| 1909–1943 | Simone Weil |
| Born 1927 | Simone Veil |
| 1871–1945 | Paul Valéry |
| 1881–1955 | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
| 1847–1922 | Georges Sorel |
| 1900–1944 | Antoine Saint-Exupéry |
| 1936–2008 | Yves Saint-Laurent |
| 1868–1918 | Edmond Rostand |
| 1913–2005 | Paul Ricoeur |
| 1871–1922 | Marcel Proust |
| 1920–2003 | Pierre Poujade |
| 1915–1963 | Edith Piaf |
| 1856–1951 | Philippe Petain |
| 1915–1968 | Thomas Merton |
| 1857–1939 | Lucien Lévy-Bruhl |
| Born 1928 | Jean-Marie Le Pen |
| 1883–1945 | Pierre Laval |
| 1859–1914 | Jean Jaurès |
| 1859–1947 | Pierre Janet |
| 1882–1944 | Jean Giraudoux |
| 1869–1951 | André Gide |
| 1858–1916 | Charles Foucauld |
| 1926–1984 | Michel Foucault |
| 1862–1921 | Georges Feydeau |
| 1858–1917 | Emile Durkheim |
| 1859–1935 | Alfred Dreyfus |
| 1930–2004 | Jacques Derrida |
| Born c. 1941 | Régis Debray |
| 1872–1956 | Curnonsky |
| 1857–1926 | Émile Coué |
| 1868–1955 | Paul Claudel |
| Born 1922 | Pierre Cardin |
| 1924–2005 | Alain Bombard |
| 1859–1941 | Henri Bergson |
| 1915–1980 | Roland Barthes |
| Born 1934 | Brigitte Bardot |
| 1914–1982 | Pierre Balmain |
| 1917–2000 | Jacqueline Auriol |
| 1896–1948 | Antonin Artaud |
| 1918–1990 | Louis Althusser |
