List of personalities of the city of Paris
The following lists include:
- Personalities born in Paris listed chronologically by date of birth. It is irrelevant whether or not the people later had their sphere of activity in Paris. Many of them moved from Paris in the course of their lives and became known elsewhere.
- Famous residents of Paris - also listed in chronological order. An overview of people who lived and worked in Paris, but were not born there.
The lists do not claim to be complete.
Paris-born personalities
12th to 15th centuries
- Philip the Chancellor (after 1160–1236), poet, chancellor, philosopher and theologian
- John of Paris (around 1260–1306), philosopher and theologian
- Blanche of France (around 1282–1305), Blanche of France
- Margaret of France (around 1282-1318), daughter of the French king Philip III.
- Louis X. (1289–1316), King of France
- Isabelle de France (around 1295–1358), Queen of England
- Karl von Évreux (1305–1336), nobleman
- Jean de Montaigu (1363-1409), adviser
- Charles VI (1368–1422), King of France
- Isabelle de Valois (1389–1409), Princess of France
- Charles de Valois, duc d'Orléans (1394–1465), nobleman
- Michelle de Valois (1395-1422), princess
- Louis de Valois, duc de Guyenne (1397–1415), son of the French king Charles VI.
- Jean de Valois, duc de Touraine (1398–1417), son of the French king Charles VI.
- Guillaume Juvénal des Ursins (1400–1472), Chancellor of France
- Catherine de Valois (1401–1437), Queen of England
- Charles VII (1403–1461), King of France
- François Villon (1431 – after 1463), poet
- Pierre de Blarru (1437–1510), canon
- Nicolas Chuquet (around 1450–1487 / 88), mathematician
- Guillaume Budé (1468–1540), philologist, humanist, diplomat and librarian
- Guillaume Briçonnet (1470–1534), bishop
- Claude Garamond (1499–1561), type founder, typographer, die cutter and publisher
16th Century
- Nicolas Cop (1501–1540), rector and medic
- Robert Estienne (around 1501–1559), printmaker, publisher and lexicographer
- Claude Gervaise (around 1510 – after 1558), viol player and composer
- Loys Bourgeois (around 1510 – after 1561), composer
- Robert Granjon (around 1513–1589), type cutter and publisher
- Pierre Lescot (1515–1578), architect and sculptor
- Jacques I. Androuet du Cerceau (around 1515–1585 / 86), architect, architectural theorist, draftsman and engraver
- Jacques Gohory (1520–1576), Paracelsus follower and alchemist
- Franciscus Hotomanus (1524–1590), legal scholar, monarchomachy, theologian and philologist
- Claude Gruget (around 1525 – around 1560), editor, translator, classical philologist, Romanist and Hispanicist
- Étienne Pasquier (1529–1615), lawyer and man of letters
- Claude Fauchet (1530–1602), historian, Medievalist and Romanist
- Henri Estienne (1531–1598), printer and philologist
- Étienne Jodelle (1532–1573), author
- Germain Pilon (around 1537–1590), Renaissance sculptor
- Charles de Montmorency, duc de Damville (1537–1612), nobleman
- Guillaume de Baillou (1538-1616), doctor
- Pierre Charron (1541–1603), philosopher and theologian
- Claude Dupuy (1545-1594), humanist
- Pierre de L'Estoile (1546–1611), lawyer, writer and chronicler
- Anne of Perusse d'Escars (1546–1612), cardinal and bishop of Metz
- Dionysius Gothofredus (1549–1622), legal scholar
- Jean Robin (1550–1629), pharmacist and botanist
- François d'Amboise (1550-1619), writer
- Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553–1617), historian and statesman
- Guillaume du Vair (1556–1621), essayist and statesman
- François Béroalde de Verville (1556–1626), Renaissance writer, poet and intellectual
- François de La Rochefoucauld (1558–1645), prelate
- Jacques Mauduit (1557–1627), composer
- Catherine de Bourbon (1559–1604), noblewoman
- Louyse Bourgeois (1563–1636), midwife at the French royal court
- Marie de Gournay (1565–1645), writer, philosopher and women's rights activist
- Barbel Acarie (1566-1618), Carmelite
- Julien Perrichon (1566 – around 1600), lutenist and composer
- Martin Fréminet (1567–1619), painter and graphic artist
- Nicolas Formé (1567–1638), tenor and composer
- René Mézangeau (around 1568–1638), lutenist and composer
- Alexandre Hardy (around 1570–1632), playwright
- Henri de Gondi (1572–1622), bishop and cardinal
- Marie-Elisabeth de Valois (1572–1578), child of the French King Charles IX.
- Henri de Schomberg (1575–1632), military leader
- Louis Hébert (around 1575–1627), pharmacist
- Jean Goulu (1576–1629), Graecist , Cistercian monk and general of the Feuillanten
- Père Joseph (1577–1638), Capuchin
- Vespasien Robin (1579–1662), gardener and botanist
- Carlo I. Gonzaga (1580–1637), nobleman
- Jean-Pierre Camus (1584–1652), Roman Catholic bishop and writer
- Claude Mydorge (1585–1647), mathematician
- François de La Mothe le Vayer (1588–1672), antiquarian, philosopher and moralist
- Pierre Séguier (1588–1672), politician, high official and Chancellor of France
- Sébastien Zamet (1588–1655), bishop and monastery reformer
- Jean Morin (around 1590–1650), painter and etcher
- Simon Vouet (around 1590–1649), painter
- Luise von Marillac (1591–1660), founder of the order
- Angelika Arnauld (1591–1661), abbess
- Étienne Brûlé (1592–1633), explorer
- Agnès Arnauld (1593–1671), abbess
- Jacques de Serisay (1594–1653), poet
- Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (1595–1676), poet and playwright
- Jean Ballesdens (1595–1675), lawyer and bibliophile
- Jean Chapelain (1595–1674), writer
- Claude de Malleville (1597–1647), writer
- Charles Racquet (around 1598–1664), organist and composer
- François Mansart (1598–1666), architect and builder
- César de Choiseul, 1st duc de Choiseul (1598–1675), aristocrat and soldier
- Guillaume Colletet (1598–1659), writer, Romanist and literary historian
- Marin Le Roy de Gomberville (1600–1674), novelist
- Henri Louis Habert de Montmor (around 1600–1679), scholar and administrative lawyer
- Gabriel Naudé (1600–1653), scholar and librarian
17th century
1601 to 1620
- Antoine Le Quieu (1601–1676), Dominican clergyman, founder of the Sacraments
- Charles Sorel (around 1602–1674), writer and historian
- Valentin Conrart (1603-1675), writer
- Michel Le Tellier (1603–1685), State Secretary
- Charles Cotin (1604–1681), man of letters , member of the Académie française
- Pierre Daret (around 1604–1678), painter and engraver
- Olivier Patru (1604–1681), lawyer and Romance scholar
- Philippe Habert (1604–1637), writer
- Louis de Bourbon, comte de Soissons (1604–1641), Grand Master of France
- François Hédelin (1604–1676), writer, dramaturge and poet
- François-Joseph Le Mercier (1604–1690), Jesuit
- Bernard Frénicle de Bessy (around 1605–1675), mathematician
- Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689), traveler
- Jacques Barrelier (1606–1673), botanist
- Christina of France (1606–1663), princess
- Laurent de La Hyre (1606–1656), painter
- Jacques Philippe Cornut (1606–1651), doctor and botanist
- Antoine Le Maistre (1608–1658), lawyer, author, Jansenist and hermit
- Jean-Jacques Olier (1608–1657), Catholic priest
- Henrietta Maria of France (1609–1669), Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland
- Charles Pajot (1609–1686), Jesuit, classical philologist, Romanist and lexicographer
- Louise Moillon (1610–1696), painter
- Paul Scarron (1610-1660), writer
- Charles Alphonse Dufresnoy (1611–1668), painter
- Gilles Guérin (1611–1678), sculptor
- Louis Le Vau (1612–1670), builder
- Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694), philosopher, linguist, theologian, logician and mathematician
- Louis I de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (1612–1669), nobleman
- Jean Garnier (1612–1681), Jesuit, patristic, church historian and moral theologian
- André Le Nôtre (1613–1700), landscape and garden designer
- Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy (1613–1684), theologian, humanist and Bible translator
- François Chauveau (1613–1676), draftsman, engraver, etcher and painter
- François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680), nobleman
- Claude Perrault (1613–1688), architect, art theorist, classical philologist, physician and natural scientist
- Isaac Moillon (1614–1673), painter
- Claude Clerselier (1614–1684), philosopher
- Claude Lancelot (1615–1695), Jansenist monk and linguist
- Germain Habert (1615–1654), writer
- Nicolas Fouquet (1615–1680), nobleman
- Denis Godefroy (1615–1681), historian and archivist
- Guillaume Dumanoir (1615–1697), violinist, dance master and composer
- Jacques Gomboust (1616–1663), cartographer
- François de Bourbon-Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (1616–1669), aristocrat
- Eustache Le Sueur (1616–1655), painter
- Claude Bazin de Bezons (1617–1684), lawyer and politician
- Pierre Petit (1617–1687), poet, classical philologist and doctor
- Claude Mylon (1618–1660), lawyer
- Nicolas IV. Potier de Novion (1618–1693), civil servant, lawyer and member of the Académie française
- Madeleine Béjart (1618–1672), actress
- Simon Arnauld de Pomponne (1618–1699), diplomat
- Charles Le Brun (1619–1690), painter, architect and ornament draftsman
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655), writer
- Antoine Furetière (1619–1688), writer and scholar
- Heinrich de Briquemault (1620–1692), militarist
- Gabriel Gilbert (around 1620 – around 1680), poet
- Louis Leramberg (1620–1670), sculptor
- Jacques Lagniet (1620–1675), engraver
- François Charpentier (1620–1702), Graecist, Romanist, translator, lexicographer and man of letters
- Ninon de Lenclos (1620–1705), courtesan and salonière
1621 to 1640
- Antoine Le Pautre (1621-1691), architect
- Louis II. De Bourbon, prince de Condé (1621–1686), nobleman
- Molière (1622–1673), actor, theater director and playwright
- François Roberday (1624–1680), composer and organist
- Père Anselme (1625–1694), historian, genealogist and heraldist
- Laurent Drelincourt (1625–1680), Reformed pastor and writer
- Samuel Chappuzeau (1625–1701), Reformed traveler, doctor, writer and teacher *
- François Harlay de Champvallon (1625–1695), Archbishop, Commendatar Abbot and member of the Académie française
- Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville (1625–1695), orientalist
- Jean Testu de Mauroy (1626–1706), cleric
- Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé (1626–1700), nobleman and monk
- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné (1626–1696), noblewoman
- Géraud de Cordemoy (1626–1684), philosopher
- Jacques Testu de Belval (1626–1706), clergyman, author and member of the Académie française
- Nicolas Gigault (around 1627–1707), organist and composer
- Elisabeth Angélique de Montmorency (1627–1695), noblewoman
- Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier (1627–1693), noblewoman
- Luise Christine von Savoyen-Carignan (1627–1689), noblewoman
- Louis Cousin (1627–1707), historian, lawyer and translator
- Robert Cambert (around 1628–1677), organist and composer
- François-Henri de Montmorency-Luxembourg (1628–1695), military leader, peer and marshal of France
- Charles Perrault (1628–1703), writer and high official
- César d'Estrées (1628–1714), diplomat and cardinal
- Dominique Bouhours (1628–1702), Jesuit, philologist and historian
- Noël Coypel (1628–1707), baroque painter
- Armand de Bourbon, prince de Conti (1629–1666), nobleman
- Alain Manesson Mallet (1630–1706), cartographer and engineer
- Marie-Madeleine de Brinvilliers (1630–1676), poisoner
- Pierre Landry (before 1631–1701), engraver and publisher
- François Vatel (1631–1671), master chef
- Pierre Beauchamp (1631–1705), violinist, composer, dancer and choreographer
- Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (around 1632–1714), composer, organist and music theorist
- Étienne Pavillon (1632–1705), lawyer and writer
- Jean Gallois (1632–1707), scholar and clergyman
- François-Séraphin Regnier-Desmarais (1632–1713), diplomat, poet, philologist, Romance philologist, grammarian and translator
- Étienne Picart (1632–1721), engraver
- Guillaume Vallet (1632–1704), engraver
- Marquise-Thérèse de Gorle (1633–1668), actress
- Charles Patin (1633–1693), doctor and numismatist
- François Andréossy (1633–1688), engineer, topographer and cartographer
- Jean de Thévenot (1633–1667), traveler to Asia
- Denis Dodart (1634–1707), doctor and botanist
- Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette (1634–1693), nobleman and writer
- Pasquier Quesnel (1634–1719), Jansenist theologian
- Libéral Bruant (around 1635-1697), architect
- Philippe Quinault (1635–1688), poet
- Armand du Cambout de Coislin (1635–1702), career officer, courtier and member of the Académie française
- Charles de La Fosse (1636-1716), painter
- Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1636–1688), Marshal of France
- Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711), author
- François Mauriceau (1637–1709), physician, surgeon and obstetrician
- Louis Picques (1637–1699), Catholic priest, doctor of theology, orientalist and librarian
- Nicolas de Catinat (1637–1712), Marshal of France
- Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont (1637–1698), historian
- Antoinette Deshoulières (1638–1694), poet and philosopher
- Guy-Crescent Fagon (1638-1718), physician and botanist
- Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715), philosopher and oratorian
- Jean Donneau de Visé (1638–1710), writer and publicist
- Pierre Bullet (around 1639–1716), court architect
- Jean-Baptiste Denis (around 1640–1704), doctor
- Jacques Tarade (1640–1722), military engineer
- Jean-Jacques de Mesmes (1640–1688), civil servant
- Paul du Ry (1640–1714), builder and engineer
- Alexandre de Chaumont (1640-1710), naval officer
- Philippe de La Hire (1640-1718), mathematician
- Claude Fleury (1640–1723), educator and church historian
- Pierre Cureau de La Chambre (1640–1693), clergyman, man of letters and member of the Académie française
- Catherine Monvoisin (around 1640 - 1680), serial killer, sentenced as an alleged witch
1641 to 1660
- François Michel Le Tellier de Louvois (1641–1691), statesman
- Jean-Louis Bergeret (1641–1694), lawyer
- Jean-Louis de Bussy-Rabutin (1642–1717), officer
- Claude Antoine Couplet (1642–1722), engineer
- Paul Tallemant the Younger (1642–1712), cleric and writer
- Charles Chevillet (1642–1701), stage actor and playwright
- André-Charles Boulle (1642–1732), cabinet maker
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704), composer
- Louis de Courcillon de Dangeau (1643–1723), cleric, Romanist, grammarian and phonetician
- Nicolas-Joseph Foucault (1643–1721), administrator
- Henri Jules de Bourbon, prince de Condé (1643–1709), nobleman
- Jean Chardin (1643–1713), explorer
- Maria Johanna von Savoyen (1644–1724), noblewoman
- François-Timoléon de Choisy (1644–1724), writer
- Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696), writer
- Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646–1708), architect
- Maria Francisca Elisabeth of Savoy (1646–1683), Queen of Portugal
- Eusèbe Renaudot (1646–1720), Catholic cleric, journalist, orientalist and liturgical scholar
- Charles Honoré d'Albert (1646–1712), nobleman
- Jacques Bazin de Bezons, marquis de Bezons (1646–1733), Marshal of France
- François Poullain de La Barre (1647–1723), writer and Cartesian philosopher
- Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles (1647–1733), writer and salonnière
- Luise Marie von der Pfalz (1647–1679), noblewoman
- Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1647–1702), noblewoman
- Jean Favier (1648–?), Dancer
- Henri de Massue (1648–1720), nobleman
- Antoine de Pas (1648–1711), military leader
- Anna Henriette von Pfalz-Simmern (1648–1723), nobleman
- Elisabeth Sophie Chéron (1648–1711), painter, engraver, poet and translator
- Pierre Danet (1650–1709), cleric, Latinist, Hellenist, Romanist and lexicographer
- Anne-Jules de Noailles (1650–1708), Marshal of France
- Nicolas de Malézieu (1650–1727), mathematician, Graecist , author, translator and member of the Académie des sciences and the Académie française
- Jean-François Lalouette (1651–1728), composer and church musician
- Jean Beausire (1651–1743), architect
- Michel Chamillart (1652–1721), Minister
- Benedicta Henriette von der Pfalz (1652–1730), nobleman
- Guillaume Hulot (around 1652 – after 1722), sculptor
- Jean Orry (1652-1719), economist
- Antoine de La Fosse (1653–1708), diplomat and playwright
- Jacques Boyvin (around 1653–1706), organist and composer
- Gilles Jullien (around 1653–1703), composer and organist
- François Pétis de la Croix (1653–1713), orientalist
- Antoine Desgodetz (1653–1728), architect and archaeologist
- Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour (1653–1730), writer and historian
- Louis Pécour (1653–1729), dancer and choreographer
- Michel Baron (1653–1729), actor and playwright
- Charles-François Poërson (1653–1725), painter
- Étienne Loulié (1654–1702), musician, pedagogue and music theorist
- Louis de Sacy (1654–1727), lawyer and writer
- Louis II. Joseph de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (1654–1712), nobleman
- Jean-François Regnard (1655–1709), author
- Jacques-Nicolas Colbert (1655–1707), Archbishop of Rouen and member of the Académie française
- Ludwig Wilhelm (1655–1707), nobleman
- Philippe de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (1655–1727), nobleman
- Robert de Cotte (1656–1735), master builder, court architect and interior decorator
- Marin Marais (1656–1728), viol player and composer
- Léon Potier de Gesvres (1656–1744), Archbishop of Bourges and Cardinal
- Nicolas de Largillière (1656–1746), painter
- Louis Thomas of Savoy-Carignan (1657–1702), officer
- Michel-Richard Delalande (1657–1726), violinist, organist and composer
- Jean-Baptiste Martin (1659–1735), battle and vedute painter
- Robert Challe (1659–1721), traveler and writer
- François Catrou (1659–1737), Jesuit, historian and translator
- Jean Baptiste Broebes (around 1660–1733), engraver and architect
- Agnes Le Louchier (around 1660–1717), mistress
- Jean Baptiste Gayot Dubuisson (around 1660 – around 1733), painter
- Gaspard le Roux (around 1660–1707), harpsichordist and composer
- Pierre La Croix (around 1660–1729), fountain and fountain master and hydraulic engineer
- Victor-Marie d'Estrées (1660–1737), statesman and vice admiral
1661 to 1680
- Daniel Marot (1661–1752), Protestant, architect and engraver
- Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de L'Hospital (1661–1704), mathematician
- Antoine I (1661–1731), Prince of Monaco
- Henry Desmarest (1661–1741), composer
- Louis Armand I. de Bourbon, prince de Conti (1661–1685), nobleman
- Antoine Coypel (1661–1722), court painter
- Marie Louise d'Orléans (1662–1689), nobleman
- Jean-Paul Bignon (1662–1743), oratorian, science organizer, librarian, author and member of the Académie française
- Jean-Baptiste Labat (1663–1738), missionary, plantation owner and travel writer
- Guillaume Amontons (1663–1705), physicist
- Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736), general
- François Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti (1664–1709), nobleman
- François Pourfour du Petit (1664–1741), anatomist and physiologist
- Henri-Charles du Cambout de Coislin (1664–1732), bishop, courtier and member of the Académie française
- Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729), composer and harpsichordist
- Claude François Bidal, 1st marquis d'Asfeld (1665–1743), soldier and aristocrat
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy (1665–1746), diplomat and foreign minister
- Robert Le Lorrain (1666–1743), sculptor
- Jean d'Estrées (1666–1718), Archbishop of Cambrai and politician
- Pierre Le Gros the Younger (1666–1719), sculptor
- Jean-Féry Rebel (1666–1747), violinist and composer
- Claude-François Fraguier (1666–1728), man of letters , scholar, classical philologist, neo-Latin author, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Académie française
- Antoine Parent (1666-1716), mathematician
- Jakob Louis Heinrich Sobieski (1667–1737), nobleman
- Jacques Gabriel (1667–1742), architect
- Louis III de Bourbon, prince de Condé (1668–1710), nobleman
- François Couperin (1668–1733), organist and composer
- Nicolas Vleughels (1668–1737), painter
- Michel-Celse-Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (1669–1736), bishop, commendatabot and member of the Académie française
- Zacharias Longuelune (1669–1748), architect and architectural draftsman
- Bernard Burette (around 1670 – after 1726), harpsichordist, composer and teacher
- Jean de Bodt (1670–1745), architect
- Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes (1670–1736), nobleman
- Louis Galloche (1670–1761), painter
- Jean-Antoine du Cerceau (1670–1730), Jesuit, poet, playwright and man of letters
- Claude Balon (1671–1744), dancer and choreographer
- François-Marie de Broglie (1671–1745), nobleman
- Charles-Hubert Gervais (1671–1744), conductor and composer
- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1671–1741), author
- Antoine Houdar de la Motte (1672–1731), writer
- Étienne François Geoffroy (1672–1731), chemist
- Ludwig Joseph d'Albert de Luynes von Grimbergen (1672–1758), Bavarian diplomat
- André Cardinal Destouches (1672–1749), composer
- Antoine Forqueray (1672–1745), composer
- James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope (1673–1721), British statesman and military officer
- François Duval (1672 / 73–1728), violinist and composer
- Bernard Picart (1673–1733), engraver and book illustrator
- Alexis Simon Belle (1674–1734), painter
- Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674–1743), Jesuit, geographer and sinologist
- Guillaume Lebrun (1674–1758), Jesuit, classical philologist, Romanist and lexicographer
- Armand I. Gaston Maximilien de Rohan-Soubise (1674–1749), politician and prince of the church
- Maria von Lorraine (1674–1724), Princess of Monaco
- Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1674–1763), composer and flautist
- Michel de La Barre (before 1675–1745), flautist and composer
- Jean-Baptiste de Mirabaud (1675–1760), author, translator and philosopher
- Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726), cartographer
- Pierre Alexis Delamair (1676–1745), architect
- Nicolas Racot de Grandval (1676–1753), composer, harpsichordist and dramaturge
- Jean-Baptiste Anet (1676–1755), violinist and composer
- Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676–1749), composer and organist
- Louis Lémery (1677–1743), medic and chemist
- Jacques Cassini (1677–1756), astronomer and geodesist
- Marie Anne Doublet (1677–1771), writer and salonnière
- Augustin Lippi (1678–1705), doctor and botanist
- Dominique Varlet (1678–1742), Roman Catholic titular bishop
- Adrien-Maurice de Noailles (1678–1766), Marshal of France
- Pierre Rémond de Montmort (1678–1719), mathematician
- Jean François de Troy (1679–1752), painter
- Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond (1679–1719), architect
- Michel-Ange Houasse (1680–1730), painter
- Françoise Prévost (1680–1741), dancer and prima ballerina
- Claudius Amyand (1680-1740), surgeon
- Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680–1765), scholar, natural historian, author and encyclopaedist
1681 to 1700
- Anne Danican Philidor (1681–1728), composer
- Pierre Danican Philidor (1681–1731), composer
- Jean-François Dandrieu (around 1682–1738), organist and composer
- Jean-Baptiste Desmarets (1682–1762), General
- Jeanne Dumée (around 1683–1706), astronomer and author
- Pierre-Charles Roy (1683–1764), librettist
- Antoine Pesne (1683–1757), court painter
- Anna Victoria of Savoy (1683–1763), noblewoman
- Louis-Antoine Dornel (around 1685–1765), organist and composer
- Roland Marais (around 1685 – around 1750), gambist and composer
- Charles-Jean-François Hénault (1685–1770), writer and historian
- Jean-Pierre Nicéron (1685–1738), lexicographer and translator
- Jean-Marc Nattier (1685–1766), painter
- Claude-Joseph Geoffroy (1685–1752), botanist, mycologist, chemist and pharmacist
- Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve (1685–1755), writer
- Jacques de Lajoue (1686–1761), painter and decorator
- Jérôme Besoigne (1686–1763), Jansenist theologian
- Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755), painter
- Charles Claude Dubut (around 1687–1742), sculptor and plasterer
- François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif (1687–1770), scholar, author and member of the Académie française
- Jean Henri Desmercières (1687–1778), Danish banker and country reformer
- François Lemoyne (1688–1737), painter
- Claude-François-Alexandre Houtteville (1688–1742), clergyman
- Pierre de L'Estache (around 1688–1774), sculptor
- François Dumont (1688–1726), sculptor
- Charles Hector de Saint George Marquis de Marsay (1688–1753), officer, clockmaker, quietist as well as soul guide, translator and writer
- Pierre Carlet de Marivaux (1688–1763), painter
- Nicolas Fréret (1688–1749), historian
- Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768), astronomer and cartographer
- Pierre-Joseph Alary (1689–1770), clergyman, philosopher and man of letters
- Jacques Aubert (1689–1753), violinist and composer
- Jean-Baptiste Quentin (before 1690 – around 1742), composer
- Hubert de Brienne, Comte de Conflans (1690–1777), Vice Admiral
- Nicolas Lancret (1690–1743), painter
- Louis Petit de Bachaumont (1690–1771), painter
- Nicolas de Saulx-Tavannes (1690–1759), bishop and cardinal
- Noël-Nicolas Coypel (1690–1734), painter
- Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin (1691–1744), clergyman, theologian, numismatist and scholar
- Louis Francœur (1692–1745), violinist and composer
- Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée (1692–1754), playwright
- Anne-Claude-Philippe, Comte de Caylus (1692–1765), antiquarian and collector
- Louis Racine (1692–1763), poet
- Cartouche (1693–1721), robber, murderer and gang leader
- Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774), engraver, collector and art critic
- Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772), composer
- Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694–1752), history painter and playwright
- René Louis d'Argenson (1694–1757), politician, diplomat and man of letters
- Voltaire (1694–1778), philosopher and writer
- François-Étienne Blanchet (1695–1761), harpsichord maker
- André Chéron (1695–1766), composer, harpsichordist, organist and conductor
- Louis Armand II. De Bourbon, prince de Conti (1695–1727), nobleman
- Jean Joseph Vinache (1696–1754), sculptor
- Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis (1696–1788), nobleman
- Marc-Pierre d'Argenson (1696–1764), nobleman and politician
- Louis Tocqué (1696–1772), painter
- Étienne-René Potier de Gesvres (1697–1774), cardinal
- Louis César Constantin de Rohan-Guéméné (1697–1779), cardinal
- Sauveur François Morand (1697–1773), surgeon and encyclopaedist
- Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697–1782), geographer
- Antoine Grimaldi (1697–1784), nobleman
- Jeanne-Agnès Berthelot de Pléneuf (1698–1727), noblewoman
- Louis Charles de Saint-Albin (1698–1764), bishop
- Jean-Michel Papillon (1698–1776), craftsman, draftsman, wood cutter and encyclopaedist
- Charles du Fay (1698–1739), naturalist and superintendent
- François Francœur (1698–1787), violinist and composer
- Claude-Louis de La Châtre (1698–1740), bishop
- Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698–1782), architect
- Étienne LeNoir (1699–1778), watchmaker
- Étienne Jeaurat (1699–1789), painter and engraver
- Hubert-François Gravelot (1699–1773), painter, draftsman and engraver
- Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray (1699–1782), viol player and composer
- Pierre Rémond de Sainte-Albine (1699–1778), historian and writer
- Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin (1699–1777), author and salonnière
- Philipp Ludwig von Sinzendorf (1699–1747), bishop and cardinal
- Jean Siméon Chardin (1699–1779), painter
- Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (1700–1771), Russian architect and builder
- Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (1700–1761), noblewoman
18th century
1701 to 1720
- Guillaume Thomas Taraval (1701–1750), Swedish painter
- Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701–1774), traveler, mathematician, encyclopedist and astronomer
- Armand Bazin de Bezons (1701–1778), Bishop of Carcassonne
- Françoise Basseporte (1701–1780), painter and engraver
- François Rebel (1701–1775), violinist and composer
- Jean Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville (1701–1794), politician
- Honoré-Armand de Villars (1702–1770), nobleman, member of the Académie française
- Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703–1772), cartographer, engineer-geographer and hydrograph
- André Levret (1703-1780), gynecologist
- Nicolas René Berryer (1703–1762), judge, civil servant and politician
- François Boucher (1703–1770), painter, draftsman, engraver and decorator
- Guillaume Le Blond (1704–1781), mathematician, military theorist and encyclopaedist
- Louis Godin (1704-1760), astronomer
- Louis de Jaucourt (1704–1779), doctor, writer and scholar
- Catherine-Jeanne Dupré (1705–1767), actress
- Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705–1770), composer and violinist
- Bernard-Joseph Saurin (1706–1781), lawyer, poet and playwright
- Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine (1706–1799), Salonnière
- Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), mathematician, physicist, philosopher and translator
- Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (1707–1783), engraver
- Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777), author
- Madeleine Angélique Neufville de Villeroy (1707–1787), Salonnière
- André Le Breton (1708–1779), publisher
- Jean Laurent Legeay (after 1710 – after 1786), architect, painter and engraver
- Jacques Marquet (1710–1782), architect
- Louis Marie Bretagne de Rohan-Chabot (1710–1791), nobleman
- Charles-Simon Favart (1710–1792), opera and comedy poet
- Noël Hallé (1711–1781), painter and writer
- Alexandre Guy Pingré (1711-1796), astronomer
- Charles-Étienne Pesselier (1712–1763), author, poet, Fermier général and encyclopaedist
- Etienne Forestier (1712–1768), bronze caster
- César Gabriel de Choiseul-Praslin (1712–1785), military, diplomat and statesman
- Pierre Simon Fournier (1712–1768), typographer
- Guillaume Voiriot (1713–1799), portrait painter
- Marie Dumesnil (1713–1803), actress
- Diane-Adélaïde de Mailly-Nesle (1713–1760), mistress
- Alexis-Claude Clairaut (1713–1765), mathematician, geodesist and physicist
- Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785), sculptor
- Marie-Anne Botot Dangeville (1714–1796), actress
- Philippe de La Guêpière (1715–1773), architect
- Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771), philosopher
- Charles Hutin (1715–1776), painter and sculptor
- Pierre Charles Lemonnier (1715-1799), astronomer
- François-Vincent Toussaint (1715–1772), lawyer, writer, translator and encyclopaedist
- Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy (1715–1794), nobleman
- Guillaume Coustou the Younger (1716–1777), sculptor
- Augustin-Emmanuel Philippot (1716–1794), beatified martyr
- Louise Diane d'Orléans (1716–1736), nobleman
- Étienne-Maurice Falconet (1716–1791), sculptor
- Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini (1716–1798), politician and writer
- Pierre Le Roy (1717–1785), watchmaker and inventor
- Louis Guillaume Le Monnier (1717–1799), physician, botanist, mycologist and encyclopaedist
- Louis François I de Bourbon, prince de Conti (1717–1776), nobleman
- Louis Carmontelle (1717–1806), painter, inventor and landscaper
- Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle (1717–1744), mistress
- Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783), mathematician, physicist and philosopher
- Armand II. François Auguste de Rohan-Soubise (1717–1756), prince of the church
- Charles Maucourt (1718–1768), painter and etcher
- Jean-Baptiste Pâris de Meyzieu (1718–1778), lawyer, author and encyclopedist
- Claude-Henri Watelet (1718–1786), artist, art collector, encyclopedist, author and horticultural enthusiast
- François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud (1718–1805), poet and playwright
- Pierre-Joseph Macquer (1718–1784), physician and chemist
- Louis Alexandre de Cessari (1719–1806), engineer
- Mathieu-Antoine Bouchaud (1719–1804), lawyer, economist and encyclopaedist
- Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719–1797), stage poet
- Marie Marguerite Bihéron (1719–1786), artist
- François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut (1720–1794), teacher, writer and translator
- Madeleine de Puisieux (1720–1798), writer and early feminist
- André-Noël Pagin (1720 – after 1785), violinist and composer
- Jean-Baptiste Le Roy (1720–1800), scientist and encyclopaedist
1721 to 1740
- Étienne Maynon d'Invault (1721–1801), lawyer
- Louis Anseaume (1721–1784), librettist
- Philippe-Auguste de Sainte-Foy (1721–1795), officer and writer
- Préville (1721–1799), actor
- Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721–1794), statesman
- Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress
- Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1722–1820), draftsman, painter and architect
- Louis-Jacques Goussier (1722–1799), mathematician, illustrator, graphic artist and encyclopaedist
- Antoine Le Camus (1722–1772), medic, author and journalist
- Nicolas Antoine Boulanger (1722–1759), engineer, scientist, linguist, historian and encyclopedist
- Jean-Pierre de Bougainville (1722–1763), ancient historian, permanent secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and member of the Académie française
- Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723–1786), geographer
- Louis-Pierre Anquetil (1723–1808), historian
- Charles-Georges Le Roy (1723–1789), man of letters, encyclopaedist and naturalist
- Jean-Jacques Bachelier (1724–1806), painter
- Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780), painter, draftsman and engraver
- Louis Jean François Lagrenée (1725–1805), painter
- Edme-Sébastien Jeaurat (1725–1803), astronomer
- François-Henri d'Harcourt (1726–1802), general and duke
- Charles Le Roy (1726–1779), physician and encyclopaedist
- François Denis Tronchet (1726–1806), lawyer
- Jules Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, prince de Guéméné (1726–1800), nobleman
- François-Thomas Germain (1726–1791), silversmith
- Jean François Clément Morand (1726–1784), chemist, mineralogist and physician
- Gabriel François Doyen (1726–1806), painter
- Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti (1726–1759), nobleman
- Joseph Palamede de Forbin-Janson (1726-1809), General
- Claude Guillaume Lambert (1726–1794), judge and minister
- François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795), composer
- Antoine-Louis Séguier (1726–1792), lawyer and politician
- Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix de Castries (1727–1801), Minister
- Armand-Louis Couperin (1727–1789), composer and organist
- Charles-François de Saint-Simon Sandricourt (1727–1794), bishop
- Jean Georges Noverre (1727–1810), dancer and choreographer
- Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727–1781), statesman and economist
- Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (1727–1794), politician and cleric
- François-Hubert Drouais (1727–1775), painter
- Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799), architect
- Lekain (1728 / 29–1778), actor
- Antoine-François Brisson (1728–1796), lawyer
- Ponce-Denis Écouchard-Lebrun (1729–1807), poet
- Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), officer, navigator and writer
- François Ambroise Didot (1730–1804), printer, type caster and publisher
- Augustin Pajou (1730–1809), sculptor and sculptor
- Edme Mentelle (1730–1815), cartographer, professor and poet
- Charles de Wailly (1730–1798), architect and town planner
- Jacques de Flesselles (1730–1789), Provost
- Desboulmiers (1731–1771), writer and librettist
- Jean-Louis Aubert (1731–1814), secular clergyman, fabulous poet, journalist and literary critic
- Jean-Louis Laruette (1731–1792), composer and singer
- Victor Louis (1731–1800), architect
- Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731–1799), chemist and pharmacist
- Théodore-Jean Tarade (1731–1788), violinist and composer
- Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron (1731-1805), orientalist
- François-Henri Clicquot (1732–1790), organ builder
- Nicolas-René Jollain (1732–1804), painter
- Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732–1799), entrepreneur and writer
- Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732–1789), botanist
- Raphaël Bienvenu Sabatier (1732-1811), medic
- Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir (1732–1807), police lieutenant and royal librarian
- Antoine-Marin Lemierre (1733–1793), stage poet
- Hubert Robert (1733–1808), painter
- Guy-Jean-Baptiste Target (1733–1807), lawyer and politician
- Chevalier d'Herbain (around 1733–1769), composer
- François-Jean de Chastellux (1734–1788), military and writer
- Louis François II. De Bourbon, prince de Conti (1734–1814), nobleman
- Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné (1734–1803), Prince-Bishop
- François Racine de Monville (1734–1797), administrator and amateur architect
- Claude-Joseph Dorat (1734–1780), writer
- René Louis de Girardin (1735–1808), writer
- Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735–1796), musician, mathematician and chemist
- Pierre Lahoussaye (1735–1818), violinist, composer and conductor
- Claude-Carloman de Rulhière (1735–1791), poet and historian
- Pierre-Charles Levesque (1736–1812), historian, translator and university professor
- Louis V. Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé (1736–1818), nobleman
- Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736–1793), astronomer and first mayor of Paris
- Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord (1736–1821), bishop and statesman
- Marie-Geneviève Navarre (1737–1795), painter
- Henri de Franquetot, duc de Coigny (1737–1821), Marshal of France
- François Giroust (1737–1799), composer
- César-Guillaume de La Luzerne (1738–1821), bishop
- Jacques-André Naigeon (1738–1810), man of letters, publicist, philosopher and encyclopedist
- Fanny de Beauharnais (1738–1813), poet and salonière
- Charlotte-Jeanne Béraud de la Haye de Riou, Marquise de Montesson (1738–1806), nobleman and writer
- Jean-François Chalgrin (1739–1811), architect
- Nicolas Durand (1739-1830), architect
- Charles Henri Sanson (1739–1806), executioner of Paris
- Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart (1739–1813), architect
- Jean-François de La Harpe (1739–1803), critic and poet
- Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), political economist
- Claude-Sixte Sautreau de Marsy (1740–1815), publicist and man of letters
- Balthazar Georges Sage (1740–1824), mineralogist and chemist
- Armand Gaston Camus (1740-1804), politician
- Bernard-René Jordan de Launay (1740–1789), nobleman
- Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740–1814), nobleman
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814), writer
1741 to 1760
- Marie-Madeleine Jodin (1741–1790), actress, philosopher and feminist
- Antoine-François Callet (1741–1823), allegory and portrait painter
- Jean-Michel Moreau (1741–1814), engraver and eraser
- Jean-Pierre Duport (1741–1818), cellist and composer
- Simon Leduc (1742–1777), violinist and composer
- François Chopart (1743–1795), surgeon
- Lucie-Madeleine d'Estaing (1743–1826), noblewoman
- Louis-Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld (1743–1792), aristocrat and politician
- Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (1743–1794), chemist, lawyer, principal tenant and head of the French powder administration
- Antoine Cadet de Vaux (1743–1828), pharmacist, chemist and agricultural scientist
- Louis-Grégoire Le Hoc (1743-1810), diplomat
- Jean-Laurent Mosnier (1743–1808), court painter
- Jean-Louis Voille (around 1744 – around 1802/03), painter
- Gabriel Brizard (1744–1793), parliamentary advocate , historian and writer
- Sophie Arnould (1744–1802), actress, singer and salonière
- François-Joseph Bélanger (1744–1818), architect and garden designer
- Anne Louise de Jouy Brillon (1744–1824), harpsichordist, pianist and composer
- Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744–1818), painter
- Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745–1811), painter, draftsman and etcher
- Germain-Hyacinthe de Romance (1745–1831), officer, publicist and writer
- Jean-Baptiste-Michel Bucquet (1746–1780), doctor and chemist
- Jean-Nicolas Pache (1746–1823), politician
- Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746–1800), lawyer and botanist
- Alexis Le Veneur de Tillières (1746–1833), general de division and politician
- François-André Vincent (1746–1816), painter
- Jean Duplessis-Bertaux (1747–1820), draftsman, etcher and painter
- André Thouin (1747-1824), botanist
- Armand-Louis de Gontaut, duc de Biron (1747–1793), general
- Philippe-Jean Pelletan (1747-1829), surgeon
- Aimar-Charles-Marie de Nicolaï (1747–1794), civil servant
- Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, prince de Lamballe (1747–1768), nobleman
- Georges de Bièvre (1747–1789), writer
- Johann Franz d'Escars du Peyrusse (1747–1822), military
- Marie-Anne Collot (1748–1821), sculptor
- Louis Masreliez (around 1748–1810), Swedish painter, draftsman, graphic artist and interior designer
- François Tourte (1747 / 48–1835), bow maker
- Antoine Alexandre Hanicque (1748–1821), General Artillery Division
- Jean Dominique Comte de Cassini (1748–1845), cartographer and astronomer
- Pierre-Alexandre Wille (1748 – after 1821), painter
- Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), painter
- Jean-Étienne Despréaux (1748–1820), composer and actor
- Louis Joseph Charles Amable d'Albert de Luynes (1748–1807), politician and military
- Anne-Antoine-Jules de Clermont-Tonnerre (1749-1830), cardinal
- Françoise Eléonore Dejean de Manville, Comtesse de Sabran (1749–1827), personality of the Paris salons
- Charles-Nicolas Favart (1749–1806), actor and writer
- Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749–1803), painter
- Louis-Auguste Jouvenel des Ursins d'Harville (1749–1815), general of the cavalry
- Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac (1749–1793), nobleman
- Jean-Louis Duport (1749–1819), cellist and composer
- Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois (around 1750–1796), revolutionary and actor
- Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières (1750-1817), writer
- Sylvain Maréchal (1750–1803), poet and philosopher
- Joseph Meunier d'Haudimont (1751–?), Composer
- Gérard de Lally-Tollendal (1751-1830), nobleman and politician
- Éléonore François Elie Moustier, marquis de Moustier (1751–1817), diplomat
- Antoine Joseph Santerre (1752–1809), brewer
- Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833), mathematician
- Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier (1752–1817), diplomat and ancient historian
- Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan (1752–1822), chambermaid
- Isaac de Rivaz (1752–1828), politician, state chancellor, member of parliament and entrepreneur
- Henri Salembier (around 1753–1820), painter, draftsman and ornament engraver
- Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre (1753–1821), princess
- Jean-Baptiste Bréval (1753–1823), cellist and composer
- Cay Friedrich von Reventlow (1753–1834), Danish diplomat and landowner
- Louis-Philippe de Ségur (1753–1830), diplomat and writer
- Marie-Victoire Lemoine (1754-1820), painter
- Gabriel Thouin (1754–1829), garden designer
- Jean Noël Hallé (1754–1822), doctor, hygienist and epidemiologist
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), statesman and diplomat
- Madame Roland (1754–1793), political figure in the French Revolution
- Louis-Charles de Flers (1754–1794), division general
- Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754–1836), philosopher and politician
- Pierre L'Enfant (1754–1825), artist, scientist and town planner
- Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron (1754–1802), politician
- Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754–1829), painter
- André Boniface Louis Riquetti de Mirabeau (1754–1792), activist
- Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau (1755-1813), general
- Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755–1842), painter
- Antoine François de Fourcroy (1755–1809), doctor, chemist and politician
- Charles de Pougens (1755–1833), author, Romanist and lexicographer
- Antoine Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy (1755–1849), writer, archaeologist and art historian
- Jean-Henri Hassenfratz (1755–1827), mineralogist, physicist, chemist and politician
- Françoise Marie Antoinette Saucerotte (1756–1815), actress
- Louis VI. Henri Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé (1756–1830), nobleman
- Joseph Alexandre de Ségur (1756–1805), writer
- Louis-Marie de Noailles (1756–1804), general and businessman
- Auguste Marie Henri Picot de Dampierre (1756–1793), Général de division
- Claude-Victor de Broglie (1756–1794), politician and general
- François Louis René Mouchard de Chaban (1757–1814), Prefect
- Charles de Lameth (1757–1832), general of the cavalry
- Charles Pierre François Augereau (1757–1816), nobleman
- Mayeur de Saint-Paul (1758–1818), actor, director, playwright and author of pamphlets
- Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838), philologist
- Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de la Reynière (1758–1837), lawyer, gastrosoph and man of letters
- Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet (1759–1842), portrait and history painter
- Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1759–1845), diplomat and sinologist
- Frédéric-Séraphin de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet (1759–1837), officer, civil servant and diplomat
- Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759–1828), naturalist
- Adrien Duport (1759–1798), politician
- François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison (1759–1834), painter and poet
- Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles (1759–1794), politician
- Louise d'Aumont Mazarin (1759–1826), Princess of Monaco
- Jean Antoine Rossignol (1759-1802), General
- Amalie Zephyrine von Salm-Kyrburg (1760–1841), noblewoman
- Auguste Vestris (1760–1842), dancer and choreographer
- Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage (1760-1825), geographer and cartographer
- Louis-Michel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau (1760–1793), politician
- Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray (1760–1797), politician
- Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834), architect, architectural theorist and professor of architecture
- Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825), author
- Alexandre de Lameth (1760–1829), soldier and politician
1761 to 1780
- Antoine Hugot (1761–1803), flautist, university professor and composer
- Jean-Baptiste Lepère (1761–1844), architect
- Nicholas-Louis Robert (1761–1828), inventor
- Marie-Geneviève Bouliar (1762–1825), painter
- Ludwig von Starhemberg (1762–1833), Austrian diplomat
- Jean-François Leval (1762–1834), division general
- Alexandre Lenoir (1762–1839), archaeologist
- Georges Michel (1763–1843), landscape painter
- Alexandre Andrault de Langeron (1763–1831), infantry general in the Russian army
- François-Joseph Talma (1763-1826), actor
- Jacques-Marie Le Père (1763–1841), engineer
- Marie Louise St. Simon-Montléart (1763–1804), aristocrat and lady-in-waiting
- Charles Meynier (1763-1832), painter
- Germain-Jean Drouais (1763–1788), painter
- Jean-François Coulon (1764–1836), dancer and dance teacher
- Pierre Guillaume Gratien (1764-1814), General
- Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis (1764–1830), politician and writer
- Firmin Didot (1764–1836), typographer and writer
- François-Étienne Damas (1764–1828), general
- Gabriel-Marie Legouvé (1764–1812), writer, translator and dramaturge
- Charles Thévenin (1764–1838), painter
- Jean-François Varlet (1764–1837), politician
- Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers (1764-1813), General
- Charles Percier (1764–1838), architect and interior decorator
- John Dubois (1764–1842), Bishop of New York
- Ludwig Ferdinand Huber (1764–1804), German writer, translator and journalist
- Pierre-Claude Boiste (1765–1824), Romanist and lexicographer
- James Smithson (1765–1829), British mineralogist and chemist
- Sylvestre Lacroix (1765-1843), mathematician
- Charles-Pierre Girault-Duvivier (1765–1832), grammarian, Romanist and compiler
- Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou (1766–1828), painter
- Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1766–1834), playwright and poet
- Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766–1817), writer
- Henriette-Félicité Tassaert (1766–1818), German-French pastel painter and mezzotint artist
- Mathieu de Montmorency-Laval (1766–1826), general, statesman, diplomat and minister
- Armand Emmanuel du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (1766–1822), French and Russian statesman
- François Joseph Kirgener (1766–1813), division general
- Emmanuel de Grouchy (1766–1847), general, marshal and peer of France
- Louis-François Bertin (1766–1841), journalist and political author
- Michael Friedländer (1767-1824), German physician
- François-Nicolas Vincent (1767–1794), General Secretary of the French Ministry of War
- César Rainville (1767–1845), officer and innkeeper
- Jean Lambert Tallien (1767-1820), journalist and revolutionary
- Armand-Jean-François Seguin (1767–1835), chemist, army supplier, economist and financier
- Jean-Victor Bertin (1767–1842), painter
- Joseph Fiévée (1767–1839), journalist, writer and member of parliament
- Étienne-Denis Pasquier (1767–1862), statesman
- Alexandre François Louis de Girardin (1767–1848), politician and landscape painter
- Henri Montan Berton (1767–1844), composer
- Felix Lepeletier (1767–1837), politician
- Éléonore Duplay (1768–1832), fiancee of the politician Maximilien de Robespierre
- Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768–1848), painter
- Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768–1826), painter
- Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768–1832), astronomer
- André-Jacques Garnerin (1769–1823), aviation pioneer
- Louis-Benoît Picard (1769–1828), playwright
- Antoine Marie Chamans, comte de Lavalette (1769–1830), officer and statesman
- Lucile Desmoulins (1770–1794), wife of the French revolutionary Camille Desmoulins
- François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter (1770–1841), entrepreneur
- Alexandre Brongniart (1770–1847), chemist, mineralogist, geologist and zoologist
- Amédée Louis Michel Le Peletier (1770–1845), entomologist
- Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770–1846), writer
- Armand de Polignac (1771–1847), nobleman and Bavarian prince
- Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835), painter
- Louis-François Binot (1771–1807), Brigadier General
- Népomucène Lemercier (1771–1840), poet
- Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771–1834), chemist
- Pierre Baillot (1771–1842), violinist and composer
- Jean Auguste Durosnel (1771–1849), general and politician
- Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771-1852), civil servant and scientist
- Auxonne-Marie-Théodose de Thiard (1772–1852), general and politician
- Paul-Louis Courier (1772-1825), author
- Marie-Victoire Jaquotot (1772–1855), painter
- Alexandre Méchin (1772–1849), politician
- Henri-Jean Rigel (1772–1852), composer, pianist and conductor
- Louis Claude Noisette (1772–1849), rose grower
- Louis-Simon Auger (1772–1829), editor, biographer, vaudeville poet, journalist and literary historian
- Henriette Davin (1773–1844), miniature painter
- Jean-Parfait Friederichs (1773–1813), Infantry Division General
- Louis-Benjamin Francoeur (1773–1849), mathematician
- Louis-Philippe I (1773–1850), King of France
- Sophie de Bawr (1773–1860), writer and composer
- Cécile Renault (1774–1794), historical figure of the French Revolution
- Marie-Denise Villers (1774–1821), painter
- Pierre Narcisse Guérin (1774–1833), painter and lithographer
- Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862), physicist and mathematician
- Antoine-Marie Héron de Villefosse (1774–1852), mining engineer and author
- Louis-Sébastien Grundler (1774–1833), cabinet maker and general
- Jean-François Boissonade (1774–1857), classical philologist
- Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais (1774–1853), General de division of the cavalry
- Pauline Auzou (1775–1835), painter
- Antoine Alexandre Julienne (1775–1838), infantry general
- Louis Malus (1775–1812), engineer and physicist
- Jean-Jacques Desvaux de Saint-Maurice (1775–1815), artillery division general
- Antoine Philippe d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier (1775–1807), brother of the last French king, Ludwig Philipp I.
- Antoine-François Mauduit (1775–1854), French-Russian architect
- Sophie Gail (1775–1819), singer, composer and writer
- Jean-Guillaume Audinet-Serville (1775-1858), entomologist
- Anne Charles Lebrun (1775–1859), General de division of the cavalry
- Antoine-Charles-Bernard Delaitre (1776–1838), division general of the cavalry
- Alexandre Louis Robert de Girardin (1776–1855), General
- Charles François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776-1854), botanist
- Sophie Germain (1776–1831), mathematician
- Sophie Gay (1776-1852), writer
- Auguste Henri Victor Grandjean de Montigny (1776–1850), architect and town planner
- François-Marie Daudin (1776-1803), zoologist
- Henri Grévedon (1776–1860), painter, lithographer and illustrator
- Louis Poinsot (1777-1859), mathematician
- Louis Hersent (1777–1860), lithographer, portrait and history painter
- Charles Cagniard de la Tour (1777-1859), engineer and physicist
- Michel Théodore Leclercq (1777-1851), writer
- Frédéric de Clarac (1777–1847), archaeologist
- Adélaïde d'Orléans (1777–1847), nobleman
- Jean Pierre Joseph d'Arcet (1777–1844), chemist
- Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais (1777–1809), Brigadier General of the Cavalry
- Agathon Fain (1778–1837), baron and secretary
- Honoré V. (1778–1841), Prince of Monaco
- Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen (1778–1839), Roman Catholic clergyman
- Jean Coralli (1779–1854), dancer and ballet master
- Mademoiselle Mars (1779–1847), actress
- Louis Alexandre Piccinni (1779–1850), composer
- Louis Charles d'Orléans, comte de Beaujolais (1779–1808), younger brother of the last French king Louis-Philippe I.
- Aimé Marie Gaspard de Clermont-Tonnerre (1779–1865), general and minister
- Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers (1779–1857), engraver
- Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes, comtesse de Rémusat (1780–1821), lady in waiting
- Camille Alphonse Trézel (1780–1860), General and Minister of Defense
- Charles Derosne (1780–1846), pharmacist and industrialist
- Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857), poet and songwriter
- Louis Étienne Watelet (1780–1866), painter
- Pierre-Jacques-René Denne-Baron (1780–1854), writer
- Jacques Charles Brunet (1780–1867), bibliographer and bookseller
- Philippe-Paul de Ségur (1780–1873), officer
- Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke (1780–1844), writer and publisher
1781 to 1800
- Albert Androt (1781–1804), composer
- Louis-Mathieu Molé (1781–1855), politician
- Étienne-Jean Delécluze (1781–1863), painter and writer
- Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (1781–1832), botanist and lawyer
- Charles Marie Bouton (1781–1853), painter and lithographer
- Louis François Dauprat (1781–1868), horn player, composer and professor
- François-Joseph Naderman (1781–1835), harpist and composer
- Eugène de Beauharnais (1781–1824), stepson of Napoleon I
- Charles Philippe Lafont (1781–1839), violin player
- Gustave Dugazon (1782–1826), composer
- Pierre Pelletan (1782-1845), physician
- Louis-Hippolyte Lebas (1782–1867), architect
- Louis-René Villermé (1782–1863), doctor and epidemiologist
- Étienne Marc Quatremère (1782–1857), orientalist
- Louis-Barthélémy Pradher (1782–1843), composer, pianist and music teacher
- Ambroise Louis Garneray (1783–1857), marine painter and engraver
- Hortense de Beauharnais (1783–1837), Queen of Holland
- Pierre Claude François Delorme (1783–1859), history painter
- Alexandre-François Caminade (1783–1862), painter
- Charles-Tristan de Montholon (1783-1853), adjutant general of Emperor Napoleon I.
- Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784–1838), zoologist and writer
- Marie-Antoine Carême (1784–1833), cook
- Pierre-Auguste-Louis Blondeau (1784–1865), composer, violinist and musicologist
- Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (1784–1845), painter
- Pierre Zimmermann (1785–1853), piano teacher and composer
- Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly (1785–1858), composer, organist and pianist
- Charles-Joseph de Flahaut (1785–1870), general, diplomat and adjutant
- Frédéric Dupetit-Méré (1785–1827), playwright
- Ange Hyacinthe Maxence de Damas (1785–1862), Russian, later French general and statesman
- Florestan I (1785–1856), Prince of Monaco
- Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph de Forbin-Janson (1785–1844), nobleman and bishop
- Pierre-Antoine Lebrun (1785–1873), poet
- Achille-Léon-Victor de Broglie (1785–1870), statesman and diplomat
- Auguste de Montferrand (1786–1858), architect
- Edme Jean Louis Grillon (1786-1854), architect
- Amédée Louis Despans de Cubières (1786-1853), General
- Adrien-Hubert Brué (1786–1832), cartographer
- Charles Angélique François Huchet de La Bédoyère (1786–1815), Lieutenant General
- Jean-François Barrière (1786–1868), writer
- Jean-Louis Tulou (1786–1865), flautist and composer
- François-Édouard Picot (1786–1868), history and portrait painter and lithographer
- Henry Lemoine (1786–1854), music publisher, music teacher and composer
- Louis Isidore Duperrey (1786–1865), explorer, navigator and cartographer
- Charles-Pierre Chapsal (1787–1858), grammarian, lexicographer and Romanist
- Jean Antoine Letronne (1787–1848), classical scholar
- Constant Prévost (1787-1856), geologist
- Louis Germain Bailly (1787–?), Glass painter
- Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord (1787–1872), General
- Jean-Pierre Cortot (1787–1843), sculptor
- Louis Antoine Ponchard (1787–1866), opera singer and vocal teacher
- Éléonore Denuelle (1787–1868), lover of Napoleon Bonaparte
- François Sulpice Beudant (1787–1850), mineralogist and geologist
- Nicolas Gosse (1787–1878), history painter
- Joseph Guillou (1787–1853), flautist and composer
- Mélesville (1787–1865), playwright and lawyer
- Guillaume Bouteiller (1788–?), Composer
- Louis Michel Aury (around 1788–1821), pirate
- Ange René Armand de Mackau (1788–1855), admiral and politician
- Pierre-Joseph Pelletier (1788–1842), chemist and pharmacist
- Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788–1832), sinologist and librarian
- Charles Chaulieu (1788–1849), composer and music teacher
- Antoine-Jacques-Louis Jourdan (1788–1848), military doctor, medical writer and translator
- Jean Achille Deville (1789–1875), scholar
- Antoine-François Varner (1789–1854), vaudevillist and librettist
- Jules Robert Auguste (1789–1850), painter and sculptor
- Hippolyte Chelard (1789–1861), composer
- Michel-Martin Drolling (1789–1851), history painter
- Georges-Adrien Crapelet (1789–1842), publisher and Romanist
- Horace Vernet (1789–1863), history and military painter and lithographer
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857), mathematician
- Friedrich IV. (1789-1859), Prince
- Nicolas-Marie-Joseph Chapuy (1790–1858), officer, architect, architectural painter, draftsman and lithographer
- Claude Marie Dubufe (1790–1864), painter
- Louis Letronne (1790–1842), portrait miniaturist, draftsman and lithographer
- Pierre-Antoine Berryer (1790–1868), lawyer and politician
- Abel-François Villemain (1790–1870), scholar and politician
- Jules Germain Cloquet (1790-1883), surgeon and anatomist
- Elise Garnerin (1791–1853), balloonist, aerial acrobat and parachutist
- Baptiste Alexis Victor Legrand (1791–1848), engineer and politician
- Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833), composer
- Désiré Beaulieu (1791–1863), composer and concert organizer
- Jean-Henri Dupin (1791–1887), playwright and librettist
- Bernard-Pierre Magnan (1791–1865), General and Marshal of France
- Eugène Scribe (1791–1861), playwright and librettist
- Jules Joseph Gabriel (1792–1869), theater poet
- Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis (1792–1843), mathematician and physicist
- Henri-François Gaultier de Claubry (1792–1878), chemist
- Armand Dufrénoy (1792–1857), geologist and mineralogist
- Victor Cousin (1792–1867), philosopher and cultural theorist
- Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (1792–1845), painter and draftsman
- Joséphine Fodor (1789 or 1793–1870), opera singer (soprano)
- Paul de Kock (1793–1871), novelist and playwright
- François Michel Hoguet (1793–1871), ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer
- Achille Richard (1794–1852), botanist and physician
- Philippe Le Bas (1794-1860), classical philologist
- Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angely (1794–1870), general and statesman
- Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865), zoologist, ichthyologist and malacologist
- Charles Gavard (1794–1871), engineer, art historian, engraver and publisher
- Léon Cogniet (1794–1880), painter
- Félix-Auguste Duvert (1795–1876), playwright and vaudevillist
- Anselme Payen (1795–1871), chemist
- Achille Collas (1795–1859), engraver and mechanic
- William J. Hough (1795–1869), lawyer and politician
- William Lee D. Ewing (1795–1846), politician
- Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers (1795–1878), statesman
- Antoine-Louis Barye (1795–1875), sculptor
- Arthur Morin (1795–1880), physicist
- Armand Lévy (1795–1841), doctor, mineralogist and mathematician
- Louis Eugène Marie Bautain (1795 / 96–1847), Catholic philosopher and priest
- Christophe Civeton (1796 – around 1831), draftsman, engraver and lithographer
- Paul Louis Oudart (1796-1860), painter
- Barthélemy Prosper enfantin (1796–1864), philosopher and socialist
- Charles Bontems (1796–1879), Swiss politician, general manager and judge
- Charles-François Duvernoy (1796–1872), singer and music teacher
- Auguste Mathieu Panseron (1796-1859), musician and composer
- Frédéric-Auguste Demetz (1796–1873), lawyer and philanthropist
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796–1832), physicist and engineer
- Charles Cousin-Montauban (1796–1878), general and statesman
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875), landscape painter
- Irénée-Jules Bienaymé (1796–1878), probability theorist and statistician
- Julien Léopold Boilly (1796–1874), painter and lithographer
- Achille Etna Michallon (1796–1822), painter
- Francisque ainé (1796–1842), stage actor
- Toussaint Poisson (1797–1861), composer and music teacher
- Charles de Rémusat (1797–1875), politician and philosopher
- Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797–1869), physiologist and physicist
- Pierre Leroux (1797–1871), philosopher and socialist
- Victor Audouin (1797–1841), naturalist, entomologist and ornithologist
- Eugène Soubeiran (1797–1858), chemist and pharmacist
- Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont (1797–1892), engraver
- Jean-Louis Victor Grisart (1797–1877), architect
- Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), history painter
- Charles Jules Labarte (1797–1880), lawyer and art historian
- Felix Savary (1797–1841), astronomer
- Félix Duban (1797–1870), architect
- Gabriel Andral (1797–1876), medic
- Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu (1797-1853), botanist
- Désiré-Alexandre Batton (1798–1855), composer
- Bernard Jullien (1798–1881), didactic, Romance studies and grammarist
- Charles Dupeuty (1798–1865), librettist and playwright
- Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), painter
- Xavier-Boniface Saintine (1798–1865), comedy, vaudeville and novelist
- Jules Michelet (1798–1874), historian
- Virginie Déjazet (1798–1875), actress
- Jean-Augustin Franquelin (1798–1839), painter
- Charles-Philippe Larivière (1798–1876), painter and printmaker
- Hippolyte François Jaubert (1798–1874), botanist and minister
- Abel Hugo (1798–1855), essayist
- Camille-Christophe Gerono (1799-1891), mathematician
- Alexandre Georges Fourdinois (1799–1871), furniture designer
- Émile Clapeyron (1799–1864), physicist
- François Dauverné (1799–1874), trumpeter, composer and professor
- Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat (1799-1884), amateur entomologist
- Léonor-Joseph Havin (1799–1868), publicist and politician
- Jacques Fromental Halévy (1799–1862), composer and music teacher
- Henry Monnier (1799–1877), author, playwright, stage actor, draftsman, illustrator and caricaturist
- Oskar I (1799-1859), King of Sweden and Norway
- Pierre-Julien Nargeot (1799–1891), composer, conductor and violinist
- Louis Charles Kiener (1799-1881), malacologist
- Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges (1799–1875), playwright and librettist
- Edouard Boilly (1799-1854), composer
- Auguste Barbereau (1799–1879), composer, music teacher and scholar
- Charles Eblé (1799–1870), General de division
- Eugène Louis Lami (1800–1890), painter
- Achille Devéria (1800–1857), painter and lithographer
- Louis Prosper Gachard (1800–1885), Belgian state archivist and historian
- Antony Deschamps (1800–1869), poet and translator
- Maria Elisabeth von Savoyen-Carignan (1800-1856), noblewoman
- Joseph-Frédéric Debacq (1800-1892), architect
- Nicolas François Octave Tassaert (1800–1874), painter
- Michel Masson (1800–1883), novelist and playwright
- Jean Louis Lassaigne (1800-1859), chemist
- Charles de Viel-Castel (1800–1887), historian and diplomat
- Charles Lemaire (1800–1871), botanist and writer
- Achille Fould (1800–1867), finance and statesman
- Jules Bastide (1800–1879), politician and journalist
19th century
1801 to 1810
- Adolphe Brongniart (1801–1876), botanist and phytopalaeontologist
- Laure Cinti-Damoreau (1801–1863), opera singer (soprano)
- Napoléon Achille Murat (1801–1847), nobleman
- Alexandre Félix Gustave Achille Leymérie (1801-1878), professor
- Victor Adam (1801–1866), history painter and lithographer
- Émile Littré (1801–1881), philologist, philosopher and medical historian
- Saint-Marc Girardin (1801–1873), politician and literary scholar
- Albert Auguste Perdonnet (1801–1867), engineer and railway pioneer
- Louis Auguste Sainson (1801-1887), artist
- Alphonse Boilly (1801–1867), engraver and lithographer
- Henri Labrouste (1801–1875), architect
- Louis Napoléon Lannes (1801–1874), statesman and diplomat
- Eugène Burnouf (1801-1852), Indologist
- Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (1801-1884), sculptor
- Alfred Grimaud, Comte d'Orsay (1801–1852), caricaturist and dandy
- Félix Danvin (1802–1842), landscape painter
- Paul de Noailles (1802–1885), statesman and historian
- Léon Halévy (1802-1883), writer
- Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1802-1887), chemist and agronomist
- Marie Felicité Brosset (1802–1880), orientalist
- Alfred-Auguste Cuvillier-Fleury (1802–1887), writer and journalist
- Zoë Prévost (1802–1861), singer
- François-Christophe-Edouard Kellermann (1802–1868), statesman and diplomat
- Charles Nicolas Aubé (1802–1869), doctor and entomologist
- Charles Lenormant (1802-1859), archaeologist and Egyptologist
- Louis-Nicolas Bescherelle (1802–1883), grammarian, lexicographer and Romance philologist
- Émile Bienaimé (1802–1869), composer
- Ernest Stanislas de Girardin (1802–1874), politician and senator
- Jean Antoine Théodore Gudin (1802–1880), painter
- Édouard Ménétries (1802–1861), entomologist and zoologist
- Napoléon Charles Bonaparte (1802–1807), son of Louis Bonaparte and Hortense de Beauharnais
- Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (1802-1857), General
- Ludovic Vitet (1802–1873), politician and writer
- Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte (1802–1839), imperial princess
- Victor Lanjuinais (1802-1869), politician
- Éloi Firmin Féron (1802–1876), painter
- Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes (1802–1867), nobleman
- Léon Vaudoyer (1803–1872), architect
- Charles Marie Tanneguy Duchâtel (1803–1867), statesman
- Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803-1860), painter
- Flora Tristan (1803–1844), writer, socialist and women's rights activist
- Alexandre Montfort (1803-1856), composer
- Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte (1803-1857), Italian zoologist, ornithologist and politician
- Édouard Biot (1803–1850), engineer and sinologist
- Eugène Isabey (1803-1886), painter
- Adolphe Adam (1803-1856), opera and ballet composer
- Jean Désiré Artôt (1803-1887), horn player
- Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870), writer
- Paul Huet (1803–1869), painter, draftsman and etcher
- Jean Pierre Louis Girardin (1803-1884), agricultural chemist
- Élie-Frédéric Forey (1804–1872), General
- Paul Gavarni (1804–1866), draftsman, graphic artist and caricaturist
- Claude-Étienne Minié (1804–1879), inventor of the Minié rifle
- Émile Signol (1804–1892), church painter and art teacher
- Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet Des Murs (1804–1894), ornithologist, oologist and mayor
- Louise Farrenc (1804–1875), composer, pianist and musicologist
- Hippolyte Fockedey (1804–1876), photography pioneer
- George Sand (1804–1876), writer
- Caroline Marbouty (1804–1890), writer
- Victor Schœlcher (1804-1893), politician
- Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (1804–1831), nobleman
- Charles-Alexandre Fessy (1804-1856), organist
- Francisque Joseph Duret (1804–1865), sculptor
- Gustave Oliver Lannes de Montebello (1804–1875), General
- Eugène Sue (1804-1857), writer
- Louis Clément François Breguet (1804–1883), watchmaker, physicist and designer
- Édouard Chassaignac (1804–1879), surgeon
- Alphonse Gilbert (1805–1870), composer and organist
- Édouard de Verneuil (1805–1873), geologist and paleontologist
- Louise Bertin (1805–1877), composer and poet
- Théodore Labarre (1805–1870), harp virtuoso and composer
- Bettina von Savigny (1805–1835), German letter writer
- Léon-Lévy Brunswick (1805–1859), playwright, playwright and librettist
- Eugène Devéria (1805–1865), painter
- Henri-Auguste Barbier (1805-1882), satirist
- Heinrich Kurz (1805–1873), German-Swiss literary historian, sinologist, translator and librarian
- Adolphe Noël des Vergers (1805–1867), orientalist, archaeologist and epigraphist
- Victor Baltard (1805–1874), city architect
- Charles Théobald de Choiseul-Praslin (1805–1847), nobleman
- Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire (1805–1895), scholar and statesman
- Gabriel Bibron (1805-1848), zoologist
- Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys (1805-1881), statesman
- Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805–1861), zoologist and ethologist
- Charles Martins (1806–1889), botanist and physician
- Ferdinand Barrot (1806–1883), lawyer and politician
- Charles Mozin (1806–1862), painter
- Wilhelm Theodor von Chézy (1806–1865), writer, novelist, translator and journalist
- Charles-Theodor Cogniard (1806–1872), playwright and theater director
- Émile de Girardin (1806–1881), publisher and journalist
- Eugène Lepoittevin (1806–1870), painter
- Eugène Giraud (1806–1881), painter and engraver, caricaturist, lithographer and set designer
- Paul-Eugène Lequeux (1806–1873), architect
- Antoine Le Roux de Lincy (1806–1869), librarian, Romanist and Medievalist
- Michel Delaporte (1806–1872), stage poet
- Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle (1806–1893), Swiss botanist and sociologist of science
- Léon Denuelle (1806–1881), first son of Napoleon and his mistress Éléonore Denuelle
- Gilbert Duprez (1806-1896), singer, composer and singing teacher
- Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (1806–1871), theater poet
- Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1807–1874), politician
- Ernest Legouvé (1807–1903), writer and playwright
- Alphonse Thys (1807–1879), composer
- Jules André (1807–1869), landscape painter
- Léon de Laborde (1807–1869), art historian, archaeologist and explorer
- Auguste Nélaton (1807–1873), doctor and surgeon
- Jean-Jacques Feuchère (1807-1852), sculptor
- Charles-Auguste Questel (1807-1888), architect
- Jean-Hippolyte Cogniard (1807–1882), playwright and theater director
- Albert Jacquemart (1808–1875), civil servant, painter and collector
- Max von Chézy (1808–1846), German painter
- Auguste de Châtillon (1808–1881), sculptor, painter and writer
- Edouard Millault (1808–1887), composer, violinist and music teacher
- Jean Baptiste Gustave Planche (1808–1857), literary and art critic
- Antoine Étex (1808–1888), sculptor, painter, architect and writer
- Maria Malibran (1808–1836), opera singer
- Vincent Delacour (1808-1840), composer
- Albert G. Talbott (1808-1887), politician
- Eugène Bourdon (1808–1884), watchmaker, engineer and inventor
- Napoleon III (1808–1873), President and Emperor of the French
- Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855), writer
- Jacques Demogeot (1808–1894), man of letters and homme de lettres
- Augustin Alexis Damour (1808-1902), mineralogist
- Antoine Elwart (1808–1877), composer, music teacher and scholar
- Alphonse Karr (1808–1890), journalist, writer and satirist
- Jules Lion (1809 / 10–1866), American lithographer, early photographer and painter
- Louis Henri Armand Béhic (1809-1891), politician
- Adolphe Claire Le Carpentier (1809–1869), music teacher and composer
- Louis Eugène Bertier (1809–?), Portrait and genre painter
- Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809–1891), prefect and town planner
- Eugène Prévost (1809–1872), composer and conductor
- Joseph d'Haussonville (1809-1884), politician and historian
- Alexandre-François Debain (1809–1877), organ, piano and harmonium builder
- Amédée Burat (1809-1883), geologist
- Alphonse Guichenot (1809–1876), zoologist
- Charles Marie Wladimir Brunet de Presle (1809–1875), Graecist, Byzantinist and Neo-Greekist
- Edmond Lebœuf (1809–1888), Marshal of France and Minister of War
- Pierre Lagrave (around 1810–1832), composer
- Éliphas Lévi (1810–1875), deacon, writer and occultist
- Alphonse Leveaux (1810-1893), writer and literary historian
- Alfred Dedreux (1810–1860), painter
- Maximilian von Helmstatt (1810–1893), royal French captain
- Édouard Verreaux (1810–1868), ornithologist and naturalist
- Achille Jubinal (1810–1875), Romanist, Medievalist and politician
- Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), writer
- Ernest Courtot de Cissey (1810–1882), general and statesman
1811 to 1820
- Eugène-Melchior Péligot (1811–1890), chemist
- Auguste Ottin (1811–1890), sculptor
- Édouard René Lefebvre de Laboulaye (1811–1883), lawyer, publicist, journalist and politician
- Pauline de Nicolay (1811–1868), Franciscan
- Ambroise Detrez (1811–1863), painter and professor
- Kurt Heinrich Ernst von Einsiedel (1811–1887), German horse breeder and author
- Napoleon Franz Bonaparte (1811–1832), descendant of Napoléon Bonaparte
- Emmanuel de Rougé (1811–1872), Egyptologist
- Félix Le Couppey (1811–1887), music teacher, pianist and composer
- Alfred Émilien de Nieuwerkerke (1811–1892), sculptor, art collector and cultural politician
- Nicolas-Théodore Gobley (1811–1876), chemist and pharmacologist
- Adolphe d'Ennery (1811–1899), playwright
- Léon Lalanne (1811-1892), civil engineer and politician
- Alfred des Essarts (1811-1893), librarian and writer
- Victor Duruy (1811–1894), historian and politician
- Marie Moke-Pleyel (1811–1875), French-Belgian pianist
- Henri Rosellen (1811–1876), pianist, music teacher and composer
- Marie-Alexandre Alophe (1812-1883), photographer
- Louis Leroy (1812–1885), journalist, playwright, painter and art critic
- Zygmunt Krasiński (1812-1859), national poet of Poland
- Louis-Auguste Boileau (1812–1896), architect
- Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867), landscape painter
- Emmanuel Miller (1812–1886), Graecist, Byzantinist and paleographer
- Camille Doucet (1812–1895), playwright
- Alphonse Esquiros (1812–1876), writer and politician
- Jean-Baptiste Farochon (1812–1871), medalist and sculptor
- Félix Danjou (1812–1866), organist, composer and musicologist
- Albert von Pourtalès (1812–1861), Prussian diplomat
- Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau (1812–1896), historian and publicist
- Paul Abadie (1812–1884), builder and restorer
- Auguste Duméril (1812–1870), physician and zoologist
- Louis Cabat (1812-1893), painter
- Victor Escousse (1813–1832), poet and playwright
- Auguste Galimard (1813–1880), painter, lithographer and art writer
- Franz Napoleon Heigel (1813–1888), German painter
- Charles Emile Jacque (1813–1894), painter and printmaker
- Edmond de Selys-Longchamps (1813–1900), Belgian politician and entomologist
- Alexis Paccard (1813–1867), architect
- Charles Marville (1813–1879), photographer
- Émile Egger (1813–1885), Graecist
- Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813-1854), mathematician
- Isidore Pils (1813–1875), painter and watercolorist
- Auguste Maquet (1813–1888), writer and librettist
- Theodore Charles Gruyère (1813–1885), sculptor
- Auguste André Thomas Cahours (1813-1891), chemist
- Carel Gabriel Cobet (1813–1889), Dutch classical philologist
- Louise-Victorine Ackermann (1813–1890), writer
- Charles Valentin Alkan (1813–1888), composer and piano virtuoso
- Louis Arrighi de Casanova (1814–1888), French politician
- Louis Alfred Becquerel (1814–1862), physicist and doctor
- Louis-Auguste Bisson (1814–1876), photographer and photography pioneer
- Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (1814–1891), glass painter
- Gabriel Gervais Chardin (1814–1907), landscape and animal painter
- Charles Coran (1814–1901), poet
- Cornélie Falcon (1814-1897), opera singer (soprano)
- Alphonse François (1814–1888), engraver
- Théodore Frère (1814–1888), painter
- François Guessard (1814–1882), Romanist and Medievalist
- Charles Ferdinand Latrille Lorencez (1814-1892), general in the French army
- Hippolyte Lucas (1814–1899), entomologist and arachnologist
- Molé-Gentilhomme (1814–1856), writer and playwright
- Charles François Frédéric de Montholon-Sémonville (1814–1886), ambassador
- Louis d'Orléans, duc de Nemours (1814–1896), lieutenant general and brigadier general
- Charles-Philippe Place (1814–1893), Bishop and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- Marie-Gabriel-Augustin Savard (1814–1881), music teacher and composer
- Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), architect, monument conservator and art historian
- Pierre Wantzel (1814–1848), mathematician
- Rosine Stoltz (1815–1903), opera singer
- Louis Le Chatelier (1815–1873), engineer
- Paul-Gustave Froment (1815–1865), mechanic and inventor
- Félix Philippoteaux (1815–1884), painter
- Louis Chollet (1815–1851), composer and organist
- Eugène Labiche (1815–1888), comedy poet
- Jean-Achille Benouville (1815-1891), painter
- Ernest Boulanger (1815–1900), composer
- Émile Félix Fleury (1815–1884), officer and diplomat
- Victor Raulin (1815–1905), paleobotanist and geologist
- Auguste Dumont (1816–1885), journalist and newspaper editor
- Philippe Rousseau (1816–1887), painter
- Victor Antoine Signoret (1816-1889), entomologist
- Louis de Vilmorin (1816-1860), botanist
- Léon Gaucherel (1816–1886), draftsman, etcher, illustrator and painter
- Félix-Charles Douay (1816–1879), General
- Ernest-Charles Lasègue (1816-1883), internist
- Paul Gervais (1816–1879), zoologist and paleontologist
- Eugène Pottier (1816–1887), lyricist
- Auguste Placet (1816–1888), violinist and conductor
- Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (1816–1889), geographer and cartographer
- Charles-Louis Michelez (1817-1894), photographer
- Alphonse Huillard-Bréholles (1817–1871), historian
- Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878), painter
- Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894), British amateur archaeologist, diplomat and politician, art connoisseur and writer
- Edmond Rousse (1817–1906), lawyer
- Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817–1879), printer and bookseller
- Gustave Adolphe Thuret (1817–1875), botanist and algologist
- Edouard Deldevez (1817–1897), composer, violinist and conductor
- Robert von der Goltz (1817–1869), German diplomat and politician
- Théodore Ballu (1817–1885), architect
- Adolphe Deloffre (1817–1876), conductor and violinist
- François Alphonse Belin (1817–1877), orientalist
- Louis Lefébure-Wély (1817–1869), organist and composer
- Saint-René Taillandier (1817–1879), Romanist, comparativeist and historian
- Louis-Daniel Perrier (1818–1903), Swiss architect
- Eugène Ernest Hillemacher (1818–1887), painter
- Théodore Mozin (1818–1850), composer and music teacher
- Paul Meurice (1818–1905), writer
- Edouard-Louis-Alexandre Brisebarre (1818–1871), theater poet
- Adolf von Fürstenstein (1818–1895), German manor owner, administrative officer and court official
- Auguste Ambroise Tardieu (1818–1879), forensic doctor
- Max Richard (1818–1901), entrepreneur and politician
- Charles Gounod (1818-1893), composer
- Jean-Adolphe Beaucé (1818–1875), painter and graphic artist
- Henri Le Secq (1818–1882), painter, etcher, art collector and photographer
- Gustave Aimard (1818-1883), author
- Eugène André Despois (1818–1876), writer
- Clement Juglar (1819–1905), doctor and economic researcher
- Henri Anatole de Beaulieu (1819–1884), painter
- Henri-Charles Plaut (1819–?), Photographer, inventor and publisher
- Edouard Frère (1819–1886), genre painter
- Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1819–1886), chemist and geologist
- Amédée de Noé (1819–1879), caricaturist
- André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819–1889), photographer and inventor
- Édouard Dubufe (1819–1883), painter
- Marie Firmin Bocourt (1819–1904), zoologist and artist
- Ernest Saint-Charles Cosson (1819-1889), botanist
- Antoine Alfred Agénor de Gramont (1819–1880), diplomat
- Joseph Serret (1819–1885), mathematician
- Jules Pasdeloup (1819–1887), conductor
- Marie-Françoise Bernard (1819–1901), opponent of vivisection
- Léon Foucault (1819–1868), physicist
- Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois (1819–1864), nobleman
- Hippolyte Fizeau (1819-1896), physicist
- Aimé Millet (1819–1891), sculptor
- Émile Deschanel (1819–1904), writer and politician
- Pierre Louis Rouillard (1820–1881), sculptor
- Charles Émile Blanchard (1820–1900), zoologist and entomologist
- Édouard Batiste (1820–1876), composer, organist and music teacher
- Nadar (1820–1910), photographer, writer, draftsman and aeronaut
- Mathieu Auguste Geffroy (1820–1895), historian
- Valentine de Sainte-Aldegonde (1820–1891), noblewoman
- Léon Fairmaire (1820-1906), entomologist
- Léonie Kastner-Boursault (1820–1888), daughter, schoolgirl, mother and friend
- Charles François Berton (1820–1874), actor
- Henri d'Artois (1820–1883), proclaimed King of France
- Auguste Sallé (1820–1896), naturalist and explorer
- Henri Duvernoy (1820–1906), composer, organist and music teacher
- Eugène Lavieille (1820–1889), painter
- Bertall (1820–1882), caricaturist, draftsman, etcher and photography pioneer
1821 to 1830
- Camille Rousset (1821–1892), historian, historian and librarian
- Charles Deslys (1821-1885), writer
- Léon Benouville (1821-1859), painter
- Louis-Adolphe Bertillon (1821–1883), physician, anthropologist, statistician and demographer
- Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), writer
- Édouard Phillips (1821–1889), mathematician, structural engineer and mining engineer
- Albert de Broglie (1821–1901), historian, publicist and statesman
- Abel Jean Baptiste Pavet de Courteille (1821–1889), orientalist
- Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821–1910), mezzo-soprano
- Edouard Plouvier (1821–1876), playwright and librettist
- Victor Guérin (1821–1891), explorer and amateur archaeologist
- Arthur Saint-Léon (1821–1870), violinist, dancer, choreographer and dance theorist
- Charles Meryon (1821–1868), painter and engraver
- Henri Baudrillart (1821–1892), economist and journalist
- Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale (1822–1897), general, historian and art collector
- Maxime Du Camp (1822–1894), writer, journalist and photographer
- Joseph Bertrand (1822–1900), mathematician and educator
- Théophile Gide (1822–1890), genre and history painter
- Henri Murger (1822–1861), writer
- Hector Giacomelli (1822–1904), draftsman, watercolorist and illustrator
- Alfred Dehodencq (1822–1882), painter
- Léon d'Hervey de Saint-Denys (1822–1892), writer, sinologist and dream researcher
- Frédéric Passy (1822–1912), parliamentarian and humanist as well as Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Paul Marcellin Berthier (1822–1912), painter and photographer
- Félix Deltour (1822–1904), literary scholar, teacher and civil servant
- Felix Joseph Barrias (1822–1907), history painter
- Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur (1822–1893), architect, restorer, interior designer and collector
- Louis Ménard (1822–1901), religious scholar, historian and chemist
- Auguste-Nicolas Caïn (1822–1894), animal sculptor and medalist
- Jean Monod (1822–1907), Reformed theologian
- Théodore Barrière (1823–1877), playwright
- Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823–1903), French-British painter
- Charles Thurot (1823–1882), classical philologist and Romanist
- Charles Marty-Laveaux (1823–1899), novelist and editor
- Joseph Alfred Foulon (1823-1893), Archbishop and Cardinal
- Paul Janet (1823-1899), philosopher
- Gustave Paul Cluseret (1823–1900), officer
- Jules Adenis (1823–1900), journalist, writer and librettist
- Maurice Sand (1823–1889), writer and illustrator
- Léon Laurent-Pichat (1823–1886), writer and politician
- Eugène Manuel (1823–1901), educator, writer and politician
- James Carroll Robinson (1823-1886), politician
- Gabriel Davioud (1823–1881), architect
- Jules Louis Lewal (1823–1908), general and military writer
- Émile Deville (1824–1853), medic and taxidermist
- Jules Janssen (1824-1907), astronomer
- Eugène Ortolan (1824–1891), lawyer, diplomat and composer
- Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888), painter
- Jean-Maxime Claude (1824–1904), animal, genre and landscape painter
- Wilfrid de Fonvielle (1824–1914), mathematician, journalist and aeronaut
- Alexandre Dumas the Younger (1824–1895), novelist and dramatic poet
- Pierre-Edmond Hocmelle (1824–1895), organist and composer
- Charles Albert Fechter (1824–1879), French-English actor
- Emmanuel Frémiet (1824–1910), sculptor
- Adolphe Hatzfeld (1824–1900), classical philologist, philosopher, Romanist and lexicographer
- Claudius Popelin (1825–1892), writer, history and portrait painter and enameller
- Alfred Delvau (1825–1869), writer
- Gustave Zédé (1825-1891), submarine pioneer
- Henri Giffard (1825–1882), engineer and aviation pioneer
- Jules Girard (1825–1902), classical philologist
- Jules Barbier (1825–1901), theater poet and librettist
- Hélène Bertaux (1825–1909), sculptor and women's rights activist
- Pierre Potain (1825-1901), internist
- Auguste Racinet (1825–1893), costume expert, illustrator, painter and author
- Eugène Lambert (1825–1900), animal painter
- Raleigh Edward Colston (1825-1896), Brigadier General
- Charles Garnier (1825–1898), architect
- Victor Frédéric Verrimst (1825–1893), double bass player, organist and composer
- Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), pathologist and neurologist
- Charles Hamilton Aide (1826–1906), English author
- Edmé Félix Alfred Vulpian (1826–1887), physiologist and neurologist
- Alfred Deléhelle (1826-1893), composer
- Napoléon Alkan (1826–1906), composer and music teacher
- Frédéric Godefroy (1826–1897), philologist, lexicographer and journalist
- Joseph-René Bellot (1826–1853), naval officer and polar explorer
- Pierre-Henri Stanislas d'Escayrac de Lauture (1826–1868), diplomat, African explorer and writer
- Louis Arsène Delaunay (1826–1903), actor
- Gustave Moreau (1826–1898), painter and draftsman
- Auguste-Rosalie Bisson (1826–1900), photographer and photography pioneer
- Elisa de Vilmorin (1826–1868), botanist and plant breeder
- Julius Stockhausen (1826–1906), German singer, singing teacher and conductor
- Charles Jules Felix de Comberousse (1826-1897), mathematician
- Eugène Fichel (1826–1895), painter
- Hippolyte Crosse (1826-1898), malacologist
- Honoré Daumet (1826–1911), architect
- Emil Hünten (1827–1902), painter, draftsman and illustrator
- Alphonse de Rothschild (1827–1905), banker
- Émile Jonas (1827–1905), composer and cantor
- Eugène Chavette (1827–1902), writer
- Marcelin Berthelot (1827–1907), chemist, historian of science and politician
- Louise Aglaé Massart (1827–1887), French pianist, music teacher and composer
- August von Grote (1828–1868), Hanoverian officer, landowner and politician
- Edmond de Pourtalès (1828–1895), Swiss-French banker, officer and parliamentarian
- Charles Nuitter (1828–1899), librettist, translator and archivist
- Edmond Saglio (1828–1911), art historian, classical archaeologist and museum director
- George Osborne, 9th Duke of Leeds (1828–1895), British aristocrat
- Maria Deraismes (1828–1894), writer, democratic humanist and women's rights activist
- Ernest Cahen (1828–1893), organist and composer
- Auguste Bazille (1828–1891), organist and composer
- Hector Crémieux (1828–1892), playwright and librettist
- Alfred Dubucand (1828–1894), animal sculptor
- Pierre Émile Levasseur (1828–1911), historian, economist and geographer
- Léon Battu (1829–1857), librettist and vaudevillist
- Émile Vaudremer (1829–1914), architect
- Léonce Cohen (1829–1901), composer
- Pierre-Hector Coullié (1829–1912), Archbishop
- Gustave Servois (1829–1927), archivist, prefect and Romanist
- Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol (1829–1870), journalist and author
- Augustine-Malvina Blanchecotte (1830–1897), poet
- Philippe Burty (1830–1890), art critic, art collector, draftsman and etcher
- Henri Bouilhet (1830–1910), chemical engineer
- Gaston de Galliffet (1830–1909), General and Minister of War
- Henri Rochefort (1830–1913), writer, journalist, theater poet and politician
- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830-1889), historian
- Auguste Tolbecque (1830–1919), cellist, conductor, composer, instrument maker and music teacher
- Pierre-Paul Dehérain (1830–1902), chemist, plant physiologist and agronomist
- Frédéric Koch (1830–1890), general
- Adolf von Grote (1830–1898), Hanoverian envoy and member of the German Reichstag
- Auguste Durand (1830–1909), publisher, organist and composer
- Jules de Goncourt (1830-1870), writer
1831 to 1840
- Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1831–1900), painter
- Henri Meilhac (1831–1897), stage poet and librettist
- Eugène Lacheurié (1831–?), Composer
- Amédée Mannheim (1831–1906), mathematician, engineer and officer
- Victorien Sardou (1831–1908), playwright
- Eugène Pereire (1831–1908), banker
- Paul Durand-Ruel (1831–1922), art dealer and gallery owner
- Paul de Rémusat (1831-1897), writer
- Maria Amalia of Brazil (1831-1853), Princess of Brazil
- Philippe Gille (1831–1901), playwright and publicist
- Edouard Béliard (1832–1912), impressionist painter
- Jules Assézat (1832–1876), journalist, publisher and anthropologist
- Édouard Manet (1832-1883), painter
- Octave Chanute (1832–1910), American railroad engineer and aviation pioneer
- Émile de Kératry (1832–1904), politician
- Jean Alfred Fournier (1832–1914), dermatologist and venereologist
- Charles Lecocq (1832-1918), operetta composer
- Charles Yriarte (1832–1898), writer
- Jules Worms (1832–1924), painter, etcher and draftsman
- Charles Descantons de Montblanc (1833-1894), Belgian count
- Felix Bracquemond (1833-1914), painter
- Edmond Duranty (1833–1880), writer and art critic
- Émile Picault (1833–1915), sculptor
- Eugène Leroux (1833–1905), painter
- Henri Rouart (1833–1912), painter
- Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908), playwright, playwright and librettist
- Théodore Salomé (1834–1896), organist and composer
- George du Maurier (1834-1896), British author and draftsman
- Isidore Legouix (1834-1916), composer
- Camille Delthil (1834–1902), politician and writer
- Edgar Degas (1834–1917), painter and sculptor
- Maurice Raynaud (1834-1881), doctor
- Léon Vaillant (1834–1914), medic and zoologist
- Gustave Macé (1835–1904), head of the Paris criminal police
- Adolphe Danhauser (1835–1896), composer and music teacher
- Leonce von Könneritz (1835–1890), German manor owner, lawyer and conservative politician
- Émile Boutmy (1835–1906), writer and political scientist
- Paul Henri Fischer (1835-1893), malacologist
- Désirée Artôt de Padilla (1835–1907), opera singer
- Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1835–1903), anthropologist and Africa researcher
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), pianist, organist, musicologist, music teacher and composer
- François-Alfred Delobbe (1835–1920), painter
- Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900), ornithologist, crustaceologist and naturalist
- Pierre Alphonse Martin Lavallée (1836-1884), dendrologist
- Eugène Delaplanche (1836-1891), sculptor
- Paul Foucart (1836–1926), classical philologist and epigraphist
- Edward Poynter (1836–1919), English painter, designer and draftsman
- Paul-Ernest Sanson (1836–1918), architect
- Jules Chéret (1836–1932), lithographer, graphic artist and painter
- Paul Riant (1836–1888), archaeologist and orientalist
- Ernest Blum (1836–1907), playwright and librettist
- Alfred Borrel (1836–1927), medalist
- Édouard Didron (1836–1902), glass painter
- Théodore Monod (1836–1921), Reformed pastor and hymn poet
- Samuel David (1836–1895), composer
- Alfred Grandidier (1836–1921), naturalist and world traveler
- Fritz Kalle (1837–1915), German manufacturer, rentier and social politician
- François Lenormant (1837–1883), historian and archaeologist
- Paul André (1837–1896), Swiss politician
- Paul-Armand Silvestre (1837–1901), writer and literary critic
- Henry Becque (1837–1899), playwright
- Jean-Louis Pascal (1837–1920), architect
- Félix Frank (1837–1895), poet and Romanist
- Eugène Mage (1837–1869), naval officer and traveler to Africa
- Charles Girard (1837-1918), chemist
- Tony Robert-Fleury (1837–1911), history painter
- Jules Jacquemart (1837–1880), engraver
- Paul Thureau-Dangin (1837–1913), historian
- Joseph Chéret (1838–1894), sculptor and ceramic artist
- Jean Michel Prosper Guérin (1838–1921), painter
- Louis Rinn (1838–1905), lawyer and officer
- Wilhelm Kalle (1838–1919), German chemist and entrepreneur
- Gustave Flourens (1838–1871), politician, journalist and ethnographer
- Louis Philippe Albert d'Orléans, comte de Paris (1838–1894), nobleman
- Charles Arthur Gonse (1838–1917), Brigadier General
- Marie Delaporte (1838–?), Actress
- Georges Bizet (1838–1875), composer
- Pierre-Ernest Prins (1838–1913), painter and sculptor
- Henri Chaumont (1838-1896), Catholic priest
- Georges Picot (1838–1909), lawyer and historian
- Jules Dalou (1838–1902), sculptor
- Émile Adan (1839–1937), illustrator and painter
- Marie Adolphe Carnot (1839–1920), chemist, mining engineer and politician
- Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907), writer and Nobel Prize winner
- Victorin de Joncières (1839–1903), composer and music critic
- Émile Javal (1839–1907), ophthalmologist and politician
- Jules Adolphe Goupil (1839-1883), painter
- Ernest d'Hervilly (1839–1911), journalist and writer
- Émile Blémont (1839–1927), poet, playwright and translator
- Moïse Schwab (1839–1918), scholar, translator and librarian
- Alfred Sisley (1839–1899), painter
- Émile Jungfleisch (1839–1916), chemist and pharmacologist
- Paul Meyer (1840–1917), Romanist, Provençalist and Medievalist
- Gustav Kühn (1840-1892), German agricultural chemist
- Adolphe Deslandres (1840–1911), composer and organist
- Émile Nouguier (1840–1897), civil engineer
- Marie von Radziwiłł (1840–1915), Berlin salonnière and Polish aristocrat
- Henri Duveyrier (1840-1892), traveler to Africa
- Émile Zola (1840–1902), writer and journalist
- Victor Contamin (1840-1893), engineer
- Henri Léopold Lévy (1840–1904), painter
- Jean-Georges Vibert (1840–1902), painter
- André Gill (1840–1885), caricaturist, draftsman and chansonnier
- Robert d'Orléans, duc de Chartres (1840–1910), nobleman
- Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), sculptor and draftsman
- Claude Monet (1840–1926), painter
- Jules Guiffrey (1840–1918), art historian
1841 to 1850
- Félix Faure (1841–1899), politician
- Armand Guillaumin (1841–1927), painter and graphic artist
- Edmond Yon (1841–1897), landscape painter, watercolorist and lithographer
- Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841–1905), sculptor
- René Panhard (1841–1908), mechanic, engineer and businessman
- Louis Petit de Julleville (1841–1900), Romanist, Medievalist and literary scholar
- Nélie Jacquemart (1841–1912), portrait painter
- Georges Hayem (1841–1933), internist and hematologist
- Louise Héritte-Viardot (1841–1918), composer, pianist, singer and vocal teacher
- Ferdinand Buisson (1841–1932), educator and politician as well as Nobel Prize winner
- Jean-Richard Goubie (1842–1899), animal painter
- Henri Maréchal (1842–1924), composer
- François Coppée (1842–1908), poet, playwright and novelist
- Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898), writer
- Gustave Bouchardat (1842–1918), chemist and physician
- Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842–1923), history, genre and portrait painter and sculptor
- Henri Gaidoz (1842–1932), Celtologist and ethnologist
- Victor Alphonse Duvernoy (1842–1907), composer and pianist
- Emma Livry (1842-1863), ballerina
- Fernand Humbert (1842–1934), portrait and history painter
- Paul Cambon (1843-1924), diplomat
- Louis Diémer (1843–1919), pianist and composer
- Georges Fouré (1843–1902), Franco-German philatelist and stamp forger
- Henry de Vilmorin (1843-1899), botanist
- Alphonse Hirsch (1843–1884), painter
- Émile Pessard (1843–1917), composer
- Alfred Rabuteau (1843–?), Composer
- Charles Lefèbvre (1843-1917), composer
- Edgar Loening (1843–1919), German legal scholar
- Lucy Madox Brown (1843-1894), British painter and writer
- Louis Eugène Mouchon (1843–1914), engraver, medalist, gem cutter, bookbinder, enameller and goldsmith
- Henri Regnault (1843–1871), painter
- Abel Hovelacque (1843-1896), linguist and anthropologist
- Richard Avenarius (1843-1896), German philosopher
- Gaston Tissandier (1843–1899), chemist, meteorologist and aeronaut
- Horace Herwegh (1843–1901), German-Swiss-French engineer
- Albert Millaud (1844–1892), journalist, writer and playwright
- Alexander Herrmann (1844-1896), trick artist
- Victorine Meurent (1844–1927), painter
- Henri-Alexandre Danlos (1844–1912), dermatologist
- Philipp von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha (1844–1921), nobleman
- Anatole France (1844–1924), writer and Nobel Prize winner
- Édouard-Théophile Blanchard (1844–1879), painter
- Jenny Longuet (1844-1883), "favorite daughter" of Marx
- Édouard Drumont (1844–1917), journalist
- Georges Martin (1844–1916), doctor and politician
- Edmond Grandjean (1844–1908), vedute and animal painter
- Edmond Duvernoy (1844–1927), opera singer and vocal teacher
- Hartwig Derenbourg (1844–1908), orientalist
- Auguste Michel-Lévy (1844–1911), petrograph, mineralogist and geologist
- Émile Picot (1844–1918), Romanist and Romanist
- Léon Susse (1844–1910), art dealer and sailor
- Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923), actress
- Eugène Ducretet (1844–1915), inventor and industrialist
- Paul Lhérie (1844–1937), singer and music teacher
- Alfred Croiset (1845–1923), classical philologist
- Armand d'Artois (1845-1912), writer
- Jules Cambon (1845-1935), diplomat
- Édouard Moullé (1845–1923), piano maker, composer and publisher
- Émile Bergerat (1845–1923), journalist and writer
- Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845–1902), painter and graphic artist
- Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922), medic
- Eugenie Fiocre (1845–1908), dancer
- Cécile Bruyère (1845–1909), Benedictine, abbess and founder of the monastery
- Jules Guesde (1845–1922), politician
- Fernand Cormon (1845–1924), painter
- Numa Marzocchi de Bellucci (1846–1930), painter
- Ernest Combe (1846–1900), French-Swiss clergyman and university professor
- Léonce-Abel Mazoyer (1846–1910), road and bridge engineer
- François Lafon (1846 – around 1920), painter
- Albert Lavignac (1846–1916), musicologist and composer
- Joseph Blanc (1846–1904), painter
- Paul Philippoteaux (1846–1923), painter
- Alberta von Freydorf (1846–1923), German writer
- Marie Roze (1846–1926), opera singer
- Alfred Philippe Roll (1846–1919), painter
- Charles Albert Waltner (1846–1925), engraver and etcher
- Luc-Olivier Merson (1846–1920), painter and illustrator
- Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846–1909), painter
- Oscar Roty (1846–1911), medalist
- Gaston Maspero (1846-1916), Egyptologist
- Paul Déroulède (1846–1914), author and politician
- Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe (1846-1919), industrialist
- Henri-Paul Motte (1846–1922), history painter
- Georges Charpentier (1846–1905), publisher and art collector
- Jules-Arsène Garnier (1847–1889), painter
- Elisabeth von Herzogenberg (1847-1892), German pianist, composer, singer and patron
- Eva Gonzalès (1847-1883), painter
- Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847–1907), geologist
- Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo (1847–1876), noblewoman
- Joannes Chatin (1847–1912), zoologist and botanist
- Horace de Callias (1847–1921), genre and nude painter
- Émile Deutsch de la Meurthe (1847–1924), industrialist and philanthropist
- Jean Casimir-Perier (1847–1907), President of the Republic
- Ferdinand Walsin-Esterházy (1847–1923), French officer and German spy
- Augusta Holmès (1847–1903), composer
- Thérèse Durnerin (1847–1905), mystic, founder of the Société des Amis des Pauvres
- Émile-Louis Foubert (1848–1911), painter
- Napoléon de Tédesco (1848–1922), civil engineer, pioneer of reinforced concrete
- Eugène Turpin (1848-1927), chemist
- Fernand Pelez (1848–1913), painter
- Henri Duparc (1848–1933), composer
- Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907), writer
- Marguerite Charpentier (1848–1904), art collector and salonnière
- Robert Planquette (1848–1903), composer
- Georges Ohnet (1848–1918), editor, journalist and writer
- Eugène Simon (1848–1924), arachnologist, ornithologist and naturalist
- Émile Charles Dameron (1848–1908), painter
- Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), painter
- Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse (1848–1913), painter and sculptor
- Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), engineer, economist and sociologist
- Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894), painter, art collector, patron and boat builder
- Édouard Joseph Dantan (1848–1897), painter
- Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille (1848–1912), battle painter
- Albert I (1848–1922), Prince of Monaco
- Jacques Normand (1848–1931), writer
- Théophile Homolle (1848–1925), classical archaeologist and epigraphist
- Geneviève Halévy (1849–1926), Salonière
- Floris Osmond (1849–1912), scientist and engineer
- Albert Besnard (1849–1934), painter
- Maurice Tourneux (1849–1917), biographer, historian, author and publisher
- Benjamin Godard (1849–1895), composer
- Carlos Thays (1849–1934), French-Argentine landscape architect
- Léon Du Paty (1849 – around 1920), painter
- Lucien Magne (1849–1916), architect, art and architecture historian and university professor
- Lucien Gaulard (1850–1888), inventor
- Philipp von Ferrary (1850–1917), philatelist
- Robert de Bonnières (1850–1905), writer
- Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850–1924), painter, sculptor and printer
- Alphonse Pénaud (1850-1880), air technician
- Paul de Choudens (1850–1925), music publisher and librettist
- Raphaël Collin (1850–1916), painter and illustrator
- Charles Richet (1850–1935), physician and Nobel Prize winner
- Henry Le Chatelier (1850–1936), chemist, metallurgist and physicist
- Antonin Marmontel (1850–1907), composer, pianist and music teacher
- Gustave Frédéric Dollfus (1850–1931), paleontologist, geologist and malacologist
1851 to 1855
- Paul Grandhomme (1851–1944), enamel painter, sculptor and medalist
- Amédée Pigeon (1851–1905), journalist, art critic and writer
- Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (1851-1932), painter
- Félix Gaudin (1851–1930), glass painter and mosaic artist
- Paul Ollendorff (1851–1920), publisher and bookseller
- Henry Bauër (1851-1915), journalist
- Vincent d'Indy (1851–1931), composer and music theorist
- Paul Ferdinand Segond (1851–1912), surgeon and gynecologist
- Léon Bourgeois (1851–1925), lawyer and statesman
- Adolphe Cohn (1851–1930), American Romance philologist and literary scholar
- Jules Carpentier (1851-1921), engineer
- Denys Cochin (1851–1922), politician and writer
- André Wormser (1851–1926), composer
- Amand Louis Bauqué (1851–1903), architect
- Jacques Bertillon (1851–1922), statistician and demographer
- Alexandre Bougault (1851–1911), photographer and publisher
- Louis Napoléon Murat (1851–1912), rider and Olympic champion
- Jean-Eugène Buland (1852–1926), painter
- Pascal Adolphe Dagnan-Bouveret (1852–1929), painter
- Léon Leenhoff (1852–1927), picture model
- Paul Tavernier (1852–1943), painter
- Gaston Méliès (1852–1915), film producer and director
- Charles Rabut (1852–1925), civil engineer
- James Dwight (1852-1917), American tennis player
- Henri Moissan (1852–1907), chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Étienne Dujardin-Beaumetz (1852–1913), painter
- Carl Alexander Raida (1852–1923), German composer
- Eugène Mougin (1852-1923), archer
- Paul Hillemacher (1852–1933), composer and pianist
- Henri Gervex (1852–1929), painter
- Henri Becquerel (1852–1908), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Alfred Chilhaud Dumaine (1852–1930), diplomat
- Hugues Krafft (1853–1935), photographer
- Camille Bellanger (1853–1923), painter and lithographer
- Pierre de Ségur (1853-1916), writer
- Jacques Doucet (1853–1929), fashion designer, art collector and patron
- Auguste Pellerin (1853–1929), entrepreneur and art collector
- Armand du Paty de Clam (1853–1916), professional soldier
- Charles-Armand Trépardoux (1853–1920), engineer, steam car builder and pioneer of the French automotive industry
- Paul-Émile Boutigny (1853–1929), painter and illustrator
- Émile-Alexandre Taskin (1853-1897), opera singer
- Martial Caillebotte (1853–1910), composer, pianist, philatelist and photographer
- Gaston Bonnier (1853-1922), botanist
- Charles Théodore Malherbe (1853–1911), musicologist and composer
- Alphonse Bertillon (1853–1914), criminalist and anthropologist
- Godefroy Cavaignac (1853-1905), politician
- Henri-Paul Nénot (1853–1934), architect
- Léo Herrmann (1853–1927), painter
- Charles-August Mengin (1853–1933), sculptor and painter
- Alexander Reichel (1853–1921), Swiss lawyer, university professor and politician
- Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853–1948), astronomer and director
- Pierre Marie (1853-1940), neurologist
- Paul Bar (1853–1945), physician and university professor
- Carl Schier (1854–1918), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
- Joseph René Vilatte (1854–1929), bishop
- Henry Cochin (1854–1926), politician, Romanist, Italianist and translator
- Nikolaus Graf von Seebach (1854–1930), royal Saxon chamberlain
- Emma Pieczynska-Reichenbach (1854–1927), Swiss abolitionist and women's rights activist
- Albert Fourié (1854–1937), sculptor, painter and illustrator
- Norbert Goeneutte (1854–1894), painter and graphic artist
- Fernand de La Tombelle (1854–1928), organist and composer
- Paul Vieille (1854–1934), chemist and inventor
- Karl von Dörnberg (1854–1891), German administrative officer and diplomat
- Louis Thuasne (1854–1940), Romanist, Medievalist and Renaissance researcher
- Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941), painter
- Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855–1904), Spanish botanist
- Jean Baptiste Guth (1855–1922), illustrator and caricaturist
- Ernest Chausson (1855–1899), composer
- Robert de Montesquiou (1855–1921), writer, symbolist and art collector
- Eugène Beyens (1855–1934), Belgian diplomat and politician
- Caroline Rémy de Guebhard (1855–1929), socialist, journalist and feminist
- Jacques Hermant (1855–1930), architect
- Gustave Geffroy (1855–1926), journalist, art critic, historian and writer
- Pierre Puiseux (1855–1928), geologist and astronomer
- Jacques Curie (1855–1941), physicist and professor
- Henri Babinski (1855–1931), cookbook author
- Léon-Philippe Teisserenc de Bort (1855–1913), meteorologist
1856 to 1860
- Léon-Maxime Faivre (1856–1941), history painter
- Pierre Decourcelle (1856-1926), writer
- Ellen Andrée (1856–1933), stage actress
- Antoine Louis Gustave Béclère (1856–1939), radiologist and immunobiologist
- Georges Cain (1856-1919), painter
- Jean Dybowski (1856–1928), botanist and agronomist
- Réjane (1856–1920), actress
- Alexandre Charpentier (1856–1909), sculptor and medalist
- Augustus Desiré Waller (1856–1922), English physiologist
- Émile Picard (1856–1941), mathematician
- Maurice Roy (1856–1932), historian, art historian and Romanist
- Robert Hippolyte de Forcrand (1856–1933), chemist
- Gabriel Charles Deneux (1856–1926), painter
- Érnest Gillet (1856–1940), cellist and composer
- Paul d'Ivoi (1856-1915), writer
- Charles François Laurent (1856–1939), diplomat
- Henri de Merode-Westerloo (1856–1908), Belgian politician
- François Flameng (1856–1923), painter
- André Gedalge (1856–1926), music teacher and composer
- Émile Cohl (1857–1938), caricaturist and animated filmmaker
- Henri-Camille Danger (1857–1939), genre and history painter
- Maurice Leblanc (1857–1923), electrical engineer
- Alfred Bruneau (1857–1934), composer and music critic
- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857–1939), philosopher and ethnologist
- Jane de la Vaudère (1857–1908), writer
- Adolphe Millot (1857–1921), painter and printmaker
- Jean-Paul Sinibaldi (1857–1909), painter
- Émile Bourgeois (1857–1934), historian
- Maurice Yvon (1857-1911), architect
- Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944), composer and pianist
- Jules Andrade (1857–1933), mathematician, physicist and watchmaker
- Henri Cain (1857–1937), painter, playwright and librettist
- Octave Lebesgue (1857-1933), journalist
- Joseph Babinski (1857–1932), Polish-French neurologist
- Wojciech Kossak (1857–1942), Polish panorama, battle and portrait painter
- Georges Callot (1857–1903), painter
- Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert (1858–1945), composer and pianist
- Edmond Bapst (1858–1934), diplomat and historian
- Eugène Brieux (1858–1932), playwright
- Mélanie Bonis (1858–1937), composer
- Maximilien Luce (1858–1941), painter
- Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), German engineer and the inventor of the diesel engine
- Roland Bonaparte (1858–1924), scientist, anthropologist and writer
- Alfred Vallette (1858–1935), writer and editor
- August Czartoryski (1858–1893), prince, Roman Catholic priest and Salesian
- Jean-Louis Brémond (1858–1943), landscape painter
- Alfred Baudrillart (1859–1942), auxiliary bishop
- Georges Humbert (1859–1921), mathematician
- Maurice Paléologue (1859–1944), diplomat and writer
- Alexandre Millerand (1859–1943), statesman
- Charles Brongniart (1859–1899), pioneer
- Philippe Bunau-Varilla (1859–1940), engineer, diplomat and soldier
- Vincent Carlier (1859-1917), politician
- Jacqueline Comerre-Paton (1859–1955), painter
- Pierre Curie (1859–1906), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Pierre Janet (1859–1947), philosopher, psychiatrist and psychotherapist
- Paul Médinger (1859–1895), track cyclist
- Victor Loret (1859-1946), Egyptologist
- Charles Bioche (1859–1949), mathematician and mathematics teacher
- Maurice Donnay (1859–1945), playwright
- Camille Chevillard (1859–1923), composer and conductor
- Henri Bergson (1859–1941), philosopher and Nobel Prize winner
- Paul Desjardins (1859–1940), philosopher and writer
- Emmanuel de Mac Mahon (1859-1930), Général de brigade
- Étienne Moreau-Nélaton (1859–1927), painter, art collector and art historian
- Georges Seurat (1859-1891), painter
- Georges Marty (1860–1908), composer and conductor
- Auguste Fernbach (1860–1939), biologist
- Friedrich Klincksieck (1860–1928), German Romanist
- René Doumic (1860–1937), literary historian and critic
- Georges Bigot (1860–1927), caricaturist and illustrator
- Heva Coomans (1860–1939), French-American painter
- Henri Albert Hartmann (1860–1952), surgeon
- Elisabeth de Riquet de Caraman (1860–1952), Parisian lady of society
- Louis de Launay (1860–1938), geologist and writer
- Émile Charles Achard (1860–1944), doctor
- Henri Vaquez (1860–1936), internist and cardiologist
- Alfredo Massüe (1860–1923), French-Catalan architect
- Maurizio Moris (1860–1944), Italian aviation pioneer, lieutenant general and senator
- Lucien Laurent-Gsell (1860–1944), painter
- Paul Leroy (1860–1942), painter
1861 to 1865
- Ernest Barberolle (1861–1948), rower
- Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861–1942), painter
- Augustin Savard (1861–1942), composer and music teacher
- Pierre Duhem (1861–1916), physicist and science theorist / historian
- Louis Philipp Friedmann (1861–1939), Austrian industrialist and alpinist
- Albert Dagnaux (1861–1933), painter and engraver
- Lucien Simon (1861–1945), painter, watercolorist and lithographer
- Michel Verne (1861–1925), writer
- Frédéric de Civry (1861-1893), racing cyclist
- Miguel de Béistegui y Septién (1861–1931), Mexican ambassador
- Georges Méliès (1861–1938), illusionist, theater owner, film pioneer and film director
- Antonio de la Gandara (1861–1917), painter and draftsman
- Émile Ogier (1862–1932), politician
- Eugène Gaillard (1862–1933), architect and designer
- Marthe Brandès (1862–1930), actress
- Abel Hermant (1862–1950), writer, journalist and language purist
- Raymond de Dalmas (1862–1930), nobleman, ornithologist and arachnologist
- Maurice d'Ocagne (1862–1938), engineer and mathematician
- Georges Darien (1862-1921), author
- Marcel Prévost (1862–1941), novelist and playwright
- Henri Andoyer (1862–1929), astronomer and mathematician
- Emmanuel de Margerie (1862–1953), geographer, geologist and oceanographer
- Paul Adam (1862-1920), writer
- Georges Feydeau (1862–1921), playwright
- Paul Bergon (1863–1912), photographer, musician and scientist
- Ernest Archdeacon (1863–1950), lawyer and automobile and aviation pioneer
- Olivier Collarini (1863-19 ??), Italian fencer
- Pierre de Coubertin (1863–1937), educator, historian and sports official
- Paul Janet (1863-1937), physicist
- Léon Frapié (1863–1949), writer
- Lucien Pissarro (1863–1944), painter
- Zoé Lucie Betty de Rothschild (1863–1916), painter and draftsman
- Théophile Laforge (1863–1918), violinist and violist
- Georgios Christakis-Zografos (1863–1920), Greek politician
- Sylvain Lévi (1863–1935), Indologist and Orientalist
- Blanche Marchesi (1863–1940), opera singer and vocal teacher
- Charles-René (1863 – around 1940), music teacher and composer
- Camille Erlanger (1863-1919), composer
- Henri Robert (1863–1936), defense attorney
- Georges Gardet (1863–1939), sculptor
- Paul Signac (1863–1935), painter and graphic artist
- Paul Painlevé (1863–1933), mathematician and politician
- Alfred Cottin (1863–1923), guitarist and composer
- Marcel Benoist (1864–1918), lawyer
- Jules Beau (1864–1932), sports photographer
- Henri Gaston Darien (1864–1926), genre and landscape painter
- Joseph Bédier (1864–1938), Romanist
- Stéphane Gsell (1864–1932), ancient historian and archaeologist
- Ferdinand Zecca (1864–1947), film director
- Alfred Bachelet (1864–1944), composer, conductor and music teacher
- Jules Desgoffe (1864–1905), painter
- Émile Chautard (1864–?), Author and argot researcher
- Henri Rivière (1864–1951), artist and designer
- Zo d'Axa (1864–1930), anarchist, anti-militarist, author and satirical journalist
- Marc-André Raffalovich (1864–1934), author and poet
- Béatrice de Rothschild (1864–1934), art collector and patron
- Alix Fournier (1864-1897), composer
- Paul Sérusier (1864–1927), painter
- Yvette Guilbert (1865-1944), singer
- Henri Hauvette (1865–1935), Romanist, Italianist and comparative literary scholar
- Henri Desgrange (1865–1940), editor and founder of the Tour de France
- Eugène Cahen (1865–1941), mathematician
- Albéric Magnard (1865–1914), composer
- René Sergent (1865–1927), architect
- Raphael Slidell von Erlanger (1865-1897), German zoologist
- Louis Lucien Brasil (1865–1918), geologist, paleontologist, zoologist and ornithologist
- Paul Dukas (1865–1935), composer
- Georges Legrain (1865–1917), draftsman and Egyptologist
- Berthe Weill (1865–1951), art dealer and gallery owner
1866 to 1870
- Helene Littmann (1866–?), Austrian painter, writer and newspaper founder
- Rosemonde Gérard (1866–1953), poet and playwright
- Charles Gilibert (1866-1910), singer
- Henry Krauss (1866–1935), actor and director
- Emile Beaumont Baron d'Erlanger (1866–1939), banker and musician
- Georges Henri Ballot (1866–1942), painter
- Elisabeth Lesur (1866–1914), mystic
- Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham (1866–1958), British lawyer
- Lucien Cuénot (1866–1951), biologist, zoologist and geneticist
- Henri Albert Niessel (1866–1955), General
- Maria Letizia Bonaparte (1866–1926), noblewoman
- Ricardo Richon Brunet (1866–1946), Chilean painter and art critic
- Jeanne Lanvin (1867–1946), fashion designer
- Lucien Monod (1867–1957), painter, draftsman and graphic artist
- Eugénie Segond-Weber (1867–1945), actress
- Angèle Delasalle (1867–1939), painter and etcher
- Victor Thibaud (1867–?), Archer
- Pierre Cousin (1867–1933), mathematician
- Henri Bellery-Desfontaines (1867–1909), painter, illustrator, graphic artist and designer
- Fortunat von Schubert-Soldern (1867–1953), Austrian art historian
- Georgette Agutte (1867–1922), painter
- Klara Oppenheimer (1867–1943), teacher, women's rights activist and doctor
- Gabriel Bertrand (1867–1962), biochemist
- Jules Mouquet (1867-1946), composer
- Georges Berr (1867–1942), actor, author and director
- Fernand Pelloutier (1867–1901), figure of French revolutionary syndicalism
- Léon Daudet (1867–1942), writer
- Henri Gouraud (1867-1946), General
- Henri Guinier (1867–1927), painter
- Wilfred Monod (1867–1943), Reformed pastor and theologian
- Charles Koechlin (1867–1950), composer
- Julien Benda (1867–1956), philosopher and writer
- Adolphe de Meyer (1868–1946), art collector, painter and photographer
- Louis-Lucien Klotz (1868–1930), journalist and politician
- Louis Couturat (1868–1914), logician, mathematician and linguist
- Gilbert John Fowler (1868-1953), chemist
- Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (1868–1949), banker, art collector and horse breeder
- Charles Silver (1868–1949), composer
- Émile Gaston Chassinat (1868–1948), Egyptologist and Coptologist
- Gaston Leroux (1868–1927), journalist and writer
- Jacques Lebaudy (1868–1919), adventurer
- Harry Graf Kessler (1868–1937), German art collector, patron, writer, publicist and diplomat
- Jules-Alexandre Grün (1868–1938), painter, graphic artist and lithographer
- Frédéric A. Baron d'Erlanger (1868–1943), banker and composer
- Jane Avril (1868-1943), dancer
- Henri Abraham (1868–1943), physicist
- Alexandra David-Néel (1868–1969), travel writer
- Henri-Paul Pellaprat (1869–1952), cook
- Charles Levadé (1869–1948), composer
- Henri Claude (1869–1945), psychiatrist and neurologist
- Henri Désiré Landru (1869–1922), serial killer
- Émilienne d'Alençon (1869–1946), dancer and actress
- Fernand Piet (1869–1942), artist
- Georges Gasté (1869–1910), painter
- Karl Marbe (1869–1953), German psychologist
- Léon Brunschvicg (1869–1944), philosopher and university professor
- Charles Follot (1869–1933), entrepreneur and racing car driver
- André Gide (1869–1951), writer and Nobel Prize winner
- Aurélien-Marie Lugné-Poe (1869–1940), actor, director and set designer
- Louis Vauxcelles (1870–1943), art critic
- Gaston Arman de Caillavet (1870–1915), playwright and librettist
- Édouard Le Roy (1870–1954), philosopher and mathematician
- Lucien Muhlfeld (1870–1902), writer and literary critic
- Edmond Malherbe (1870–1963), composer
- Georgette Bréjean-Silver (1870–1951), coloratura soprano
- Francis Casadesus (1870–1954), composer, conductor and teacher
1871 to 1875
- Bernard Crocé-Spinelli (1871–1932), composer and music teacher
- Frantz Reichel (1871–1932), sportsman
- Charles Ruchot (1871 - after 1932), sculptor
- Adolphe Dervaux (1871–1945), architect
- Léon Printemps (1871–1945), painter
- Georges Rouault (1871–1958), painter and graphic artist
- Marcel Proust (1871–1922), writer and social critic
- Lawrence Johnston (1871–1958), British soldier and landscaper
- Auguste Brouet (1872–1941), eraser and engraver
- Gustave Louis Blanc (1872-1927), chemist
- François Thureau-Dangin (1872–1944), ancient orientalist and mathematician
- Paul Léautaud (1872–1956), writer
- Paul Langevin (1872-1946), physicist
- Fernand Halphen (1872–1917), composer
- Émile Armand (1872–1962), individual anarchist and author
- Léon Blum (1872–1950), lawyer, writer and politician
- Georges Urbain (1872–1938), chemist
- Jacques Bizet (1872–1922), entrepreneur and writer
- Jules Écorcheville (1872–1915), musicologist
- Albert Bertelin (1872–1951), composer
- Fernand David (1872–1926), sculptor and medalist
- Maurice Gamelin (1872-1958), General
- Octave Guillonnet (1872–1967), painter
- Daniel Halévy (1872–1962), essayist and historian
- Camille Mauclair (1872–1945), poet, author, art historian and art critic
- Philippe de Marne (1873–1955), racing car driver
- Marc Henry (1873–1943), cabaret artist, chansonnier, opera librettist and author
- Maurice Fouchet (1873-1924), diplomat
- Maurice Tourneur (1873–1961), film director
- Henri Rapin (1873–1939), interior architect, painter, illustrator, designer and decorator
- Amédée Gastoué (1873–1943), musicologist and composer
- Marc Sangnier (1873–1950), Roman Catholic thinker, politician, theologian and lawyer
- Franz Theodor Doflein (1873-1924), German zoologist
- Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney (1873-1928), Bahai
- Luigi Lucheni (1873–1910), murderer of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth (Sisi)
- Jacques Pellegrin (1873–1944), herpetologist and ichthyologist
- Edmund Dene Morel (1873-1924), British journalist, author, and politician
- Henri Buisson (1873–1944), physicist
- Jacques Helbronner (1873–1943), lawyer and functionary
- José María Quiñones de León (1873–1957), Spanish diplomat
- Maurice Besnier (1873–1933), ancient historian
- Fernand Gregh (1873–1960), poet and literary critic
- Henri Rabaud (1873–1949), composer and conductor
- Jeanne de Rothschild (1874–1929), client
- René Louis Baire (1874–1932), mathematician
- William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), English storyteller and playwright
- Paul Arbelet (1874–1938), Romanist and Stendhal specialist
- Henri Prost (1874–1959), architect and town planner
- Noël Bernard (1874–1911), botanist
- Frédéric François-Marsal (1874–1958), banker and politician
- Louis Brandin (1874–1940), Romanist and Medievalist
- Henri Manguin (1874–1949), painter
- Inessa Armand (1874–1920), Russian revolutionary
- Henri Farman (1874–1958), track cyclist, aviation pioneer and entrepreneur
- Ernest Duchesne (1874–1912), military doctor
- André-Louis Debierne (1874–1949), chemist and university professor
- Albert Capellani (1874–1931), stage actor, film director, screenwriter and producer
- Jean Pierre Clément Marie d'Orléans, duc de Guise (1874–1940), nobleman
- Magda Janssen (1874–1946), German writer and translator
- Leo Jordan (1874–1940), German Romanist, Medievalist, philosopher and linguist
- Raul Régis de Oliveira (1874–1942), Brazilian diplomat
- Henriette Caillaux (1874–1943), socialist
- Henri Cartal (around 1875–?), Singer
- Joseph Vendryes (1875–1960), linguist and religious scholar
- Jean Stern (1875–1962), sword fencer and Olympic champion
- Henri Duvernois (1875–1937), writer
- Pierre Monteux (1875–1964), French-American conductor
- Édouard de Pomiane (1875–1964), doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, cookery teacher and cookbook author
- Maurice de Broglie (1875–1960), physicist
- Georges Hébert (1875–1957), naval officer
- Jean Angelo (1875–1933), actor
- Paul Landowski (1875–1961), sculptor
- Louis-Albert Carvin (1875–1951), sculptor
- Charles Gondouin (1875–1947), rugby union player and referee, tug of war and sports journalist
- Armand Isaac-Bénédic (1875–1962), curler
- Ernest Hébrard (1875–1933), town planner, architect and archaeologist
- Henriette Renié (1875–1956), harpist and composer
- Cléo de Mérode (1875–1966), ballerina and variety dancer
- Henri Contenet (1875–1962), racing cyclist
- Rose Dione (1875-1936), film actress
- Albert Ayat (1875–1935), fencer and Olympic champion
1876 to 1880
- André Louis Lefebvre de Laboulaye (1876–1966), ambassador
- Jules Baillaud (1876-1960), astronomer
- Eugène-Henri Gravelotte (1876–1939), fencer
- Marguerite Hasselmans (1876–1947), pianist
- Joseph Meister (1876–1940), patient
- Léon-Paul Fargue (1876–1947), poet
- Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958), painter, graphic artist and author
- Pierre Girieud (1876–1948), painter
- Henri Bernstein (1876–1953), playwright
- Georges André (1876–1945), winter sports enthusiast
- André Tardieu (1876–1945), politician
- Anna de Noailles (1876–1933), writer
- Paul Franz (1876–1950), opera singer
- Charles Dubois (1877–1965), archaeologist
- Gabriel Hatton (1877–1949), racing car driver
- Pierre Herlofson (1877–1969), architect
- Georges Johin (1877–1955), croquet player
- Raymond Roussel (1877–1933), writer and chess theorist
- Jean Julien Champagne (1877–1932), alchemist and writer
- André Maginot (1877–1932), politician
- Maurice Farman (1877–1964), track cyclist, automobile racing driver, aviation pioneer and entrepreneur
- Léon Flameng (1877–1917), racing cyclist
- Emanuel Ypsilanti (1877–1940), Greek diplomat and politician
- Charles Mantoux (1877-1947), physician
- Jean Billiter (1877–1965), chemist
- André Vacherot (1877-1924), tennis player
- Jane Bathori (1877-1970), singer
- Hermann Jacques Jordan (1877–1943), German-Dutch zoologist
- Paul Follot (1877-1941), designer
- Georges Jacob (1877–1950), organist, improviser and composer
- Joanni Perronet (1877–1950), fencer
- Édouard Bénédictus (1878–1930), painter, composer, writer and chemist
- Louis Marlio (1878–1952), industrialist and civil servant
- Jean Becquerel (1878–1953), physicist
- André Citroën (1878-1935), automobile designer
- Mirra Alfassa (1878–1973), philosopher
- Albert Boas (1878–1950), German judge
- Marcel Cadolle (1878–1956), cyclist
- Albert Champion (1878–1927), French-American racing driver
- Albert Colomb (1878–1941), racing car driver
- Albert Grenier (1878–1961), historian, religious scholar and Roman provincial archaeologist
- Fernand Gabriel (1878–1943), racing car driver
- Nicole Girard-Mangin (1878-1919), doctor
- Paul Pelliot (1878–1945), sinologist and Central Asian researcher
- Georges Plasse (1878–1948), painter
- Jean Gallon (1878–1959), composer and composition teacher
- Georges de la Nézière (1878–1914), track and field athlete
- Henri Mulet (1878–1967), organist and composer
- Georges-Eugène-Emile Choquet (1878–1946), bishop
- Julie Manet (1878–1966), painter, art collector and patron
- Ludovic Rodolphe Pissarro (1878–1952), painter
- George Soulié de Morant (1878–1955), diplomat, sinologist and writer
- Henri Giraud (1879–1949), General
- Francis Picabia (1879–1953), writer, painter and graphic artist
- Henri Chrétien (1879–1956), astronomer, professor and inventor
- Jacques Copeau (1879–1949), theater director, actor and playwright
- Albert Taillandier (1879–?), Racing cyclist
- Robert Herold (1879–1938), Swiss lawyer and senior civil servant
- Henri Tauzin (1879–1918), hurdler
- Paul Poiret (1879–1944), fashion designer
- Henri-Pierre Roché (1879–1959), writer and art collector
- Marcel Tournier (1879–1951), harpist, composer and music teacher
- Léon Jouhaux (1879–1954), trade unionist and Nobel Prize winner
- Vladimir Aïtoff (1879–1963), medic and rugby union player
- Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann (1879–1933), interior and furniture designer
- Henri Casadesus (1879–1947), musician and composer
- Robert Kemp (1879–1959), literary and theater critic
- Maurice Delage (1879–1961), composer and pianist
- Jacques Liouville (1879–1960), medic, explorer and naturalist
- Maurice Vignerot (1879–1953), croquet player
- Louis Charles Breguet (1880–1955), aircraft designer and a co-founder of Air France
- Louis Halphen (1880–1950), historian
- Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen (1880–1923), aristocrat, author and poet
- Pierre Champion (1880–1942), historian, medievalist and Romanist
- Gustav Rau (1880–1954), hippologist
- Harry Baur (1880–1943), actor
- Jules Bloch (1880–1953), Indologist and linguist
- Albert Champoudry (1880–1933), middle and long distance runner
- Albert Octave Etévé (1880–1976), aviation pioneer
- André Derain (1880–1954), artist
- Paul Haviland (1880–1950), American-French photographer, writer and art critic
- Edouard Taylor (1880–1903), track cyclist
- Lucien Bechmann (1880–1968), architect
- Henri Aldebert (1880–1961), winter sports enthusiast
- Victor Thuau (1880–1964), track cyclist
- Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht (1880–1965), conductor and composer
- Edmond Bauer (1880–1963), physicist
- Albert Léon Guérard (1880–1959), American literary scholar and university professor
- André Bruère (1880–1943), diplomat
- Pierre Boutroux (1880–1922), mathematician and historian of science
- Edgar Brandt (1880–1960), blacksmith, weapons engineer and entrepreneur
1881 to 1885
- Albert Corey (1881–?), Long distance runner
- Lucien Rosengart (1881–1976), engineer and industrialist
- Gaston Gallimard (1881–1975), publisher
- Gladys Marie Deacon (1881–1977), mistress
- Eugène Schueller (1881–1957), founder and head of the French cosmetics group L'Oréal
- Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958), writer and Nobel Prize winner
- Fernande Olivier (1881–1966), partner and muse of Pablo Picasso
- Alexandre Lippmann (1881–1960), sword fencer and Olympic champion
- Paul Fauchet (1881–1937), organist and composer
- Henri Piéron (1881–1964), psychologist
- Octave Aubry (1881-1946), historian and writer
- André Salmon (1881–1969), poet and art critic
- Louis Bastien (1881–1963), track cyclist, fencer and Olympic champion
- Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881–1957), aviation and rocket pioneer
- René Cresté (1881–1922), silent film actor and director
- Albert Gleizes (1881–1953), painter and writer
- Paul Rosenberg (1881–1959), art dealer and gallery owner
- Paul de Castro (1882–1940), painter
- Louis-Jules Gernet (1882–1962), Graecist and anthropologist
- Charles Edmond Kayser (1882–1965), painter, graphic artist and draftsman
- Fernand Canelle (1882–1951), football player
- Darius Paul Dassault (1882–1969), General
- Élise Deroche (1882–1919), first woman in the world to obtain a pilot's license
- Robert Falco (1882–1960), judge
- Gaston Lachaise (1882-1935), French-American sculptor
- Jean-José Frappa (1882–1939), film critic, journalist and writer
- Raoul Nordling (1882–1962), Swedish diplomat and businessman
- Jacques Stern (1882–1949), politician
- Oscar Schwab (1882–1955), Swiss-American track cyclist
- Henri Alphonse Barnoin (1882–1935), painter
- Marcel Samuel-Rousseau (1882–1955), composer
- Jacques Gréber (1882–1962), landscape architect
- Max Décugis (1882–1978), tennis player
- Charles Simon (1882–1915), athlete and sports official
- Charles Du Bos (1882–1939), writer and literary critic
- Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), philosopher
- Adolf Abel (1882–1968), German architect and university professor
- Jean Durand (1882-1946), director
- Raymond Escholier (1882–1971), museum curator, politician, journalist, author, art critic and biographer
- Sylvie (1883–1970), actress
- Armand Dufaux (1883–1941), Franco-Swiss aviation pioneer, inventor and designer
- Roger Broders (1883–1953), illustrator and poster artist
- Charles Bilot (1883–1912), soccer player and doctor
- Maurice del Valle (1883–1965), ice hockey goalkeeper
- Odette Talazac (1883–1948), actress
- Albert Clément (1883–1907), racing car driver
- Maurice Delépine (1883–1960), lawyer
- Maxim Zetkin (1883–1965), German politician and surgeon
- Ernest Psichari (1883–1914), writer and soldier
- Joe Hamman (1883–1974), actor, director and illustrator
- Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), poet and painter
- Augustin Barié (1883–1915), organist and composer
- Pola Gauguin (1883–1961), Danish-Norwegian painter, art critic and biographer
- Charles Piard (1883–?), Track cyclist and world champion
- Henri Maspero (1883–1945), sinologist
- Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960), linguist
- Edgar Varèse (1883–1965), American composer and conductor
- Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955), painter
- Maurice Bedel (1883–1954), writer and novelist
- Maurice Raynal (1884–1954), art critic
- Albert Wolff (1884–1970), conductor and composer
- Marcel Cohen (1884–1974), linguist, Ethiopist, Semitist, Amharist and Romanist
- Robert de Traz (1884–1951), Swiss writer
- Pierre Jolibois (1884-1954), chemist
- Rita Jolivet (1884–1971), American theater and silent film actress
- Jean-Richard Bloch (1884–1947), writer and critic
- Étienne Gilson (1884–1978), philosopher and historian
- Georges Duhamel (1884–1966), writer
- Jean Perrier (1884–1942), film architect
- Armand Massard (1884–1971), sword fencer
- Jean Lacroix (1884–1971), fencer
- Henri Lévy-Bruhl (1884–1964), sociologist
- Léon Poirier (1884–1968), film director and screenwriter
- Eugène Christophe (1885–1970), racing cyclist
- Camille Chautemps (1885–1963), politician
- Paul-Émile Bécat (1885–1960), painter, draftsman and etcher
- George Fitzmaurice (1885–1940), American film director
- Pierre Idrac (1885-1935), meteorologist
- Henri Laurens (1885–1954), sculptor and draftsman
- Odette Le Fontenay (1885–1965), opera singer and vocal teacher
- André Tison (1885–1963), track and field athlete
- Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), actor
- Robert Delaunay (1885–1941), painter
- Kostja Zetkin (1885–1980), German doctor, economist and politician
- René Sturel (1885–1914), Romanist and Renaissance specialist
- Maurice Dekobra (1885–1973), writer, journalist and translator
- André Gailhard (1885–1966), composer
- Raymond de Pezzer (1885–1924), composer
- Hellmut Späth (1885–1945), German tree nursery owner
- Jean Maspero (1885–1915), papyrologist
1886 to 1890
- Marthe Hanau (1886–1935), investment fraud
- Georges Painvin (1886–1980), geologist and entrepreneur
- Maurice Desfassiaux (1886–1956), cameraman
- Michel Brusselmans (1886–1960), Belgian composer
- Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886–1945), architect
- Hermine David (1886–1970), draftsman and painter
- Francis Biddle (1886–1968), judge
- George Cœdès (1886–1969), Southeast Asia researcher and Thaiist
- Berthe Bernage (1886–1972), writer
- Paul Lévy (1886–1971), mathematician
- José Delaquerrière (1886–1978), French-Canadian singer, composer and music teacher
- Ernest Friederich (1886–1954), racing car driver
- Charles Bedaux (1886–1944), management consultant
- Jean-Paulin Niboyet (1886–1952), legal scholar
- Fernand Crommelynck (1886–1970), Belgian playwright
- François Piazzoli (1886–1960), racing car driver
- Louis Bonne (1887–1974), racing car driver
- Lucien Erb (1887-?), Racing car driver
- Pierre Failliot (1887–1935), track and field athlete and rugby union player
- Emile Fraysse (around 1887–?), French-American cyclist and cycling official
- Kate Gillou-Fenwick (1887–1964), tennis player
- André Saint-Germain (1887–1973), actor
- Georges Lepape (1887–1971), fashion draftsman, poster artist and engraver
- André Trousselier (1887–1968), racing cyclist
- Jorge Chávez Dartnell (1887–1910), Peruvian-French aviation pioneer
- Marcel Peyrouton (1887–1983), colonial administrator, diplomat and politician
- Louis Mathias (1887–1965), religious priest and Roman Catholic archbishop
- Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), composer, pianist, conductor, music theorist and teacher
- Jacques Margueritte (1887-?), Racing car driver
- Jean Patou (1887–1936), fashion designer, costume designer and designer
- Henri Joseph Oberthür (1887–1983), entomologist and surgeon
- Gaston Modot (1887–1970), film actor
- Louis Rigal (1887–1974), racing car driver
- Gabrielle Lespinasse (1888 – around 1970), muse of Pablo Picasso
- Paul Allix (1888–1974), organist and composer
- Robert Bloch (1888–1984), racing car driver
- Claude Delvincourt (1888–1954), composer
- Georges Bernanos (1888–1948), writer
- Paul Morand (1888–1976), storyteller and diplomat
- Léon Noël (1888–1987), politician and ambassador
- André Favory (1888–1937), painter
- Pierre Charpentier (1888–?), Ice hockey player
- Roger Ducret (1888–1962), fencer
- Marcel L'Herbier (1888–1979), film director, author, screenwriter and film producer
- Louis Durey (1888–1979), composer
- Armand Léon Annet (1888–1973), politician
- Maurice Parturier (1888–1980), doctor, Romance scholar and literary historian
- Robert Bossuat (1888–1968), Romanist and Medievalist
- Maurice Chevalier (1888–1972), actor and chanson singer
- Eirik Labonne (1888–1971), ambassador
- Carlos Mauricio Valenti Perrillat (1888–1912), painter
- Raoul Heide (1888–1978), Norwegian fencer
- Carlos Victor Aramayo (1889–1982), mining entrepreneur
- Jean Babelon (1889–1978), numismatist
- René Gaudin (1889–1958), racing car driver
- Henri Pélissier (1889–1935), racing cyclist
- E. Robert Schmitz (1889–1949), pianist and music teacher
- Musidora (1889–1957), actress, screenwriter, film director, journalist and writer
- Suzanne Bianchetti (1889–1936), actress
- Émile Henriot (1889–1961), journalist, writer and literary critic
- Pierre Vellones (1889–1939), composer
- Jean Devoissoux (1889–1945), track cyclist and world champion
- Pierre-Étienne Flandin (1889–1958), lawyer and politician
- Eugen Diesel (1889–1970), German writer
- Jacques Chaudron (1889–1969), ice hockey player
- Jim Gérald (1889–1958), actor
- Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), writer, director and painter
- Marco de Gastyne (1889–1982), cartoonist, film director, screenwriter and film architect
- Géo André (1889–1943), track and field athlete and rugby union player
- Gérard de Courcelles (1889–1927), racing car driver
- Marcel René von Herrfeldt (1889–1965), German nude painter
- Lucien Lelong (1889–1958), couturier
- Abel Gance (1889–1981), film pioneer
- Achille Joinard (1889–1958), sports official and nationalist
- Anne-Marie Durand-Wever (1889–1970), German gynecologist and co-founder of Pro Familia
- Albert Dieudonné (1889–1976), actor, author and director
- Damia (1889–1978), singer and actress
- Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), philosopher
- Marguerite Alibert (1890–1971), prostitute and socialite
- Pierre Canivet (1890-1982), curler
- Georges Casse (1890–1948), racing car driver
- Paul Gros (1890–1961), racing car driver
- René Labouchère (1890–1968), aviator and racing car driver
- Carlos R. Piñeyro (1890–?), Argentine ambassador
- Georges Rigal (1890–1974), swimmer and water polo player
- Vincent Willem van Gogh (1890–1978), heir to the legacy of his uncle Vincent van Gogh
- Germaine Lubin (1890–1979), opera singer
- Amedeo Polledri (1890–1918), Italian track cyclist
- Henri Decoin (1890–1969), swimmer, water polo player, screenwriter and film director
- Fernand Holweck (1890–1941), physicist and resistance fighter
- Jacques Ibert (1890–1962), composer
- Eugène Maës (1890-1945), football player
- Jean Théodore Delacour (1890–1985), American ornithologist
- André Gobert (1890–1951), tennis player
- Léon Parisot (1890–1971), track cyclist
1891 to 1895
- Paul Guillaume (1891–1934), art dealer and collector
- André Huret (1891–1964), racing cyclist and entrepreneur
- Laurence Vail (1891–1968), poet, sculptor and painter
- André Coyne (1891-1960), engineer
- Abel Smeets (1891–1969), racing car driver
- Maurice Yvain (1891-1965), composer
- Georges Migot (1891–1976), composer, painter and poet
- Jean Reutlinger (1891–1914), photographer
- Roland-Manuel (1891–1966), music critic and composer
- Henry E. Sigerist (1891–1957), Swiss medical historian and theorist
- Henri Arnaud (1891–1956), middle-distance runner
- Françoise Rosay (1891–1974), actress
- Roger Auboin (1891–1974), economist and banking specialist
- Maurice Rostand (1891–1968), writer
- René Herbst (1891–1982), designer and interior architect
- Pierre Humbert (1891–1953), mathematician
- Marguerite Boulc'h (1891–1951), chanson singer and actress
- Marcel Lods (1891–1978), architect and urban planner
- Marcel Georges Lucien Grandjany (1891–1975), harpist, teacher, composer and poet
- Noël Gallon (1891–1966), composer and composition teacher
- Honoré Barthélémy (1891–1964), racing cyclist
- Lilly Ackermann (1891–1976), German actress and acting teacher
- Raymond Bernard (1891–1977), film director, screenwriter and actor
- Jacques Berlioz (1891–1975), zoologist
- Gaby Jouval (1892–1946), Swiss fashion designer and entrepreneur
- Marcel Dassault (1892–1986), aviation entrepreneur
- Pierre Abraham (1892–1974), writer, journalist and Romanist
- Marcel Michelot (1892–1927), racing car driver
- Robert Puiseux (1892-1991), manager
- Georges Wildenstein (1892–1963), art dealer, art historian, art critic and editor
- Eugene Houdry (1892–1962), engineer
- Adrienne Monnier (1892–1955), bookseller and publisher
- Pierre Chayriguès (1892-1965), football player
- Suzanne Lalique-Haviland (1892–1989), painter, designer, set designer and costume designer
- Paul Bastid (1892–1974), lawyer and politician
- Adolf Galliker (1892–1959), Swiss businessman, journalist and writer
- Jesse DuMond (1892–1976), American experimental physicist
- Nissim de Camondo (1892–1917), officer, banker and air force pilot
- Geneviève Tabouis (1892–1985), journalist
- Myran Eknayan (1892–1985), diamond dealer and art collector
- Marcel Varnel (1892–1947), director and producer
- Marius Casadesus (1892–1981), musician and composer
- Lucien N. Andriot (1892–1979), cameraman
- Pierre Drieu la Rochelle (1893–1945), writer
- Freya Madeline Stark (1893–1993), English explorer and travel writer
- Joseph Kampé de Fériet (1893–1982), applied mathematician and university professor
- Violette Morris (1893–1944), professional athlete and collaborator
- Peter Revertera-Salandra (1893–1966), Deputy Regional Leader of the Upper Austrian Home Guard
- Bernard Faÿ (1893–1978), historian
- Gina Manès (1893–1989), actress
- Jacques Chastenet (1893–1978), historian, diplomat and journalist
- Jean de Marguenat (1893–1956), director, screenwriter and racing car driver
- René Mourlon (1893–1977), sprinter
- Germaine Hommel (1893–1982), Swiss escape helper and children's home manager
- Lili Boulanger (1893–1918), composer
- Lily Laskine (1893–1988), harpist
- Jacques-Napoléon Faure-Biguet (1893–1954), journalist, writer and translator
- Charles Cooper (1893–1964), British racing car designer and racing team owner
- Raymond Loewy (1893–1986), French-American industrial designer
- Max de Pourtalès (1893–?), Racing car driver
- Luc Benoist (1893–1980), art historian, author and essayist
- Armand Mayer (1894–1986), civil engineer
- Henri Stempffer (1894–1978), entomologist
- Léon Deloy (1894–1969), marksman and radio amateur
- André Marchal (1894–1980), organist and music teacher
- Georges de Morsier (1894–1982), Swiss neurologist and psychiatrist
- Francis Pélissier (1894–1959), racing cyclist
- Marie Dubas (1894–1972), chansonnette
- Jean Renoir (1894–1979), film director, screenwriter and actor
- Jean Rostand (1894–1977), biologist, philosopher and writer
- Paul Baudouin (1894–1964), politician
- Georges Guynemer (1894–1917), fighter pilot
- Irma Goecke (1895–1976), German tapestry artist
- Jane Marken (1895–1976), actress
- Albert Divo (1895–1966), racing car driver
- André Schaeffner (1895–1980), ethnomusicologist
- Victor Schiff (1895–1953), German journalist and author
- William Laurentz (1895-1922), tennis player
- Jean-Michel Frank (1895–1941), furniture designer
- Dane Rudhyar (1895–1985), composer and painter
- Pierre Sergent (1895–?), Track cyclist
- Christian Herter (1895–1966), American politician
- Fernand Mourlot (1895–1988), publisher
- Henry de Montherlant (1895–1972), writer, playwright and essayist
- René Mayer (1895–1972), politician
- Jacques Brugnon (1895–1978), tennis player
- Maurice Lehmann (1895–1974), theater and film director, theater director, producer and actor
- Henri Diamant-Berger (1895–1972), film director and producer
- Suzanne Schreiber (1895–1976), politician
- Raymond Lebègue (1895–1984), Romance studies and literary scholar
- André Frédéric Cournand (1895–1988), French-American medic
- Robert Courrier (1895–1986), biologist and physician
- Basil Liddell Hart (1895–1970), British military historian, correspondent and strategist
- Suzy Prim (1895–1991), actress
- Georges Dandelot (1895–1975), composer and music teacher
- Georges Halbout du Tanney (1895–1986), sculptor
1896 to 1900
- Etienne Guilhou (1896–1966), Romanist
- Sarah Fischer (1896–1975), Canadian singer and music teacher
- Jean Wiener (1896–1982), film composer and pianist
- Jean Tissier (1896–1973), actor
- Théodore Fraenkel (1896–1964), doctor and writer
- Jean Orcel (1896–1978), physicist, mineralogist and chemist
- François Hugues (1896–1965), football player and coach
- Jacques Rueff (1896–1978), politician as well as economic and financial expert
- Robert Dussaut (1896–1969), composer and music theorist
- Jean Brunier (1896–1981), racing cyclist
- Pierre Clause (1897–1967), racing car driver
- Sosthènes de la Rochefoucauld (1897–1970), racing car driver
- André Zucca (1897–1973), photographer
- André Dubonnet (1897–1980), military pilot, sportsman, racing driver, entrepreneur and inventor
- Maurice Franck (1897–1983), composer and music teacher
- Georges Périnal (1897–1965), cameraman
- Bernard Ferdinand Lyot (1897–1952), astronomer
- Henri Frager (1897–1944), architect
- Jean Bernard-Lévy (1897–1940), football official
- Georges-Henri Rivière (1897–1985), ethnologist and museologist
- Stuart Cloete (1897–1976), South African writer
- Louis Jeantet (1897–1981), businessman
- Jean Puiforcat (1897–1945), goldsmith and silversmith
- Simone Plé-Caussade (1897–1986), composer, pianist and music teacher
- Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), physicist and chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Pierre Loeb (1897–1964), art dealer and gallery owner
- Louis Aragon (1897–1982), poet and writer
- Marcel Herrand (1897–1953), actor
- Charles Lacquehay (1897–1975), racing cyclist
- Germain Guibert (1897–1968), politician
- Charles Guilhem (1897–1975), bishop
- Georges Thill (1897–1984), opera singer
- Julien Carette (1897–1966), actor
- Jean Vaurez (1897–1981), racing car driver
- Roger Bourcier (1898–1959), racing car driver
- Jean Grenier (1898–1971), writer, philosopher and art critic
- Jean Charlot (1898–1979), painter and graphic artist
- Paul Fischer (1898-2003), zoologist
- Georges Dumézil (1898–1986), religious scholar and sociologist
- Reginald Marsh (1898–1954), painter
- André-Jean Festugière (1898–1982), religious historian and classical philologist
- Emmanuel Bove (1898–1945), writer
- Nicolas Hayer (1898–1978), cameraman
- Georges Abrial (1898–1970), aerodynamicist and promoter of gliding
- Jean Fautrier (1898–1964), artist
- Georg Wagener (1898–1985), German politician
- Étienne Decroux (1898–1991), actor and pantomime
- Eugène Beaudouin (1898–1983), architect and town planner
- Lucio Manuel Moreno Quintana (1898–1979), Argentine lawyer and diplomat
- Roger Hellot (1899–1968), racing car driver
- Georges Malkine (1898–1970), artist and actor
- Jacques Coutrot (1898–1965), fencer
- Maurice Martenot (1898–1980), musician and inventor
- Jean Grelaud (1898-2007), veteran
- René Clair (1898–1981), director and writer
- Jacques Stosskopf (1898–1944), naval officer
- Jacques Rigaut (1898–1929), poet and author
- Jean Hytier (1899–1983), author, Romance studies and literary scholar
- Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), pianist and composer
- Jeanne Blum (1899–1982), educator
- Jules Dewaquez (1899–1971), football player and coach
- André Durieux (1899–1951), Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher
- Robert Casadesus (1899–1972), pianist, piano teacher and composer
- Pierre Auger (1899–1993), physicist
- Eugène-Nestor de Kermadec (1899–1976), painter and graphic artist
- Jean-Albert Grégoire (1899–1992), engineer, inventor and automobile pioneer
- Philippe Bonnardel (1899–1953), football player
- Jean Cugnot (1899–1933), track cyclist and Olympic champion
- André Obrecht (1899–1985), executioner
- Edmond Michelet (1899–1970), politician
- Paul Nicolas (1899–1959), football player
- Sixto E. Durán-Ballén (1899–?), Ecuadorian diplomat
- Jean de Brunhoff (1899–1937), children's author
- Gaston Mottet (1899–1973), racing car driver
- Max Morise (1900–1973), writer, artist and actor
- Robert Ricard (1900–1984), historian, Romanist and Hispanist
- Yves Tanguy (1900–1955), painter
- Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie (1900–1969), officer and journalist
- Robert Le Vigan (1900–1972), actor
- Bernard Koopman (1900–1981), American mathematician
- Madeleine Renaud (1900–1994), stage and film actress
- Henri Jeanson (1900–1970), screenwriter
- Gina Cigna (1900–2001), Italian-French soprano and singing teacher
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Andrés Sás Orchassal (1900–1967), violinist and composer
- Raoul Ploquin (1900–1992), film producer, journalist, dialogue writer, occasional director and association official
- Robert Desnos (1900–1945), writer and journalist
- Amadeo Roldán (1900–1939), Cuban composer and violinist
- Marcel Paul (1900–1982), politician
- Marcel Duhamel (1900–1977), actor and author
- Marcel Dalio (1900–1983), actor
- Georges Gougenheim (1900–1972), Romance studies and linguist
- Roger Jean Heim (1900–1979), mycologist, director of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
- René Courtin (1900–1964), politician
- René Crevel (1900-1935), writer
- Jean Mantelet (1900–1991), entrepreneur
- René Delacroix (1900–1976), film director
- Julien Green (1900–1998), French-American writer
- Robert Florey (1900–1979), French-American director, screenwriter and actor
- Émile Compard (1900–1977), painter
- Jacques Krauss (1900–1957), film architect
- Luis Quintanilla del Valle (1900–1980), Mexican ambassador
- Isabelle Françoise Helene Marie d'Orléans (1900–1983), noblewoman
20th century
1901 to 1905
- Pierre Caron (1901–1971), screenwriter, film director and producer
- Roland Coty (1901–1963), entrepreneur and racing car driver
- Étienne Hirsch (1901–1994), mining engineer and politician
- Lucien Aguettand (1901–1989), film architect
- Marcelle Chantal (1901–1960), actress and singer
- Henri Trébor (1901–1969), racing car driver
- Alexandre Rignault (1901–1985), actor
- Henri Peyre (1901–1988), American Romance studies and literary scholar
- Paul Fritsch (1901-1970), boxer
- Robert Lebel (1901–1986), art and literary critic and author
- Jo Mielziner (1901–1976), American art director and production designer
- Gaston Palewski (1901–1984), politician
- Georges Chamarat (1901–1982), actor
- Jean Prouvé (1901–1984), architect and designer
- Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Michel Leiris (1901–1990), writer and ethnologist
- Olier Mordrel (1901–1985), architect, writer and nationalist
- Jean Boyer (1901–1965), director and screenwriter
- Jacques Benoist-Méchin (1901–1983), intellectual, journalist, historian, musicologist and politician
- Claude Aveline (1901-1992), writer
- Francis Perrin (1901-1992), physicist
- Andrée Brunet (1901–1993), figure skater
- François Le Lionnais (1901–1984), writer, science journalist and publisher
- Albert-Marie Schmidt (1901–1966), Romance studies and literary scholar
- André Malraux (1901–1976), writer, screenwriter, film director, adventurer and politician
- Jean Humbert (1901–1980), philologist
- Robert-Jean Longuet (1901–1987), lawyer and journalist
- Hubert Beuve-Méry (1902–1989), journalist and founding editor of the Le Monde newspaper
- Guy Bouriat (1902–1933), racing car driver
- Ginette Martenot (1902–1996), pianist, Ondes Martenot player and music teacher
- Arlette Marchal (1902–1984), actress
- Édouard-Félix Guyon (1902–?), Diplomat
- Marcel Rochas (1902–1955), fashion designer
- Vercors (1902-1991), writer
- Raymond Naves (1902–1944), Romance studies, literary scholar and resident
- Madeleine Milhaud (1902–2008), librettist, actress and author
- Denise Colomb (1902–2004), photographer
- Henri Garat (1902–1959), singer, dancer and actor
- Philippe de Rothschild (1902–1988), entrepreneur and racing car driver
- Jean-Philippe Lauer (1902–2001), architect and Egyptologist
- Georges Friedmann (1902–1977), sociologist
- Wilfrid Baumgartner (1902–1978), banker and politician
- Georges van Parys (1902–1971), film composer
- Jean Royère (1902–1981), furniture designer and interior decorator
- Alf Lombard (1902–1996), Swedish Romanist and Romanist
- Christian Marie de Castries (1902–1991), militarist, commander in the Indochina War
- Georges Lacombe (1902–1990), film director
- Christian Bérard (1902–1949), artist, illustrator and designer
- Denise Bellon (1902–1999), photographer
- René Hamel (1902–1992), racing cyclist
- René Floriot (1902–1975), lawyer
- Marie-Laure de Noailles (1902–1970), writer, poet and painter
- Pierre Verger (1902–1996), photographer
- Paul Bontemps (1902-1981), track and field athlete
- Pierre Devambez (1902–1980), classical archaeologist
- Jean Painlevé (1902–1989), documentary filmmaker, production designer and actor
- René Cottet (1902–1992), painter and engraver
- Raymond Suvigny (1903–1945), weightlifter and Olympic champion
- Jacques Heurgon (1903–1995), classical philologist and ancient historian
- Fernand Oubradous (1903–1986), composer, bassoonist and music teacher
- Charles Pélissier (1903–1959), racing cyclist
- Robert Kühner (1903-1996), mycologist
- Henry Corbin (1903–1978), philosopher, theologian and professor
- Paul Lemerle (1903-1989), Byzantinist
- Max Aub (1903–1972), Spanish writer
- Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll (1903–1973), Scottish peer
- Pierre Brossolette (1903–1944), politician and journalist
- Philippe Erlanger (1903–1987), journalist, art critic, historian and civil servant
- Pascal Pia (1903–1979), writer, journalist, illustrator and scholar
- Lucienne Boyer (1903-1983), singer
- Claudette Colbert (1903-1996), French-American actress
- Diana Vreeland (1903–1989), American fashion designer, columnist, critic and editor
- Colette Peignot (1903–1938), writer
- Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999), architect and designer
- Pierre Chouard (1903-1983), botanist
- Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903–1987), university lecturer and publicist
- Georg Vorhauer (1903–1987), German painter, draftsman and sculptor
- Claude Arrieu (1903–1990), composer
- Roland de Vaux (1903–1971), Dominican, biblical scholar and archaeologist
- Irina Pawlowna Paley (1903–1990), granddaughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia
- Henry Deyglun (1903–1971), Canadian actor, director, and writer
- Pierre Wuilleumier (1904–1979), classical philologist, ancient historian and archaeologist
- Henri-Georges Adam (1904–1967), university professor, painter, graphic artist, sculptor and designer
- René Sergent (1904–1984), politician
- Seán MacBride (1904–1988), politician and Nobel Prize winner
- Robert Amy (1904–1986), architect, building researcher and classical archaeologist
- Gilbert Grandval (1904–1981), resistance fighter and politician
- Philippe de Gunzburg (1904–1986), resistance fighter and automobile racing driver
- Jacques Mairesse (1904–1940), football player, trade unionist and non-fiction author
- Jacques Le Cordier (1904–2003), clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop
- René Stourm (1904–1990), bishop
- Jean Gabin (1904–1976), actor and chansonnier
- Daniel Guérin (1904–1988), anarchist and author
- René Lacoste (1904–1996), tennis player and fashion designer
- Aimé Bazin (1904–1984), film architect
- Georges Hugon (1904–1980), composer
- Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (1904-1993), businessman
- Christian-Jaque (1904–1994), director
- Frédéric Longuet (1904–1987), painter
- Jean Dasté (1904–1994), actor and theater director
- Jean Macaigne (1904–1995), aviation industry pioneer
- Karl-Jean Longuet (1904–1981), sculptor
- Roger Guérillot (1904–1971), French-Central African politician and diplomat
- Jacques Tourneur (1904–1977), American film director
- Jean Darbelnet (1904–1990), linguist, English and Romance scholar
- Elida Maria Szarota (1904–1994), Polish Germanist
- Ève Curie (1904–2007), writer, journalist and political advisor
- Nicolas de Gunzburg (1904–1981), banker
- Jean René Bazaine (1904–2001), painter
- Vladimir Pozner (1905–1992), novelist and essayist
- Eli Lotar (1905–1969), photographer and cameraman
- Henri Batiffol (1905–1989), legal scholar
- Raymond Aron (1905–1983), political scientist, sociologist and publicist
- Paul-Pierre Philippe (1905–1984), cardinal
- Germaine Rouault (1905–1982), French racing car driver
- Albert Simonin (1905–1980), author and lexicographer
- Jean Vigo (1905–1934), film director
- Robert-Léon Wagner (1905–1982), Romanist
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), philosopher
- Jacques Goddet (1905-2000), sports journalist
- Pierre Braunberger (1905–1990), film producer
- Paul Frankeur (1905–1974), actor
- Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin (1905–1972), mathematician
- André Jolivet (1905–1974), composer
- Jean Keller (1905–1990), middle and long distance runner
- Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001), writer, translator and painter
- Marcel Galey (1905-1991), football player
- Raymond Klibansky (1905–2005), European-Canadian philosopher
- George Bernard Flahiff (1905–1989), Canadian Archbishop and Cardinal
- Natalia Pawlowna Paley (1905–1981), Russian fashion icon and actress
- André Bac (1905–1989), cameraman
- Pierre Brasseur (1905–1972), actor
- Pierre Levegh (1905–1955), Formula 1 racing driver
- Amédée Borsari (1905–1999), composer
- Henri Guérin (1905–1967), fencer
1906 to 1910
- Jean-Georges Branche (1906–1973), racing car driver
- André Coutant (1906–1983), film technician and engineer
- Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (1906–1979), Mexican archaeologist
- Jacqueline Thome-Patenôtre (1906–1995), politician
- Colette Darfeuil (1906–1998), actress
- Roger Frison-Roche (1906–1999), writer, journalist and adventurer
- Yves Baudrier (1906–1988), composer
- Jeanne Aubert (1906–1988), singer and actress
- Jean Sablon (1906-1994), singer
- Lucette Descaves (1906-1993), pianist
- Pierre Boileau (1906-1989), author
- André Weil (1906–1998), mathematician
- Otto-Theodor Brouwer (1906–1983), German politician
- Huguette M. Clark (1906–2011), American millionaire and eccentric
- Pierre Fournier (1906-1986), cellist
- Georges Hugnet (1906–1974), poet
- Marcel Carné (1906–1996), film director
- Maurice Archambaud (1906–1955), racing cyclist
- Luis Federico Leloir (1906–1987), Argentine biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Jacques Lacarrière (1906–2005), ice hockey player and sports official
- Georges Posener (1906–1988), Egyptologist
- Jacques Becker (1906–1960), film director
- Maurice Sachs (1906–1945), writer, adventurer and collaborator during the Nazi era
- Mireille Hartuch (1906–1996), singer, composer and actress
- Raymond Triboulet (1906–2006), politician, member of the National Assembly
- Antoine Beyens (1906–1995), Belgian diplomat
- Jean Filliozat (1906–1982), medic
- René Paulin Jacobé de Naurois (1906–2006), Catholic clergyman and ornithologist
- Jean Daninos (1906–2001), entrepreneur and car designer
- Andreas Feininger (1906–1999), American photographer
- Marc-Armand Lallier (1906–1988), Roman Catholic Archbishop
- Édouard Artigas (1906-2001), fencer
- Roger Vivier (1907–1998), fashion designer for shoes
- Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982), politician
- Robert Lefebvre (1907–1989), cameraman
- Joseph C. Brun (1907–1998), French-American cameraman
- Jean Bernard (1907–2006), medical doctor and hematologist
- Robert Vernay (1907–1979), film director, production manager and screenwriter
- Hervé Alphand (1907–1994), diplomat
- Robert Giordani (1907–1981), film architect
- Georges Speicher (1907–1978), racing cyclist
- Annabella (1907-1996), film actress
- Roland Mousnier (1907–1993), historian
- Francis Ambrière (1907–1998), author and Romanist
- Jean Louis (1907–1997), French-American costume and fashion designer
- Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour (1907–1989), lawyer and politician
- Paul Bacon (1907–1999), trade unionist and politician
- Raymond Savignac (1907–2002), graphic artist and graphic designer
- Pierre Dreyfus (1907–1994), politician and industrial manager
- Tony Aubin (1907–1981), composer
- André Cailleux (1907–1986), geologist
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), writer, philosopher and feminist
- George Langelaan (1908–1972), British writer and journalist
- Stéphane Grappelli (1908–1997), jazz violinist
- Albert Lautman (1908–1944), philosopher
- Jacques Herbrand (1908–1931), logician
- Jean Effel (1908–1982), cartoonist and illustrator
- Jean-Pierre Wimille (1908–1949), racing car driver
- Balthus (1908–2001), Polish-French painter
- Pierre Boucher (1908-2000), photographer
- Jacques Bingen (1908–1944), member of the Resistance
- Loulou Gasté (1908–1995), composer
- Robert Hugues-Lambert (1908–1945), actor and Nazi victim
- Raymond Gabutti (1908–1985), film architect
- Émile Tricon (1908-2000), politician
- Ray Ventura (1908–1979), orchestra leader and music editor
- Philippe Brun (1908–1994), jazz musician
- Dominique de Ménil (1908–1998), American patron of the arts
- Pierre Louis-Dreyfus (1908–2011), racing driver
- Henri Marquet (1908–?), Screenwriter and assistant director
- Raoul Kraushaar (1908-2001), American composer
- René Poyen (1908–1968), actor
- Pierre Dux (1908–1990), actor, theater director and theater director
- Pauline Trigère (1908–2002), French-American fashion designer and costume designer
- Françoise Dolto (1908–1988), pediatrician and psychoanalyst
- Raymond Peynet (1908-1999), graphic artist
- Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (1908–2002), organist and composer
- Pauline Fairfax-Potter, Baroness de Rothschild (1908–1976), American fashion icon, designer and writer
- Simone Weil (1909–1943), philosopher and author
- Robert Judet (1909–1980), orthopedic surgeon
- Robert Velter (1909–1991), comic artist
- Henri Alekan (1909-2001), cameraman
- Claude Cahen (1909–1991), historian
- Jacques Droz (1909–1998), historian
- André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909–1991), writer
- Marian Danysz (1909–1983), Polish experimental physicist
- René Kaech (1909–1989), Swiss doctor and writer
- Daniel Mayer (1909–1996), journalist, politician and member of the Resistance
- Robert Jablon (1909–2008), German-French lawyer
- Kira Kirillowna Romanowa (1909–1967), Russian nobleman
- Bernard Chenot (1909–1995), politician, judge and university professor
- Guy de Rothschild (1909–2007), banker and industrialist
- Jean Hamburger (1909–1992), physician and essayist
- Pascal Themanlys (1909–2000), Israeli poet, Zionist and Kabbalist
- Buddy Featherstonhaugh (1909–1976), British band leader, saxophonist and clarinetist
- Marcel Stern (1909–1989), composer and violinist
- Robert Mercier (1909–1958), football player
- Monique Haas (1909–1987), pianist
- Jean-Paul Le Chanois (1909–1985), screenwriter and film director
- Affonso Eduardo Reidy (1909–1964), Brazilian architect
- Rogelio Rafael Tristany (1910-?), Argentine diplomat
- Robert Ilse (1910–1947), German racing cyclist
- Pierre Souquès (1910–2007), politician, member of the National Assembly
- Alain de Rothschild (1910–1982), banker and president of Jewish organizations
- Jacques Monod (1910–1976), biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Camille Cottin (1910–1988), football player and coach
- Elsa Barraine (1910–1999), composer
- Marcel Mérigonde (1910–1984), politician, member of the National Assembly
- Jean Guibé (1910-1999), herpetologist
- Jacques Decour (1910–1942), author and resistance fighter
- Robert Buron (1910–1973), politician, member of the National Assembly
- Jacques Chailley (1910–1999), musicologist, music teacher and composer
- Georges Effrosse (1910–1944), violinist
- Jacques Nathan-Garamond (1910–2001), graphic artist and painter
- Roger Jean Gautheret (1910–1997), botanist
- Charles Ernest Lucet (1910–1990), ambassador
- Stephan Lackner (1910–2000), German-American author and art collector
- Pierre Arraut (1910–1983), politician, member of the National Assembly
- Hélène de Beauvoir (1910–2001), painter
- René Le Grevès (1910–1946), cyclist
- Pierre Joubert (1910–2002), painter and draftsman
- Jean-Paul Vinay (1910–1999), Canadian phonetician, English and Romance scholar and linguist
- Philippe Agostini (1910-2001), cameraman
- Willy Ronis (1910–2009), photographer
- Yvette Lebon (1910-2014), actress
- Pierre Bézier (1910–1999), engineer
- Paule Maurice (1910–1967), composer
- Alain Le Ray (1910–2007), general and resistance fighter
- Paulette Dubost (1910–2011), actress
- Aurélie Nemours (1910–2005), painter
- Jean-Marcel Jeanneney (1910-2010), politician
- Jean Amila (1910-1995), writer
- Jean Genet (1910–1986), novelist, playwright and poet
1911 to 1915
- Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911–2001), actor and screenwriter
- Charles Delaunay (1911–1988), music critic
- René Duverger (1911–1983), weightlifter
- Maurice Schumann (1911–1998), politician
- Jerry Mengo (1911–1979), jazz musician, band leader, arranger and composer
- Georges Dargaud (1911–1990), publisher
- Nicole Vedrès (1911–1965), film director, writer and film theorist
- Gilles Grangier (1911–1996), film director and screenwriter
- Maurice Colasson (1911–1992), film architect
- Maurice Nadeau (1911–2013), writer, literary critic, editor and publisher
- Maurice Allais (1911–2010), engineer and economist
- André Dewavrin (1911–1998), founder of the Free French Intelligence Service
- Émile Gilioli (1911–1977), sculptor and designer
- Guy Michaud (1911–2006), Romance studies, literary scholar and cultural scientist
- Jacques Isorni (1911–1995), lawyer and politician, member of the National Assembly
- Marcel Storr (1911–1976), painter
- Robert Marjolin (1911–1986), European politician
- André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986), archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist and anthropologist
- Henri de France (1911–1986), engineer
- Roger Arnaldez (1911–2006), Islamic scholar
- Jean-Berthold Mahn (1911–1944), historian and Cistercian researcher
- Maurice Perrin (1911–1992), track cyclist and Olympic champion
- Yolande Beekman (1911-1944), agent
- Jacqueline Piatigorsky (1911–2012), Franco-American chess player, tennis player, sculptor and patron
- Pierre Uri (1911–1992), economist
- Boris Taslitzky (1911–2005), painter
- Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), French-American sculptor and painter
- Jean Boisselier (1912–1996), archaeologist
- Michel Debré (1912–1996), politician
- Raymond-Jacques Tournay (1912–1999), biblical exegete, Assyriologist and Dominican
- René Wheeler (1912–2000), writer, screenwriter, dialogue writer and director
- Ginette Leclerc (1912–1992), actress
- Hans Timerding (1912–1989), German actor, radio play and voice actor
- Jacques Scherer (1912–1997), Romance studies, literary scholar and university lecturer
- Hugues Panassié (1912–1974), music critic
- Joseph Reinhardt (1912–1982), guitarist
- Robert Dorfmann (1912–1999), film producer
- Jacques Poch (1912–2009), entrepreneur and racing car driver
- Pierre Lelong (1912–2011), mathematician
- Yvonne Girard (1912-?), Badminton player
- François Bloch-Lainé (1912–2002), politician
- Henri Tribout de Morembert (1912–1996), historian and archivist
- Jacques de Bourbon Busset (1912–2001), writer and diplomat
- Alix Combelle (1912-1978), tenor saxophonist
- Ralph Habib (1912–1969), film director and screenwriter
- Laureano Vallenilla Lanz (1912–1973), Venezuelan politician
- Paul-Marie Duval (1912–1997), ancient historian, archaeologist and Celtologist
- Robert Clavel (1912-1991), film architect
- Bertrand L. Goldschmidt (1912–2002), chemist, atomic physicist and diplomat
- Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (1912–1996), journalist, member of the Resistance
- Michel Maurice-Bokanowski (1912–2005), politician and senator
- André Chastel (1912–1990), art historian
- Pierre Grimal (1912–1996), classical philologist and ancient historian
- Christian Casadesus (1912–2014), actor and theater director
- Pierre Veuillot (1913–1968), clergyman, Archbishop of Paris and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- Max Théret (1913–2009), entrepreneur
- Arlette Leroi-Gourhan (1913–2005), prehistoric
- Jacqueline Vaudecrane (1913–2018), figure skater and figure skating coach
- Louis Bouyer (1913-2004), Catholic theologian
- Julien Buge (1913-1940), football player
- France Bloch-Sérazin (1913–1943), resistance fighter
- Jean-Pierre Hagnauer (1913–1986), ice hockey player
- Jean-Jacques Hatt (1913–1997), prehistoric
- Jean Bourgoin (1913–1991), cameraman
- Irène Joachim (1913–2001), soprano
- Charles Riegert (1913–1988), racing cyclist
- Oleg Cassini (1913-2006), American fashion designer
- Pierre Daninos (1913–2005), journalist and writer
- Denise René (1913–2012), art dealer
- Manfred Lehmbruck (1913–1992), German architect and university professor
- Maurice Françon (1913–1996), physicist
- André Lavagne (1913-2014), composer
- Georges Houot (1913–1977), naval officer and marine researcher
- Olivier Hussenot (1913–1978), film actor
- France Ellegaard (1913–1999), Danish pianist
- Armand Lanoux (1913–1983), writer
- Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt (1913–2011), Egyptologist
- Libertas Schulze-Boysen (1913–1942), German resistance fighter
- Charles Bettelheim (1913-2006), economist
- Jean Ramadier (1913–1968), colonial administrator
- Claude Renoir (1913–1993), cameraman
- Johnny Simone (1913–1967), entrepreneur and racing car driver
- Edmond Kaiser (1914–2000), writer and human rights activist
- Elisabeth Labrousse (1914–2000), religious historian and philosopher
- René Le Bègue (1914–1946), racing car driver
- Mischa Novy (1914-1963), violinist
- Robert Purrmann (1914–1992), German chemist
- Étienne Juillard (1914-2006), geographer
- Louis Pons (1914–1980), racing car driver
- André Revuz (1914–2008), mathematician
- Paul Tortelier (1914–1990), cellist
- Lilian Rolfe (1914–1945), British resistance fighter
- Raymond Bloch (1914–1997), etrusologist and classical philologist
- Toulo de Graffenried (1914–2007), Swiss automobile racing driver
- René Keller (1914–1997), Swiss diplomat
- Jean Meyer (1914–2003), theater director, actor and playwright
- Gisèle Casadesus (1914–2017), actress
- Radu Drăgoescu (1914–1999), Romanian painter and chess composer
- Josette Day (1914–1978), actress
- Adrien Rommel (1914–1963), foil fencer and Olympic champion
- Pierre Goursat (1914–1991), founder of the Emmanuel Catholic Community
- Bernard Dorival (1914–2003), art historian and art critic
- Raymond Arveiller (1914–1997), Romance studies and lexicologist
- Marcel Grignon (1914–1990), cameraman
- Odette Joyeux (1914–2000), actress and writer
- Jacques de Mahieu (1915–1990), academic and writer of the novella Droite
- Jacques Germain (1915–2001), painter and graphic artist
- Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002), mathematician, Fields Medalist
- Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1915–2000), politician
- Leonardo Eulálio do Nascimento e Silva (1915–2014), Brazilian diplomat and journalist
- Jean Sauvagnargues (1915–2002), diplomat and politician
- Monique de la Bruchollerie (1915–1972), pianist
- Marcel Hic (1915–1944), Trotskyite, secretary of the Parti ouvrier internationaliste
- Jean Jégoudez (1915–2007), painter
- Gérald Antoine (1915–2014), university politician, Romance philologist, linguist and literary scholar
- Émile Carrara (1915–1973), composer
- Maurice Teynac (1915–1992), actor
- André Boulloche (1915–1978), politician
- Bernardino Piñera Carvallo (1915–2020), Chilean clergyman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of La Serena
- Pierre Nerini (1915-2006), violinist and professor
- Jean Despeaux (1915-1989), boxer
- Jean Neuberth (1915–1996), painter
- André Claveau (1915–2003), chansonnier and film actor
- Édith Piaf (1915–1963), chanson singer
1916 to 1920
- Paul Faure (1916–2007), archaeologist and archaeologist
- Denise Bloch (1916–1945), agent, resistance fighter and Nazi victim
- Jacques Berthier (1916–2008), actor
- Jean Edelmann (1916–2008), painter and graphic artist
- Jean André (1916–1980), film architect
- Francis Blanchard (1916–2009), UN official
- Madeleine Robinson (1916-2004), actress
- Marcel Decombis (1916–2003), Luxembourg educator
- Jacques Géry (1917–2007), ichthyologist and scientist
- Miguel Paulo José Maria da Silva Paranhos do Rio-Branco (1917–1995), Brazilian diplomat
- Alain Poiré (1917–2000), film producer
- Pierre Deniker (1917–1998), psychiatrist
- Geraldo Eulálio do Nascimento e Silva (1917–2003), Brazilian poet and diplomat
- Guido Magnone (1917–2012), mountaineer
- Robert La Caze (1917–2015), racing car driver
- Pierre Chatenet (1917–1997), politician
- Geneviève Termier (1917–2005), paleontologist and geologist
- Jean Mandaroux (1917–1983), film architect
- Renée Lebas (1917–2009), chanson singer
- Élie de Rothschild (1917-2007), banker
- Jean Rouch (1917-2004), director
- Jean Hubeau (1917–1992), composer
- Christiane Rochefort (1917–1998), writer and feminist
- Jean-Pierre Melville (1917–1973), film director and screenwriter
- Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (1917–1994), historian
- Bridget Bate Tichenor (1917–1990), surrealist painter
- Édouard Axelrad (1918-2006), writer
- Suzy Delair (1918-2020), actress
- Pierre Delanoë (1918-2006), chanson writer
- Maurice Druon (1918–2009), writer and politician
- Louis-René des Forêts (1918–2000), writer
- Jean Gimpel (1918–1996), historian
- Maurice Huet (1918–1991), fencer
- Alex Joffé (1918–1995), film director, screenwriter and actor
- Jean Kerebel (1918-2010), sprinter
- Frédérick Leboyer (1918–2017), gynecologist and obstetrician
- Patachou (1918–2015), singer and actress
- André Pilette (1918–1993), Belgian racing driver
- Georges Sérès jr. (1918–1983), racing cyclist
- Gérard-Henri de Vaucouleurs (1918–1995), French-American astronomer
- Claude Kogan (1919–1959), mountaineer
- Roger Fellous (1919-2006), cameraman
- Jacques Laurent (1919–2000), writer and journalist
- Pierre Georges (1919–1944), resistance fighter (Résistance)
- Andrea King (1919–2003), American actress
- Maurice Girodias (1919–1990), publisher
- Renée Faure (1919–2005), actress
- Pierre Citron (1919–2010), musicologist, Romance philologist and literary scholar
- Gérard Oury (1919–2006), film director and screenwriter
- Pierre Sudreau (1919–2012), politician
- Élina Labourdette (1919–2014), actress
- Jakob Andreff (1919–1976), Swiss circus clown
- Michel Déon (1919–2016), writer
- Ginette Neveu (1919-1949), violinist
- Jacques Marin (1919–2001), actor
- Yves Baudoin (* 1919), badminton player
- Georges Duby (1919–1996), historian
- André Casanova (1919–2009), composer
- André Pousse (1919–2005), actor and racing cyclist
- Guy Lefranc (1919–1994), film director and screenwriter
- Félix Gaillard (1919–1970), politician, member of the National Assembly and Prime Minister
- François Périer (1919–2002), actor
- Jo Privat (1919–1996), musician
- Marika Rivera (1919-2010), actress
- Paulette Libermann (1919–2007), mathematician
- André Mahé (1919–2010), racing cyclist
- Claude Nollier (1919–2009), actress
- Jacques Cellard (1920–2004), author, Romanist, lexicographer and argotologist
- Suzanne Juyol (1920–1994), opera singer
- Robert Lamoureux (1920–2011), actor, director, screenwriter and singer
- André Simon (1920–2012), Formula 1 racing driver
- Claude Abadie (1920–2020), jazz musician and band leader
- Albert Barillé (1920–2009), film director, screenwriter and animator
- Jean-Pierre Vigier (1920–2004), physicist
- Georges Pichard (1920–2003), comic artist
- Claude Magnier (1920–1983), playwright, screenwriter and director
- Benoîte Groult (1920–2016), writer and journalist
- Raphael Bretton (1920–2011), production designer
- Christian Garros (1920–1988), jazz drummer
- Rolande Falcinelli (1920–2006), composer, pianist and organist
- André Chastagnol (1920–1996), ancient historian
- Jean Émile Charon (1920–1998), physicist and philosopher
- Marcel Frémiot (1920–2018), composer
- François Villiers (1920–2009), director and screenwriter
- Francis Ryck (1920-2007), writer
- Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920–2005), author and women's rights activist
- Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (1920–1989), film critic, screenwriter, actor and film director
- Pierre Plantard (1920–2000), conspiracy theorist
- Claude Cheysson (1920–2012), politician
- Olivier Debré (1920–1999), painter, ceramicist, author and university lecturer
- Genevieve (1920–2004), singer and actress
- Serge Ravanel (1920–2009), resistance fighter
- Michel Audiard (1920–1985), screenwriter and director
- Jacques François (1920–2003), theater and film actor
- Pierre Chancel (1920–2000), racing car driver
- Simon Jacques Prokhovnik (1920–1994), Australian mathematician, cosmologist and university professor
- Raymond Lemoigne (1920-2000), cinematographer
- Théo Klein (1920–2020), French-Israeli lawyer
- Jean Messagier (1920–1999), painter, graphic artist and draftsman
- Jacques Favart (1920–1980), figure skater and sports official
- Jean Leclant (1920–2011), Egyptologist
- Jean Dubois (1920–2015), linguist, Frenchist, grammarian and lexicographer
- Jean Desailly (1920–2008), actor
- Tereska Torrès (1920–2012), writer
- Marcel Schützenberger (1920–1996), mathematician
- Antoinette Grimaldi (1920–2011), Monegasque princess
1921 to 1925
- Francis Blanche (1921–1974), actor
- Pierre Riché (1921–2019), historian
- Michel Hervé (1921–2011), mathematician
- Jean Soubeyran (1921–2000), actor, pantomime and director
- Pierre-Yves Trémois (1921–2020), painter, sculptor and illustrator
- Robert Galley (1921–2012), politician
- André Hodeir (1921–2011), composer and musicologist
- Eddie Barclay (1921-2005), music producer
- Yves Ciampi (1921–1982), film director and screenwriter
- Jacques Friedel (1921–2014), physicist
- Corinne Luchaire (1921–1950), film actress
- Claude Pascal (1921–2017), composer
- Christian Bonnet (1921–2020), politician, member of the National Assembly and Minister of the Interior
- Hélène Berr (1921–1945), diary writer
- Dimitri Rebikoff (1921–1997), pioneer in the development of underwater technology
- Jacqueline Joubert (1921–2005), television presenter
- Slim Dortch (1921–2000), American country and rockabilly musician
- Michel Cointat (1921–2013), politician and writer, member of the National Assembly
- Maurice Sandeyron (1921-1999), boxer
- Jacques Robert Marie Moulin (1921–1997), physician, President of the World Medical Association
- Violette Szabo (1921–1945), agent and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Harry Schell (1921–1960), American racing car driver
- Edgar Morin (* 1921), philosopher and sociologist
- Henri Spade (1921–2008), journalist, director and writer
- Pierre Samuel (1921–2009), mathematician
- Denise Duval (1921–2016), opera singer
- Dominique Paladilhe (1921-2015), writer
- André Grillon (1921–2003), football player and coach
- Albert Féraud (1921–2008), sculptor
- Danica Seleskovitch (1921–2001), conference interpreter, lecturer and translation scholar
- Pierre Bec (1921–2014), writer, linguist and medievalist
- Jacques Lecoq (1921–1999), theater pedagogue, acting teacher and pantomime
- Jean-Paul Elkann (1921–1996), banker
- Marcel Bitsch (1921–2011), composer
- Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922–2017), theoretical and mathematical physicist
- Albert Lamorisse (1922–1970), director
- Jeanine Rueff (1922–1999), composer
- Pierre Hadot (1922–2010), philosopher and historian
- Jean Martin (1922–2009), actor
- Roger Dufraisse (1922-2000), historian
- Odette Gartenlaub (1922–2014), composer and pianist
- Pierre Pairault (1922–2003), science fiction writer
- Olivier Masson (1922–1997), Graecist and linguist
- Robert-Henri Bautier (1922-2010), historian
- Jacques Martin (1922–1964), philosopher
- Jacques Morel (1922–2008), actor
- Jean-Marie Souriau (1922–2012), mathematician
- Claude Helffer (1922-2004), pianist
- Henri Chopin (1922–2008), French-English representative of concrete poetry, phonetic poetry and an editor
- Jean-Pierre Renouard (1922–2014), concentration camp survivor
- Gérard Calvi (1922–2015), film composer
- Micheline Presle (* 1922), actress
- Fania Fénelon (1922–1983), chanson singer
- Guy Hamilton (1922-2016), British film director
- Marcel Mouloudji (1922–1994), actor and chansonnier
- Pierre-Marie Gy (1922–2004), Dominican and liturgical scholar
- Liliane Bettencourt (1922–2017), entrepreneur and billionaire
- Marc Julia (1922-2010), chemist
- Ernest Vaast (1922–2011), football player
- Serge Lanzen (1922–2005), composer, pianist and musician
- Bernard Dufour (1922–2016), painter
- Francis Bouygues (1922–1993), entrepreneur
- Robert Veyron-Lacroix (1922–1991), harpsichordist and pianist
- Marcel Berbert (* 1922), film producer and actor
- Louis Frédéric (1923–1996), cultural historian and art historian
- Raymond Arnette (1923–2004), Franco-German priest and author
- François Cavanna (1923–2014), journalist and writer
- Charles Cyroulnik (1923-2003), violinist
- Claude Bloch (1923–1971), physicist
- Jacques Français , violin maker and expert
- Claude Piéplu (1923–2006), actor
- José Giovanni (1923-2004), French-Swiss writer and filmmaker
- Alexandre Astruc (1923–2016), film director, screenwriter and writer
- Maria Pacôme (1923-2018), actress
- Claude Luter (1923–2006), swing band leader, clarinetist and saxophonist
- Robert Sabatier (1923–2012), writer and literary critic
- François Chaumette (1923–1996), actor
- Betsy Drake (1923–2015), American actress and author
- Édouard Boubat (1923–1999), photographer and photojournalist
- Anna of Bourbon-Parma (1923-2016), Romanian nobleman
- Xavier Deniau (1923–2011), politician
- Satprem (1923-2007), author
- Maurice Chevit (1923–2012), actor
- Philippe Richer (1923–2018), diplomat, historian and resistance fighter against the Nazi state
- Roger Gabet (1923-2007), football player
- Andree Juliette Brun (1924–1989), pianist
- Jean Corbon (1924-2001), Maronite priest
- Robert Villemain (1924-1984), boxer
- Jacques Douy (1924-2010), film architect
- Jean-Bertrand Pontalis (1924–2013), philosopher, psychoanalyst and writer
- Yvonne Loriod (1924-2010), pianist
- Michael James Lighthill (1924–1998), British mathematician
- Pierre Lacoste (1924-2020), military
- Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (1924–2006), journalist, essayist, media manager, left-wing intellectual and politician
- André du Bouchet (1924–2001), poet, translator and art critic
- Pierre Gouffault (1924–2009), resistance fighter and concentration camp prisoner
- Guy Môquet (1924–1941), victim of German repression during the occupation in World War II
- Zizi Jeanmaire (1924–2020), ballet dancer, actress and chanson singer
- Delphine Forest (1924-2020), actress
- Albert Band (1924–2002), American film producer and director
- Marie-Jacques “Jacotte” Perrier (1924–2012), singer
- Gérard Pochonet (1924–2000), jazz musician
- Claude Ballif (1924-2004), composer
- Charles Aznavour (1924–2018), Armenian-French chansonnier, songwriter, composer and film actor
- Flora Groult (1924–2001), journalist and author
- Henry-Louis de La Grange (1924–2017), musicologist and biographer
- Serge Nigg (1924–2008), composer
- Claude Netter (1924-2007), fencer
- Bernard Borderie (1924–1978), film director and screenwriter
- Jean Laplanche (1924–2012), author and theoretician of psychoanalysis
- André Migdal (1924–2007), resistance fighter, concentration camp prisoner, author and poet
- Olivier Mathot (1924–2011), actor, film director and film producer
- Jacques Heers (1924–2013), medieval historian
- Roger-Edgar Gillet (1924–2004), painter, theater decorator and architect
- Françoise Adnet (1924–2014), pianist and painter
- Antoine Bernheim (1924–2012), banker and manager
- Denise Darcel (1924–2011), American actress
- Lynn Hoffman (1924–2017), American social worker, psychotherapist, and family therapist
- Raoul Coutard (1924–2016), cameraman and photographer
- Jacques Lusseyran (1924–1971), writer and university professor
- Jacques Duhamel (1924–1977), politician, member of the National Assembly
- Alain Bombard (1924–2005), doctor, biologist and environmental politician
- Georges Biard (1924–2003), clergyman, Catholic bishop
- Adalbert de Vogüé (1924–2011), clergyman
- Michel Lazard (1924–1985/86), mathematician
- Michel Tournier (1924-2016), writer
- Marc Ferro (* 1924), historian
- Brigitte Auber (* 1925), actress
- Françoise Bertin (1925–2014), actress
- Alphonse Boudard (1925-2000), writer
- Michel Bouquet (born 1925), actor
- Corinne Calvet (1925–2001), actress
- Anne-Marie Carrière (1925–2006), actress and singer
- Madeleine Chapsal (* 1925), journalist and writer
- François Châtelet (1925–1985), philosopher
- Lilyan Chauvin (1925–2008), actress and director
- Serge Dassault (1925–2018), publisher and politician
- Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), postmodern philosopher
- Jacques Delors (* 1925), politician
- Maurice Fellous (1925–2015), cameraman
- Jean Claude Fohrenbach (1925–2009), jazz musician
- Hubert Fol (1925–1995), jazz musician
- Viviane Forrester (1925–2013), writer, essayist and literary critic
- Geneviève de Galard Terraub (* 1925), officer
- Ernest Gellner (1925–1995), Czech-British anthropologist, sociologist and philosopher
- Pierre Gripari (1925–1990), writer and narrator
- Robert Jonquet (1925–2008), football player and coach
- Christian Jouanin (1925–2014), ornithologist and nature conservationist
- Claude Lanzmann (1925–2018), film director
- Georges Lombard (1925-2010), politician and writer
- Colette Marchand (1925–2015), dancer and actress
- Totole Masselier (1925–2013), jazz musician
- Henri Oreiller (1925–1962), ski racer
- Jean d'Ormesson (1925-2017), writer
- Michel Piccoli (1925-2020), actor
- Claude Pichois (1925–2004), Romance studies and literary scholar
- Andrée Putman (1925–2013), French interior architect and designer
- Daniel Sénélar (1925–2001), painter, draftsman and graphic artist
- Hernando da Silva Ramos (* 1925), French-Brazilian racing driver
- Claude Tresmontant (1925–1997), philosopher
- François Wahl (1925–2014), philosopher, author and publisher
1926 to 1930
- Pierre Barbéris (1926–2014), Romance studies and literary scholar
- Nadine Bellaigue (born 1926), actress
- Pierre de Boisdeffre (1926–2002), civil servant, diplomat, Romance studies and literary critic
- Michel de Bourbon-Parma (1926–2018), nobleman, war hero and racing car driver
- Jacques Castérède (1926–2014), composer
- Robert Clary (born 1926), actor and singer
- Francis Dhomont (* 1926), composer of electroacoustic music
- René Duprat (1926–1996), gypsy jazz musician
- Marie-Thérèse Escribano (* 1926), Austrian singer and cabaret artist
- Paul Gillon (1926–2011), comic book artist
- René Goscinny (1926–1977), comic book writer
- Pierre Guffroy (1926–2010), art director and production designer
- Betsy Jolas (* 1926), composer
- Jean-Pierre Kahane (1926-2017), mathematician
- Annie Kriegel (1926–1995), historian and publicist
- Geneviève Laporte (1926–2012), writer, filmmaker, model and lover of Pablo Picasso
- Maurice Lemaître (1926–2018), author and film director
- Yvette Lévy (* 1926), survivor of the Holocaust
- Peter L'Huillier (1926–2007), Archbishop
- Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926–2007), clergyman, Roman Catholic archbishop
- Colette Magny (1926–1997), singer and songwriter
- Jean-Jacques Pauvert (1926–2014), publisher and author
- Mimi Perrin (1926–2010), jazz singer and translator
- Jean Poiret (1926–1992), actor, director and author
- Georges Poitou (1926–1989), mathematician
- Jean-Bernard Raimond (1926–2016), diplomat and politician
- Rachel Rosenthal (1926–2015), French-American performance artist and dancer
- Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild (1926–1997), banker
- Jacques Rozier (* 1926), film director
- Raimundo Saporta (1926–1997), Spanish sports official
- Pierre-Christian Taittinger (1926–2009), State Secretary and Mayor
- Jean-Claude Touche (1926–1944), organist
- Romain Weingarten (1926–2006), playwright
- Mathé Altéry (* 1927), soprano
- René Djian (* 1927), athlete
- Alain Franck (1927-2014), crime author
- Denis Richet (1927–1989), historian
- Michel Vinaver (* 1927), playwright
- Jacqueline de Proyart (1927–2019), Slavist
- Edmond Richard (1927-2018), cameraman
- Guy Mouminoux (* 1927), comic book artist and author
- Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini (1927–1956), French-Swiss photographer
- Gisèle Lestrange (1927–1991), draftsman and graphic artist
- François Furet (1927–1997), historian
- Madeleine M. Joullié (* 1927), American chemist
- Monique Chaumette (born 1927), actress
- Habib Bourguiba Jr. (1927–2009), Tunisian politician and diplomat
- Marcel Berger (1927–2016), mathematician
- Jean-Paul Martin du Gard (1927-2017), sprinter
- Jean-Louis Richard (1927–2012), actor, film director, screenwriter
- François Nourissier (1927–2011), writer and literary critic
- Anne-Marie Marchand (1927–2005), costume designer
- Hubert Louis Marie Félix Michon (1927-2004), clergyman
- André Almuro (1927–2009), composer, radio play author and short film director
- Gilbert Bilezikian (* 1927), French-American Baptist pastor, university professor and author
- Marcel Azzola (1927–2019), accordionist
- Silvio Francesco (1927–2000), Italian entertainer, singer and actor
- Jean Casadesus (1927–1972), pianist and music teacher
- Pierre Granier-Deferre (1927–2007), film director and screenwriter
- Gérard Rasquin (1927–2012), Luxembourgish athlete and sports official
- Jean Elleinstein (1927–2002), historian
- Michel Louis Coloni (1927-2016), clergyman
- Pierre Doukan (1927–1995), violinist, composer and music teacher
- Jean-Claude Pascal (1927–1992), theater and film actor and singer
- Bernard Parmegiani (1927–2013), composer of film and theater music
- Rogelio Salmona (1927-2007), Colombian architect
- Claude Storez (1927–1959), racing car driver
- François Sully (1927–1971), journalist and photographer
- André Persiani (1927–2004), musician, arranger and composer
- Jean-Pierre Darras (1927–1999), actor
- Geneviève Winding (1927–2008), film editor
- Pierre Henry (1927-2017), composer
- Geneviève Page (born 1927), actress
- Giorgio Capitani (1927-2017), Italian director
- Robert Hossein (* 1927), actor and film director
- Daniel Frasnay (1928–2019), photographer
- Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel (1928–2006), psychoanalyst
- Hélène Martin (* 1928), chanson singer and author
- Bernard Malgrange (* 1928), mathematician
- Hanns-Peter Boehm (* 1928), German chemist
- Daniel Filipacchi (* 1928), photographer, publisher and radio host
- Jean Barraqué (1928–1973), composer
- Jeanne Moreau (1928–2017), actress
- Michel Serrault (1928–2007), actor
- Roger Vadim (1928-2000), film director
- Pierre Tchernia (1928–2016), director, screenwriter, producer, presenter, animator and actor
- Jacques Soisson (1928–2012), painter, sculptor and graphic artist
- Michel Saudreau (1928–2007), clergyman, Bishop of Le Havre
- Élie Kagan (1928–1999), photo reporter
- Robert Badinter (* 1928), lawyer and politician
- Serge Gainsbourg (1928–1991), chansonnier
- Françoise Seigner (1928–2008), actress
- Raymond Fol (1928–1979), jazz musician
- Alexis Korner (1928–1984), British blues musician
- François Gourguillon (1928–2007), clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Reims
- Jean-Jacques Becker (* 1928), historian
- Michelle Perrot (* 1928), historian
- Gilles Aillaud (1928–2005), painter, graphic artist, set designer and author
- Emmanuel Poulle (1928–2011), archivist, science historian and paleographer
- Pierrette Bloch (1928–2017), painter and textile artist
- Jacques-Charles Delahaye (1928-2010), sculptor
- Bernard Buffet (1928–1999), graphic artist and painter
- Elliott Erwitt (* 1928), American photographer
- Cécile Aubry (1928–2010), actress, children's book author and television director
- Jean-Christophe Averty (1928–2017), director and television maker
- Marie-Brigitte Gauthier-Chaufour (1928–2001), composer
- Paul Chemetov (* 1928), architect
- Jacques Saulnier (1928–2014), film architect
- Sigrid Kahle (1928–2013), Swedish journalist and author
- François-Georges Dreyfus (1928–2011), historian, author and university professor
- Elizabeth F. Neufeld (* 1928), American geneticist
- John Michael Montias (1928–2005), economist and art historian
- Marthe Mercadier (* 1928), film and theater actress
- Jean-François Deniau (1928–2007), politician, diplomat and writer
- Edward Goldsmith (1928–2009), Anglo-French environmentalist, writer, philosopher and systems theorist
- Bernard Heidsieck (1928–2014), sound poet
- Françoise Spira (1928–1965), film and theater actress
- Jean François-Poncet (1928–2012), diplomat and politician
- Siné (1928–2016), draftsman and satirist
- Aleksandar Petrović (1929–1994), Yugoslav film director
- Henri Loche (* 1929), composer
- Luc Ferrari (1929–2005), composer, sound artist and radio play maker
- Bertrand Poirot-Delpech (1929–2006), writer and journalist
- Mustache (1929–1987), jazz musician and actor
- Roger Tallon (1929–2011), industrial and product designer
- Jane Rhodes (1929-2011), opera singer
- François Bruhat (1929–2007), mathematician
- Jacques Brunschwig (1929–2010), historian of philosophy and professor
- Jean-Denis Bredin (* 1929), lawyer and writer
- Georges Gilson (* 1929), clergyman
- Maurice Vander (1929–2017), jazz pianist
- Jacques Charby (1929–2006), actor, anti-colonialist and director
- Robert Turcan (1929-2018), archaeologist
- Ted Lapidus (1929–2008), fashion designer
- Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (* 1929), historian
- René Laloux (1929–2004), director and painter
- Suzanne Schiffman (1929–2001), screenwriter and director
- Daniel Wayenberg (1929–2019), Dutch pianist and composer
- Jacques de Larosière (* 1929), lawyer
- Claude Gousset (* 1929), jazz musician
- Gérard de Villiers (1929–2013), writer, editor and journalist
- Michel Deguy (* 1930), poet and philosopher
- Maggi Lidchi-Grassi (* 1930), writer and homeopath
- Gérard Genette (1930–2018), literary scholar
- Catherine Robbe-Grillet (* 1930), writer, film actress and photographer
- Michel Hugo (1930–2010), French-American cameraman
- Françoise Prévost (1930–1997), actress
- Michel Vianey (1930–2008), writer and film director
- Jacqueline Doyen (1930–2006), actress
- Gilbert Forray (1930-2017), general and writer
- Pierre Gabaye (1930–2019), composer
- Amelia Rosselli (1930–1996), Italian poet
- Estella Blain (1930–1982), actress
- Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma (1930-2010), Spanish nobleman, Duke of Bourbon-Parma
- Michel Polac (1930–2012), journalist, author and film director
- Raymond Danon (1930-2018), film producer
- Myriam Bru (born 1930), actress
- Bertrand Herz (* 1930), Commandant of the Navy
- Jean-Louis de Rambures (1930–2006), journalist, author, translator and cultural attaché
- Marisol Escobar (1930–2016), American sculptor of Venezuelan origin
- Sonia Rykiel (1930–2016), fashion designer
- Barbara (1930–1997), chanson singer and composer
- Odile Versois (1930–1980), actress
- Michel Attenoux (1930–1988), jazz musician and band leader
- Claude Chabrol (1930–2010), film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor
- Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930-2006), historian
- Claude Boujon (1930–1995), author and illustrator of children's books
- Gésip Légitimus (1930–2000), actor and show producer
- Irina Ionesco (* 1930), photographer
- Jean-Claude Forest (1930–1998), cartoonist
- Raymond Stora (1930-2015), physicist
- François Dufrêne (1930–1982), artist
- Claude Mallet (born 1930), football player
- Philippe Leroy (born 1930), actor
- Michel Drach (1930–1990), film director
- Gérard Blain (1930–2000), actor, film director and screenwriter
- René Brô (1930–1986), painter
- Albert Wolsky (* 1930), American costume designer
- Raymond Fonsèque (1930–2011), jazz musician
- Günther Theuring (1930–2016), Austrian conductor and choir director
- Jean-Luc Godard (* 1930), French-Swiss film director and screenwriter
- Jacqueline du Bief (* 1930), figure skater
1931 to 1935
- Maurice T. Maschino (* 1931), journalist and author
- Michel Hénon (1931–2013), mathematician and astronomer
- Joseph Joffo (1931-2018), author
- Paul Benacerraf (* 1931), American philosopher
- Caterina Valente (* 1931), Italian singer, dancer, guitarist, actress and entertainer
- Alain Joxe (* 1931), sociologist
- Georges Chaulet (1931–2012), writer and comic book author
- Fred Othon Aristidès (1931–2013), cartoonist
- Jean-Paul Roussillon (1931–2009), actor
- Gilles Perrault (* 1931), journalist and writer
- Gérard Badini (* 1931), musician
- Lowell P. Weicker (* 1931), American politician
- Pierre Lelong (* 1931), politician
- Loup Verlet (1931–2019), physicist
- Michael Lonsdale (born 1931), actor
- Bernard Lacoste (1931–2006), fashion designer and entrepreneur
- Denise de Casabianca (* 1931), film editor
- Jean-Louis Chautemps (* 1931), jazz musician and author
- Corinne Marchand (* 1931), actress
- Louis Mermaz (* 1931), politician, President of the National Assembly
- Pierre Cogen (* 1931), organist, composer and music teacher
- Jean-Charles Payen (1931–1984), Romanist and Medievalist
- Annie Girardot (1931-2011), actress
- Pierre Nora (* 1931), historian
- Serge Bento (born 1931), actor
- Michel Pilet (1931–2006), Swiss manager and jazz musician
- Guy Debord (1931–1994), artist and philosopher
- Véra Belmont (* 1932), director, screenwriter and film producer
- Lalou Bize-Leroy (* 1932), winemaker
- Claude Moliterni (1932–2009), comic book author
- Isabelle Robinet (1932–2000), sinologist and Daoism researcher
- Marcel Tetel (1932–2004), American Romance studies and literary scholar
- Constantin Piron (1932–2012), Belgian physicist
- Paul Virilio (1932–2018), philosopher and critic of the media society
- Alain Jessua (1932–2017), film director and screenwriter
- François Maspero (1932–2015), author, journalist, publisher and translator
- Éliane Radigue (* 1932), composer
- Suzanne Gabriello (1932–1992), singer and actress
- François Truffaut (1932–1984), film director, film critic, actor and producer
- Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932–1988), director, stage and costume designer
- Michel Legrand (1932–2019), composer, pianist, singer and arranger
- Roger Boutry (1932–2019), composer and professor
- Pierre Joliot (* 1932), biochemist
- Christian Godard (* 1932), comic book artist and author
- Jean Favier (1932-2014), Medievalist
- Philippe Nozières (* 1932), physicist
- Anouk Aimée (born 1932), actress
- Michèle Bernstein (* 1932), author
- Yoko Tani (1932–1999), Franco-Japanese actress
- Anna Gaylor (born 1932), actress
- Hubert Bassot (1932–1995), politician and writer
- Elena Poniatowska (* 1932), Mexican writer and journalist
- Jacqueline Morgenstern (1932–1945), girl, victim of the Holocaust
- George Sluizer (1932–2014), Dutch film director
- Jacques Lob (1932–1990), comic book author
- Henri Meschonnic (1932–2009), poet, language theorist and translator
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932-2007), physicist
- Jean-Pierre Cassel (1932-2007), actor
- Vladimir Volkoff (1932-2005), writer
- Suzanne-Lucienne Rabinovici (1932–2019), Austrian Holocaust witness and author
- Jacques Chirac (1932–2019), politician and President
- Micheline Tessier (1932–2006), Canadian singer and vocal teacher
- Ivan Chtcheglov (1933–1998), artist, activist and poet
- Roger Closset (* 1933), fencer
- Sacha Distel (1933-2004), chansonnier
- Romain Zaleski (* 1933), entrepreneur
- Michel Delacroix (* 1933), painter
- James Goldsmith (1933–1997), British-French billionaire
- Philippe de Broca (1933-2004), film director
- Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing (* 1933), Première Dame
- Roger Gaignard (* 1933), track cyclist
- Axel Corti (1933–1993), Austrian director
- Jean Becker (* 1933), film director and screenwriter
- Bernadette Chirac (* 1933), politician and wife of Jacques Chirac
- Guy Harloff (1933–1991), Dutch-French painter
- Nicole Louvier (1933–2003), poet, chanson interpreter, author, journalist
- Philippe Bonzon (* 1933), Swiss writer
- Alain Dorémieux (1933–1998), editor, translator and author of science fiction literature
- Roman Polański (* 1933), Polish film director and actor
- Michel Duc-Goninaz (1933-2016), Esperantist
- Bruno Bollini (1933–2015), football player
- Michel Plasson (* 1933), conductor
- Jacques Charpentier (1933–2017), composer and organist
- Philippine de Rothschild-Sereys (1933–2014), actress and entrepreneur, grand lady of viticulture
- Jeanloup Sieff (1933–2000), photographer
- Michel Beaune (1933–1990), actor
- Bertrand Dufourcq (1933–2019), diplomat
- Jean Tulard (* 1933), historian
- Ludovic Janvier (1934-2016), writer
- Jean-Pierre Gourmelen (* 1934), comic book author
- Yvaral (1934–2002), painter and kinetic artist
- Pierre Barouh (1934–2016), composer, singer and author
- Pierre Parlebas (* 1934), sports sociologist
- Francis Chapelet (* 1934), organist
- Georges Amanieu (1934-2016), football player
- Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Posner (* 1934), Russian journalist and moderator
- Jacques Witta (* 1934), film editor
- Dominique Boschero (* 1934), actress
- Pascal Jardin (1934–1980), writer and screenwriter
- Pierre Clastres (1934–1977), ethnologist
- Bernard Vitet (1934–2013), jazz trumpeter and composer
- Michel Rouche (* 1934), historian
- Nicole Berger (1934–1967), actress
- Claude Berri (1934–2009), film director, actor, film producer and screenwriter
- René Urtreger (* 1934), jazz pianist
- Marcel Gotlieb (1934–2016), comic artist
- Claude Zidi (* 1934), director and cameraman
- Michel Vermeulin (* 1934), cyclist and Olympic champion
- Sarah Kofman (1934-1994), philosopher
- Alain Levent (1934–2008), cameraman and director
- Brigitte Bardot (* 1934), actress
- Albert J. Libchaber (* 1934), physicist
- Joseph Moreira (1934–1991), football player
- Yves Cornière (1934–2011), church musician and composer
- Juan Luis Buñuel (1934-2017), director
- Dominique Schnapper (* 1934), sociologist and member of the French Constitutional Council
- Sylvette David (* 1934), ceramist, model for Picasso's sculptures
- Sam Szafran (1934-2019), artist
- Pierre Joxe (* 1934), politician
- Marcel Froissart (1934–2015), physicist
- Noël Lancien (1934–1999), composer and conductor
- Jean-Claude Henry (* 1934), composer
- Yves Bayard (1935–2008), architect
- André de Cortanze (* 1941), racing car designer and racing driver
- Jean-Pierre Drouet (* 1935), percussionist and composer
- Raymonde Guyot (* 1935), film editor
- Anka Muhlstein (* 1935), historian
- Marc Laferrière (* 1935), jazz musician
- Jean Tiberi (* 1935), politician
- Jacques Benveniste (1935–2004), medical doctor
- Pierre Durand (1935–1998), composer
- Dominique Venner (1935–2013), historian and writer
- Jean-Paul Poirier (* 1935), physicist and geoscientist
- André Schiffrin (1935–2013), French-American editor, author and publisher
- François Jeanneau (* 1935), jazz saxophonist and flutist
- Pierre Cullaz (1935–2014), jazz musician
- Claude Esteban (1935–2006), poet and essayist
- Paolo Brunatto (1935–2010), Italian film director and screenwriter
- Daniel Roche (* 1935), historian
- Thérèse Brenet (* 1935), composer and music teacher
- Jean-Claude Casadesus (* 1935), conductor
1936 to 1940
- Gabriel Cohn-Bendit (* 1936), reform pedagogue
- Bernard Epin (1936–2020), writer and literary critic
- Éric Hazan (* 1936), author, publisher and surgeon
- Jean-Jacques Lebel (* 1936), artist and translator
- Michel Tyszblat (1936–2013), painter
- Philippe Robrieux (1936–2010), party official and historian
- Théo Sarapo (1936–1970), chansonnier
- Serge Korber (* 1936), director
- José Rosinski (1936–2011), racing car driver and journalist
- Michel Rousseau (1936–2016), racing cyclist
- Georges Perec (1936–1982), writer
- Claude Faraldo (1936–2008), film director and screenwriter
- Jacqueline Heurtault (1936-2000), arachnologist
- Pierre Rosenberg (* 1936), art historian
- Étienne Becker (1936–1995), cameraman
- Danièle Huillet (1936–2006), director
- Philippe de Montebello (* 1936), American art historian
- Victor Lanoux (1936-2017), actor
- Michel Guyard (* 1936), clergyman
- Jacques Balutin (* 1936), actor and voice actor
- Alain Grée (* 1936), children's book author and illustrator
- Claude Ballot-Léna (1936–1999), racing car driver
- Pierre Rissient (1936–2018), director and screenwriter
- Roger Cukierman (* 1936), lawyer, banker, businessman and philanthropist
- Gilbert Amy (* 1936), composer and conductor
- Anne Cuneo (1936–2015), Swiss writer
- Jean-Loup Gervais (1936-2020), physicist
- Marthe Lambert (* 1936), track and field athlete
- Peter von Moos (* 1936), Middle Latin philologist
- Michel Aumont (1936–2019), film actor
- Michel Decoust (* 1936), composer, conductor and music teacher
- Jacques Perrier (* 1936), clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop
- Hans van den Broek (* 1936), Dutch politician
- Pierre Koralnik (* 1937), Swiss film director
- Pierre-André Boutang (1937–2008), filmmaker
- Gilles Katz (* 1937), actor, director and screenwriter
- Carla Marlier (born 1937), actress
- Marie Dubois (1937-2014), actress
- Albert-Marie de Monléon (1937–2019), religious, Bishop of Meaux
- Michel Peissel (1937–2011), ethnologist
- Roland Glowinski (* 1937), mathematician
- Michel Winock (* 1937), historian
- Élisabeth Gille (1937–1996), writer and translator
- Claude Allègre (* 1937), politician
- Jean-Pierre Beltoise (1937–2015), racing car driver
- Gérard Defaux (1937–2004), American Romance philologist and literary scholar
- Guy Marchand (born 1937), actor, jazz clarinetist and singer
- Michel Pollien (1937–2013), clergyman
- Alexei Bronislawowitsch Sossinski (* 1937), Russian mathematician
- Sami Frey (born 1937), actor
- Luc Moullet (* 1937), author filmmaker, university lecturer and film critic
- Édith Scob (1937–2019), actress
- William Lubtchansky (1937-2010), cameraman
- Claude Lelouch (* 1937), film director, cameraman, screenwriter, producer and actor
- Gilles Cantagrel (* 1937), musicologist
- Yvon Pissarro (* 1937), draftsman and painter
- Sylvère Lotringer (* 1938), art theorist, literary scholar, editor and author
- Jacques Coursil (1938–2020), philosopher of language and jazz musician
- Georges Rabol (1938–2006), pianist and composer
- François Tusques (* 1938), jazz pianist
- Roland Topor (1938–1997), writer, actor and painter
- Jean-Louis Dumas (1938–2010), entrepreneur
- Pascale Petit (* 1938), actress
- Claude Itzykson (1938–1995), theoretical physicist
- Marc Mazza (* 1938), actor and entrepreneur
- Mijanou Bardot (born 1938), actress
- Michel Tureau (* 1938), actor and screenwriter
- Hervé de Charette (* 1938), politician
- Daniel Hechter (* 1938), fashion designer
- Michel Rateau (* 1938), composer
- Jean-Claude Mézières (* 1938), artist and cartoonist
- Éric Demarsan (* 1938), film composer
- Philippe Ciarlet (* 1938), mathematician
- Claude Minière (* 1938), poet and essayist
- Jean-Pierre Kalfon (born 1938), actor
- François Regnault (* 1938), philosopher, writer and translator
- Maud Tabachnik (* 1938), writer
- Édouard Brézin (* 1938), physicist
- Christian Baudelot (* 1938), sociologist
- Philippe Nahon (1938-2020), actor
- Michèle Ray-Gavras (* 1939), journalist and film producer
- Kenizé Mourad (* 1939), journalist and author
- Janelly Fourtou (* 1939), politician
- Nicole Eisenberg (* 1939), painter
- Danyel Gérard (born 1939), singer
- Yves Boisset (* 1939), director and screenwriter
- Jean-Claude Chermann (* 1939), biologist
- Robert Herbin (1939-2020), soccer player and coach
- Pascal Salin (* 1939), economist
- Philippe Combelle (* 1939), jazz musician
- Jean-Claude Grumberg (* 1939), writer, screenwriter and actor
- Daniel Prévost (* 1939), actor
- Jeannot Szwarc (* 1939), director
- Robert Fraisse (* 1940), cameraman
- Gérard Zlotykamien (* 1940), graffiti artist
- Daniel Sander (1940–2007), choreographer, ballet dancer, actor and singer
- Jacky Samson (1940–2012), jazz musician
- Jacques Andrieux (born 1940), football player
- Jean-Jacques Debout (* 1940), chansonnier, lyricist, composer and theater organizer
- Silvia Solar (1940–2011), actress
- Jean Ichbiah (1940-2007), computer scientist
- Irakli de Davrichewy (* 1940), jazz trumpeter
- Jean-Claude Brisseau (1944–2019), film director
- Marie Versini (born 1940), actress
- Alain Calmat (* 1940), figure skater and politician
- Régis Debray (* 1940), intellectual, journalist and professor
- Alain Lombard (* 1940), conductor
- Jean Clair (* 1940), art historian, curator, museum director and author
- Jacques Bisceglia (1940–2013), jazz photographer, music producer and author
1941 to 1945
- Jean-Claude Milner (* 1941), linguist, scientific theorist and philosopher
- André Génovès (1941–2012), film producer
- Carmen Kirmes (* 1941), German politician
- Hervé Fischer (* 1941), French-Canadian multimedia philosopher and artist
- Georges Claisse (* 1941), actor
- Serge Tcherepnin (* 1941), American composer
- Jean-Pierre Dupuy (* 1941), engineer, epistemologist and philosopher
- Michel Edelin (* 1941), jazz musician
- Florence Delay (* 1941), writer, actress and university lecturer
- Nelly Olin (1941–2017), politician
- Jacqueline Boyer (* 1941), chanson and pop singer
- Claudine Auger (1941–2019), actress
- Eddy Louiss (1941–2015), jazz pianist and organist
- Guy Le Querrec (* 1941), photographer and filmmaker
- Yannick Seigneur (1941–2001), mountaineer
- Alain Krivine (* 1941), politician
- Jacques Perrin (* 1941), actor and producer
- Edith Lejet (* 1941), composer
- Hervé Jean Luc Renaudin (1941–2003), clergyman, Catholic bishop
- Elisabeth Guignot (born 1941), actress
- Prenses Fazıla (* 1941), Turkish nobleman
- Caza (* 1941), comic artist
- Jean-Paul Bled (* 1942), historian
- Dany Saval (born 1942), actress
- Charles Bridoux (1942–2003), postage stamp artist
- Claudine Longet (* 1942), singer and actress
- Jean-Michel Bony (* 1942), mathematician
- Eugène Cremmer (1942–2019), theoretical physicist
- Claude Miller (1942–2012), film director and screenwriter
- Pierre Bernard (1942–2015), graphic artist
- Françoise Dorléac (1942–1967), actress
- Dominique Walter (* 1942), singer
- Jean-Louis Bertuccelli (1942–2014), film director and screenwriter
- Jens Weitkamp (1942–2019), German chemist
- Bernard Laidebeur (1942–1991), track and field athlete
- Jean Dhombres (* 1942), mathematician and mathematician historian
- Gérard Pirès (* 1942), film director
- Olivier Kahn (1942–1999), chemist
- Henri Pescarolo (* 1942), automobile racing driver
- Pierre Clémenti (1942–1999), actor
- Jean-Pierre Jabouille (* 1942), racing car driver
- Gérard Titus-Carmel (* 1942), painter, poet, illustrator and engraver
- André Vingt-Trois (* 1942), clergyman, emeritus Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris and cardinal
- André Laignel (* 1942), politician
- Jean-Pierre Mazery (* 1942), university professor
- Claude Gauvard (* 1942), mediaevalist
- Jacky Galou (born 1942), singer
- Catherine Share (* 1942), American film actress
- Dominique Manotti (* 1942), novelist and historian
- Chantal Chawaf (* 1943), writer
- Philippe de Henning (* 1943), designer and racing car driver
- Didier Malherbe (* 1943), fusion musician
- Maurice Risch (* 1943), actor
- Bernard Tapie (* 1943), politician, actor and businessman
- Ivan Tcherepnin (1943–1998), American composer
- Gérard Rinaldi (1943–2012), comedian, chanson singer and actor
- Carlos (1943-2008), singer
- François Mazet (* 1943), racing driver and Formula 1 driver
- Jean-Louis Gouraud (* 1943), journalist, editor and writer
- Alain Tissier (1943–2001), actor
- Jean-Pol Martin (* 1943), German didactic and methodologist
- Didier Kaminka (* 1943), director, screenwriter and actor
- Hervé Villechaize (1943–1993), actor
- Jacques Dutronc (* 1943), chansonnier and actor
- Dominique Labourier (born 1943), actress
- Lyne Chardonnet (1943–1980), actress
- Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie (* 1943), astronomer
- Jean-Claude Fournier (* 1943), comic artist
- Bertrand Renouvin (* 1943), royalist politician
- Johnny Hallyday (1943–2017), singer, songwriter and actor
- Gérard Gropaiz (1943–2012), swimmer
- Hélène Vincent (* 1943), actress and theater director
- François Marthouret (* 1943), actor
- Gérard Paris-Clavel (* 1943), graphic artist
- Jean-Cyril Spinetta (* 1943), top civil servant and manager
- Pierre-William Glenn (* 1943), cameraman
- Catherine Deneuve (born 1943), actress
- René Gonzalez (1943–2012), actor, director and theater manager
- Édouard Niermans (* 1943), film director
- Jacques Laffite (* 1943), racing car driver
- Pierre Antoniucci (* 1943), painter
- Bruno Monsaingeon (* 1943), violinist, film director and writer
- Alexandros Giotopoulos (* 1944), Greek leader of the underground organization November 17th
- Alain Fleischer (* 1944), director, writer, photographer and sculptor
- Philippe Cassou-Noguès (* 1944), mathematician
- Alain Caillé (* 1944), sociologist
- Claude Lemaréchal (* 1944), mathematician
- Françoise Hardy (* 1944), pop singer, lyricist, composer and film actress
- Dominique Lecourt (* 1944), philosopher
- Jean Daniel Cadinot (1944–2008), film director and producer
- François Cevert (1944–1973), racing car driver
- Jean-Louis Gassée (* 1944), entrepreneur
- Jacques Doillon (* 1944), film director and screenwriter
- Marie-Christine Barrault (* 1944), actress
- Christiane Driesen (* 1944), court interpreter and legal translator
- Pascal Danel (* 1944), singer and composer
- Jean-Pierre Pincemin (1944–2005), painter and sculptor
- Noëlle Cordier (* 1944), singer
- José Dolhem (1944–1988), racing car driver
- Jean-Pierre Léaud (born 1944), actor
- Marina Yaguello (* 1944), linguist, English and Romance studies
- Christine Delaroche (* 1944), singer and actress
- Pierre Bachelet (1944–2005), singer
- Babik Reinhardt (1944–2001), jazz guitarist
- Ivar Ekeland (* 1944), mathematician
- Geneviève Grad (born 1944), actress
- Margot Anand (* 1944), psychologist and neotantra teacher
- Isabelle de Funès (* 1944), actress and singer
- Betty Mars (1944–1989), singer and actress
- Christian Boltanski (* 1944), artist
- Élisabeth Roudinesco (* 1944), psychoanalyst and author
- Michel Cullin (1944–2020), political scientist
- Bernard Lehideux (* 1944), politician
- Sophie Hardy (born 1944), actress
- Christian Hay (* 1944), actor
- Noëlle Châtelet (* 1944), actress and author
- Jean-Pierre Sauvage (* 1944), chemist
- Fernando Ocáriz Braña (* 1944), Catholic priest
- Coluche (1944–1986), film actor and comedian
- Frédéric Rabold (* 1944), German jazz trumpeter and composer
- Pierre Arditi (born 1944), actor
- François Porcile (* 1944), author, musicologist and film director
- Gilles Berolatti (* 1944), fencer
- Charles Enderlin (* 1945), Israeli journalist and documentary filmmaker
- Monique Janotta (* 1945), prima ballerina and ballet master
- Catherine Leroy (1945–2006), photographer and war correspondent
- Patrice Bart (* 1945), dancer, choreographer and ballet master
- Annick Nozati (1945–2000), singer and improvisation vocalist
- François Laudenbach (* 1945), mathematician
- Henri Texier (* 1945), jazz double bass player, multi-instrumentalist, singer, orchestra conductor and composer
- Christine Edzard (* 1945), director, screenwriter and costume designer
- Pierre Viaux (* 1945), diplomat and middle-distance runner
- Alain Lebeaupin (* 1945), clergyman, Vatican diplomat, Roman Catholic Archbishop
- Edith Vesperini (* 1945), costume designer
- Johnny Famechon (born 1945), Australian featherweight boxer
- Jean-Marie Poiré (* 1945), screenwriter, film director and film producer
- François Bourgeon (* 1945), comic book author and illustrator
- Jean Kalman (* 1945), lighting designer
- Gérard Fenouil (* 1945), sprinter
- Patrick Modiano (* 1945), writer
- Patrice Mestral (* 1945), composer and conductor
- Bruno Nuytten (* 1945), cameraman, film director and screenwriter
- Alain Richard (* 1945), politician, member of the National Assembly
- Gérard d'Aboville (* 1945), adventurer and politician
- Alain Louvier (* 1945), composer
- Claude Lemesle (* 1945), songwriter
- Pascal Sevran (1945–2008), author, singer and TV show host
- Emmanuel Lafont (* 1945), clergyman, Bishop of Cayenne
- Alain Noury (born 1945), actor
- Jean-François Canape (1945–2012), jazz musician
- Thierry Desmarest (* 1945), manager
- Marjorie Noël (1945-2000), chanson singer
1946 to 1950
- Pierre Bourdon (* 1946), perfumer
- Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko (* 1946), production designer
- Jean-Bernard Pouy (* 1946), writer
- Georges Beller (* 1946), actor and presenter
- Pierre Sokolsky (* 1946), American physicist
- Pascal Bonitzer (* 1946), screenwriter and film director
- Jean-Thomas Nordmann (* 1946), politician and historian
- Jean-Claude Dreyfus (born 1946), actor
- Éric Aumonier (* 1946), clergyman and Roman Catholic Bishop of Versailles
- Jacky Dreksler (* 1946), German author, musician, songwriter and producer
- Yann Arthus-Bertrand (* 1946), photographer
- Jean-Claude Colliard (1946–2014), lawyer, administrator and university professor
- Guesch Patti (* 1946), singer
- Alain Madelin (* 1946), politician
- F'murr (1946–2018), comic artist
- Alain de Martigny (* 1946), football player and coach
- Patrick Rambaud (* 1946), writer
- Xavier Fauche (* 1946), comic book author
- Gérard Mégie (1946–2004), physicist
- Catherine Bréchignac (* 1946), physicist
- Anne-Marie Pelletier (* 1946), Catholic theologian
- Robert Louis-Dreyfus (1946–2009), French-Swiss entrepreneur
- Jean-François Parot (1946–2018), diplomat and writer
- Jacques Heuclin (1946–2007), racing car driver and politician
- Pierre-Yves Artaud (* 1946), flautist, composer and music teacher
- Hervé Vilard (born 1946), singer
- Jean-Paul Huchon (* 1946), politician
- Pierre-André Taguieff (* 1946), political scientist, philosopher and sociologist
- Serge Moati (* 1946), director, producer and actor
- Laurent Fabius (* 1946), politician
- Michel Wieviorka (* 1946), social scientist, racism and violence researcher
- André Neveu (* 1946), physicist
- Alain Kirili (* 1946), French-American sculptor
- Alain Weill (* 1946), art critic and exhibition organizer
- Jean-Marc Deshouillers (* 1946), mathematician
- Blas Cabrera (* 1946), American physicist
- Patrick Blossier (* 1946), cameraman
- Gérard Detourbet (1946–2019), automotive manager
- Pierre-Marie Dupuy (* 1946), lawyer
- Jean-Jacques Brilleix (* 1946), film director, producer and screenwriter
- Patrice Serres (* 1946), comic artist
- Arnaud Jacomet (1946-2011), diplomat
- Michèle Battut (* 1946), painter, lithographer and sculptor
- Michel Broué (* 1946), mathematician
- Jonathan Keates (born 1946), British writer
- Guy Hocquenghem (1946–1988), author and philosopher
- Christian Marty (1946-2000), pilot
- C. Jérôme (1946-2000), chanson singer
- Ève Gran-Aymerich (* 1947), archaeologist and historian
- Seda Aznavour (born 1947), singer and actress
- François-Marie Banier (* 1947), writer and photographer
- Minouche Barelli (1947–2004), French-Monégassian singer
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (* 1947), virologist and Nobel Prize winner
- Alain Bashung (1947–2009), singer and actor
- Dominique Baudis (1947–2014), journalist and politician
- Bernard Boëne (* 1947), military sociologist
- Rémi Brague (* 1947), philosopher
- Julien Clerc (* 1947), singer and songwriter
- Brigitte Douay (* 1947), politician
- Nicole Calfan (born 1947), actress
- Joël Daydé (* 1947), singer
- Chantal Delsol (* 1947), historian, philosopher and writer
- Jorge D'Escragnolle Taunay Filho (* 1947), Brazilian diplomat
- Jean-Pierre Dionnet (* 1947), comic book author and scriptwriter
- Minou Drouet (* 1947), writer
- Danièle Dubroux (* 1947), director, actress and screenwriter
- France Gall (1947-2018), singer
- Christian Jacq (* 1947), writer and Egyptologist
- Benoît Jacquot (* 1947), screenwriter and film director
- Jonathan Kaplan (born 1947), American director
- Jean-Jacques Kravetz (* 1947), keyboard player and saxophonist
- Jean-Claude Lagniez (* 1947), racing car driver
- Martin Lamotte (* 1947), actor, screenwriter and film director
- Aurora Lacasa (* 1947), German pop singer
- Patrice Leconte (* 1947), director and screenwriter
- Jack-Alain Léger (1947–2013), writer and musician
- Serge Mangin (* 1947), sculptor
- Ludmila Mikaël (born 1947), actress
- Jouk Minor (* 1947), jazz musician
- Frédéric Mitterrand (* 1947), author, film director, film producer, actor and politician
- Jacques Morali (1947–1991), music producer
- Érik Orsenna (* 1947), author
- Alain Pellet (* 1947), lawyer
- Claude Picasso (* 1947), Spanish-French photographer, filmmaker and estate administrator
- Dominique Regef (* 1947), hurdy-gurdy player
- Michel Sardou (* 1947), chansonnier
- Jaime Semprun (1947-2010), essayist
- Coline Serreau (* 1947), filmmaker and writer
- Ghédalia Tazartès (* 1947), avant-garde musician
- Yan Pascal Tortelier (* 1947), violinist and conductor
- Odon Vallet (* 1947), religious scholar
- Alain Van Lancker (* 1947), racing cyclist
- Dominique Sanda (born 1948), actress
- Lionel Koechlin (* 1948), author, illustrator and designer
- Philippe Khorsand (1948–2008), actor
- Féodor Atkine (born 1948), actor
- Gérard Darmon (* 1948), actor and singer
- Daniel Huck (* 1948), jazz musician
- Régis Wargnier (* 1948), director, screenwriter and film producer
- Claire Denis (* 1948), film director and screenwriter
- Robert Pintenat (1948–2008), football player
- Jean-Pierre Haigneré (* 1948), spaceman
- Richard Dembo (1948–2004), film director and screenwriter
- Claire Pinheiro (1948–1999), film editor and sound designer
- Jean Legrez (* 1948), clergyman, Bishop of Saint-Claude
- Philippe Caillat (* 1948), jazz guitarist
- André Juillard (* 1948), comic book artist and illustrator
- Philippe Camus (born 1948), businessman
- Patrick Gaubert (* 1948), politician
- Christine Caron (* 1948), swimmer
- Michel Gurfinkiel (* 1948), publicist
- Éva Darlan (born 1948), actress
- Eric Karsenti (* 1948), biologist
- Geneviève Fraisse (* 1948), philosopher, author, historian and politician
- Séverine (* 1948), pop singer
- Martine Géliot (1948–1988), harpist
- Chantal Neuwirth (* 1948), actress
- Pascal Bruckner (* 1948), novelist and essayist
- Laurent Voulzy (born 1948), singer
- Patrick Cothias (* 1948), comic book author
- Daniel Biasini (* 1949), author
- Augustin Dumay (* 1949), violinist and conductor
- Michel Kerautret (* 1949), historian
- Claude Montana (* 1949), fashion designer and designer
- Bernard Helffer (* 1949), mathematician
- Philippe Starck (* 1949), designer and architect
- Denis Lenoir (* 1949), cameraman
- Al Coutelis (* 1949), comic artist
- Maxime Le Forestier (* 1949), chansonnier
- Maxence Mailfort (born 1949), actor
- Pascal Dibie (* 1949), ethnologist and publicist
- Gérard Mestrallet (born 1949), manager
- Bruno Mégret (* 1949), politician
- Serge Besnard (1949–2002), football player
- Alain Minc (* 1949), publicist and political advisor
- Michaël Levinas (* 1949), composer
- Patrick Buisson (* 1949), journalist and political scientist
- Paloma Picasso (* 1949), Spanish-French designer
- Jacques Poustis (born 1949), singer
- Alain Terzian (* 1949), film producer as well as a film and association official
- Philippe Nemo (* 1949), philosopher
- Marc Fosset (* 1949), jazz guitarist
- Marie-Guite Dufay (* 1949), politician
- Philippe Djian (* 1949), writer
- Françoise Dorner (* 1949), actress and writer
- Philippe Descola (* 1949), anthropologist and university professor
- Pierre Amoyal (* 1949), violinist
- Patrick Tambay (* 1949), automobile racing driver
- Alain Finkielkraut (* 1949), philosopher and author
- Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (1949-2010), actor and voice actor
- Pascal Garnier (1949-2010), writer
- Alain Glavieux (1949–2004), computer scientist
- Jean-François Bonhème (* 1949), long jumper
- Jean-Louis Cohen (* 1949), architect, author and art historian
- Giannos Papantoniou (* 1949), Greek politician
- Caroline Sihol (* 1949), actress
- Olivier de Funès (born 1949), actor
- Jacques Stern (* 1949), cryptologist
- Jacques Weber (born 1949), actor
- Yann Queffélec (* 1949), author
- Alain Fischer (* 1949), physician
- Sabine Azéma (* 1949), actress
- Ellen Parker (born 1949), American actress
- Jean-Marie Guéhenno (* 1949), political scientist and diplomat
- Alain Ehrenberg (* 1950), sociologist
- Jean-Jacques Milteau (* 1950), blues singer and harmonica player
- Thomas Declaude (* 1950), actor, director and musician
- Nicolas Werth (* 1950), historian
- Patrick Goudou (* 1950), manager
- Michel Gugenheim (* 1950), rabbi and Grand Rabbi of Paris
- Pierre Pringuet (born 1950), manager
- Miou-Miou (born 1950), actress
- Michel Meynaud (1950–2016), musician
- Corinne Cléry (born 1950), actress
- Josiane Balasko (* 1950), actress, director and screenwriter
- Marie-Françoise Roy (* 1950), mathematician
- Michel Rouge (* 1950), comic artist
- Michèle Métail (born 1950), poet
- Joël Quiniou (* 1950), football referee
- Richard Berry (born 1950), actor, director and singer
- Martine Aubry (born 1950), politician
- Anémone (1950–2019), actress
1951 to 1955
- Agnès Boulloche (* 1951), painter and visual artist
- Jean-Claude Denis (* 1951), comic artist
- Jim Whiting (* 1951), freelance artist
- Christian Tissier (* 1951), Aikid ?? ō teacher
- Jean Plantureux (* 1951), caricaturist
- Henri Berestycki (* 1951), mathematician
- Marielle de Sarnez (* 1951), politician
- Jean-Louis Borloo (* 1951), politician
- Pierre Lemaitre (* 1951), writer and screenwriter
- Boulou Ferré (* 1951), jazz guitarist
- Jean-Marc Roberts (1951–2013), author, editor and screenwriter
- Gérard Jugnot (* 1951), actor, director and screenwriter
- Emmanuel Todd (born 1951), author
- Baudouin Prot (* 1951), manager
- Serge Brussolo (* 1951), writer
- Patrick Labaune (* 1951), politician
- Annie Goetzinger (1951–2017), cartoonist
- Jean-Jacques Goldman (* 1951), composer and music interpreter
- Geneviève Brisac (* 1951), writer
- Fabrice Luchini (* 1951), theater and film actor
- Bruno Racine (* 1951), writer and library manager
- Gilbert Montagné (* 1951), singer
- Bernard Julia (* 1952), physicist
- Frank Margerin (* 1952), comic artist
- Sonia Petrovna (born 1952), actress
- Patrick Gaillard (* 1952), Formula 1 and sports car driver
- André Comte-Sponville (* 1952), philosopher
- Salome Zurabishvili (* 1952), diplomat and Georgian politician
- Maria Schneider (1952–2011), actress
- François-René Duchâble (* 1952), pianist
- François Berléand (* 1952), actor
- Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952–1997), journalist, author and editor-in-chief of Elle magazine
- Jean Guichard (* 1952), photographer
- Jacques Audiard (* 1952), director
- Christian Clavier (* 1952), actor and screenwriter
- Renaud Séchan (* 1952), composer, author and interpreter of chansons
- Muriel Catala (born 1952), actress
- Claude Guillon (* 1952), writer, essayist and political activist
- Marie-Christine Arnautu (* 1952), politician
- Françoise Prenant (* 1952), film editor, director and screenwriter
- Mark M. Davis (* 1952), American molecular biologist and immunologist
- Desireless (born 1952), singer
- André-Michel Schub (* 1952), American pianist and music teacher
- Pierre-Michel Menger (* 1953), sociologist
- Michel Rodde (* 1953), Swiss film director and screenwriter
- Robert Goldman (* 1953), composer
- Laurent Dognin (* 1953), clergyman, Bishop of Quimper
- Thomas Mirow (* 1953), German politician
- Stéphane Lissner (* 1953), theater and opera director
- Richard Anconina (born 1953), actor
- Jean-Loup Longnon (* 1953), jazz trumpeter and composer
- Carole André (* 1953), actress
- Isabelle Huppert (* 1953), film and theater actress
- Pascal Devoyon (* 1953), pianist and music teacher
- Pierre d'Ornellas (* 1953), clergyman and Roman Catholic archbishop
- Gérard Krawczyk (* 1953), director, screenwriter
- Roger Bellon (* 1953), composer and conductor
- Patrick Blanc (* 1953), botanist and horticultural artist
- François Lelord (* 1953), psychiatrist and writer
- Olivier Ameisen (1953–2013), cardiologist and book author
- Jean-François Guiton (* 1953), installation and video artist
- Philippe Bas (1953–2011), jazz musician and composer
- Dorothée (* 1953), singer, presenter and actress
- Hélène Esnault (* 1953), mathematician
- Denis Chabroullet (* 1953), director and author
- Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan (* 1953), historian
- Jean-Paul Paloméros (* 1953), General
- Kathie Lee Gifford (* 1953), American presenter and actress
- Rachid Bouchareb (* 1953), film director, co-director, film producer and screenwriter
- Pascal Greggory (born 1953), actor
- Patrick Kron (* 1953), entrepreneur
- Sophie Calle (* 1953), artist
- Bernard Deflesselles (* 1953), politician, member of the National Assembly
- Hugh Wolff (* 1953), American conductor
- Christiane Reitz (* 1953), German classical philologist
- Antoine de Caunes (* 1953), TV presenter, actor and film director
- Jocelyne Boisseau (born 1953), actress
- Richard Clayderman (born 1953), pianist
- Cécile Wajsbrot (* 1954), writer, translator and essayist
- Pascale Criton (* 1954), musicologist and composer
- Tchavolo Schmitt (* 1954), jazz musician
- Catherine David (* 1954), art historian and exhibition curator
- Jean-Pierre Batut (* 1954), clergyman, Bishop of Blois
- Dominique Bertinotti (* 1954), politician and historian
- John de Borman (* 1954), British film cameraman
- Patrice Caurier (* 1954), opera director
- Caroline Champetier (* 1954), camerawoman
- Bruno Coulais (* 1954), film composer
- Evelyne Gebhardt (* 1954), German politician
- Jean-Yves Tilliette (* 1954), Middle Latin philologist
- Dominique Probst (* 1954), composer and percussionist
- Didier Barbelivien (* 1954), musician and songwriter
- Jacky Calatayud (born 1954), actor
- Denis Chevrier (* 1954), engineer
- Jean-Pierre Gibrat (* 1954), comic book artist and author
- Daniel Goossens (* 1954), comic artist
- Jean-Michel Kajdan (* 1954), guitarist
- Patrick Saussois (1954–2012), jazz guitarist
- Ève Luquet (* 1954), engraver and postage stamp artist
- Patrick Braoudé (* 1954), actor, director, screenwriter and film producer
- Claude Ribbe (* 1954), historian
- Édouard Stern (1954–2005), banker and financier
- Jean-Luc Bennahmias (* 1954), politician
- Mishel Tereschchenko (* 1954), Franco-Ukrainian entrepreneur, patron and local politician
- Isabelle Adjani (* 1955), actress
- Olivier Assayas (* 1955), director and screenwriter
- Wally Badarou (* 1955), Beninese musician
- Renaud Barbaras (* 1955), phenomenologist
- Catherine Belkhodja (* 1955), actress and director
- Nicole Belloubet (* 1955), lawyer and politician
- Christine Bernardi (1955–2018), mathematician
- Emmanuèle Bernheim (1955–2017), writer and screenwriter
- Thierry Breton (* 1955), civil servant and politician
- Cyrielle Clair (born 1955), actress
- Stéphane Clavier (* 1955), director, screenwriter and actor
- François Cluzet (* 1955), actor
- Hervé Guibert (1955–1991), writer and photographer
- Jano (* 1955), comic artist
- Gilles Kepel (* 1955), political scientist
- Yo-Yo Ma (* 1955), Chinese-American cellist
- Valérie Mairesse (born 1955), actress
- Nicolas Montier (* 1955), jazz musician
- François Laizeau (* 1955), jazz musician
- Pascal Languirand (* 1955), Canadian musician
- Jacques Laskar (* 1955), astronomer
- Éric Lévi (* 1955), musician
- Jean-Bernard Lévy (* 1955), manager
- Philippe Lioret (* 1955), director
- Olivier Peters (* 1955), jazz musician
- Sylvie Perrinjaquet (* 1955), Swiss politician
- Robert Rochefort (* 1955), politician
- Hervé Rozoum (* 1955), musician
- Michel Saloff-Coste (* 1955), economist
- Nicolas Sarkozy (* 1955), politician and former president
- Lisa See (* 1955), American writer and journalist
- Alain-Sol Sznitman (* 1955), mathematician
- Véronique Tadjo (* 1955), Ivorian writer, poet, children's book author and illustrator
- Philippe Troussier (* 1955), football coach
- Charlotte de Turckheim (* 1955), actress, film director and screenwriter
- Serge Venturini (* 1955), poet
- Christian Vincent (* 1955), film director and screenwriter
1956 to 1960
- Olivier Cadiot (* 1956), writer and dramaturge
- Michel Taubmann (* 1956), television journalist
- Patricia Rommel (* 1956), film editor
- Christine Lagarde (* 1956), President of the European Central Bank
- Adeline Hazan (* 1956), politician
- Jean-François Lamour (* 1956), Olympic fencer and politician
- Miss.Tic (* 1956), street artist, poet, visual artist and performance artist
- Yves Bizeul (1956–2019), political scientist and Protestant theologian
- Michel Friedman (* 1956), German lawyer, politician, publicist and television presenter
- Ruedi Baur (* 1956), Swiss designer
- Isabelle Dedieu (* 1956), film editor
- Catherine Frot (* 1956), theater and film actress
- Philippe Maurice (* 1956), medievalist
- François Hadji-Lazaro (* 1956), actor, musician, singer and producer
- Paul-Marie Coûteaux (* 1956), politician
- Michèle Bernier (* 1956), actress
- Jean-Michel Coron (* 1956), mathematician
- François Bry (* 1956), German-French computer scientist
- Philippe Aghion (* 1956), economist
- Benoît Peeters (* 1956), comic book author and writer
- Isabelle Autissier (* 1956), sailor
- Philippe Le Guay (* 1956), director, screenwriter and actor
- Adam Thorpe (born 1956), British writer
- Pierre Pincemaille (1956–2018), composer, organist and music teacher
- Annie Belle (born 1956), actress
- Lizzy Mercier Descloux (1956–2004), singer-songwriter, actress, writer and painter
- Catherine Jacob (born 1956), actress
- Karen Hughes (* 1956), American politician
- François Asselineau (* 1957), politician
- Jérôme Beau (* 1957), Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Bourges
- Pervenche Berès (* 1957), politician
- Eric Bergkraut (* 1957), Swiss documentary filmmaker
- Véronique Brouquier (* 1957), fencer
- Emmanuel Carrère (* 1957), writer and screenwriter
- Cyril Collard (1957-1993), director
- Sophia Domancich (* 1957), jazz musician
- Marc Ducret (* 1957), jazz guitarist
- François Gédigier (* 1957), film editor
- Clio Goldsmith (born 1957), actress
- Dominique Horwitz (* 1957), actor
- Jean-Lin Journé (1957-2016), mathematician
- Pierre Laurent (* 1957), politician
- Alain Marc (* 1957), politician
- Pierre Moscovici (* 1957), politician
- Pitof (* 1957), director and visual effects producer
- Luc Ravel (* 1957), Catholic clergyman and Archbishop of Strasbourg
- Hervé Sellin (* 1957), jazz pianist
- Jean-Claude Sikorav (* 1957), mathematician
- Didier Sornette (* 1957), physicist
- Diane Stolojan (born 1957), actress
- Jean Studer (* 1957), Swiss politician
- Hervé Le Tellier (* 1957), writer
- Yves Torchinsky (* 1957), jazz musician
- Ilan Vardi (* 1957), Canadian mathematician
- Fred Vargas (* 1957), crime novelist and archaeologist
- Jo Vargas (* 1957), painter and set designer
- Bernard Verlhac (1957–2015), cartoonist and press illustrator
- Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957–2016), mathematician
- Serge Brunier (* 1958), photographer, reporter and book author
- Christoph Weber (* 1958), German labor lawyer and university professor
- David Walter (* 1958), oboist, conductor and professor
- Véronique Bizot (* 1958), author
- Philippe Plantade (* 1958), legal scholar
- Anne L'Huillier (* 1958), physicist
- Jean-Baptiste Barrière (* 1958), composer
- Daniel Schneidermann (* 1958), journalist
- Frederick Rousseau (* 1958), techno musician
- Aurélien Recoing (* 1958), theater and film actor
- François Feldman (* 1958), singer
- Didier Teste (* 1958), comic artist
- Jérôme Champagne (* 1958), football official
- Richard Descoings (1958–2012), civil servant
- Catherine Goldstein (* 1958), mathematician
- Jean-Marc Loustau (* 1958), chess composer
- Pascale Ogier (1958–1984), actress
- Michka Assayas (* 1958), author and music journalist
- Gilbert Melki (born 1958), actor
- Rosalie Varda (* 1958), costume designer and film producer
- Jean-Philippe Delhomme (* 1959), illustrator and author
- Richard Huber (* 1959), German director
- Eve Rudschies (* 1959), author
- Yves Chaudouët (* 1959), artist
- Dahmane (* 1959), photographer
- Frédéric Brenner (* 1959), photographer
- Romane (* 1959), jazz guitarist
- Benoît Fromanger (* 1959), flautist, conductor and music teacher
- Bernard Thibault (* 1959), trade unionist
- Patrick Pierre Jeune (* 1959), painter
- Nguyên Lê (* 1959), jazz guitarist and composer
- Antoine Hervé (* 1959), composer and pianist
- Pierre Aïm (* 1959), cameraman
- Maurice Leroy (* 1959), politician
- Frédéric Durieux (* 1959), composer
- Marisol Touraine (born 1959), politician
- Jean-François Decaux (* 1959), entrepreneur
- Pascal Légitimus (* 1959), actor, film director and comedian
- Luc Besson (* 1959), film director
- Yasmina Reza (* 1959), writer, director and actress
- Stéphane Mertens (* 1959), Belgian motorcycle racer
- Anne Méniane (* 1959), badminton player
- Catherine Mouchet (born 1959), actress
- Éric Serra (* 1959), composer
- Zabou Breitman (* 1959), actress and director
- Antoine Duléry (born 1959), actor
- Harlem Désir (* 1959), politician and journalist
- Raphaël Faÿs (* 1959), jazz guitarist
- Pierre Mérot (* 1959), writer
- Jean-Paul Salomé (* 1960), director and screenwriter
- Sergi Pàmies (* 1960), Spanish author
- George Theodorakis (* 1960), Greek composer and singer
- Philippe Duquesne (born 1960), actor
- Dominique Wilkins (* 1960), American basketball player
- Jean-François Lepage (* 1960), photographer
- Éric Chevallier (* 1960), ambassador
- Catherine Grèze (* 1960), politician
- Pascale Ferran (* 1960), film director and screenwriter
- Béatrice Thiriet (* 1960), film composer
- Anne Parillaud (* 1960), film actress
- Nathalie Percillier (* 1960), film director and author
- Caroline Attia (* 1960), ski racer
- Isabelle Boéri-Bégard (* 1960), fencer
- Corynne Charby (* 1960), actress and singer
- Olivier Gruner (* 1960), actor
- Raphaëla le Gouvello (* 1960), windsurfer
- Laurent Fignon (1960–2010), racing cyclist
- Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison (* 1960), university teacher
- Marco Saviozzi (* 1960), automobile racing driver
- Jérôme Valcke (* 1960), manager and football official
- François Levantal (* 1960), actor
- Jean-Michel Pilc (* 1960), jazz pianist and composer
- Stéphane Sednaoui (* 1960), photographer and music video director
- Christian Prudhomme (* 1960), journalist and cycling official
- Stéphane Freiss (* 1960), actor
- Claude Tchamitchian (* 1960), jazz musician
- Philippe Omnès (* 1960), fencer
1961 to 1965
- Nicolas Bacri (* 1961), composer
- Moungi Bawendi (* 1961), American chemist
- Mariane Bitran (* 1961), jazz musician
- Philippe Buc (* 1961), historian
- Manu Chao (* 1961), French-Spanish singer and musician
- Alexandre Desplat (* 1961), composer
- Benoît Delhomme (* 1961), cameraman
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (* 1961), politician
- Freddy Eichelberger (* 1961), organist and harpsichordist
- Alice Ferney (* 1961), writer
- Éric Gautier (* 1961), cameraman
- Pascale Gautier (* 1961), author and editor
- Pascal Gibon (* 1961), racing car driver and entrepreneur
- Ilan Goldman (* 1961), French-Israeli film producer
- Jean-Christophe Grangé (* 1961), writer
- Yves Grevet (* 1961), writer
- Mourad Khirat (born 1961), football player
- Sophie Maintigneux (* 1961), camerawoman
- Sei Miguel (* 1961), Portuguese jazz musician and composer
- François Meyronnis (* 1961), writer
- François Moutin (* 1961), jazz bassist
- Louis Moutin (* 1961), jazz drummer
- Emmanuel Nahshon (* 1961), Israeli diplomat
- Samy Naceri (* 1961), actor and film producer
- Xavier Desandre Navarre (* 1961), French drummer
- Lê Quan Ninh (* 1961), percussionist
- Arnaud des Pallières (* 1961), film director and screenwriter
- Lionel Pissarro (* 1961), art dealer
- Jean-Philippe Rykiel (* 1961), musician
- Sanseverino (* 1961), singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Pierre Schoeller (* 1961), director and screenwriter
- Bruno Wolkowitch (born 1961), actor
- Valérie Valère (1961–1982), writer
- Franck Fréon (* 1962), automobile racing driver
- Pierre Huyghe (* 1962), artist
- Emmanuelle Haïm (* 1962), harpsichordist and conductor
- Denis Leloup (* 1962), jazz trombonist
- Isabelle Antena (* 1962), singer
- Marc Piollet (* 1962), conductor
- Wolfram Koch (* 1962), German actor
- Thomas D. Zweifel (* 1962), Swiss and American management consultant, author and university lecturer
- Marie Trintignant (1962–2003), actress
- Laurence Equilbey (* 1962), conductor and choir director
- Alberto Angela (* 1962), Italian science journalist and non-fiction author
- Denis Jachiet (* 1962), Catholic clergyman
- Alexandra Boulat (1962–2007), photographer
- Catherine Néris (* 1962), politician
- Jean Arcelin (* 1962), French-Swiss painter
- Jean-Paul Lilienfeld (* 1962), actor, screenwriter and director
- Marc Minkowski (* 1962), conductor and bassoonist
- Jean-Louis Mourier (* 1962), comic artist
- Jaybo aka Monk (* 1963), artist
- Frédéric Chaslin (* 1963), conductor and composer
- Jens Bonnke (* 1963), German illustrator
- Jean-Pierre Como (* 1963), jazz pianist
- Pierre Alféri (* 1963), writer, poet and essayist
- François Dufay (1963–2009), journalist and writer
- Didier Goupil (* 1963), writer
- Claude Closky (born 1963), artist
- Thomas Fersen (* 1963), musician
- Anabelle Prawerman (* 1963), beach volleyball player
- Anaïs Jeanneret (* 1963), actress and writer
- Marc Antoine (* 1963), smooth jazz guitarist
- Jean-Laurent Casanova (* 1963), physician
- Christophe Barratier (* 1963), film producer
- Frédéric Oudéa (* 1963), manager
- Lélia Pissarro (* 1963), painter and gallery owner
- Marie-Christine Cazier (* 1963), sprinter
- Serge Hazanavicius (born 1963), actor
- Sophie Amiach (* 1963), tennis player
- Oumar Tatam Ly (* 1963), Malian politician
- Agnès Evein (* 1963), costume designer
- Marc Rostan (* 1963), automobile racing driver
- Xavier Durringer (* 1963), playwright, screenwriter and film director
- Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (* 1963), actor, film director and screenwriter
- Manuel Rocheman (* 1964), jazz pianist
- Emmanuel Guibert (* 1964), comic artist
- Stéphane Braunschweig (* 1964), theater director and theater director
- Christophe Wallemme (* 1964), jazz musician
- Raphaël Sanchez (* 1964), pianist, composer and conductor
- Éric Séva (* 1964), jazz musician
- Mella Waldstein (* 1964), Austrian journalist and publicist
- Sophie Agnel (* 1964), jazz and improvisation musician
- Anne Dufourmantelle (1964–2017), psychoanalyst, philosopher and author
- Sylvie Valayre (* 1964), opera singer
- Éric Lartigau (* 1964), director
- Frédéric Bonin-Pissarro (* 1964), painter
- Pierre Hantaï (* 1964), harpsichordist and conductor
- Juliette Binoche (* 1964), actress
- Sylvain Beuf (* 1964), jazz saxophonist
- Zazie (* 1964), pop singer
- Mark Andre (* 1964), composer
- Patrick Bruno (* 1964), solid state physicist
- Yeardley Smith (born 1964), American actress and voice actress
- Sebastian Roché (* 1964), actor
- Pierpoljak (* 1964), reggae singer
- Émile Bravo (* 1964), comic book artist and illustrator
- Robert (* 1964), singer and singer-songwriter
- Manuel Legris (* 1964), ballet dancer and ballet director
- Lionel Abelanski (born 1964), actor
- Olivier Ker Ourio (* 1964), harmonica player
- Noémie Lvovsky (* 1964), film director, screenwriter and actress
- Theresa Révay (* 1965), writer
- João Fiadeiro (* 1965), Portuguese ballet dancer, choreographer and dance theorist
- Fabrice Bollon (* 1965), conductor and composer
- Olivia Rosenthal (* 1965), writer
- Bertrand de Billy (* 1965), conductor
- Bernhard Bettermann (* 1965), German actor
- Mathilda May (* 1965), actress
- Sylvie Baracat (* 1965), soccer player and coach
- Sylvie Guillem (* 1965), dancer and choreographer
- Bruno de Almeida (* 1965), Portuguese film director
- Édouard Cukierman (* 1965), French-Israeli businessman
- Emmanuel Bourdieu (* 1965), actor and dramaturge
- Jean-Philippe Nault (* 1965), clergyman, Bishop of Digne
- François Touvet (* 1965), clergyman
- Christophe Marguet (* 1965), jazz drummer
- Natalie Massenet (* 1965), British-American entrepreneur
- Jean-Charles Trouabal (* 1965), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
- Karim Aw (* 1965), Senegalese-German basketball player
- François Baroin (* 1965), politician and journalist
- Emmanuel Ullmo (* 1965), mathematician
- Albert Cohen (* 1965), mathematician
- Eva Ionesco (* 1965), actress, film director and photo model
- Laurent Lucas (born 1965), actor
- Arno Klarsfeld (* 1965), French-Israeli lawyer and politician
- Jean-Philippe Fleurian (* 1965), tennis player
- Régine Mismacq (* 1965), soccer player
- Simon de La Brosse (1965–1998), actor
- Henri Darmon (* 1965), Canadian mathematician
- Christophe Clement (* 1965), horse racing coach
- Valérie Benguigui (1965–2013), actress
- Thibault Verny (* 1965), Catholic clergyman
- Philippe de Chauveron (* 1965), film director
1966 to 1970
- Édouard Baer (born 1966), actor
- Hélène Breschand (* 1966), harpist and composer
- Vincent Cassel (born 1966), actor
- Benoît Delbecq (* 1966), pianist
- Marianne Denicourt (* 1966), actress
- Agnès Desarthe (* 1966), writer
- Julie Dreyfus (born 1966), actress
- Laurence Engel (* 1966), cultural manager
- Catherine Fleury-Vachon (born 1966), judoka
- Delphine Forest (1966-2020), actress
- José Garcia (born 1966), actor
- Thierry Guetta (* 1966), documentary filmmaker and street artist
- Éric Hélary (* 1966), racing car driver
- Diego Imbert (* 1966), jazz musician
- Laurent Lafforgue (* 1966), mathematician
- Emmanuel Le Divellec (* 1966), organist
- Sophie Marceau (born 1966), actress
- Olivier Martinez (born 1966), film actor
- Nina Morato (* 1966), songwriter
- Fab Morvan (born 1966), singer
- Sheila O'Connor (born 1966), actress
- Florence Pernel (born 1966), actress
- Gilles Quenéhervé (* 1966), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
- Jean-François Richet (* 1966), film director and screenwriter
- Emmanuelle Seigner (* 1966), actress
- Alexandre Sterling (born 1966), actor
- Florence Thomassin (* 1966), actress
- Guillaume de Tonquédec (born 1966), actor
- Vincent Tulli (* 1966), sound engineer and sound technician
- Delphine de Vigan (* 1966), writer
- Alexandre Azaria (* 1967), British-French composer and musician
- Emmanuelle Bercot (* 1967), actress, screenwriter and director
- Gil de Ferran (* 1967), Brazilian racing driver
- Amanda Filipacchi (* 1967), American writer
- David Gilbert (* 1967), American writer
- Laurent Giammartini (* 1967), wheelchair tennis player
- Samir Guesmi (* 1967), actor
- David Guetta (* 1967), DJ
- Michel Hazanavicius (* 1967), director and screenwriter
- Mathieu Kassovitz (* 1967), actor, film director and screenwriter
- Pierre Omidyar (* 1967), American entrepreneur, founder of eBay
- François Ozon (* 1967), film director
- Didier Patalin (* 1967), football player
- Emmanuel Peterfalvi (* 1967), cabaret artist
- Noël Akchoté (* 1968), guitarist
- Lisa Angell (* 1968), singer
- Philippe Aymond (* 1968), comic artist
- Emmanuelle Bach (* 1968), actress
- Jeanne Balibar (* 1968), actress and singer
- David Bergeaud (* 1968), composer
- Thierry Bruehl (* 1968), German-French theater and music theater director
- Keyvan Chemirani (* 1968), percussionist
- Vincent Courtois (* 1968), jazz cellist
- Jean-Pierre Danel (* 1968), blues and rock guitarist, music producer and composer
- Laïka Fatien (* 1968), jazz singer and actress
- Jérôme Ferrari (* 1968), writer, translator and lecturer
- Judith Henry (* 1968), actress
- Franck Khalfoun (* 1968), French-Algerian film director
- Jean-Pierre Khazem (* 1968), photographer
- Bérengère de Lagatinerie (1968–1991), actress and model
- Patrick Lemarié (* 1968), racing driver
- Guillaume Leroux (* 1968), hardcore and techno DJ and producer
- Thomas Levet (* 1968), professional golfer
- Fabien Lévy (* 1968), composer
- Mickaël Madar (* 1968), football player
- Stéphane Pompougnac (* 1968), DJ, musician, composer and producer
- Clara Ponty (* 1968), pianist and singer
- Inga Sempé (* 1968), designer
- Mathilde Seigner (* 1968), actress
- Hedi Slimane (* 1968), fashion designer, artist and photographer
- Youssef Tabti (* 1968), concept artist
- Alexandre Tharaud (* 1968), pianist
- Bénédicte Van der Maar (* 1968), art photographer
- Charlotte Valandrey (* 1968), film actress and author
- Karim Wade (* 1968), Senegalese politician
- Elsa Zylberstein (* 1968), actress
- Nabil Ayouch (* 1969), French-Moroccan director
- Francis Kurkdjian (* 1969), perfumer of Armenian origin
- Miguel Viegas (* 1969), Portuguese economist and politician
- Patrick Manzecchi (* 1969), German jazz drummer
- François-Xavier Houlet (* 1969), handball player
- Lionel Bailliu (* 1969), film director and screenwriter
- Alexandre Gavras (* 1969), film producer, film director, screenwriter and actor
- Julie Delpy (born 1969), French-American actress
- Emmanuel Clérico (* 1969), racing car driver
- Stefan Savage (* 1969), computer scientist and professor
- Zazie de Paris , actress and singer
- Emmanuel Candès (* 1970), mathematician
- Laure Marsac (born 1970), actress
- Gédéon Naudet (* 1970), film director
- Bruno Stagno Ugarte (* 1970), Costa Rican politician and diplomat
- Savin Yeatman-Eiffel (born 1970), director
1971 to 1975
- Yto Barrada (* 1971), French-Moroccan photographer
- Patricia Djaté-Taillard (* 1971), middle-distance runner
- Stanislas Merhar (born 1971), actor
- Vincent Elbaz (born 1971), actor
- Édouard Ferlet (* 1971), jazz pianist
- Rémi Bezançon (* 1971), film director and screenwriter
- Guillaume Depardieu (1971–2008), actor
- Thomas Langmann (* 1971), director, screenwriter, producer, assistant director and actor
- Isabelle Carré (* 1971), film actress
- Marie-Anett Mey (* 1971), singer
- Jean Galfione (* 1971), athlete
- Éric Toledano (* 1971), screenwriter and film director
- Chrystel Guillebeaud (* 1971), dancer, choreographer and Tai Chi teacher
- Lââm (* 1971), Tunisian-French singer
- Emmanuelle Laborit (* 1971), actress
- Jade Jagger (* 1971), fashion designer and model
- Joana Vasconcelos (* 1971), Portuguese artist
- Jules de Balincourt (* 1972), French-American artist
- Henri Loevenbruck (* 1972), fantasy writer
- Grégoire Hetzel (* 1972), film composer and writer
- Agathe de la Boulaye (* 1972), French actress
- Koxie (born 1972), pop singer
- Judith Godrèche (* 1972), actress
- Agathe de La Fontaine (born 1972), actress
- Gwen Giabbani (* 1972), motorcycle racer
- Karine Tuil (* 1972), writer
- Bénédicte Savoy (* 1972), art historian
- Chiara Mastroianni (born 1972), actress
- David Benyamine (born 1972), poker player
- Laurent Binet (* 1972), writer
- Stéphane Lièvre (* 1972), football player
- Mathieu Demy (* 1972), actor, film director and screenwriter
- Esther Duflo (* 1972), economist
- Julie Pecquet (* 1973), dancer, choreographer and lecturer
- Mathilde Rosier (* 1973), visual artist
- Phoebe Philo (* 1973), British fashion designer
- Rodolphe Schacher (* 1973), Swiss-French composer and pianist
- Anne Körner (* 1973), German lawyer and judge at the Federal Social Court
- Aurélie Dupont (* 1973), ballet dancer
- Melvil Poupaud (* 1973), actor and director
- Manuel Höferlin (* 1973), German politician
- Rebecca Lord (* 1973), porn actress and producer of porn films
- Sébastien Izambard (* 1973), tenor
- Delphine Batho (* 1973), politician
- Stéphane Metzger (* 1973), actor
- Garance Clavel (* 1973), film actress
- Jules Naudet (* 1973), film director
- Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet (* 1973), engineer and politician
- Elsa Lunghini (* 1973), singer and actress
- Louis Leterrier (* 1973), film director
- Julie Depardieu (born 1973), actress
- Julie du Page (* 1973), actress and model
- Julia Chanel (* 1973), porn actress
- Fabrice Anthamatten (* 1974), French-Swiss criminal
- Frédéric Bourdin (* 1974), impostor
- Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (* 1974), musician
- Mariame Clément (* 1974), opera director
- Emmanuelle Cosse (* 1974), politician
- Carlos Da Cruz (* 1974), racing cyclist
- Romain Duris (born 1974), actor
- Raphaël Fejtö (* 1974), actor, screenwriter and film director
- Yasmina Filali (* 1974), German actress
- David Foenkinos (* 1974), writer, screenwriter and director
- Sébastien Foucan (* 1974), extreme athlete, founder of the sport of freerunning
- Laetitia Hubert (* 1974), figure skater
- Benoît Magimel (* 1974), actor
- Friedrich Paravicini (* 1974), jazz musician
- Franck Riester (* 1974), politician
- Emma Shapplin (* 1974), opera coloratura soprano
- Sagamore Stévenin (* 1974), actor
- Baptiste Trotignon (* 1974), jazz pianist
- Stéphane Wrembel (* 1974), jazz guitarist
- Thomas Bangalter (* 1975), artist and producer
- Vincent Niclo (* 1975), singer and actor
- Marina Hands (* 1975), actress
- Alexia Landeau (* 1975), actress
- Sylvain White (* 1975), film director
- Marie-Pierre Leray (* 1975), figure skater
- Abd al Malik (* 1975), rapper and slampoet
- Pedro Winter (* 1975), DJ, producer, manager and owner of Ed Banger Records
- Nicolas Grenier (* 1975), poet and translator
- Stephanie Szostak (* 1975), actress
- Jérémie Bélingard (* 1975), ballet dancer
- Marion Cotillard (born 1975), actress
- Alain Altinoglu (* 1975), conductor
- Raphaël Enthoven (* 1975), philosopher
1976 to 1980
- Elisa Tovati (* 1976), actress
- Lila Azam Zanganeh (* 1976), Iranian writer
- Alice Winocour (* 1976), director and screenwriter
- Guillaume Besse (* 1976), ice hockey player
- Marie of Denmark (* 1976), Danish noblewoman, Princess of Denmark
- Zoé Félix (* 1976), actress
- Jalil Lespert (* 1976), actor, film director and screenwriter
- Cédric Largent (* 1976), handball player
- Nikolai Kinski (* 1976), American actor
- Celine Lebrun (* 1976), judo fighter
- Emma de Caunes (born 1976), actress
- Martin Solveig (* 1976), house producer and house DJ
- Fabrice Guilbert (* 1976), handball player
- Virginie Ledoyen (* 1976), actress and model
- Linda Ferga-Khodadin (* 1976), hurdler and long jumper
- Sotiris René Sidiropoulos (* 1977), painter and sculptor
- Yann Demange (* 1977), British film director
- Charles P. de Saint-Aignan (* 1977), American computer scientist, astronomer and asteroid explorer
- Cécile Calla (* 1977), journalist
- Louisa Baïleche (* 1977), singer, dancer and performer
- Rachida Brakni (born 1977), actress
- Reda Kateb (born 1977), actor
- Alexandre Aja (* 1977), director, screenwriter and film producer
- Stuart Price (* 1977), British house musician and producer
- Christian Bassila (* 1977), French-Congolese football player
- Sophie Guillemin (born 1977), actress
- Yael Naim (* 1978), Israeli singer-songwriter
- Tuan Le (* 1978), Vietnamese-American poker player
- David Fall (* 1978), German soccer player
- Camille (* 1978), singer and composer
- Isabel Marks (* 1978), webcomics writer and illustrator
- Anastasia Griffith (born 1978), British actress
- Airelle Besson (* 1978), jazz musician
- Naman Keïta (* 1978), hurdler
- Guerlain Chicherit (* 1978), extreme ski and rally driver
- Bruce Jouanny (* 1978), racing car driver
- Jérôme Moïso (* 1978), basketball player
- Jonathan Zebina (* 1978), football player
- Louis Saha (* 1978), football player
- Sarah Grappin (* 1978), actress
- Lucas Mebrouk Dolega (1978–2011), Franco-German photojournalist
- Franck Queudrue (* 1978), football player
- Jérémie Elkaïm (* 1978), actor and screenwriter
- Philippe Christanval (* 1978), football player
- Jean-Joël Perrier-Doumbé (* 1978), Cameroonian football player
- Mélanie Doutey (* 1978), actress
- Céline Sciamma (* 1978), screenwriter and film director
- Nicolas Fritsch (* 1978), racing cyclist
- Élodie Navarre (* 1979), actress
- Sébastien Ostertag (* 1979), handball player
- Katsuni (* 1979), porn actress
- Bérénice Marlohe (* 1979), actress and photo model
- Amar Ben Belgacem (1979–2010), French-Tunisian painter
- Florian Zeller (* 1979), writer
- Grégory Miermont (* 1979), mathematician
- Yves Desmarets (* 1979), football player
- Raphaël Glucksmann (* 1979), journalist and film director
- Camille de Peretti (* 1980), author
- Cyprien Gaillard (* 1980), artist
- Sandrine François (* 1980), singer
- Ruben Alves (* 1980), Franco-Portuguese director and actor
- Renan Luce (* 1980), musician
- Lolita Séchan (* 1980), writer and author of children's books
- Nicolas Duvauchelle (* 1980), actor and photo model
- Fabrice Pancrate (born 1980), football player
- Déborah Giaoui (* 1980), volleyball and beach volleyball player
- Michaël Llodra (* 1980), tennis player
- Sinik (* 1980), hip-hop musician
- Eva Green (* 1980), actress
- Kevin Cès (* 1980), beach volleyball player
- Saïd Kouachi (1980-2015), Islamist terrorist
- Filipe Teixeira (* 1980), Portuguese football player
- Abdoulaye Méïté (* 1980), Ivorian football player
- Diomansy Kamara (* 1980), Senegalese football player
- Marc Edwards (* 1980), Welsh and Chinese television presenter
1981 to 1985
- Axel Schacher (* 1981), Swiss-French violinist
- Chloé Stefani (* 1981), actress
- David Kaiser (* 1981), actor, speaker and singer
- David Serero (* 1981), opera singer, actor and producer
- Florent Lacasse (* 1981), athlete
- Julie Zenatti (* 1981), singer
- Mia Hansen-Løve (* 1981), director, screenwriter and actress
- Tatiana Barrera (* 1981), beach volleyball player
- Clémentine Poidatz (* 1981), actress
- Éric Prodon (* 1981), tennis player
- Yannick Talabardon (* 1981), racing cyclist
- Selim Benachour (* 1981), Tunisian football player
- Michaël Jeremiasz (* 1981), wheelchair tennis player
- Jéssica Augusto (* 1981), Portuguese long-distance and obstacle runner
- Morike Sako (* 1981), soccer player
- Louise Monot (* 1981), actress
- Dan Tepfer (* 1982), American jazz pianist, composer and music teacher
- Pénélope Bagieu (* 1982), illustrator and cartoonist
- Stanislas Guerini (* 1982), politician
- Olivia Merilahti (* 1982), Finnish-French singer and composer
- Louis Marcel Powell de Aquino (* 1982), Brazilian guitarist
- Habib Bamogo (* 1982), French-Burkinabe soccer player
- Ania Rösler (* 1982), German handball player
- Corentine Quiniou (* 1982), French racing driver
- Alexa Davalos (* 1982), French-American actress and model
- Matt Moussilou (born 1982), football player
- Leila Alaoui (1982-2016), French-Moroccan photographer and video artist
- Benjamin Lacombe (* 1982), author, illustrator and draftsman
- Aṣa (* 1982), French-Nigerian singer and songwriter
- Isabelle Caro (1982-2010), model
- Mélonin Noumonvi (* 1982), wrestler
- Olivia Sanchez (* 1982), tennis player
- Isild Le Besco (* 1982), film actress, screenwriter and film director
- David Bellion (born 1982), football player
- Chérif Kouachi (1982-2015), Islamist terrorist
- Marilou Berry (born 1983), actress
- KD-Supier (* 1983), producer and songwriter
- Hocine Ragued (* 1983), French-Tunisian football player
- Mélanie Laurent (* 1983), film actress
- JR (* 1983), photographer and action artist
- Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro (* 1983), tennis player
- Louis Garrel (* 1983), actor and director
- Anaïs Lueken (* 1983), German-Danish actress, singer and dancer
- Makaya McCraven (* 1983), jazz musician
- Lolita Chammah (born 1983), actress
- Laura Smet (born 1983), actress
- Alexandre Mendy (born 1983), football player
- Benjamin Pollak (born 1983), poker player
- Anna Reinhold (* 1984), mezzo-soprano
- Amir (* 1984), Israeli-French singer
- David Hauss (* 1984), triathlete
- Sylvain Idangar (* 1984), soccer player of Chadian descent
- Medhi Lacen (* 1984), Algerian football player
- Michaël Ciani (* 1984), football player
- Mourad Meghni (* 1984), football player
- Savant des Rimes (* 1984), rapper
- Yael Grobglas (* 1984), Israeli actress and model
- Julie Engelbrecht (* 1984), German actress
- Hadrien Feraud (* 1984), jazz bassist
- Wissem Ben Yahia (* 1984), Tunisian football player
- Johan Libéreau (* 1984), actor
- Joséphine de La Baume (* 1984), actress
- Yvonnick Prené (* 1984), jazz musician
- Judith Vittet (* 1984), actress
- Black M (born 1984), rapper
- Maximilien Le Roy (* 1985), comic artist
- Lassana Diarra (* 1985), football player
- Arnaud Dolmen (* 1985), jazz musician
- Lizzie Brocheré (born 1985), actress
- Robert Maah (* 1985), football player
- Joséphine Jobert (* 1985), actress and singer
- Guillaume Rippert (* 1985), football player
- Mathieu Montcourt (1985-2009), tennis player
- Léa Seydoux (* 1985), film actress
- Maxime Rouquet (* 1985), politician
- Tchami (* 1985), DJ
1986 to 1990
- Zoumana Bakayogo (* 1986), Ivorian football player
- Sébastien Bassong (* 1986), football player
- Symphora Béhi (* 1986), sprinter
- Camille Bertault (* 1986), jazz singer
- Abou Diaby (* 1986), soccer player
- Steve Houanard (* 1986), racing cyclist
- Arnold Jeannesson (* 1986), cyclocross and road cyclist
- Francis Laurent (born 1986), football player
- Raïs M'Bolhi (* 1986), Algerian-French football goalkeeper
- Gaël Monfils (* 1986), tennis player
- Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (* 1986), pianist
- Johan Petro (* 1986), basketball player
- Alexandre Raineau (born 1986), football player
- Marie Sebag (* 1986), chess player
- DJ Snake (* 1986), DJ and music producer
- Myriam Soumaré (* 1986), sprinter
- Stanley Weber (* 1986), actor
- Gabriel Zucman (* 1986), economist, university professor and author
- Yolande Zauberman , director and screenwriter
- Willy Aubameyang (* 1987), Gabonese football player
- Tijani Belaid (* 1987), Tunisian football player
- Pierre Boulanger (born 1987), actor
- Pierre Borel (* 1987), woodwind player and composer
- Louise Coldefy (* 1987), actress
- Yoann Décimus (* 1987), athlete
- Kévin Igier (* 1987), ice hockey player
- Antonin Manavian (* 1987), ice hockey player
- Lola Naymark (* 1987), actress
- Niels Schneider (* 1987), French-Canadian actor
- Siga Tandia (* 1987), soccer player
- Hamza Bencherif (* 1988), Algerian football player
- Jonathan Biabiany (* 1988), football player
- Flore Bonaventura (* 1988), actress
- Thomas Enhco (* 1988), jazz musician and film composer
- Corentin Fila (* 1988), actor
- Yannick Fonsat (* 1988), sprinter
- Hérold Goulon (* 1988), football player
- Éloyse Lesueur (* 1988), long jumper
- Marvin Martin (* 1988), football player
- Prince Oniangué (* 1988), Congolese football player
- Ronan Quemener (* 1988), ice hockey goalkeeper
- Jimmy Roye (* 1988), football player
- Mahamadou Sissoko (* 1988), Malian-French football player
- Caroline Tillette (* 1988), French-Swiss actress
- Nora Arnezeder (* 1989), actress
- Agathe Bonitzer (* 1989), actress
- François Civil (* 1989), actor
- Stéphane Da Costa (* 1989), French-Polish ice hockey player
- Kévin Gomis (* 1989), French-Senegalese football player
- Adèle Haenel (* 1989), actress
- Antonin-Tri Hoang (* 1989), jazz musician
- Dimitri Le Boulch (* 1989), road cyclist
- Tom Leeb (* 1989), comedian, actor, singer and songwriter
- David Manga (* 1989), French-Central African football player
- Pierre Niney (born 1989), actor
- Teddy Tamgho (* 1989), athlete
- Distel Zola (* 1989), French-Congolese football player
- Armand Traoré (* 1989), French-Senegalese football player
- Zac Dalpe (* 1989), Canadian ice hockey player
- Michael Calfan (* 1990), DJ and producer
- Kevin Pierre Lafrance (* 1990), French-Haitian football player
- Yacine Brahimi (* 1990), Algerian-French football player
- Mamadou Sakho (* 1990), football player
- Alfred N'Diaye (* 1990), football player
- Alexandre Durimel (* 1990), football player
- Emma Watson (born 1990), British actress
- Félix Moati (* 1990), actor
- Elizabeth Debicki (born 1990), Australian actress
- Izïa Higelin (* 1990), actress and rock singer
- Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch (* 1990), French-German high jumper
- Alexandre Letellier (* 1990), soccer goalkeeper
- Stacy Martin (born 1990), actress
- Axel Michon (* 1990), tennis player
1991 to 2000
- Andrea Barlesi (* 1991), Belgian racing driver
- Charles Bertrand (born 1991), ice hockey player
- Nansy Damianova (* 1991), Canadian gymnast
- Adama Diakité (* 1991), football player
- Esther Garrel (* 1991), actress
- Mathieu Grébille (* 1991), handball player
- Inès Jaurena (* 1991), soccer player
- N'Golo Kanté (* 1991), football player
- Kentin Mahé (* 1991), handball player
- Anthony Rogie (born 1991), soccer player
- Jean Rondeau (* 1991), harpsichordist and jazz pianist
- Adrien Tambay (* 1991), racing car driver
- Christa Théret (* 1991), actress
- Marine Vacth (* 1991), actress and model
- Tak Khunn Wang (* 1991), tennis player
- Gaia Weiss (* 1991), actress
- Joséphine Berry (* 1992), actress
- Joséphine Lebas-Joly (* 1992), actress
- Nicolas Le Goff (* 1992), volleyball player
- Leïla Maknoun (* 1992), French-Tunisian soccer player
- Morgan Barbançon Mestre (* 1992), Spanish dressage rider
- Tony Yoka (born 1992), boxer
- Alphonse Aréola (* 1993), soccer goalkeeper
- Roxane Duran (* 1993), Austro-French actress
- Sofiane Boufal (* 1993), football player
- Micke Brasseleur (* 1993), handball player
- Lola Créton (* 1993), actress
- Adèle Exarchopoulos (* 1993), actress
- Prince-Désir Gouano (* 1993), football player
- Arthur Hanse (* 1993), French-Portuguese ski racer
- Vincent Lacoste (born 1993), actor
- Morgane Polanski (* 1993), actress
- Quentin Robinot (* 1993), table tennis player
- Alexia Sedykh (* 1993), hammer thrower
- Tiemoué Bakayoko (* 1994), football player
- Antoine Conte (* 1994), football player
- Joséphine Japy (* 1994), actress
- Romuald Lacazette (* 1994), football player
- Joshua Nadeau (* 1994), soccer player
- Alba Gaïa Bellugi (born 1995), actress
- Yacine Chalel (* 1995), French-Algerian cyclist
- Seko Fofana (* 1995), soccer player
- Florian Lakat (* 1995), tennis player
- Hervin Ongenda (* 1995), soccer player
- Kingsley Coman (born 1996), football player
- Jean-Kévin Augustin (* 1997), football player
- Paul Bernardoni (born 1997), football player
- Maxime Cressy (* 1997), French-American tennis player
- Nadav Guedj (* 1998), French-Israeli singer
- Lily-Rose Depp (* 1999), French-American actress
- Evan N'Dicka (* 1999), football player
- Enzo Loiodice (* 2000), football player
21st century
2001 to 2010
- Armel Bella-Kotchap (* 2001), German soccer player
Well-known residents of Paris
- Adalbertus Ranconis de Ericinio (≈1320–1388), Bohemian theologian and philosopher
- Joachim du Bellay (≈1522–1560), author
- Salomon de Brosse (1571–1626), architect
- Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674), painter
- Johann Peter Stoppa (1621–1701), military, commander of the Swiss Guard Regiment
- Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687), Italian composer and ballet dancer
- Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720), baroque sculptor
- Guillaume Coustou the Elder (1677–1746), painter and sculptor
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764), composer and music theorist
- Edmé Bouchardon (1698–1762), draftsman, sculptor, medalist and architect
- Johann Heinrich Riesener (1734–1806), German cabinet maker
- Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793), revolutionary, women's rights activist, writer and author
- André Galle (1761–1844), medalist
- Sophie Marie Louise de Grouchy, marquise de Condorcet (1764–1822), philosopher and salonnière
- Mathieu-Jean-Baptiste Nioche de Tournay (1767–1844), lyricist and playwright
- François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), writer, politician and diplomat
- François Gérard (1770–1837), portrait painter
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), painter
- Émilie Bigottini (1784-1858), dancer
- Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785–1849), German-French pianist and composer
- Ferdinand von Eckstein (1790–1861), Danish writer and French civil servant
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869), writer and politician
- Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), German poet, writer and journalist
- Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), writer
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885), writer
- Alexandre Dumas the Elder (1802-1870), writer
- Charles Texier (1802–1871), traveler, archaeologist and architect
- Hector Berlioz (1803–1869), composer and music critic
- Jacques-Joseph Moreau (1804-1884), psychiatrist
- Marie d'Agoult (1805–1876), writer
- Charles Gleyre (1806–1874), painter
- Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), Polish composer, pianist and piano teacher
- Franz Liszt (1811–1886), Austro-Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, theater director, music teacher and writer
- Joseph Ferdinand Boissard de Boisdenier (1813–1866), painter
- Gustave Chaudey (1817–1871), lawyer and deputy mayor, was executed during the Bloody Week of May
- Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880), German-French composer and cellist
- Georg Schmitt (1821–1900), German composer
- Pierre-Victor Galland (1822-1892), painter
- William Little Hughes (1822-1887), translator
- César Franck (1822–1890), composer and organist
- Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), chemist and microbiologist
- Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), engineer
- Léo Delibes (1836-1891), composer
- Édouard Colonne (1838–1910), conductor
- Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), painter
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), painter
- Jules Massenet (1842–1912), opera composer
- Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937), organist, composer and music teacher
- Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), poet
- Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), composer
- Martin Marsick (1847–1924), Belgian violinist and composer
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish writer
- Claude Debussy (1862–1918), composer
- Olga Boznańska (1865–1940), Polish painter
- Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), painter
- Erik Satie (1866–1925), composer
- Marie Curie (1867–1934), physicist and chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Cesare Galeotti (1872–1929), Italian composer, conductor and pianist
- Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), composer
- Alfred Cortot (1877–1962), pianist, piano teacher, composer, conductor and music writer
- Kurt Löwenstein (1885–1939), reform pedagogue, SPD politician, member of the Reichstag
- Marcel Dupré (1886–1971), composer, organist, pianist and music teacher
- Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961), Swiss writer and adventurer
- Louis Delluc (1890–1924), film director, screenwriter, writer, film critic and film theorist
- Claire Goll (1890 / 91–1977), writer and wife of Yvan Goll
- Yvan Goll (1891–1950), writer and husband of Claire Goll
- Joseph Roth (1894–1939), Austrian writer and journalist
- André Breton (1896–1966), poet, writer and theorist
- Edmond Soussa (1898–1989), Egyptian carom player
- Suzanne Belperron (1900–1983), jewelry designer
- Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985), painter, sculptor, collage and action artist
- Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986), organist and composer
- Mikola Abramtschyk (1903–1970), Belarusian politician and publicist, President of the Rada BNR
- Georges Schehadé (1905–1989), Lebanese poet and playwright
- François Fejtő (1909–2008), historian, journalist and publicist
- Emil Cioran (1911–1995), Romanian philosopher and aphorist
- Albert Cossery (1913–2008), Egyptian writer
- Georges Borgeaud (1914–1998), Swiss writer
- Mendel Mann (1916–1975), Jewish writer, journalist and painter
- Boris Vian (1920–1959), writer, jazz trumpeter, chansonnier, actor
- Chris Marker (1921–2012), writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker
- Yves Montand (1921–1991), chansonnier and actor
- Georges Brassens (1921–1981), poet and writer
- Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), pantomime
- Lars Bo (1924–1999), Danish draftsman and author
- Michel de Certeau (1925–1986), Jesuit, sociologist, historian and cultural philosopher
- Juliette Gréco (* 1927), chanson singer and actress
- Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt (* 1928), French-German writer, essayist and translator
- Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008), fashion designer
- Eduardo Arroyo (1937–2018), Spanish painter and graphic artist
- Romy Schneider (1938–1982), German-French actress
- Julia Kristeva (* 1941), literary theorist, psychoanalyst, writer and philosopher
- Tokyo Kumagaï (1947–1987), Japanese shoe and fashion designer
- Mylène Farmer (* 1961), pop singer
- Tristan Rain (* 1972), Swiss artist, painter and photo artist
- Abdellah Taïa (* 1973), Moroccan writer, journalist and filmmaker
See also
- List of bishops and archbishops of Paris
- List of Mayors of Paris
- Paris Conservatory: Personalities
- Paris Saint-Germain: Former players and coaches (selection)
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin Bundi : Johann Peter Stoppa. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 20, 2012 , accessed March 28, 2020 .