or french-speaking/writing people
- Andre Marie Ampère -- scientist
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- author
- Antoine Lavoisier -- scientist
- Blaise Pascal -- scientist and author
- [Charles Baudelaire]? -- author and poet
- [Charles de Gaulle]? -- general and statesman
- [Christine de Pizan]? -- historian, pop philosopher
- Claude Debussy -- composer
- Claude Levi-Strauss -- anthropologist
- Claude Monet -- painter
- [Edmond Rostand]? -- author
- Fermat? -- scientist
- François Truffaut --director
- Gustave Eiffel -- engineer
- [Henri Poincaré]? -- scientist
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- philosopher and writer
- Jeanne d'Arc -- warrior
- John Calvin -- religious reformer, theologian
- Jules Verne -- author
- Louis Pasteur -- scientist
- Louis XIV -- statesman
- [Marie de France]? -- poet
- Marquis de Sade -- author
- Napoléon Bonaparte -- Emperor
- [Napoleon III]? -- Emperor
- Ninon de l'Enclos -- author and patron of the arts
- [René Descartes]? -- scientist and philosopher
- [Victor Hugo]? -- author and artist
- Viollet le Duc -- architect
- Voltaire -- author
Not as Famous as They Deserve:
- Paul Héroult -- inventor
- Erik Satie -- composer
/Talk?