French personalities

1. The Greatest Frenchmen
of All Time

3. Charles de Gaulle
He was a French general and
statesman who led the Free French
Forces during World War II. He later
founded the French Fifth Republic in
1958 and served as its first president
from 1959 to 1969

5. Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur was a French chemist
and microbiologist renowned for his
discoveries of the principles of
vaccination, microbial fermentation
and pasteurization. He is remembered
for his remarkable breakthroughs in
the causes and preventions of
diseases, and his discoveries have
saved countless lives ever since. He
created the first vaccines for rabies
and anthrax

7. Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu is a French actor,
film-maker. He is one of the most prolific
character actors in film history, having
completed approximately 170 movies
since 1967. He has twice won the César
Award for Best Actor as well as the
Golden Globe award for Best Actor .
Depardieu acted in many big budget
Hollywood movies. He is a Chevalier of
the Légion d'honneur and Chevalier of
the Ordre national du Mérite.

9. Marie Curie
Marie Curie was a Polish and
naturalized-French physicist and
chemist who conducted pioneering
research on radioactivity. She was the
first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the
only woman to win in two fields, and
the only person to win in multiple
sciences. She was also the first
woman to become a professor at the
University of Paris,

11. Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane nicknamed
"Zizou", is an assistant coach and
sporting director at Real Madrid, and a
retired footballer who played as an
attacking midfielder for the French
national team, Zidane was named the
best European footballer of the past
50 years by UEFA, and has been
described as one of the greatest
players in the history of the game.

13. Joan of Arc
 Joan of Arc nicknamed- The Maid of
Orléans is a heroine of France and a
Roman Catholic saint. Joan said she
received visions and heard voices of
the Archangel Saint Michael. , She
was burned at the stake when she
was about 19 years old.

15. Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French
military and political leader who rose
to prominence during the latter stages
of the French Revolution and its
associated wars in Europe

17. Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French
novelist, poet, and playwright best
known for his adventure novels and
his profound influence on the literary
genre of science fiction widely popular
including Journey to the Center of the
Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea, and Around the World
in Eighty Days

19. Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo was a French
poet, novelist, and dramatist of the
Romantic movement. He is
considered one of the greatest and
best known French writers. His best-
known works are the novels Les
Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de
Paris, 1831 (known in English as The
Hunchback of Notre-Dame).

21. Jean Reno
Jean Reno is a French actor.
Working in French, English, Japanese,
Spanish and Italian, he has appeared
in numerous successful films such as
Crimson Rivers, Godzilla, The Da
Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible,
The Pink Panther, Ronin, Les
visiteurs, The Big Blue and Léon:
The Professional.

23. Sophie Marceau
She is a French actress, director,
screenwriter, and author. She became
a film star in Europe with a string of
successful films, including
L'Étudiante, Pacific Palisades,
Fanfan, and Revenge of the
Musketeers . Marceau became an
international film star with her
performances in Braveheart ,
Firelight , and the nineteenth James
Bond film The World Is Not Enough

25. Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy is a French politician
who served as the 23rd President of
France.
Before his presidency, he was the leader
of the (UMP). Under Jacques Chirac's
presidency he served as Minister of the
Interior in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's (UMP)
first two governments (from May 2002 to
March 2004), then was appointed Minister
of Finances in Raffarin's last government
(March 2004 to May 2005) and again
Minister of the Interior in Dominique de
Villepin's government (2005–2007).

27. Audrey Tautou
Audrey Justine Tautou is a French
actress and model. Tautou has
modeled for companies such as
Chanel, Montblanc, L'Oréal, and many
others.

29. Lumière brothers
The Lumière brothers, Auguste
Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis
Jean were the earliest filmmakers in
history. Appropriately, "lumière"
translates as "light" in English.

31. Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French Nobel
Prize winning author, journalist, and
philosopher. His views contributed to
the rise of the philosophy known as
absurdism.

33. Yannick Noah
Yannick Noah is a former
professional tennis player from
France. He is best remembered for
winning the French Open in 1983 and
as a highly successful captain of
France's Davis Cup .

35. Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas was a French
writer. His works have been translated
into nearly 100 languages, and he is
one of the most widely read French
authors. Many of his historical novels
of high adventure, including The
Count of Monte Cristo, The Three
Musketeers, Twenty Years After,
and The Man in the iron mask.