Film actress. Her youthful film career exemplified an open, free, prodigal, and unrepentant sexuality, and American teenagers in the strait-laced 1950's lied about their age to try to sneak into "art theatres" to see her film And God Created Woman. Later she became an animal rights champion.
| fl. c. 1912–c. 1994 | Eugène Ionesco |
| 1908–1986 | Simone de Beauvoir |
| 1890–1970 | Charles de Gaulle |
| 1909–1943 | Simone Weil |
| 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 |
| 1905–1991 | Marcel Lefebvre |
| 1883–1945 | Pierre Laval |
| 1859–1947 | Pierre Janet |
| 1882–1944 | Jean Giraudoux |
| 1869–1951 | André Gide |
| 1910–1986 | Jean Genet |
| 1926–1984 | Michel Foucault |
| 1859–1935 | Alfred Dreyfus |
| Born c. 1941 | Régis Debray |
| 1868–1969 | Alexandra David-Neel |
| 1872–1956 | Curnonsky |
| 1889–1963 | Jean Cocteau |
| 1868–1955 | Paul Claudel |
| 1913–1960 | Albert Camus |
| 1896–1966 | André Breton |
| 1899–1984 | Brassal |
| 1902–1985 | Fernand Braudel |
| 1899–1978 | Charles Boyer |
| 1859–1941 | Henri Bergson |
| 1915–1980 | Roland Barthes |
| 1914–1982 | Pierre Balmain |
| 1896–1948 | Antonin Artaud |
| 1918–1990 | Louis Althusser |
