| 1890–1970 | Charles de Gaulle |
| 1909–1943 | Simone Weil |
| Born 1927 | Simone Veil |
| 1871–1945 | Paul Valéry |
| 1881–1955 | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
| 1908–1982 | Jacques Tati |
| 1905–1980 | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| 1900–1944 | Antoine Saint-Exupéry |
| 1936–2008 | Yves Saint-Laurent |
| 1885–1972 | Jules Romains |
| 1915–1963 | Edith Piaf |
| 1856–1951 | Philippe Petain |
| 1888–1979 | Jean Monnet |
| 1915–1968 | Thomas Merton |
| 1908–1961 | Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
| 1882–1973 | Jacques Maritain |
| 1889–1973 | Gabriel Marcel |
| 1857–1939 | Lucien Lévy-Bruhl |
| Born 1928 | Jean-Marie Le Pen |
| 1883–1945 | Pierre Laval |
| 1859–1947 | Pierre Janet |
| 1882–1944 | Jean Giraudoux |
| 1869–1951 | André Gide |
| 1859–1935 | Alfred Dreyfus |
| 1930–2004 | Jacques Derrida |
| Born c. 1941 | Régis Debray |
| 1868–1969 | Alexandra David-Neel |
| 1872–1956 | Curnonsky |
| 1857–1926 | Émile Coué |
| 1889–1963 | Jean Cocteau |
| 1868–1955 | Paul Claudel |
| 1913–1960 | Albert Camus |
| 1896–1966 | André Breton |
| 1899–1984 | Brassal |
| 1899–1978 | Charles Boyer |
| 1859–1941 | Henri Bergson |
| 1915–1980 | Roland Barthes |
| Born 1934 | Brigitte Bardot |
| 1914–1982 | Pierre Balmain |
| 1896–1948 | Antonin Artaud |
