist, politician
- Ernest Victor Hareux (1847–1909), painter
- Ernst Frederik von Walterstorff (1755–1820), governor-general, diplomat, judge
- Erwan Bergot (1930–1993), novelist, journalist, military officer
- Étienne Aignan (1773–1824), political writer, librettist, journalist
- Étienne Bignou (1891–1950), gallerist, art dealer
- Étienne Clavier (1762–1817), hellenist, philologist, magistrate
- Étienne Eustache Bruix (1759–1805), politician, military personnel
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), anatomist, ornithologist, botanical collector
- Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald (1765–1840), military leader, diplomat, military officer
- Étienne Lamy (1845–1919), opinion journalist, journalist, jurist
- Étienne Lenoir (1822–1900), automotive engineer, technician, marine architect
- Étienne Lombard (1869–1920), otolaryngologist, surgeon
- Étienne Mantoux (1913–1945), economist
- Etienne Marc Quatremère (1782–1857), orientalist, professor, writer
- Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty (1768–1815), military personnel
- Étienne Martin (1913–1995), draftsperson, sculptor, artist
- Étienne Méhul (1763–1817), organist, composer
- Étienne Méhul (1763–1817), organist, composer
- Étienne Mélingue (1807–1875), draftsperson, wood carver, stage actor
- Étienne Mougeotte (1940–2021), journalist
- Étienne Pariset (1770–1847), physician, scientist
- Étienne Serres (1786–1868), anatomist, anthropologist, physiologist
- Étienne Vigée (1758–1820), revolutionary, playwright, writer
- Étienne-Augustin De Wailly (1770–1821), philologist, pedagogue, translator
- Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763–1837), magician, university teacher, Phantasmagoria
- Étienne-Hippolyte Godde (1781–1869), architect
- Étienne-Louis Malus (1775–1812), mathematician, physicist, military engineer
- Étiennette Marie Périne de Villemomble (1737–1806), dancer
- Ettore Bugatti (1881–1947), racing automobile driver, industrialist, inventor
- Eugène Baudouin (1842–1893), printmaker, painter
- Eugène Béjot (1867–1931), etcher, graphic artist, painter
- Eugène Bethmont (1804–1860), politician, lawyer
- Eugène Bourdon (1808–1884), instrument maker, mechanic, inventor
- Eugène Burnouf (1801–1852), Indologist, linguist
- Eugène Caillaux (1822–1896), politician, engineer
- Eugène Crosti (1833–1908), librettist, voice teacher, opera singer
- Eugène Crosti (1833–1908), librettist, voice teacher, opera singer
- Eugène Delaplanche (1836–1891), sculptor, painter
- Eugène Dutuit (1807–1886), art collector, art historian, advocate
- Eugène Étienne (1844–1921), politician
- Eugène Gautier (1822–1878), musicographer, university teacher, violinist
- Eugène Girardet (1853–1907), painter
- Eugène Hénaff (1904–1966), politician
- Eugène Héros (1860–1925), chansonnier, playwright, poet
- Eugène Isabey (1803–1886), lithographer, painter
- Eugène Lami (1800–1890), miniaturist, lithographer, painter
- Eugène Ménégoz (1838–1921), Protestant theologian, university teacher
- Eugène Pottier (1816–1887), draftsperson, communard, politician
- Eugène Ritt (1817–1898), theatre manager, actor
- Eugène Scribe (1791–1861), librettist, novelist, playwright
- Eugène Spuller (1835–1896), journalist, pedagogue, diplomat
- Eugène Verconsin (1823–1891), playwright
- Eugène-Emmanuel Mermet-Cachon (1828–1889), lexicographer, Catholic priest, missionary
- Eugène-Louis Doyen (1859–1916), film director, surgeon, inventor
- Eugène-Louis Lequesne (1815–1887), chess player, sculptor, lawyer
- Eugenia Tadolini (1808–1872), opera singer
- Eustache Lorsay (1822–1871), lithographer, draftsperson, art collector
- Évariste de Parny (1753–1814), translator, poet, writer
- Évremond de Bérard (1824–1881), draftsperson, painter
- Ewelina Hańska (1805–1882), novelist
- Fabre d'Olivet (1767–1825), independent publisher, theosophist, literary scholar
- Fabrice Carré (1855–1921), librettist, dramaturge, playwright
- Fabrice Carré (1855–1921), librettist, dramaturge, playwright
- Fabrice Emaer (1935–1983), businessperson
- Fabrice Labrousse (1806–1876), author, playwright
- Fanny Bias (1789–1825), choreographer, ballet dancer
- Fanny Dillon (1785–1836)
- Fanny Rozet (1881–1958), sculptor
- Félia Litvinne (1863–1936), opera singer
- Felice Blangini (1781–1841), cellist, opera singer, maestro
- Félicité de La Mennais (1782–1854), philosopher, theologian, translator
- Félix Barthe (1795–1863), legal counselor, jurist, politician
- Félix Cadras (1906–1942), military personnel
- Félix Coquereau (1808–1866), Catholic priest
- Félix de Beaujour (1765–1836), historian, diplomat, politician
- Félix de Lapersonne (1853–1937), ophthalmologist
- Félix Faure (1841–1899), politician
- Félix Galipaux (1860–1931), novelist, film actor, violinist
- Félix Louis Leullier (1811–1882), painter
- Félix Potin (1820–1871), grocer, business executive, entrepreneur
- Félix Pyat (1810–1889), journalist, playwright, politician
- Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (1813–1900), anthropologist, philosopher, archaeologist
- Félix Savart (1791–1841), physicist, professor, engineer
- Félix Ziem (1821–1911), landscape painter, visual artist, painter
- Félix-Auguste Duvert (1795–1876), lyricist, songwriter, playwright
- Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Préameneu (1747–1825), jurist, politician, lawyer
- Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810–1892), founder, artist, entrepreneur
- Ferdinand de Lanoye (1806–1870), editing staff, translator, writer
- Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805–1894), diplomat, entrepreneur, engineer
- Ferdinand de Villeneuve (1801–1858), playwright
- Ferdinand Dugué (1816–1913), playwright, poet, writer
- Ferdinand Flocon (1800–1866), journalist, politician
- Ferdinand Heilbuth (1826–1889), painter
- Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833), choreographer, scenographer, costume designer
- Ferdinand Humbert (1842–1934), painter
- Ferdinand Poise (1828–1892), composer
- Ferdinando Paer (1771–1839), musicologist, music teacher, bandleader
- Fernand Braudel (1902–1985), university teacher, historian
- Fernand Foureau (1850–1914), colonial administrator, explorer, botanical collector
- Fernand Grenier (1901–1992), politician
- Fernand Samuel (1862–1914), theatre director, theatre manager
- Fernande Albany (1889–1966), actor
- Firmin Didot (1764–1836), book printer, publisher, type founder
- Firmin Marbeau (1798–1875), philanthropist, legal counselor, politician
- Florence Giorgetti (1943–2019), film actor, theatre director, stage actor
- Foottit (1864–1921), circus performer, comedian, mime
- Franc-Nohain (1872–1934), theatre critic, librettist, poet
- France Clidat (1932–2012), music educator, pianist
- Francine Aubin (1938–2016), painter, conductor, composer
- Francine Holley (1919–2020), painter
- Francis d'Allarde (1778–1841), chansonnier, goguettier, librettist
- Francis Muguet (1955–2009), chemist, computer scientist
- Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), music critic, pianist, composer
- Francis Salabert (1884–1946), librettist, publisher, music arranger
- Francis Tourte (1816–1891), chansonnier, librettist, playwright
- Francisco Ballesteros (1771–1832), military personnel
- Francisco Boix (1920–1951), journalist, photographer
- Francisco Manoel de Nascimento (1734–1819), translator, poet, writer
- Francisque Joseph Duret (1804–1865), sculptor
- Franck Balandier (1952–2020), teacher, writer
- François Adrien Boieldieu (1775–1834), opera composer, musicologist, music educator
- François Andrieux (1759–1833), performing artist, playwright, professor
- François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas (1756–1826), biographer, jurist, politician
- François Arago (1786–1853), university teacher, biographer, physicist
- François Baucher (1796–1873), dressage rider, rider
- François Bazin (1816–1878), music educator, conductor, composer
- François Billoux (1903–1978), politician
- François Blanc (1806–1877), real estate developer, director general, banker
- François Buloz (1803–1877), publisher, journalist, media proprietor
- François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann (1802–1868), diplomat, politician
- François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann (1802–1868), diplomat, politician
- François d'Astier de La Vigerie (1886–1956), aircraft pilot, diplomat, military personnel
- François de Chabaud-Latour (1804–1885), politician, military personnel
- François de Hérain (1877–1962), printmaker, sculptor, painter
- François Debon (1807–1872), caricaturist, painter
- François Debret (1777–1850), architect
- François Désiré Roulin (1796–1874), explorer, librarian, physician
- François Étienne de Kellermann (1770–1835), military officer, politician, military personnel
- François Étienne de La Roche (1781–1813), ichthyologist, botanist, physicist
- François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros (1748–1832), Officer of the French Navy, military officer, military personnel
- François Habeneck (1781–1849), music educator, violinist, conductor
- François Hadji-Lazaro (1956–2023), film actor, singer-songwriter, singer
- François Joseph Bosio (1768–1845), draftsperson, printmaker, sculptor
- François Joseph de Gratet, vicomte Dubouchage (1749–1821), naval officer, military officer, diplomat
- François Joseph Gossec (1734–1829), independent publisher, violinist, conductor
- François Joseph Lefebvre (1755–1820), soldier, politician, military personnel
- François Joseph Marie Clary (1786–1841), military personnel
- François Magendie (1783–1855), physiologist, neurologist, professor
- François Marie d'Aboville (1730–1817), military officer, politician, military personnel
- François Martroye (1852–1933), historian, jurist
- François Pierre Rodier (1854–1913), diplomat
- François Pils (1785–1867), painter
- François Renaud (1923–1975), French resistance fighter, judge
- François Roguet (1770–1846), politician, military personnel
- François Schommer (1850–1935), printmaker, etcher, painter
- François Stanislas Cloëz (1817–1883), chemist, pharmacist
- François Théodore Devaulx (1808–1871), sculptor
- François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise (1780–1851), scientific collector, mycologist, botanist
- François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise (1780–1851), scientific collector, mycologist, botanist
- François-André Baudin (1774–1842), explorer, military personnel, sailor
- François-André Vincent (1746–1816), painter
- François-Antoine Jecker (1765–1834), inventor
- François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison (1759–1834), painter, translator, poet
- François-Désiré Froment-Meurice (1801–1855), goldsmith
- François-Edmond Pâris (1806–1893), soldier, painter, admiral
- François-Édouard Picot (1786–1868), painter
- François-Eudes Chanfrault (1974–2016), songwriter, musician, composer
- François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny (1737–1821), politician, military personnel
- François-Henri Hallopeau (1842–1919), dermatologist
- François-Henri-Eugène d'Augier (1764–1834), naval officer, politician, military personnel
- François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter (1770–1841), chair maker
- François-Joseph Bélanger (1744–1818), architect
- François-Joseph Double (1776–1842), pharmacist, physician
- François-Joseph Talma (1763–1826), stomatologist, stage actor, writer
- François-Marie Alfred Molteni (1837–1907), optician
- François-Marie, marquis de Barthélemy (1747–1830), diplomat, politician
- François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo (1774–1838), chess player, military officer, politician
- François-Pierre Chaumeton (1775–1819), entomologist, botanist, surgeon
- François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud (1718–1805), independent publisher, editor, playwright
- François-Victor Hugo (1828–1873), journalist, translator, writer
- François-Vincent Raspail (1794–1878), botanist, physiologist, chemist
- François-Xavier Audouin (1765–1837), journalist, economist, politician
- François-Xavier Audouin (1765–1837), journalist, economist, politician
- François-Xavier Audouin (1765–1837), journalist, economist, politician
- François-Xavier Audouin (1765–1837), journalist, economist, politician
- François-Xavier Ortoli (1925–2007), Inspection générale des finances, politician, businessperson
- François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat (1754–1833), military officer, military engineer, politician
- Françoise Cachin (1936–2011), art historian, exhibition curator
- Françoise de Châlus (1734–1821), royal mistress, lady-in-waiting
- Frank Alamo (1941–2012), film actor, industrialist, musician
- Frank Myers Boggs (1855–1926), draftsperson, painter
- Frank Popper (1918–2020), aesthetician, art theorist, art critic
- Frantz Reichel (1871–1932), fencer, rugby union player, athletics competitor
- Franz Xaver von Zach (1754–1832), astronomer
- Fred Dewilde (1966–2024), comics creator, comics writer, designer
- Fred Moore (1920–2017), soldier, politician, military personnel
- Frédéric Bérat (1801–1855), goguettier, chansonnier, poet
- Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), piano teacher, pedagogue, musician
- Frédéric Cuvier (1773–1838), botanist, paleontologist, university teacher
- Frédéric de Courcy (1796–1862), chansonnier, playwright, poet
- Frédéric Eichhoff (1799–1875), linguist, philologist, school teacher
- Frédéric Masson (1847–1923), biographer, historian, politician
- Frédéric Monod (1794–1863), theologian, pastor
- Frédéric Montenard (1849–1926), painter, illustrator
- Frédéric Soulié (1800–1847), novelist, critic, journalist
- Frédéric Viret (1822–1898), choir director, chapelmaster, conductor
- Frederick Albert Winsor (1763–1830), chemist, inventor, engineer
- Frederick Albert Winsor (1763–1830), chemist, inventor, engineer
- Fulgence Bienvenüe (1852–1936), civil engineer, executive, engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads
- Gábor Breznay (1956–2022), painter
- Gabriel Barbou des Courières (1761–1827), military personnel
- Gabriel Bouret (1817–1890), painter
- Gabriel Delanne (1857–1926), philosopher, parapsychologist, writer
- Gabriel Pierné (1863–1937), choreographer, music arranger, music director
- Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet (1829–1895), architect
- Gabriel-Julien Ouvrard (1770–1846), financier, banker
- Gabrielle-Marie Niel (1831–1919), printmaker, etcher, visual artist
- Gaëtan Mootoo (1952–2018), human rights defender
- Garbis Aprikian (1926–2024), musicologist, choir director, singer
- Gaspard de Prony (1755–1839), highway engineer, civil engineer, university teacher
- Gaspard Gourgaud (1783–1852), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Gaspard Gourgaud (1783–1852), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Gaspard Monge (1746–1818), university teacher, chemist, physicist
- Gaspard Ulliel (1984–2022), model, actor
- Gaston Boissier (1823–1908), classical philologist, historian, professor
- Gaston Bonet-Maury (1842–1919), university teacher, theologian, pastor
- Gaston de Montheau (1828–1867), playwright, poet
- Gaston de Pawlowski (1874–1933), science fiction writer, theatre critic, literary critic
- Gaston Planté (1834–1889), paleontologist, inventor, physicist
- Gaston Raynaud (1850–1911), philologist, historian, librarian
- Gaston Tissandier (1843–1899), military flight engineer, meteorologist, balloonist
- Gaston-Auguste Schweitzer (1879–1962), sculptor
- Geneviève Claisse (1935–2018), designer, sculptor, painter
- Geneviève de Galard (1925–2024), military nurse
- Geneviève Fontanel (1936–2018), film actor, stage actor
- Geneviève Lantelme (1883–1911), stage actor, socialite, actor
- Geoffroi Jacques Flach (1846–1919), political scientist, university teacher, historian
- Georg Schmitt (1821–1900), organist, musician, composer
- George Airey (1759–1833), military personnel
- George Airey (1759–1833), military personnel
- George Barbu Știrbei (1832–1925), art collector, foreign minister, literary critic
- George Enesco (1881–1955), music educator, musicologist, university teacher
- George Hainl (1807–1873), cellist, music director, musician
- George Silviu (1901–1971), children's writer, translator, poet
- George Whitman (1913–2011), bookseller
- George Whitman (1913–2011), bookseller
- Georges Antoine Chabot (1758–1819), jurist, politician, judge
- Georges Besançon (1866–1934), military flight engineer, journalist, balloonist
- Georges Bizet (1838–1875), classical composer, pianist, conductor
- Georges Boillot (1884–1916), racing automobile driver, sport cyclist, aircraft pilot
- Georges Colonna-Ceccaldi (1840–1879), archaeologist
- Georges Courteline (1858–1929), novelist, journalist, painter
- Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), malacologist, anatomist, scientific collector
- Georges Eugène Charles Beauvisage (1852–1925), botanist, politician
- Georges Goyau (1869–1939), Catholic theologian, historian of religion, academic
- Georges Hayem (1841–1933), internist, hematologist, university teacher
- Georges Hirsch (1895–1974), French resistance fighter, theatre manager, politician
- Georges Hoentschel (1855–1915), ceramicist, art collector, interior designer
- Georges Jacob (1739–1814), chair maker, master craftsman, artist
- Georges Jacob (1877–1950), improviser, organist, composer
- Georges Jacquot (1794–1874), sculptor, painter, engraver
- Georges Kugelmann (?–1882), printer
- Georges Lamothe (1842–1894), organist, composer
- Georges Leclanché (1839–1882), chemist, engineer
- Georges Méliès (1861–1938), magician, film editor, film actor
- Georges Merle (1851–1886), painter
- Georges Moustaki (1934–2013), composer, screenwriter, actor
- Georges Politzer (1903–1942), French resistance fighter, philosopher, psychologist
- Georges Pouchet (1833–1894), anatomist, science writer, botanist
- Georges Rodenbach (1855–1898), novelist, journalist, poet lawyer
- Georges Rouget (1783–1869), painter
- Georges Saupique (1889–1961), sculptor
- Georges Scapini (1893–1976), politician, lawyer
- Georges Serullas (1774–1832), chemist, pharmacist
- Georges Seurat (1859–1891), draftsperson, architectural drafter, painter
- Georges Street (1854–1908), theatre critic, author, composer
- Georges Vendryès (1920–2014), physicist
- Georges Vésier (1858–1938), businessperson
- Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809–1891), Praefectus, official, urban planner
- Georgette Elgey (1929–2019), journalist, historian, writer
- Georgie Raoul-Duval (1866–1913)
- Gérard Berliner (1956–2010), singer-songwriter, singer, composer
- Gérard de Lally-Tollendal (1751–1830), literary scholar, politician
- Gérard Defaux (1937–2004), romanist, university teacher
- Gérard Encausse (1865–1916), martinist, occultist, non-fiction writer
- Gérard Fromanger (1939–2021), collagist, lithographer, visual artist
- Gérard Piogey (1820–1894), physician
- Gerard van Spaendonck (1746–1822), botanical illustrator, botanist, painter
- Gerda Taro (1910–1937), war photographer, socialist, photojournalist
- Germain Bapst (1853–1921), bibliophile, scholar, art collector
- Germain Delavigne (1790–1868), librettist, playwright, writer
- Germain Garnier (1754–1821), translator, economist, politician
- Germaine Arbeau-Bonnefoy (1893–1986), classical composer
- Germaine Dulac (1882–1942), film theorist, film critic, film director
- Germaine Martinelli (1887–1964), opera singer, opera vocal coach
- Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), autobiographer, art collector, librettist
- Gheorghe Bibescu (1802–1873), politician
- Gheorghe Bibescu (1802–1873), politician
- Gholam Ali Oveisi (1918–1984), politician
- Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi (1936–1985), short story writer, novelist, psychiatrist
- Giacomo Matteotti (1885–1924), politician
- Giandomenico Facchina (1826–1903), mosaicist
- Gilbert Bécaud (1927–2001), musician, singer-songwriter, pianist
- Gilbert Breschet (1784–1845), anatomist, translator, physician
- Ginette Neveu (1919–1949), violinist, musician
- Gisèle Halimi (1927–2020), essayist, civil rights advocate, jurist
- Giulia Grisi (1811–1869), opera singer
- Giulia Grisi (1811–1869), opera singer
- Giuseppe De Nittis (1846–1884), lithographer, pastellist, draftsperson
- Giuseppe Palizzi (1812–1888), painter
- Gonzalo O'Farrill y Herrera (1754–1831), soldier, mathematician, politician
- Grace Elliott (1754–1823), autobiographer, writer
- Grace Renzi (1922–2011), painter
- Graves Haughton (1788–1849), orientalist
- Greg (1931–1999), draftsperson, comics writer, literary editor
- Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target (1733–1806), jurist, politician
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918), film screenwriter, draftsperson, storyteller
- Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie (1775–1851), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie (1775–1851), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Guillaume Dubufe (1853–1909), painter, illustrator
- Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835), anatomist, pathologist, university teacher
- Guillaume François d'Aigremont (1770–1827), military officer
- Guillaume-Xavier Labbey de Pompières (1751–1831), politician
- Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894), patron of the arts, art collector, etcher
- Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956), conductor, composer, writer
- Gustave d'Eichthal (1804–1886), hellenist, political theorist, ethnologist
- Gustave de Molinari (1819–1912), philosopher, journalist, editor-in-chief
- Gustave de Wailly (1804–1878), translator, playwright, writer
- Gustave Doré (1832–1883), lithographer, draftsperson, printmaker
- Gustave Dugazon (1782–1826), choreographer, composer
- Gustave Flourens (1838–1871), opinion journalist, journalist, communard
- Gustave Fraipont (1849–1923), children's writer, graphic artist, sculptor
- Gustave Goublier (1856–1926), conductor, composer
- Gustave Harmant (1824–1864), dramaturge
- Gustave Lambert (1824–1871), navigator
- Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931), philosopher, anthropologist, sociologist
- Gustave Lefrançais (1826–1901), anarchist, communard, accountant
- Gustave Mesureur (1847–1925), politician, physician
- Gustave Paul Lacapelle (1869–1942), military personnel
- Gustave Roy (1823–1912), wholesaler
- Gustave Rudler (1872–1957), literary scholar, university teacher, editing staff
- Gustave-Auguste Ferrié (1868–1932), technician, university teacher, military officer
- Gustave-Augustin Quesneville (1810–1889), chemist, physician
- Gustaw Lewita (1853–1889), pianist
- Gustaw Lewita (1853–1889), pianist
- Gustaw Lewita (1853–1889), pianist
- Guy Crescent (1920–1996), businessperson
- Guy Môquet (1924–1941), activist, high school student
- Guy Tréjan (1921–2001), film actor, television actor, stage actor
- Hamid Reza Chitgar (1949–1987), politician
- Hanna Ben Dov (1919–2009), painter
- Harry von Kessler (1868–1937), diarist, patron of the arts, essayist
- Hartwig Derenbourg (1844–1908), philologist, orientalist, university teacher
- Helen Maria Williams (1759–1827), novelist, translator, poet
- Hélène de Beauvoir (1910–2001), painter
- Hélène Gordon-Lazareff (1909–1988), journalist, ethnologist
- Hélène Massalska (1763–1815), diarist, correspondent
- Hélène Massalska (1763–1815), diarist, correspondent
- Hélène Michel-Wolfromm (1914–1969), women's rights activist, sexologist, gynecologist
- Héloïse d’Argenteuil (1101–1164), Christian nun, scholar, philosopher
- Henri Agasse (1752–1813), book printer, publisher, bookseller
- Henri Alfred Jacquemart (1824–1896), sculptor
- Henri Auguste Barbier (1805–1882), librettist, translator, playwright
- Henri Barbet de Jouy (1812–1896), archaeologist, art historian, curator
- Henri Barbusse (1873–1935), theatre critic, pacifist, novelist
- Henri Baudrillart (1821–1892), journalist, economist
- Henri Borlant (1927–2024), film director, physician, writer
- Henri Cernuschi (1821–1896), art collector, journalist, banker
- Henri Claisse (1895–1952), French resistance fighter, art collector, librettist
- Henri Collet (1885–1951), musicologist, music critic, composer
- Henri Curiel (1914–1978), communist, political activist
- Henri de Régnier (1864–1936), librettist, critic, literary critic
- Henri Duparc (1848–1933), musician, composer
- Henri Duponchel (1794–1868), handicrafter, opera director, scenographer
- Henri Duvernois (1875–1937), librettist, literary critic, journalist
- Henri Duveyrier (1840–1892), Africanist, explorer, geographer
- Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville (1818–1881), chemist, professor
- Henri Franconi (1779–1849), rider, mime artist, playwright
- Henri Gambey (1787–1847), mechanic, inventor
- Henri Garat (1902–1959), film actor, musician, singer
- Henri Gervex (1852–1929), pastellist, painter, illustrator
- Henri Gervex (1852–1929), pastellist, painter, illustrator
- Henri Giffard (1825–1882), balloonist, inventor, engineer
- Henri Gisquet (1792–1866), banker, politician
- Henri Guinier (1867–1927), painter
- Henri Herz (1802–1888), piano maker, pianist, composer
- Henri Krasucki (1924–2003), French resistance fighter, trade unionist, politician
- Henri Labussière (1921–2008), dub actor, film actor, actor
- Henri Lavedan (1859–1940), journalist, playwright, writer
- Henri Le Secq (1818–1882), art collector, printmaker, painter
- Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850), herpetologist, anatomist, entomologist
- Henri Menier (1853–1913), adventurer, politician, businessperson
- Henri Meschonnic (1932–2009), linguist, university teacher, translator
- Henri Rieunier (1833–1918), Officer of the French Navy, politician
- Henri Rouart (1833–1912), art collector, painter, artist
- Henri Salvador (1917–2008), recording artist, presenter, chansonnier
- Henri-Charles Maniglier (1826–1901), sculptor
- Henri-François Riesener (1767–1828), painter
- Henri-Joseph de Forestier (1787–1872), painter
- Henri-Louis Roger (1809–1891), cardiologist, pathologist, university teacher
- Henriette Caillaux (1874–1943), socialite
- Henriette de Verninac (1782–1827)
- Henriette Renié (1875–1956), music educator, harpist, music arranger
- Henry Becque (1837–1899), literary critic, playwright, poet
- Henry Dasson (1825–1896), brazier, sculptor, cabinetmaker
- Henry de Triqueti (1803–1874), sculptor, painter, artist
- Henry Detmold (1854–1924), painter, illustrator, artist
- Henry Février (1875–1957), composer
- Henry Houssaye (1848–1911), philologist, art critic, literary critic
- Henry Houssaye (1848–1911), philologist, art critic, literary critic
- Henry Krauss (1866–1935), film actor, director, film director
- Henry Lemonnier (1842–1936), art historian, historian, jurist
- Henry Lerolle (1848–1929), art collector, printmaker, painter
- Herbert Ward (1863–1919), explorer, journalist, sculptor
- Hermance Lesguillon (1812–1882), novelist, poet, writer
- Hippolyte Bernheim (1840–1919), hypnotist, psychoanalyst, university teacher
- Hippolyte Bis (1789–1855), librettist, lyricist, playwright
- Hippolyte Carnot (1801–1888), opinion journalist, translator, historian
- Hippolyte Flandrin (1809–1864), draftsperson, painter
- Hippolyte Guérin (1797–1861), poet, writer
- Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817–1880), chemist, inventor, pharmacist
- Hippolyte Monpou (1804–1841), organist, composer
- Hippolyte Monpou (1804–1841), organist, composer
- Hippolyte Monpou (1804–1841), organist, composer
- Hippolyte Monpou (1804–1841), organist, composer
- Hippolyte Morestin (1869–1919), anatomist, surgeon, physician
- Hippolyte Sebron (1801–1879), painter, photographer
- Hippolyte Walferdin (1795–1880), art collector, civil servant, physicist
- Hippolyte-Julien-Joseph Lucas (1807–1878), theatrologist, librettist, playwright
- Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils (1773–1815), mineralogist, university teacher, executive
- Homayoun Ardalan (1950–1992)
- Honoré Charles Reille (1774–1860), politician, military personnel
- Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), engraver, painter, illustrator
- Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), prose writer, essayist, novelist
- Honoré Langlé (1741–1807), music educator, musicologist, music theorist
- Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier (1753–1839), magistrate, librettist, commissary
- Horace Finaly (1871–1945), art collector, banker
- Howard Buten (1950–2025), circus performer, violinist, psychologist
- Hubert Léonard (1819–1890), music educator, university teacher, violinist
- Hubert Rohault de Fleury (1828–1910), painter, artist
- Hubertine Auclert (1848–1914), suffragist, feminist, women's rights activist
- Hugues Merle (1822–1881), painter
- Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano (1763–1839), journalist, diplomat, politician
- Hyacinthe Loyson (1827–1912), Old Catholic priest, Catholic theologian, philosopher
- Idir (1945–2020), singer-songwriter
- Ignacio Bauer (1827–1895), banker, entrepreneur
- Ignacio Merino (1817–1876), painter
- Isaac Titsingh (1745–1812), numismatist, surgeon, historian
- Isaac Yakovlevich Pavlovsky (1853–1924), journalist, translator, writer
- Isadora Duncan (1877–1927), autobiographer, dancer, choreographer
- Isidore de Lara (1858–1935), pianist, composer
- Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805–1861), anatomist, zoologist, naturalist
- Isidore Pils (1815–1875), painter
- Ivry Gitlis (1922–2020), violinist, musician, actor
- J. R. D. Tata (1904–1993), aircraft pilot, entrepreneur
- Jacqueline Comerre-Paton (1859–1955), painter
- Jacques Antoine Mourgue (1734–1818), politician
- Jacques Antoine Rabaut-Pommier (1744–1820), parson, member of parliament, pastor
- Jacques Augustin Catherine Pajou (1766–1828), painter
- Jacques Baron (1905–1986), poet
- Jacques Baumer (1885–1951), film actor, theatre director, actor
- Jacques Belhomme (1737–1824), physician
- Jacques Benoist-Méchin (1901–1983), musicologist, military historian, journalist
- Jacques Benveniste (1935–2004), immunologist, researcher, physician
- Jacques Bérès (1941–2023), orthopedic surgeon, humanitarian
- Jacques Bernard d'Anselme (1740–1814), military personnel
- Jacques Bizet (1872–1922), businessperson, writer
- Jacques Canetti (1909–1997), music executive, radio personality, art director
- Jacques Cellerier (1742–1814), architect
- Jacques Charles (1746–1823), balloonist, inventor
- Jacques Claude Beugnot (1761–1835), official, jurist, politician
- Jacques Companéez (1906–1956), screenwriter
- Jacques Debat-Ponsan (1882–1942), chief architect of civil buildings and national palaces, architect
- Jacques Debat-Ponsan (1882–1942), chief architect of civil buildings and national palaces, architect
- Jacques Destoop (1931–2022), painter, actor
- Jacques Duclos (1896–1975), trade unionist, resistance fighter, politician
- Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin (1768–1839), explorer, naval officer, admiral
- Jacques Gréber (1882–1962), landscape architect, urban planner, architect
- Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963), university teacher, researcher, mathematician
- Jacques Hassoun (1936–1999), psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychiatrist
- Jacques Higelin (1940–2018), recording artist, film actor, musician
- Jacques Hillairet (1886–1984), historian, military personnel
- Jacques Hilling (1922–1975), television actor, film actor, stage actor
- Jacques Joseph Moreau (1804–1884), psychiatrist
- Jacques Laffitte (1767–1844), banker, governor, minister
- Jacques Lauriston (1768–1828), diplomat, politician, military personnel
- Jacques Lauriston (1768–1828), diplomat, politician, military personnel
- Jacques Léon Clément-Thomas (1809–1871), member of parliament, official, military officer
- Jacques Mehler (1936–2020), director of studies, psychologist
- Jacques Nahum (1921–2017), film director, film producer, screenwriter
- Jacques Nicolas Gobert (1760–1808), military officer
- Jacques Nicolas Gobert (1760–1808), military officer
- Jacques Perrin (1941–2022), producer, audiobook narrator, film actor
- Jacques Raymond Brascassat (1804–1867), lithographer, printmaker, painter
- Jacques Rueff (1896–1978), banker, official, economist
- Jacques Schneider (1879–1928), patron of the arts, industrialist, balloonist
- Jacques Solomon (1908–1942), communist, French resistance fighter, physicist
- Jacques-Antoine de Révérony Saint-Cyr (1767–1829), librettist, playwright, politician
- Jacques-Antoine Manuel (1775–1827), member of parliament, jurist, politician
- Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare (1731–1807), encyclopedist, botanist, geologist
- Jacques-Édouard Gatteaux (1788–1881), medalist, sculptor, engraver
- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814), geographical engineer (military cartographer), novelist, botanist
- Jacques-Louis Bance (1761–1847), print publisher, printseller, draftsperson
- Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), architectural drafter, painter, politician
- Jacques-Marie Huvé (1783–1852), architect
- Jacques-Marie, vicomte Cavaignac (1773–1855), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Jacques-Martin Tétaz (1818–1865), architect
- Jacques-René Tenon (1724–1816), surgeon, politician, physician
- James Bartholomew Blackwell (1766–1823), military personnel
- James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868), art collector, banker, businessperson
- Jan Frans van Dael (1764–1840), painter
- Jane Avril (1868–1943), dancer, art model
- Jane Faber (1880–1968), actor
- Jane Loury (1876–1951), actor
- Januária, Countess of Aquila (1822–1901), aristocrat
- Jarosław Dąbrowski (1836–1871), revolutionary, communard, military officer
- Jean Albert Gaudry (1827–1908), paleontologist, university teacher, geologist
- Jean Alfred Fournier (1832–1914), historian, professor, physician
- Jean Alfred Marioton (1863–1903), painter
- Jean Allemane (1843–1935), trade unionist, journalist, communard
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826), musician, jurist, politician
- Jean Antoine Arthur Gris (1829–1872), botanist, naturalist
- Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet (1761–1834), official, diplomat, politician
- Jean Antoine Letronne (1787–1848), philologist, anthropologist, archaeologist
- Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac (1778–1832), goguettier, chansonnier, jurist
- Jean Bénabou (1932–2022), mathematician
- Jean Benner (1836–1906), designer, painter
- Jean Börlin (1893–1930), dancer, choreographer, ballet master
- Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785–1845), meteorologist, physicist
- Jean Charles-Brun (1870–1946), non-fiction writer, philologist, lecturer
- Jean Dara (1862–1944), actor
- Jean de Brunhoff (1899–1937), picture book writer, draftsperson, children's writer
- Jean de Kindelan (1759–1822), military officer, military personnel
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695), librettist, children's writer, fabulist
- Jean de La Rochefoucauld-Bayers (1757–1834), military officer, politician
- Jean de Tinan (1874–1898), journalist, writer
- Jean Denis, comte Lanjuinais (1753–1827), journalist, historian, jurist
- Jean Dominique Compans (1769–1845), politician, military personnel
- Jean Dupotet (1777–1852), Officer of the French Navy
- Jean Dupuy (1844–1919), media proprietor, politician
- Jean Fabre de La Martillière (1732–1819), politician, military personnel
- Jean Françaix (1912–1997), choreographer, film score composer, pianist
- Jean François Aimé Dejean (1749–1824), military officer, politician
- Jean François de Saint-Lambert (1716–1803), opinion journalist, soldier, philosopher
- Jean François Gail (1795–1845), hellenist, librettist, lyricist
- Jean Guidoni (1951–2025), lyricist, singer
- Jean Guidoni (1951–2025), lyricist, singer
- Jean Guillou (1930–2019), music educator, music teacher, music arranger
- Jean Guiraud (1866–1953), medievalist, publisher, journalist
- Jean Henri Hassenfratz (1755–1827), university teacher, chemist, physicist
- Jean Hervé (1884–1966), rugby union player, film director, actor
- Jean Hyacinthe Vincent (1862–1950), university teacher, physician
- Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès (1753–1824), jurist, politician
- Jean Jamin (1945–2022), anthropologist
- Jean Jérome (1906–1990), French resistance fighter, politician, businessperson
- Jean Joseph Mounier (1758–1806), official, politician, lawyer
- Jean Lacave-Laplagne (1795–1849), politician
- Jean Le Bret (1872–1947), mining engineer, skipper, engineer
- Jean Longuet (1876–1938), journalist, member of parliament, politician
- Jean Louis Georges Poiret (1872–1932), colonial administrator
- Jean Martinelli (1909–1983), dub actor, film actor, television actor
- Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast (1754–1817), manufacturer
- Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette (1769–1834), surveying engineer, university teacher, mathematician
- Jean Noël Hallé (1754–1822), epidemiologist, professor, physician
- Jean Nohain (1900–1981), children's writer, lyricist, songwriter
- Jean Pelet (1759–1842), official, politician
- Jean Pierre Flourens (1794–1867), anatomist, neuroscientist, physiologist
- Jean Pierre Flourens (1794–1867), anatomist, neuroscientist, physiologist
- Jean Pierre Joseph d'Arcet (1777–1844), industrialist, chemist, entrepreneur
- Jean Reynaud (1806–1863), philosopher, geologist, politician
- Jean Rollin (1938–2010), film actor, director, film director
- Jean Tarride (1901–1980), film actor, director, film director
- Jean Topart (1922–2012), dub actor, actor
- Jean Victor Audouin (1797–1841), arachnologist, entomologist, botanist
- Jean Victor Schnetz (1787–1870), painter
- Jean Weber (1906–1995), actor
- Jean Zuléma Amussat (1796–1856), surgeon, physician
- Jean-Achille Benouville (1815–1891), painter, photographer
- Jean-Adolphe Beaucé (1818–1875), painter, illustrator
- Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756–1832), chemist, politician
- Jean-Antoine Lépine (1720–1814), master craftsman, watchmaker
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), draftsperson, printmaker, visual artist
- Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778–1846), scientific illustrator, explorer, entomologist
- Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1801–1887), agricultural biologist, botanist, university teacher
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875), printmaker, draftsperson, visual artist
- Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume (1822–1905), art critic, sculptor, professor
- Jean-Baptiste Clément (1836–1903), chansonnier, journalist, communard
- Jean-Baptiste Dugas-Montbel (1776–1834), linguist, philologist, translator
- Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830–1914), music educator, art collector, opera singer
- Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755–1829), classical philologist, anthropologist, archaeologist
- Jean-Baptiste Girard (1775–1815), military officer, politician
- Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager (1814–1879), marine painter, printmaker, painter
- Jean-Baptiste Henry Collin de Sussy (1776–1837), politician
- Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767–1855), miniature painter, portraitist, lithographer
- Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin (1759–1832), miniaturist, painter
- Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749–1822), historian of science, historian, mathematician
- Jean-Baptiste Joseph Tyrbas de Chamberet (1779–1870), military physician
- Jean-Baptiste Lesueur (1794–1883), architect
- Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (1728–1796), circus performer, Theaterintendant, actor
- Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754–1829), painter
- Jean-Baptiste Réveillon (1725–1811), wallpaper manufacturer, entrepreneur, businessperson
- Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet (1746–1825), politician, lawyer
- Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832), industrialist, journalist, political economist
- Jean-Baptiste Teste (1780–1852), politician, lawyer, judge
- Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus (1807–1857), art historian, architect
- Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard (1732–1817), linguist, censor, literary critic
- Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot (1763–1850), silversmith, goldsmith
- Jean-Bernard Tarbé de Vauxclairs (1767–1842), engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads, politician, engineer
- Jean-Blaise Martin (1768–1837), opera singer
- Jean-Charles Persil (1785–1870), politician, lawyer
- Jean-Charles-Alexandre Sallandrouze de Lamornaix (1840–1899), naval officer
- Jean-Claude Redon de Beaupréau (1738–1815), politician
- Jean-Claude Touche (1926–1944), organist, musician, composer
- Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage (1760–1825), cartographer, geographer
- Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage (1760–1825), cartographer, geographer
- Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952–1997), newspaper editor, editor-in-chief, journalist
- Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772–1840), psychiatrist, physician
- Jean-Étienne-Auguste Massol (1802–1887), opera singer
- Jean-François Bayard (1796–1853), librettist, lyricist, playwright
- Jean-François Cail (1804–1871), mechanician, industrialist, entrepreneur
- Jean-François Champagne (1751–1813), hellenist, philologist, translator
- Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832), Egyptologist
- Jean-François Coulon (1764–1836), music educator, dancer, choreographer
- Jean-François de Bourgoing (1748–1811), geographer, translator, historian
- Jean-François de La Harpe (1739–1803), critic, literary critic, journalist
- Jean-François Gaultier de Biauzat (1739–1815), politician, lawyer
- Jean-François Heidenreich (1811–1872), executioner
- Jean-François Le Sueur (1760–1837), music educator, musicologist, conductor
- Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), philologist, literary theorist, epistemologist
- Jean-François Pierre Peyron (1744–1814), printmaker, painter
- Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850–1924), lithographer, draftsperson, printmaker
- Jean-François Roger (1776–1842), journalist, playwright, politician
- Jean-Gaspard Deburau (1796–1846), stage actor, mime artist, actor
- Jean-Guillaume-Augustin Cuvelier (1766–1824), playwright, military officer, writer
- Jean-Henri Gourgaud (1746–1809), voice teacher, stage actor, writer
- Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe (1774–1820), banker, politician
- Jean-Hilaire Belloc (1786–1866), painter
- Jean-Jacques Castex (1731–1822), draftsperson, sculptor
- Jean-Jacques Grunenwald (1911–1982), music educator, film score composer, organist
- Jean-Jacques Karpff (1770–1829), painter
- Jean-Jacques Lagrenée (1739–1821), painter, artist
- Jean-Jacques Susini (1933–2017), politician
- Jean-Jacques Uhrich (1802–1886), military personnel
- Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (1738–1826), painter
- Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul (1754–1807), politician, military personnel
- Jean-Joseph Carriès (1855–1894), ceramicist, sculptor
- Jean-Joseph Dessolles (1767–1828), politician
- Jean-Joseph Menuret (1733–1815), encyclopédistes, physician, writer
- Jean-Joseph Menuret (1733–1815), encyclopédistes, physician, writer
- Jean-Joseph Weerts (1846–1927), painter
- Jean-Jules Clamageran (1827–1903), jurist, politician, lawyer
- Jean-Lambert Tallien (1767–1820), revolutionary, journalist, historian
- Jean-Laurent Kopp (1812–1872), singer, actor
- Jean-Louis Baudelocque (1745–1810), obstetrician, gynecologist, university teacher
- Jean-Louis Bernard (1918–1998), esotericist, writer
- Jean-Louis de Marne (1752–1829), painter
- Jean-Louis Duport (1749–1819), cellist, musician, composer
- Jean-Louis Faure (1863–1944), gynecologist, surgeon, physician
- Jean-Louis Jaley (1802–1866), medalist, sculptor
- Jean-Louis Laya (1761–1833), literary critic, playwright, writer
- Jean-Louis Martinet (1912–2010), composer
- Jean-Luc Parodi (1937–2022), political scientist
- Jean-M.-Vincent Audin (1793–1851), book printer, publisher, journalist
- Jean-Marie Defrance (1771–1855), military personnel
- Jean-Marie Pardessus (1772–1853), magistrate, jurist, politician
- Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle (1748–1835), balloonist, engineer, military personnel
- Jean-Nicolas Bouilly (1763–1842), librettist, children's writer, lyricist
- Jean-Nicolas Huyot (1780–1840), architect
- Jean-Nicolas Marjolin (1780–1850), pathologist, surgeon
- Jean-Paul Garnier (1801–1869), watchmaker
- Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (1741–1816), music educator, musicologist, organist
- Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (1741–1816), music educator, musicologist, organist
- Jean-Pierre Augereau (1772–1836), military officer, military personnel
- Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911–2001), film actor, stage actor, playwright
- Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps (1824–1873), horticulturist, landscape architect, gardener
- Jean-Pierre Boyer (1776–1850), politician
- Jean-Pierre Cortot (1787–1843), sculptor
- Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800–1869), caricaturist, sculptor, artist
- Jean-Pierre Granger (1779–1840), painter
- Jean-Pierre Kahane (1926–2017), mathematician
- Jean-Pierre Lesguillon (1799–1873), librettist, novelist, playwright
- Jean-Pierre Maransin (1770–1828), military officer, military personnel
- Jean-Pierre Maurin (1822–1894), violinist
- Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932–1988), theatre designer, designer, director
- Jean-Pierre Rousselot (1846–1924), phonetician, linguist, Latin Catholic priest
- Jean-Pierre Timbaud (1904–1941), trade unionist, founder
- Jean-Pierre Wintenberger (1954–2019), university teacher, mathematician
- Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet (1777–1868), librettist, playwright, poet
- Jean-Richard Bloch (1884–1947), prose writer, novelist, literary critic
- Jean-Siméon Domon (1774–1830), military officer, military personnel
- Jean-Thomas Thibault (1757–1826), painter, architect
- Jean-Victor Bertin (1767–1842), painter
- Jean-Xavier Lefèvre (1763–1829), musicologist, music educator, musician
- Jeanette Wohl (1783–1861), writer
- Jeanne Bérangère (1864–1928), actor
- Jeanne Charlotte Saint-Aubin (1764–1850), opera singer
- Jeanne Itasse (1865–1941), sculptor
- Jeanne Ludwig (1867–1898), stage actor
- Jeannette Vermeersch (1910–2001), politician
- Jehan Georges Vibert (1840–1902), marksman, painter, playwright
- Jehanne d'Alcy (1865–1956), film actor, stage actor
- Jérôme Lalande (1732–1807), mathematician, professor, writer
- Jiří Frel (1923–2006), classical archaeologist, museologist, archaeologist
- Joachim Francois Philiberto de Feisthamel (1791–1851), lepidopterist
- Joachim Murat (1767–1815), military officer, marshal, politician
- Joachim, 4th Prince Murat (1834–1901), military personnel
- Joan Puig i Ferreter (1882–1956), translator, playwright, professor
- Joannes Charles Melchior Chatin (1847–1912), entomologist, botanist, university teacher
- Jocelyn Quivrin (1979–2009), television actor, film actor, film director
- John Beasley Greene (1832–1856), archaeologist, photographer
- John Ferreol Monnot (1864–1943), metallurgist, businessperson
- John Gilchrist (1759–1841), lexicographer, linguist, philologist
- John Hurford Stone (1763–1818), publisher, printer
- John Hurford Stone (1763–1818), publisher, printer
- John Lemoinne (1815–1892), journalist, diplomat, politician
- John of Saint-Denis (1905–1970), Orthodox theologian, Eastern Orthodox monk, Christian minister
- John Pascoe Grenfell (1800–1869), soldier
- John Staples Harriott (1780–1839), military officer
- José Álvarez de Toledo y Dubois (1779–1858), diplomat, politician, military personnel
- José Miguel de Carvajal-Vargas, 2nd Duke of San Carlos (1771–1828), foreign minister, diplomat, military officer
- José Riquelme y López Bago (1880–1972), military personnel
- José Riquelme y López Bago (1880–1972), military personnel
- Joseph Albrier (1791–1863), painter
- Joseph Aurèle de Bossi (1758–1823), official, playwright, politician
- Joseph Barbanègre (1772–1830), military officer, field marshal-lieutenant, military personnel
- Joseph Beaume (1796–1885), draftsperson, painter, artist
- Joseph Boyer de Rébeval (1768–1822), military officer
- Joseph Boyer de Rébeval (1768–1822), military officer
- Joseph Capus (1867–1947), politician
- Joseph Crocé-Spinelli (1845–1875), balloonist, inventor, engineer
- Joseph David Sinzheim (1745–1812), rabbi
- Joseph David Sinzheim (1745–1812), rabbi
- Joseph Derenbourg (1811–1895), Indologist, Hebraist, orientalist
- Joseph Fiévée (1767–1839), essayist, novelist, journalist
- Joseph Fourier (1768–1830), mathematician
- Joseph Jacotot (1770–1840), classical scholar, university teacher, pedagogue
- Joseph Jérôme Siméon (1749–1842), count, official, jurist
- Joseph Joffo (1931–2018), novelist, businessperson, writer
- Joseph Jules Dejerine (1849–1917), neurologist, physician
- Joseph Lainé (1768–1835), official, jurist, politician
- Joseph Lakanal (1762–1845), philosopher, politician
- Joseph Langlé (1798–1867), playwright, writer
- Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (1773–1828), military officer, military personnel
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850), board member, university teacher, chemist
- Joseph Marie, baron de Gérando (1772–1842), linguist, philanthropist, philosopher
- Joseph Oller (1839–1922), businessperson
- Joseph Roffo (1879–1933), rugby union player
- Joseph Strick (1923–2010), producer, director, film producer
- Joseph Toussaint Reinaud (1795–1867), orientalist, historian, librarian
- Joseph Vallot (1854–1925), speleologist, mountaineer, botanist
- Joseph Vendryes (1875–1960), linguist
- Joseph-Balthazard Siméon (1781–1846), art collector, official, diplomat
- Joseph-François Swebach (1769–1823), porcelain painter, lithographer, draftsperson
- Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814), politician, physician
- Joseph-Laurent Malaine (1745–1809), painter
- Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797–1890), lithographer, visual artist, graphic artist
- Josette Day (1914–1978), film actor, stage actor, actor
- Józef Wysocki (1809–1873), military officer
- Juan Almonte (1803–1869), soldier, diplomat, minister
- Juan Bautista Ceballos (1811–1859), politician, lawyer, judge
- Juan José Saer (1937–2005), writer
- Juan Negrín (1892–1956), finance minister, university teacher, head of government
- Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884), foreign minister, barrister, diplomat
- Judith Cladel (1873–1958), prose writer, novelist, journalist
- Jules Adenis (1821–1900), librettist, journalist, playwright
- Jules Baroche (1802–1870), politician, lawyer
- Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire (1805–1895), philologist, philosopher, journalist
- Jules Berry (1883–1951), film actor, film director, stage actor
- Jules Brunet (1838–1911), military officer, military personnel
- Jules Danbé (1840–1905), violinist, music director, chapelmaster
- Jules de Wailly (1806–1866), playwright
- Jules de Wailly (1806–1866), playwright
- Jules de Wailly (1806–1866), playwright
- Jules de Wailly (1806–1866), playwright
- Jules Delsart (1844–1900), music educator, cellist, music arranger
- Jules Hochet (1813–1867), businessperson
- Jules Jacques Veyrassat (1828–1893), landscape painter, animal painter, printmaker
- Jules Joffrin (1846–1890), communard, politician
- Jules Michelet (1798–1874), diarist, philosopher, translator
- Jules Miot (1809–1883), rentier, communard, pharmacist
- Jules Pasdeloup (1819–1887), theatre manager, musician, pianist
- Jules Perrot (1810–1892), Theaterintendant, librettist, dancer
- Jules Petiet (1813–1871), engineer
- Jules Regnault (1834–1894), economist
- Jules Richard (1848–1930), industrialist, instrument maker, inventor
- Jules Romains (1885–1972), playwright, poet, writer
- Jules Vallès (1832–1885), autobiographer, prose writer, novelist
- Jules-Alexandre Grün (1868–1938), pastellist, draftsperson, visual artist
- Jules-Auguste Béclard (1817–1887), science writer, school teacher, physiologist
- Jules-François Paré (1755–1819), politician
- Jules-Théophile Boucher (1847–1924), actor
- Julia Daudet (1844–1940), literary critic, journalist, poet
- Julie Amelie Charlotte Castelnau (1819–1897), museum founder, philanthropist, art collector
- Julien Bessières (1777–1840), official, diplomat, politician
- Julien Dupré (1851–1910), painter
- Julien Dupré (1851–1910), painter
- Julien Dupré (1851–1910), painter
- Julien Dupré (1851–1910), painter
- Julien Jalâl Eddine Weiss (1953–2015), classical guitarist, zitherist, musician
- Julien Louis Geoffroy (1743–1814), theatre critic, literary scholar, literary critic
- Julien Pierre Anne Lalande (1787–1844), politician, military personnel
- Julien Terzics (1968–2024), bar manager, political activist, musician
- Juliette Adam (1836–1936), memoirist, essayist, novelist
- Juliette Dodu (1848–1909), spy
- Juliette Figuier (1827–1879), novelist, playwright
- Juliette Figuier (1827–1879), novelist, playwright
- Juliette Heuzey (1865–1952), essayist, novelist, biographer
- Julius von Mohl (1800–1876), publisher, orientalist, university teacher
- Justin Clinchant (1820–1881), military officer, military personnel
- Justin Massicault (1838–1892), journalist, official, diplomat
- Karel Appel (1921–2006), lithographer, collagist, glass painter
- Karel Vasak (1929–2015), university teacher, diplomat, jurist
- Karl Daubigny (1846–1886), painter
- Karl-Jean Longuet (1904–1981), sculptor
- Kazimierz Brandys (1916–2000), theatre critic, journalist, writer
- Kenzō Takada (1939–2020), designer, fashion designer, costume designer
- Klementyna Hoffmanowa (1798–1845), children's writer, novelist, translator
- Krikor Odian (1834–1887), opinion journalist, public figure, lawyer
- La Clairon (1723–1803), stage actor, actor
- Lancelot Théodore Turpin de Crissé (1782–1859), art collector, painter
- Laura Marx (1845–1911), militant, translator, writer
- Laurence Badie (1928–2024), dub actor, film actor, television actor
- Laurent Bouvet (1968–2021), essayist, university teacher, political scientist
- Laurent Cerise (1807–1869), physician
- Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr (1764–1830), politician, military personnel
- Laurent Jean François Truguet (1752–1839), diplomat, politician, military personnel
- Lazare Isidor (1813–1888), translator, rabbi
- Leó Frankel (1844–1896), trade unionist, journalist, communard
- Léon Centner (1919–2002), publisher, bookseller
- Léon Cladel (1834–1892), jurist, poet, writer
- Léon Cogniet (1794–1880), lithographer, draftsperson, printmaker
- Léon Comerre (1850–1916), painter
- Léon Diguet (1859–1926), explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist
- Léon Dufourny (1754–1818), architect
- Léon Ehrhart (1854–1875), musician, composer
- Léon Escudier (1815–1881), musicographer, publisher, journalist
- Léon Fairmaire (1820–1906), scientific collector, entomologist
- Léon Faucher (1803–1854), journalist, economist, politician
- Léon Jouhaux (1879–1954), trade unionist
- Léon Lécuyer (1855–1915), sport shooter, fencer
- Léon Maquenne (1853–1925), chemist
- Leon Milo (1956–2014), music journalist, sound artist, percussionist
- Léon Moussinac (1890–1964), theatrologist, film critic, journalist
- Léon Ponscarme (1879–1916), sport cyclist
- Léon Rey (1887–1954), classical archaeologist, archaeologist
- Léon Richer (1824–1911), journalist
- Léon Riesener (1808–1878), painter, photographer
- Léon Say (1826–1896), official, diplomat, economist
- Léon Talabot (1796–1863), ironmaster, politician, engineer
- Léon Théry (1879–1909), racing automobile driver
- Léon-Lévy Brunswick (1805–1859), librettist, journalist, playwright
- Léonard Autié (1751–1820), impresario, hairdresser
- Léonce Girardot (1864–1922), racing automobile driver, industrialist, sport cyclist
- Léonor Mérimée (1757–1836), painter, chemist
- Léopold Javal (1804–1872), agronomist, banker, politician
- Léopold Mourier (1862–1923)
- Léopold Victor Delisle (1826–1910), art historian, historian, librarian
- Léopold Zborowski (1889–1932), gallerist, patron of the arts, antiquarian
- LeRoy Woodson (1944–2015), visual artist, author, photographer
- Lia Félix (1830–1908), actor
- Lieven Bauwens (1769–1822), spy, industrialist, entrepreneur
- Lise Lesèvre (1901–1992), French resistance fighter
- Loïk Le Floch-Prigent (1943–2025), essayist, engineer, businessperson
- Louis Adolphe Cochery (1819–1900), journalist, minister, politician
- Louis Alexis Desmichels (1779–1845), military officer, military personnel
- Louis Amédée Achard (1814–1875), novelist, journalist, playwright
- Louis Antoine Ponchard (1787–1866), music educator, voice teacher, opera singer
- Louis Aucoc (1850–1932), jewelry designer, jeweler, goldsmith
- Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805–1881), philosopher, journalist, communard
- Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier (1775–1860), soldier, diplomat, politician
- Louis Barthou (1862–1934), historian, diplomat, politician
- Louis Becq de Fouquières (1831–1887), philologist, literary critic, poet
- Louis Bernier (1845–1919), architect
- Louis Bernier (1845–1919), architect
- Louis Blanc (1811–1882), journalist, editor-in-chief, historian
- Louis César Berthier (1765–1819), military personnel
- Louis Charles Breguet (1880–1955), aerospace engineer, military flight engineer, aircraft pilot
- Louis Charles Delescluze (1809–1871), attorney's clerk, journalist, communard
- Louis Charles Émile Gibon-Guilhem (1862–1945), military officer
- Louis Charles Kiener (1799–1881), malacologist, zoologist
- Louis Cordiez (1813–1885), playwright, librarian
- Louis de Gramont (1854–1912), novelist, librettist, journalist
- Louis Ducatel (1902–1999), painter, politician, engineer
- Louis Dumont (1911–1998), anthropologist, sociologist, university teacher
- Louis Duport (1781–1853), dancer, choreographer, theatre manager
- Louis Edmond Duranty (1833–1880), art critic, art historian, journalist
- Louis Edmond Duranty (1833–1880), art critic, art historian, journalist
- Louis Edmond Duranty (1833–1880), art critic, art historian, journalist
- Louis Edmond Duranty (1833–1880), art critic, art historian, journalist
- Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez (1808–1871), explorer, Officer of the French Navy, politician
- Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez (1808–1871), explorer, Officer of the French Navy, politician
- Louis Émile Javal (1839–1907), ophthalmologist, Esperantist, politician
- Louis Figuier (1819–1894), opinion journalist, university teacher, journalist
- Louis Gillet (1876–1943), literary historian, literary critic, art critic
- Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (1764–1853), local government officer, minister, politician
- Louis Henri Loison (1771–1816), soldier, military officer, military personnel
- Louis Hersent (1777–1860), lithographer, printmaker, painter
- Louis Hippolyte de Lormel (1809–1888), colonial administrator
- Louis Joseph Sanson (1790–1842), ophthalmologist, surgeon
- Louis Jules Behier (1813–1876), pathologist, physician
- Louis Klein (1761–1845), politician, military personnel
- Louis Lacombe (1818–1884), musician, pianist, composer
- Louis Lafferre (1861–1929), politician
- Louis Lafitte (1770–1828), draftsperson, painter
- Louis Lefèvre-Gineau (1751–1829), chemist, professor, politician
- Louis Lemaire (1824–1910), etcher, painter
- Louis Lemoine (1754–1842), military personnel
- Louis Mangin (1852–1937), secondary school teacher, mycologist, botanist
- Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux (1753–1824), politician
- Louis Maurin (1869–1956), politician, military personnel
- Louis Napoléon Murat (1851–1912), military officer
- Louis Payen (1875–1927), librettist, playwright, poet
- Louis Péricaud (1835–1909), chansonnier, librettist, playwright
- Louis Pierre Alexis Pothuau (1815–1882), naval officer, diplomat, admiral
- Louis Pierre Alexis Pothuau (1815–1882), naval officer, diplomat, admiral
- Louis Poinsot (1777–1859), university teacher, mathematician, physicist
- Louis Urgel (1857–1942), composer, actor
- Louis Vallin (1770–1854), military officer
- Louis Verneuil (1893–1952), film actor, director, stage actor
- Louis Visconti (1791–1853), architect
- Louis Visconti (1791–1853), architect
- Louis Wolowski (1810–1876), university teacher, banker, diplomat
- Louis Wolowski (1810–1876), university teacher, banker, diplomat
- Louis-Adrien Lusson (1788–1864), architect
- Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès (1803–1878), politician
- Louis-Auguste Desmarres (1810–1882), ophthalmologist
- Louis-Augustin Richer (1740–1819), singer
- Louis-Benoît Picard (1769–1828), independent publisher, librettist, theatre manager
- Louis-Charles Malassez (1842–1909), anatomist, physician
- Louis-Charles-Auguste Delamarre de Lamellerie (1771–1840), Officer of the French Navy
- Louis-Charles-Georges-Jules Lafont (1825–1908), Officer of the French Navy
- Louis-Désiré Véron (1798–1867), opera director, journalist, politician
- Louis-Emmanuel-Aimé Damesme (1757–1822), architect
- Louis-François Bertin de Veaux (1771–1842), journalist, banker, diplomat
- Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804–1883), physicist, watchmaker
- Louis-François, Baron Lejeune (1775–1848), lithographer, painter, artist
- Louis-Gabriel Suchet (1770–1826), marshal, politician, military personnel
- Louis-Gaspard-Gustave-Adolphe Yvelin de Béville (1806–1885), soldier
- Louis-Guillaume Otto (1753–1817), diplomat, ambassador
- Louis-Guillaume Otto (1753–1817), diplomat, ambassador
- Louis-Jean-Nicolas Monmerqué (1780–1860), literary historian, editor, biographer
- Louis-Jérôme Gohier (1746–1830), diplomat, jurist, minister
- Louis-Léon de Brancas (1733–1824), politician, military personnel
- Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845), lithographer, draftsperson, painter
- Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis (1769–1819), musicologist, violinist, musician
- Louis-Lucien Klotz (1868–1930), senator, journalist, jurist
- Louis-Lucien Klotz (1868–1930), senator, journalist, jurist
- Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes (1757–1821), literary critic, politician, poet
- Louis-Mathieu Langlès (1763–1824), linguist, philologist, orientalist
- Louis-Michel Letort de Lorville (1773–1815), military officer
- Louis-Sébastien Lebrun (1764–1829), opera singer, composer
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814), science fiction writer, literary historian, journalist
- Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart (1788–1858), autobiographer, historian, military officer
- Louise Bertin (1805–1877), painter, poet, composer
- Louise Bourbonnaud (1846–1915), philanthropist, explorer, writer
- Louise Compain (1869–1941), women's rights activist, lecturer, novelist
- Louise Contat (1760–1813), salonnière, actor
- Louise Filliaux-Tiger (1848–1916), music educator, pianist, composer
- Louise Hersent (1784–1862), painter
- Louise Koppe (1846–1897), editor, writer
- Louise Koppe (1846–1897), editor, writer
- Louise Rosalie Allan-Despreaux (1810–1856), stage actor
- Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre (1755–1821), dancer, opera singer, stage actor
- Luc Bondy (1948–2015), librettist, film actor, intendant
- Luc-Olivier Merson (1846–1920), postage stamp designer, university teacher, painter
- Lucas Dolega (1978–2011), journalist, photojournalist, photographer
- Lucas Gridoux (1896–1952), actor
- Lucien Arnaud (1897–1975), film actor, television actor, stage actor
- Lucien Blondeau (1884–1965), film director, actor
- Lucien Chevaillier (1883–1932), journalist, university teacher, music critic
- Lucien Daudet (1878–1946), painter, biographer, writer
- Lucien Fabre (1889–1952), industrialist, entrepreneur, engineer
- Lucien Fontanarosa (1912–1975), painter
- Lucien Fugère (1848–1935), opera singer
- Lucien Gaulard (1850–1888), electrical engineer, inventor
- Lucien Lauk (1911–2001), sport cyclist
- Lucienne Heuvelmans (1881–1944), sculptor, painter
- Lucy Arbell (1878–1947), opera singer
- Lucy Gordon (1980–2009), model, film actor, actor
- Lucy Hamilton Hooper (1835–1893), journalist, playwright, poet
- Ludwig Börne (1786–1837), critic, opinion journalist, literary critic
- Ludwig Kainer (1885–1967), draftsperson, theatre designer, art collector
- Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842), music theorist, music educator, musicologist
- Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842), music theorist, music educator, musicologist
- Luis Pinto de Soveral, Marquess de Soveral (1851–1922), diplomat, politician
- Madame de Rémusat (1780–1821), salonnière, lady-in-waiting, writer
- Madame de Saint-Laurent (1760–1830)
- Madame de Tessé (1741–1814), salonnière
- Madame Saqui (1786–1866), circus performer, stunt performer
- Madeleine Carpentier (1865–1949), lithographer, painter
- Mademoiselle Doligny (1746–1823), stage actor
- Mademoiselle Mars (1779–1847), stage actor, actor
- Madho Rao Scindia (1876–1925), politician
- Madho Rao Scindia (1876–1925), politician
- Madho Rao Scindia (1876–1925), politician
- Madho Rao Scindia (1876–1925), politician
- Mahmoud Hamchari (1939–1973), diplomat, politician
- Malika Kishwar (1803–1858)
- Malika Kishwar (1803–1858)
- Mano Solo (1963–2010), radio personality, painter, guitarist
- Manu Dibango (1933–2020), recording artist, vibraphonist, jazz musician
- Manuel García (1775–1832), opera singer, voice teacher, opera vocal coach
- Manuel Godoy (1767–1851), head of government, military officer, politician
- Marc Alyn (1937–2025), poet, writer
- Marc Antoine Bourdon de Vatry (1761–1828), official, politician
- Marc Antoine de Beaumont (1763–1830), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Marc Fumaroli (1932–2020), literary scholar, philologist, essayist
- Marc Girardin (1801–1873), opinion journalist, literary critic, journalist
- Marc-Antoine Désaugiers (1739–1793), composer
- Marc-Antoine Jullien de Paris (1775–1848), opinion journalist, revolutionary, journalist
- Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers (1772–1827), goguettier, chansonnier, librettist
- Marc'O (1927–2025), film director, writer, actor
- Marcel Allain (1885–1969), novelist, journalist, playwright
- Marcel Chadeigne (1876–1926), pianist, composer
- Marcel Héraud (1883–1960), jurist, politician, lawyer
- Marcel Lévesque (1877–1962), film director, actor, screenwriter
- Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), French resistance fighter, circus performer, film actor
- Marcel Moreau (1933–2020), novelist, poet, writer
- Marcel Mouloudji (1922–1994), recording artist, chansonnier, film actor
- Marcel Paul (1900–1982), trade unionist, politician
- Marcel Proust (1871–1922), prose writer, essayist, novelist
- Marcel Schneider (1913–2009), writer
- Marcel Willard (1889–1956), jurist, politician, lawyer
- Marcelle Romée (1903–1932), film actor, actor
- Marcellin Marbot (1782–1854), army officer, military officer, politician
- Marchand Ennery (1792–1852), lexicographer, rabbi
- Marco Bordogni (1789–1856), opera singer, teacher
- Marcus Klingberg (1918–2015), epidemiologist, spy, university teacher
- Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt (1884–1964), ethnomusicologist, music educator, musicologist
- Marguerite Carré (1880–1947), opera singer, actor
- Marguerite Carré (1880–1947), opera singer, actor
- Marguerite Gachet (1869–1949), art model
- Marguerite Georges (1787–1867), stage actor, dramaturge
- Maria de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Cardenas de Jaruco (1789–1852), singer, writer
- Maria Margherita Milanollo (1832–1848), classical violinist, violinist
- Maria Mauban (1924–2014), film actor, playwright, actor
- Mariano Luis de Urquijo (1769–1817), translator, diplomat
- Marie Anne de Coislin (1732–1817), royal mistress
- Marie Anne Lenormand (1772–1843), cartomancer, fortune teller, writer
- Marie Blanc (1833–1881), entrepreneur
- Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho (1827–1895), opera singer
- Marie Cico (1841–1875), opera singer, actor
- Marie Colombier (1844–1910), stage actor, writer
- Marie d'Agoult (1805–1876), diarist, novelist, essayist
- Marie de Régnier (1875–1963), prose writer, children's writer, journalist
- Marie Delna (1875–1932), opera singer
- Marie Dubas (1894–1972), film actor, stage actor, singer
- Marie François Rouyer (1765–1824), military personnel
- Marie Laforêt (1939–2019), recording artist, gallerist, chansonnier
- Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), exlibrist, lithographer, miniature painter
- Marie Philibert Constant Sappey (1810–1896), anatomist
- Marie Roze (1846–1926), opera singer
- Marie Sanlaville (1847–1930), dancer, ballet dancer
- Marie Souvestre (1835–1905), feminist, educator, pedagogue
- Marie Taglioni (1804–1884), dancer, choreographer, dance teacher
- Marie Trintignant (1962–2003), film actor, stage actor
- Marie-Hortense Fiquet (1850–1922), model, art model, bookbinder
- Marie-Joseph Chénier (1764–1811), translator, playwright, politician
- Marie-Louise Carven (1909–2015), art collector, grand couturier, fashion designer
- Marie-Louise Lachapelle (1769–1821), midwife, physician
- Marie-Madeleine Fourcade (1909–1989), French resistance fighter, journalist, resistance fighter
- Marie-Madeleine Guimard (1743–1816), dancer, choreographer, ballet dancer
- Marie-Noémi Cadiot (1828–1888), journalist, sculptor, painter
- Marie-Renée Ucciani (1883–1963), sculptor, painter
- Marie-Thérèse Dethan-Roullet (1870–1945), painter
- Marie-Thérèse-Étiennette Bourgoin (1781–1833), actor
- Marietta Alboni (1826–1894), opera singer
- Marion Tournon-Branly (1924–2016), architect
- Marițica Bibescu (1815–1859), aristocrat, writer
- Marius Bianchi (1823–1904), politician
- Marpessa Dawn (1934–2008), film actor, television actor, singer
- Marthe Flandrin (1904–1987), painter
- Martial Caillebotte (1853–1910), pianist, composer, photographer
- Martial Solal (1927–2024), jazz pianist, jazz musician, film score composer
- Martin Guillaume Biennais (1764–1843), tabletier, goldsmith
- Martin Guillaume Biennais (1764–1843), tabletier, goldsmith
- Martin Guillaume Biennais (1764–1843), tabletier, goldsmith
- Martin Guillaume Biennais (1764–1843), tabletier, goldsmith
- Martin-Michel-Charles Gaudin (1756–1841), politician
- Mary Mohl (1793–1883), salonnière
- Mary-Anne Paulzzze Lavoisier (1758–1836), artist, chemist, illustrator
- Maryse Condé (1934–2024), literary scholar, children's writer, journalist
- Mathilde Auguez (1868–1955), opera singer
- Mattei Dogan (1920–2010), sociologist, researcher, university teacher
- Mattei Dogan (1920–2010), sociologist, researcher, university teacher
- Maud Linder (1924–2017), documentarian, film scholar, film producer
- Maurice Audin (1932–1957), political activist, resistance fighter, mathematician
- Maurice Biais (1872–1926), furniture designer, cartoonist, painter
- Maurice Bucquet (1860–1921), sport shooter, consul, photographer
- Maurice Dekobra (1883–1973), novelist, film director, journalist
- Maurice Dekobra (1883–1973), novelist, film director, journalist
- Maurice Duplay (1736–1820), entrepreneur
- Maurice Farman (1877–1964), aerospace engineer, military flight engineer, racing automobile driver
- Maurice Froyez (1860–1942), journalist, author, playwright
- Maurice Keatinge (1761–1835), soldier, politician
- Maurice Le Roux (1923–1992), musicologist, conductor, composer
- Maurice Lehmann (1895–1974), director, theatre director, film producer
- Maurice Martenot (1898–1980), ondist, music educator, musicologist
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961), art theorist, aesthetician, philosopher
- Maurice Mouvet (1889–1927), dancer
- Maurice Pradines (1874–1958), philosopher, university teacher, psychologist
- Maurice Raoul-Duval (1866–1916), polo player
- Maurice Raynaud (1834–1881), docent, physician
- Maurice Strakosch (1825–1887), impresario, pianist, singer
- Maurice Thorez (1900–1964), miner, politician
- Maurice Tourneur (1876–1961), film producer, director, film director
- Maurice Vaussard (1888–1978), journalist, translator, historian
- Maurice Villaret (1877–1946), neurologist, physician
- Max Wechsler (1925–2020), painter
- Maxime Boucheron (1846–1896), chansonnier, journalist, playwright
- Maxime Cornu (1843–1901), mycologist, botanist
- Maxime Vinaver (1863–1926), jurist, politician, lawyer
- Maximilien Joseph Hurtault (1765–1824), architect
- Maximilien Rubel (1905–1996), philosopher, sociologist, docent
- Maximilien Sebastien Foy (1775–1825), military officer, politician
- Mélanie Hahnemann (1800–1878), homeopath, painter, Heilpraktiker
- Melchior de Vogüé (1848–1910), philanthropist, travel writer, anthropologist
- Mélesville (1787–1865), librettist, poet lawyer, playwright
- Mélesville (1787–1865), librettist, poet lawyer, playwright
- Méry Laurent (1849–1900), salonnière, muse, demi-mondaine
- Michaël Denard (1944–2023), dancer, director, ballet master
- Michael Galasso (1949–2009), film score composer, violinist, musician
- Michel Adanson (1727–1806), pteridologist, malacologist, conchologist
- Michel Alcan (1810–1877), professor, engineer, politician
- Michel Alcan (1810–1877), professor, engineer, politician
- Michel Carré (1865–1945), librettist, director, film director
- Michel Cartry (1931–2008), director of studies, anthropologist
- Michel Chasles (1793–1880), geometer, geodesist, historian of mathematics
- Michel del Castillo (1933–2024), film producer, biographer, screenwriter
- Michel Delpech (1946–2016), recording artist, chansonnier, film actor
- Michel Drach (1930–1990), film actor, director, film producer
- Michel Lang (1939–2014), director, film director, screenwriter
- Michel Lefrançois de Lalande (1766–1839), astronomer
- Michel Legrand (1932–2019), jazz musician, film director, music arranger
- Michel Leiris (1901–1990), diarist, ethnographer, prose writer
- Michel Lévy (1821–1875), publisher, editor
- Michel Ney (1769–1815), military officer
- Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély (1760–1819), member of parliament, jurist, politician
- Michel-Marie Pacthod (1764–1830), military personnel
- Micheline Attoun (1936–2024), theatrologist, theatre manager
- Michelle Senlis (1933–2020), songwriter
- Mickey Finn (1947–2013), guitarist, musician
- Miguel Abensour (1939–2017), political philosopher, philosopher, collection manager
- Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974), journalist, poet lawyer, translator
- Miguel Zamacoïs (1866–1955), novelist, journalist, painter
- Mikola Abramchyk (1903–1970), opinion journalist, journalist, politician
- Miłosz Magin (1929–1999), pianist, composer
- Mlle Raucourt (1756–1815), stage actor, writer, actor
- Mlle Raucourt (1756–1815), stage actor, writer, actor
- Mme Suin (1742–1817), stage actor
- Moïse Schwab (1839–1918), talmudist, scholar, linguist
- Molière (1622–1673), Theaterintendant, satirist, theatre director
- Monique Wittig (1935–2003), feminist, activist, essayist
- Monir Vakili (1923–1983), opera singer, music director, television producer
- Moses Bahelfer (1908–1995), theatre designer, director, graphic artist
- Mozaffar Firouz (1906–1988), diplomat, politician
- Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko (1878–1952), soldier
- Myriam David (1917–2004), psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, physician
- Nanine Paris (1800–1868), music theorist
- Napoléon Henri Reber (1807–1880), music educator, music theorist, composer
- Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy (1795–1856), historian, diplomat, politician
- Natalis de Wailly (1805–1886), scholar, archaeologist, archivist
- Nathalie Micas (1824–1889), painter, inventor
- Nello Rosselli (1900–1937), journalist, resistance fighter, politician
- Nelly Roussel (1878–1922), feminist, women's rights activist, anarchist
- Népomucène Lemercier (1771–1840), playwright, poet, writer
- Nguyen-Thien Dao (1940–2015), musician, composer
- Nicolas Clément (1779–1841), chemist, physicist
- Nicolas Frochot (1761–1828), official, politician
- Nicolas Isouard (1775–1818), composer
- Nicolas Joseph Maison (1771–1840), diplomat, military officer, politician
- Nicolas Louis François de Neufchâteau (1750–1828), linguist, orator, literary critic
- Nicolas Lupot (1758–1824), violin maker, musical instrument maker, luthier
- Nicolas Martin du Nord (1790–1847), magistrate, jurist, politician
- Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux (1751–1832), medalist, artist, engraver
- Nicolas-Médard Audinot (1732–1801), puppeteer, choreographer, dramaturge
- Nicolas-Philibert Adelon (1782–1862), physiologist, physician
- Nicolas-Pierre Tiolier (1784–1843), medalist, sculptor
- Nicole Berger (1934–1967), film actor, stage actor, actor
- Nicole Stéphane (1924–2007), film producer, film director, actor
- Nikolai Minsky (1855–1937), philosopher, opinion journalist, translator
- Nikolai Nikitich Demidov (1773–1828), art collector, diplomat, military personnel
- Nikolai Nikitich Demidov (1773–1828), art collector, diplomat, military personnel
- Nikolai Nikitich Demidov (1773–1828), art collector, diplomat, military personnel
- Nikolay Chkheidze (1864–1926), revolutionary, diplomat, politician
- Nikolay Chkheidze (1864–1926), revolutionary, diplomat, politician
- Nikolay Turgenev (1789–1871), economist, writer
- Nils Thornander (1958–2022), artist, composer
- Nina Companéez (1937–2015), director, film director, playwright
- Noël Parfait (1813–1896), journalist, politician, writer
- Norbert Rillieux (1806–1894), inventor, engineer, scientist
- Nusch Éluard (1906–1946), art model
- Odette Pauvert (1903–1966), painter
- Odilon Barrot (1791–1873), official, politician, lawyer
- Olga Potocka (1802–1861)
- Olinde Rodrigues (1795–1851), social reformer, financier, banker
- Olivia de Havilland (1916–2020), film actor, television actor, stage actor
- Olry Terquem (1782–1862), editor, mathematician
- Olympe Pélissier (1799–1878), salonnière, model, art model
- Onésime Delafond (1805–1861), veterinarian
- Onésime Reclus (1837–1916), opinion journalist, geographer
- Oscar de Négrier (1839–1913), military theorist, military officer, military personnel
- Oscar Rabin (1928–2018), graphic artist, painter
- Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), short story writer, prose writer, essayist
- Osman Necmi Gürmen (1927–2015), novelist, writer
- Otto Fried (1922–2020), draftsperson, designer, graphic artist
- Otto Wegener (1849–1924), photographer
- Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy (1792–1857), mineralogist, geologist, professor
- Pascale Ogier (1958–1984), film actor, costume designer, actor
- Paschal Grousset (1844–1909), science fiction writer, opinion journalist, journalist
- Patachou (1918–2015), film actor, musician, singer
- Patrice Bart (1945–2025), dancer, choreographer, ballet dancer
- Patrice Chéreau (1944–2013), opera director, film actor, television actor
- Patrice Laffont (1939–2024), film actor, television presenter, comedian
- Patrick Kelly (1954–1990), fashion designer, jewelry designer
- Paul Bénichou (1908–2001), literary scholar, essayist, literary critic
- Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor (1825–1881), theatre critic, literary historian, essayist
- Paul Bonét-Maury (1900–1972), judoka
- Paul Boucherot (1869–1943), railway engineer, electrical engineer, inventor
- Paul Boyer (1864–1949), linguist, slavist, translator
- Paul Brousse (1844–1912), socialist, journalist, politician
- Paul de Choudens (1850–1925), librettist, publisher, musician
- Paul de Choudens (1850–1925), librettist, publisher, musician
- Paul de Choudens (1850–1925), librettist, publisher, musician
- Paul de Choudens (1850–1925), librettist, publisher, musician
- Paul de Musset (1804–1880), librettist, editing staff, playwright
- Paul Dubois (1829–1905), sculptor, painter
- Paul Flandrin (1811–1902), painter
- Paul François Grossetti (1861–1918), military personnel
- Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras (1755–1829), salonnière, politician, judge
- Paul Gachet (1828–1909), art collector, painter, psychiatrist
- Paul Graetz (1899–1966), film producer
- Paul Hautefeuille (1836–1902), mineralogist, chemist
- Paul Jules Tillaux (1834–1904), anatomist, surgeon, physician
- Paul Kochanski (1887–1934), music educator, music arranger, violinist
- Paul Lafargue (1842–1911), essayist, philosopher, literary critic
- Paul Lebeau (1868–1959), toxicologist, university teacher, chemist
- Paul Legrand (1816–1898), mime artist, actor
- Paul Léon (1874–1962), professor
- Paul Madeline (1863–1920), landscape painter, painter
- Paul Meurice (1818–1905), philologist, playwright, writer
- Paul Moreau (1871–1936), sculptor
- Paul Nadar (1856–1939), film director, photographer
- Paul Pisani (1852–1933), Catholic theologian, Catholic priest, historian
- Paul Rivet (1876–1958), French resistance fighter, linguist, anthropologist
- Paul Robin (1837–1912), anarcho-syndicalist, anarchist, peace activist
- Paul Schaffer (1924–2020), industrialist, electronician
- Paul Signac (1863–1935), printmaker, draftsperson, architectural drafter
- Paul Taffanel (1844–1908), music educator, flautist, conductor
- Paul Thiébault (1769–1846), military personnel, writer
- Paul Tissandier (1881–1945), aircraft pilot, balloonist
- Paul Topinard (1830–1911), anthropologist, physician
- Paul Tournon (1881–1964), architect
- Paul Vaillant-Couturier (1892–1937), journalist, politician, writer
- Paul Vialar (1898–1996), children's writer, playwright, poet
- Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour (1827–1896), literary scholar, university teacher, official
- Paul-Charles-Amable de Bourgoing (1791–1864), diplomat, politician, military personnel
- Paul-Emile Debraux (1796–1831), goguettier, chansonnier, poet
- Paul-Émile Pissarro (1884–1972), wood engraver, print, painter
- Paul-Gustave Froment (1815–1865), mechanician, instrument maker, inventor
- Paul-Henri Marron (1754–1832), parson, pastor
- Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant (1852–1924), essayist, diplomat, politician
- Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1828–1886), draftsperson, copyist, painter
- Paula Delsol (1923–2015), director, film director, journalist
- Paule Andral (1879–1956), film actor, stage actor, actor
- Paule Gobillard (1867–1946), visual artist, art model, painter
- Paulette Coquatrix (1916–2018), costume designer
- Paulin Deslandes (1806–1866), playwright, singer
- Pauline Fourès (1778–1869), art collector, novelist, painter
- Pauline van der Linden d'Hooghvorst (1814–1867), lady-in-waiting
- Paulo do Rio Branco (1876–1927), rugby union player, surgeon, physician
- Pavel Gukasov (1858–1937), entrepreneur
- Pegeen Vail Guggenheim (1925–1967), painter
- Petar Marinovich (1898–1919), soldier
- Peter Potemkine (1886–1926), chess player, literary critic, translator
- Philibert Audebrand (1815–1906), journalist, writer
- Philip Astley (1742–1814), circus performer, equestrian, theatre manager
- Philippe Buchez (1796–1865), sociologist, journalist, historian
- Philippe François Maurice d’Albignac (1775–1824), military officer, military personnel
- Philippe Gildas (1935–2018), radio personality, journalist, television presenter
- Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant (1795–1874), mathematician, astronomer
- Philippe Hériat (1898–1971), novelist, playwright, writer
- Philippe Khorsand (1948–2008), film actor, stage actor
- Philippe Le Royer (1816–1897), politician, lawyer
- Philippe Levillain (1940–2021), university teacher, historian
- Philippe Pinel (1745–1826), zoologist, psychologist, psychiatrist
- Philippe Ricord (1800–1889), surgeon, physician
- Philippe-Frédéric Blandin (1798–1849), anatomist, surgeon
- Philippe-Laurent Roland (1746–1816), sculptor
- Pia Colombo (1930–1986), stage actor, singer, poet
- Piero Gobetti (1901–1926), anti-fascist, opinion journalist, philosopher
- Pierre Alexandre Joseph Allent (1772–1837), Commander, military officer, politician
- Pierre Alexandre le Camus (1774–1824), politician
- Pierre Alexandre Tardieu (1756–1844), copper engraver, printmaker, graphic artist
- Pierre Amédée Jaubert (1779–1847), linguist, explorer, orientalist
- Pierre Antoine Delalande (1787–1823), explorer, scientific explorer, ornithologist
- Pierre Antoine Dupont (1765–1840), linguist, translator, military officer
- Pierre Audi (1957–2025), Theaterintendant, director, theatre director
- Pierre Augereau (1757–1816), marshal, politician, military personnel
- Pierre Auguste Cot (1837–1883), painter
- Pierre Auguste Cot (1837–1883), painter
- Pierre Augustin Béclard (1785–1825), anatomist, school teacher, surgeon
- Pierre Barrois (1774–1860), military officer, military personnel
- Pierre Barthélemy Victor Jules Février (1842–1937), architect
- Pierre Bellemare (1929–2018), film actor
- Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), philosopher, sociologist, researcher
- Pierre Brasseur (1905–1972), film actor, director, stage actor
- Pierre Briquet (1796–1881), physician
- Pierre Cartellier (1757–1831), sculptor, goldsmith
- Pierre César Charles de Sercey (1753–1836), politician, military personnel
- Pierre Charras (1945–2014), translator, teacher, writer
- Pierre Claude François Daunou (1761–1840), archivist, historian, professor
- Pierre Daninos (1913–2005), novelist, journalist, comedian
- Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville (1752–1821), military commander, statesperson, diplomat
- Pierre de Vaugiraud (1741–1819), colonial administrator, naval officer
- Pierre Decourcelle (1856–1926), art collector, journalist, playwright
- Pierre Decouz (1775–1814), military officer, military personnel
- Pierre Dervaux (1917–1992), music educator, university teacher, musician
- Pierre Desproges (1939–1988), opinion journalist, radio personality, journalist
- Pierre Doris (1919–2009), chansonnier, television actor, actor
- Pierre Dumanoir Le Pelley (1770–1829), politician
- Pierre Emmanuel (1916–1984), French resistance fighter, journalist, poet
- Pierre Emmanuel Damoye (1847–1916), painter
- Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (1780–1845), entomologist, ornithologist, zoologist
- Pierre François Xavier Boyer (1772–1851), military personnel
- Pierre Frédéric Dorian (1814–1873), manufacturer, politician
- Pierre Galin (1786–1821), music educator
- Pierre Gaveaux (1761–1825), opera singer, music publisher, singer
- Pierre Georges (1919–1944), French resistance fighter, political activist, resistance fighter
- Pierre Goldman (1944–1979), bank robber, journalist, intellectual
- Pierre Gripari (1925–1990), children's writer, journalist, playwright
- Pierre Guyotat (1940–2020), journalist, playwright, writer
- Pierre Haïk (1950–2023), lawyer
- Pierre Jacotin (1765–1827), geomatics engineer, explorer, architectural drafter
- Pierre Janssen (1824–1907), film editor, film producer, film director
- Pierre Jouguet (1869–1949), hellenist, classical philologist, papyrologist
- Pierre Lachambeaudie (1806–1872), goguettier, chansonnier, fabulist
- Pierre Lacotte (1932–2023), ballet teacher, dancer, choreographer
- Pierre Laffitte (1823–1903), philosopher, professor
- Pierre Lafon (1773–1846), actor
- Pierre Lalo (1866–1943), music critic, translator
- Pierre Laujon (1727–1811), chansonnier, goguettier, playwright
- Pierre Lazareff (1907–1972), film producer, journalist, television producer
- Pierre Legrand (1834–1895), official, politician
- Pierre Lenoir (1879–1953), visual artist, medalist, sculptor
- Pierre Levegh (1905–1955), ice hockey player, Formula One driver, racing automobile driver
- Pierre Louis Dulong (1785–1838), chemist, physicist, professor
- Pierre Louis Félix Lanquetot (1880–1974), military personnel
- Pierre Louis Roederer (1754–1835), journalist, playwright, historian
- Pierre Margaron (1765–1824), military personnel
- Pierre Montenot (1884–1953), architect
- Pierre Naudet (1922–1997), politician
- Pierre Paul Déhérain (1830–1902), plant physiologist, agricultural chemist, botanist
- Pierre Prévost (1764–1823), panoramist, landscape painter, painter
- Pierre Quillard (1864–1912), writer, linguist, journalist
- Pierre Rolland (1772–1848), military officer, military personnel
- Pierre Samuel (1921–2009), French resistance fighter, historian of science, mathematician
- Pierre Semard (1887–1942), union member, trade unionist, politician
- Pierre Solomon Ségalas d'Etchépare (1792–1875), urologist, physician
- Pierre Tirard (1827–1893), politician, engineer
- Pierre Wolff (1865–1944), librettist, playwright, writer
- Pierre-Antoine Labouchère (1807–1873), lithographer, art collector, painter
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais (1732–1799), arms trader, spy, opinion journalist
- Pierre-Édouard Lémontey (1762–1826), historian
- Pierre-Eugène-Émile Hébert (1828–1893), sculptor
- Pierre-François Percy (1754–1825), politician, physician
- Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853), visual artist, painter, artist
- Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1750–1819), independent publisher, painter
- Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857), musicographer, chansonnier, politician
- Pierre-Jean Garat (1762–1823), opera singer, singer, composer
- Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy (1789–1874), painter, artist
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840), lithographer, draftsperson, printmaker
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840), lithographer, draftsperson, printmaker
- Pierre-Jules Cavelier (1814–1894), school teacher, sculptor, architect
- Pierre-Louis Binet de Marcognet (1765–1854), military personnel
- Pierre-Louis Ginguené (1748–1816), literary historian, literary scholar, literary critic
- Pierre-Michel Le Conte (1921–2000), musician, conductor
- Pierre-Nicolas Rolland (1761–1825), military personnel
- Pierre-Nicolas Tourgueneff (1853–1912), sculptor, painter
- Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret (1782–1863), lithographer, painter
- Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758–1823), draftsperson, painter
- Pierre-Paul-Léon Glaize (1842–1931), painter
- Pierre-Simon Girard (1765–1836), mathematician, physicist, engineer
- Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), theoretical physicist, philosopher, statistician
- Pierrette Bloch (1928–2017), draftsperson, textile artist, designer
- Pierrette Fleutiaux (1941–2019), novelist, writer
- Polikarp Sikorsky (1875–1953), Eastern Orthodox priest, ecclesiastic, metropolitan
- Pouran Bazargan (1937–2007), activist, school teacher, translator
- Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch (1861–1908), journalist, artist, translator
- Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch (1861–1908), journalist, artist, translator
- Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch (1861–1908), journalist, artist, translator
- Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch (1861–1908), journalist, artist, translator
- Prince Francis, Count of Trapani (1827–1892), aristocrat
- Prince Louis, Count of Aquila (1824–1897), painter
- Prosper de Chasseloup-Laubat (1805–1873), politician
- Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne (1798–1881), journalist, playwright, historian
- Prosper Hochet (1810–1883), politician
- Prosper Marilhat (1811–1847), painter
- Q1057887 (1954–2019), installation artist, draftsperson, sculptor
- Q1362889 (1790–1852), sculptor, painter
- Q1398256 (1952–2024), film actor, television actor, director
- Q1684923 (1757–1826), draftsperson, cartographer, architect
- Q191305 (1808–1855), short story writer, librettist, novelist
- Q2093746 (1948–1972), laborer, political activist
- Q21738164 (1860–1937), painter
- Q21935374 (1929–1952), ballet dancer
- Q282132 (1866–1933), socialist, Germanist, philosopher
- Q3084237 (1746–1828), obstetrician, anatomist, physician
- Q3189687 (1795–1866), lithographer, painter, photographer
- Q3524349 (1955–2005), magistrate, politician, lawyer
- Q442368 (1787–1835), politician, lawyer
- Q521154 (1895–1961), printmaker, visual artist, graphic artist
- Q6779805 (1888–1964), patron of the arts, playwright, writer
- Q903801 (1811–1890), chemist
- Q959431 (1879–1941), flautist, music educator, choreographer
- Q959431 (1879–1941), flautist, music educator, choreographer
- Q959431 (1879–1941), flautist, music educator, choreographer
- Q96959161 (1864–1942), temperance worker, gynecologist, writer
- Quintin Craufurd (1743–1819), art collector, writer
- Rachel Félix (1821–1858), stage actor, actor
- Rafael Díaz Albertini y Urioste (1857–1928), violinist
- Raisa Berg (1913–2006), evolutionary biologist, science communicator, memoirist
- Raphael Bienvenu Sabatier (1732–1811), anatomist, university teacher, surgeon
- Raymond Adolphe Séré de Rivières (1815–1895), military officer, military engineer, engineer
- Raymond Desèze (1748–1828), magistrate, politician, lawyer
- Raymond Desèze (1748–1828), magistrate, politician, lawyer
- Raymond Guyot (1903–1986), accountant, politician
- Raymond Hamet (1890–1972), botanist
- Raymond Lefèvre (1929–2008), film score composer, bandleader, musician
- Raymond Oliver (1909–1990), non-fiction writer, chef, actor
- Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923), novelist, librettist, journalist
- Raymond Rognoni (1892–1965), head teacher, actor
- Raymond Roussel (1877–1933), writer
- Raymond Subes (1891–1970), artist, artistic blacksmith, ironworker
- Raymond Vanier (1895–1965), Flieger, aircraft pilot
- Raymonde de Laroche (1882–1919), aircraft pilot
- Rembrandt Bugatti (1884–1916), sculptor, military personnel
- Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915), essayist, critic, novelist
- René de Buxeuil (1881–1959), chansonnier, singer-songwriter, pianist
- René de Thorigny (1798–1869), politician, lawyer
- René Doumic (1860–1937), literary historian, literary critic, journalist
- René Féret (1945–2015), film actor, film producer, film director
- René Floriot (1902–1975), jurist, lawyer, writer
- René Jeanne (1887–1969), film historian, writer, actor
- René Just Haüy (1743–1822), mineralogist, crystallographer, chemist
- René Lalique (1860–1945), perfume bottle designer, decorative artist, draftsperson
- René Le Senne (1882–1954), philosopher, university teacher, psychologist
- René Lemarant de Kerdaniel (1777–1862), naval officer, Officer of the French Navy
- René Mouchotte (1914–1943), diarist, aircraft pilot, military personnel
- René Panhard (1841–1908), racing automobile driver, politician, engineer
- René Parodi (1904–1942), municipal council, magistrate, resistance fighter
- René Poupardin (1874–1927), archivist, historian, librarian
- René Rémond (1918–2007), historian
- René Worms (1869–1926), sociologist, official, economist
- Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947), choreographer, music critic, pianist
- Richard Bouwens van der Boijen (1863–1939), architect
- Richard Chenevix (1774–1830), chemist
- Richard Descoings (1958–2012), political scientist, official, politician
- Richard Farman (1872–1940), military flight engineer, aircraft pilot, engineer
- Richard Lefebvre des Noëttes (1856–1936), historian, military officer
- Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), art collector, collector, politician
- Robbie Baldwin Ross (1869–1918), short story writer, literary critic, journalist
- Robert Abirached (1930–2021), literary scholar, essayist, theatrologist
- Robert de Flers (1872–1927), short story writer, librettist, novelist
- Robert Demachy (1859–1936), art critic, painter, banker
- Robert Desoille (1890–1966), psychotherapist, electrical engineer
- Robert Herbert, 12th Earl of Pembroke (1791–1862)
- Robert Kemp (1879–1959), journalist
- Robert Lefèvre (1756–1830), painter
- Robert Ozanne (1902–1941), actor
- Robert Planquette (1848–1903), pianist, singer, composer
- Robert Proust (1873–1935), urologist, gynecologist, surgeon
- Robert Sénéchal (1892–1985), racing automobile driver, aircraft pilot, military personnel
- Robert Whitaker McAll (1821–1893), Christian minister, preacher
- Robert Whitaker McAll (1821–1893), Christian minister, preacher
- Robert Whitaker McAll (1821–1893), Christian minister, preacher
- Robert-Jean Longuet (1901–1987), journalist, biographer, politician
- Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard (1742–1822), teacher of the deaf, pedagogue, Catholic priest
- Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766–1831), musicologist, music educator, university teacher
- Roger Capellani (1905–1940), film director, screenwriter
- Roger de Beauvoir (1807–1866), novelist, journalist, playwright
- Roger de Saivre (1908–1964), journalist, politician, lawyer
- Roger Grenier (1919–2017), French resistance fighter, memoirist, novelist
- Roger Piel (1921–2002), sport cyclist
- Roger Planchon (1931–2009), director, theatre director, film director
- Roger Souchère (1899–1963), French resistance fighter, architect
- Roland Castro (1940–2023), politician, architect
- Roland Leroy (1926–2019), journalist, politician
- Roland Weyl (1919–2021), political activist, resistance fighter, lawyer
- Roland-Manuel (1891–1966), musicographer, musicologist, choreographer
- Romain Coolus (1868–1952), novelist, playwright, writer
- Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), draftsperson, sculptor, head teacher
- Rosalie Duthé (1748–1830), dancer, model, courtesan
- Ruben Ter-Minasian (1882–1951), resistance fighter, fedayeen, politician
- Rudolf-August d'Ornano (1816–1865), official, politician
- Rudolf-August d'Ornano (1816–1865), official, politician
- Rufino José Cuervo Urisarri (1844–1911), linguist, hispanist, romanist
- Sadegh Hedayat (1902–1951), short story writer, prose writer, novelist
- Sadegh Hedayat (1902–1951), short story writer, prose writer, novelist
- Sadegh Hedayat (1902–1951), short story writer, prose writer, novelist
- Sadegh Hedayat (1902–1951), short story writer, prose writer, novelist
- Sadegh Sharafkandi (1938–1992), activist, soldier, university teacher
- Salomon James de Rothschild (1835–1864), art collector, banker, socialite
- Salvador Bacarisse (1898–1963), composer
- Samad Khan Momtaz os-Saltaneh (1869–1954), diplomat, politician
- Samir Amin (1931–2018), geopolitical analyst, academic, economist
- Samira Bellil (1972–2004), women's rights activist, activist, specialized educator
- Samuel Cahen (1796–1862), Bible translator, grammarian, Hebraist
- Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843), court counsel, homeopath, pharmacologist
- Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923), film actor, dancer, stage actor
- Sarah Duhamel (1873–1926), actor
- Sarah Monod (1836–1912), feminist, social activist, editor
- Schavarch Missakian (1884–1957), newspaper proprietor, journalist, editor-in-chief
- Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O'Farrill (1751–1820), soldier, military officer, governor
- Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O'Farrill (1751–1820), soldier, military officer, governor
- Sébastien Bottin (1764–1853), statistician, politician
- Sébastien Bottin (1764–1853), statistician, politician
- Sébastien Érard (1752–1831), art collector, musical instrument maker, piano maker
- Serge de Beketch (1946–2007), comics writer, radio personality, journalist
- Serge Korber (1936–2022), pornographic film director, film actor, film producer
- Serge Nubret (1938–2011), bodybuilder, actor
- Serge Silberman (1917–2003), film producer
- Seymour Fleming (1758–1818)
- Shahan Shahnour (1903–1974), poet, writer, photographer
- Shi Pei Pu (1938–2009), spy, opera singer, artist
- Sidney Smith (1764–1840), military commander, naval officer, politician
- Siegfried Bing (1838–1905), art collector, publisher, expert
- Sigismond Jaccoud (1830–1913), pathologist, physician
- Sigismond-Frédéric de Berckheim (1772–1819), military officer, politician, military personnel
- Silvia Monfort (1923–1991), film actor, director, stage actor
- Silvio Barbato (1959–2009), conductor, composer
- Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840), statistician, university teacher, physicist
- Simon Deutsch (1822–1877), bibliographer, communard
- Simon Malley (1923–2006), writer
- Simon-Emmanuel Duplay (1836–1924), surgeon
- Simone Boisecq (1922–2012), sculptor
- Simone Del Duca (1912–2004), art collector, entrepreneur, businessperson
- Simone Signoret (1921–1985), film actor, stage actor, tutor
- Sof'ja Sergeevna Trubeckaja (1838–1898), salonnière, politician
- Sophia May Eckley (1823–1874), writer
- Sophie Blanchard (1778–1819), balloonist
- Sophie Cruvelli (1826–1907), opera singer
- Sophie Daumier (1934–2004), film actor, stage actor, actor
- Sophie de Condorcet (1764–1822), philosopher, salonnière, translator
- Sophie Devienne (1763–1841), stage actor
- Sophie Duvaucel (1789–1867), scientific illustrator, woman of letters
- Sophie Fillières (1964–2023), film actor, film director, screenwriter
- Sophie Gail (1775–1819), composer
- Sophie Germain (1776–1831), philosopher, mathematician, physicist
- Sophie Lienard (1800–1875), miniaturist, porcelain painter, portrait painter
- Sophie Lienard (1800–1875), miniaturist, porcelain painter, portrait painter
- Sophie Lienard (1800–1875), miniaturist, porcelain painter, portrait painter
- Sophie Lienard (1800–1875), miniaturist, porcelain painter, portrait painter
- Sophie Ristaud Cottin (1770–1807), novelist, correspondent, writer
- Sophie Trébuchet (1772–1821), painter
- Sophie Victoire Alexandrine de Girardin Vassy (1762–1845), correspondent, writer
- Stanislas de Boufflers (1738–1815), draftsperson, storyteller, printmaker
- Stanislas Laugier (1799–1872), surgeon, translator
- Stanley Greene (1949–2017), fashion photographer, war photographer, visual artist
- Stephan Sinding (1846–1922), sculptor, professor
- Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin de Genlis (1746–1830), philosopher, children's writer, harpist
- Stephen Heller (1813–1888), pianist, teacher, composer
- Stephen Pichon (1857–1933), journalist, diplomat, politician
- Stu Martin (1938–1980), jazz musician, drummer, musician
- Stuart Merrill (1863–1915), translator, poet, writer
- Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907), diarist, essayist, philosopher
- Susan Durant (1827–1873), sculptor
- Susan Ridgway Willing (1866–1933), socialite
- Suzanne Eisendieck (1906–1998), painter
- Suzanne Lacascade (1884–1966), teacher, writer
- Sylvie Joly (1934–2015), film actor, stage actor, comedian
- Symphorien Boittelle (1813–1897), official, politician
- Tadeusz Brodowski (1821–1848), painter
- Ted Lapidus (1929–2008), designer, grand couturier, personal stylist
- Teresa Milanollo (1827–1904), violinist, composer
- Teresa Wilms Montt (1893–1921), poet, writer
- Terry Haass (1923–2016), printmaker, painter, sculptor
- Théodore Anne (1797–1869), librettist, soldier, novelist
- Théodore Ballu (1817–1885), architect
- Théodore Barrière (1821–1877), playwright, civil servant, writer
- Théodore Duret (1838–1927), art collector, art critic, journalist
- Théodore Edme Mionnet (1770–1842), philologist, numismatist, librarian
- Théodore Ritter (1840–1886), pianist, musician, composer
- Théodore Salomé (1834–1896), music arranger, organist, composer
- Théodore Sivel (1834–1875), balloonist, sailor
- Théodore Vienne (1864–1921), sports official, patron of the arts, journalist
- Théophanis Lamboukas (1936–1970), chansonnier, singer, actor
- Théophile Cart (1855–1931), esperantologist, linguist, secondary school teacher
- Théophile Thoré-Bürger (1807–1869), art collector, art critic, journalist
- Thérésa (1836–1913), modiste, singer
- Thérèse Clerc (1927–2016), women's rights activist
- Thérèse Marthe Françoise Cotard-Dupré (1877–1920), painter
- Thierry Fortineau (1953–2006), television actor, film actor, stage actor
- Thierry Mugler (1945–2022), fashion designer
- Thierry Mugler (1945–2022), fashion designer
- Thomas Couture (1815–1879), painter, teacher
- Thomas Guthrie Wright (1777–1849), lawyer
- Thomas Read Kemp (1782–1844), real estate developer, politician
- Thomas Thompson (1754–1828), politician
- Ticky Holgado (1944–2004), film actor, stage actor, secretary
- Tignous (1957–2015), video game developer, caricaturist, editorial cartoonist
- Tomás Terry (1808–1886), slave trader, businessperson
- Tony Aubin (1907–1981), university teacher, musician, conductor
- Torab Haghsehnas (1942–2016), activist, translator
- Toussaint-Bernard Émeric-David (1755–1839), anthropologist, archaeologist, art historian
- Trinidad Pardo de Tavera (1857–1925), botanist, historian, politician
- Tsilla Chelton (1919–2012), film actor, stage actor, drama teacher
- Tudor Wilkinson (1879–1969), art collector
- Ulric de Fonvielle (1833–1911), journalist, painter
- Ulysse Trélat (1795–1879), surgeon, psychiatrist, politician
- Unica Zürn (1916–1970), painter, artist, poet
- Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy (1801–1879), literary critic, journalist, editing staff
- Valentin Haüy (1745–1822), linguist, pedagogue
- Valentine de Sainte-Aldegonde (1820–1891)
- Valérie Simonin (1831–1919), restorer of books, manuscripts, documents
- Vangelis (1943–2022), keyboardist, film score composer, musician
- Vanni Marcoux (1877–1962), music educator, opera singer, theatre manager
- Vanni Marcoux (1877–1962), music educator, opera singer, theatre manager
- Varvara Golovina (1766–1821), writer
- Varvara Golovina (1766–1821), writer
- Victoire Babois (1760–1839), poet, writer
- Victor Contamin (1840–1893), engineer
- Victor Cousin (1792–1867), philosophy historian, philosopher, university teacher
- Victor Delbos (1862–1916), philosophy historian, philosopher, historian
- Victor Garcia (1934–1982), director
- Victor Lanjuinais (1802–1869), politician, lawyer
- Victor Séjour (1817–1874), playwright, poet, writer
- Victor Séjour (1817–1874), playwright, poet, writer
- Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835), composer
- Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837–1899), spy, model, courtesan
- Virginie Déjazet (1798–1875), stage actor, Soubrette, actor
- Virginie Ghesquière (1786–1867), military personnel
- Vivant Denon (1747–1825), draftsperson, etcher, archaeologist
- Vivant Denon (1747–1825), draftsperson, etcher, archaeologist
- Vladimir de Terlikowski (1873–1951), painter
- Vladimir Staroselski (1860–1916), non-fiction writer, revolutionary, agronomist
- Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar (1931–2015), film director, journalist
- Waldeck Rochet (1905–1983), politician
- Walery Antoni Wróblewski (1836–1908), revolutionary, lamplighter, communard
- William Bertrand Busnach (1832–1907), novelist, librettist, journalist
- William Gardner Smith (1927–1974), novelist, journalist, writer
- William Henry Waddington (1826–1894), archaeologist, numismatist, historian
- William Lawless (1772–1824), surgeon
- William Lawless (1772–1824), surgeon
- William Lawless (1772–1824), surgeon
- William Lawless (1772–1824), surgeon
- William Madocks (1773–1828), politician
- William Temple Franklin (1760–1823), editor, diplomat
- Willy Rizzo (1922–2013), designer, journalist, photojournalist
- Xavier Bichat (1771–1802), anatomist, pathologist, physiologist
- Xavier Galezowski (1832–1907), ophthalmologist, physician
- Xavier Leroux (1863–1919), music educator, professor, composer
- Yadollah Royaee (1932–2022), poet
- Yekaterina Golubeva (1966–2011), film actor, actor, screenwriter
- Yılmaz Güney (1937–1984), film editor, film director, poet
- Yuliya Samoylova (1803–1875), lady-in-waiting
- Yvan Goll (1891–1950), librettist, editor, translator
- Yves Boisset (1939–2025), film screenwriter, director, film director
- Yves Coppens (1934–2022), anthropologist, paleoanthropologist, paleontologist
- Yves du Manoir (1904–1928), rugby union player, military personnel
- Yves Guyot (1843–1928), journalist, economist, politician
- Yves Montand (1921–1991), chansonnier, film actor, dancer
- Yvette Chauviré (1917–2016), dancer, choreographer, ballet dancer
- Yvette Guilbert (1865–1944), chansonnier, cabaret performer, film actor
- Yvonne de Bray (1887–1954), actor
- Yvonne Lacroix (1892–1944), figure skater
- Yvonne Marie Elise Toussaint de Quiévrecourt (1885–1964)
- Zaruhi Bahri (1880–1958), social worker, activist, prose writer
- Zénobe Gramme (1826–1901), inventor, physicist
- Zwy Milshtein (1934–2020), printmaker, graphic artist, painter