- Ségolène Royal
Marie-Ségolène Royal, known as, is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes region, a former member of the National Assembly and a prominent member of the Socialist Party. On 16 November 2006, Socialist Party members elected her as their candidate for the 2007 French presidential election. In the first round of voting in that election, on April 22, 2007, …
- Christiane Taubira
Christiane Taubira is a French politician. President of her party Walwari, she has served as a French deputy at the National Assembly since 1993, and was re-elected in 1997. Non-affiliated in 1993, she then voted for the investiture of the conservative Edouard Balladur cabinet in 1993. In 1994, she became a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), being the fourth on the "Énergie Radicale" list led by Bernard Tapie.
- Jack Lang
Jack Mathieu Émile Lang is a French politician and a member of the French Socialist Party. Lang was born to Roger Lang and Marie-Luce Bouchet in Mirecourt, in the département of Vosges. He studied political science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and went on to receive a postgraduate degree in public law. His career then focused on a combination of teaching and culture and the arts. He was the founder and producer of Festival du Monde in Nancy, France, …
- Jean-Louis Debré
Jean-Louis Debré is a conservative French politician. On February 23, 2007, he was appointed president of the Constitutional Council of France by president Jacques Chirac, replacing Pierre Mazeaud. The son of former prime minister Michel Debré and the brother of politician Bernard Debré, he was member of the Neo-Gaullist party Rally for the Republic (RPR) then of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Debré is known for his loyalty to Jacques Chirac.
- Michèle Alliot-Marie
Michèle Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie is the French Minister of the Interior and Overseas territories, and the first woman to lead a major French political party. She is the first woman to become Minister of the Interior and Overseas territories. She was minister of defence in Jacques Chirac's cabinet. Born in Villeneuve-le-Roi in the Val-de-Marne, her father was Bernard Marie, the Mayor of Biarritz.
- Adolphe Thiers
Louis Adolphe Thiers (Marseille, April 16, 1797-September 3 1877) was a French politician and historian. Thiers was a prime minister under King Louis-Philippe of France. Following the overthrow of the Second Empire he again came to prominence as the French leader who suppressed the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871. From 1871 to 1873 he served initially as "Head of State" (effectively a provisional President of France), then provisional President.
- Jean-Marc Ayrault
Jean-Marc Ayrault is a French politician and a member of the French Socialist Party. He is currently Mayor of Nantes and President of the Socialist Party group in the French National Assembly.
- Christine Boutin
Christine Boutin is a French politician. As of 2004, she is a deputy to the French National Assembly for the Yvelines "département". She is the leader of the Forum des républicains sociaux (Forum of Social Republicans, FRS), a French conservative Christian-democratic party. She became famous in 1998 for opposing the PACS domestic partnership plan, …
- Jean-Michel Dubernard
Jean-Michel Dubernard is a medical doctor specializing in transplant surgery, as well as a Deputy in the current French National Assembly. Dr. Dubernard is most famous for performing the first successful hand transplant on Clint Hallam on September 23, 1998, the first successful double hand transplant shortly thereafter (but not announced until January 14, 2004), and the first partial face transplant on Isabelle Dinoire on November 27, 2005.
- Patrick Ollier
Patrick Ollier is a French MP, for the UMP party and the Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison. He was shortly the president of the National Assembly in 2007. He is the partner of Michèle Alliot-Marie, French Minister of Defence in the governments of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin. He was elected on 16 June 2002, representing the Hauts-de-Seine, near Paris. He is president of the French National Assembly's committee on Economic Affairs, the Environment, and Territory.
- Alain Madelin
Alain Madelin is a French politician and a former minister of that country. Madelin, a strong supporter of laissez-faire economics, was a candidate in the 2002 French presidential election as the leader of the "Démocratie Libérale" party, where he scored 3.91% on the first round. He is now a member of the "Union pour un Mouvement Populaire" party and a deputy in the French National Assembly.
- Blaise Diagne
Blaise Diagne (October 13, 1872 - May 11, 1934) was a Senegalese political leader, the first black African elected to the French National Assembly, and mayor of Dakar.
- Rama Yade
Rama Yade is a French politician. She was a national secretary at UMP in charge of Francophonie. She is currently the State Secretary in charge of foreign affairs and human rights (under the authority of the minister of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Kouchner). She graduated from the Institut d'études politiques in 2000, and then worked at the Paris Town Hall and the French National Assembly before becoming administrator at the French Senate in 2002.
- Arnaud Montebourg
Arnaud Montebourg is a French politician, and a deputy to the French National Assembly for the Socialist Party. He used to be one of the founding members of the political current known as the Nouveau Parti Socialist (New Socialist Party). He left this current to create a new movement within the socialist party called "Rénover, Maintenant" ("Renewal Now"), and continues to call for significant constitutional change in France, leading to the founding of a Sixth Republic.
- Philippe Séguin
Philippe Séguin OQ (born April 21, 1943) is a former French politician, and is now first president of France's "Cour des Comptes" (Court of Financial Auditors). He entered the Court of Financial Auditors in 1970, but he began a political career in the Neo-Gaullist party RPR. In 1978, he was elected to the National Assembly as a deputy for the Vosges "département".
- Noël Mamère
Noël Mamère is a French politician of the French Green Party ("Les Verts"). He rose to fame in the 1980s as a TV journalist: he was a news anchor for the evening news on Antenne 2. In 1992, he became president of Brice Lalonde's "Génération Écologie" party, from which he was expelled in 1994. He then founded "Ecology-Solidarity Convergences", of which he was president, before joining "Les Verts" in 1998.
- Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Jacques Chaban-Delmas (March 7, 1915-November 10, 2000) was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972. Jacques Chaban-Delmas was born Jacques Delmas; in the resistance underground, his final pseudonym was "Chaban", and, after World War II, he formally changed his name to "Chaban-Delmas". General of a brigade in the resistance, he took part in the Parisian insurrection of August 1944.
- Antoine Pinay
Antoine Pinay (December 30, 1891, Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise, Rhône, France - December 13, 1994) was a French conservative politician. He served as Prime Minister of France from 1952 - 1953 (technically, "president of the Council"). Early in life, Pinay managed a small business. He served as mayor of Saint-Chamond (Loire) from 1929 to 1977. He was elected to the French National Assembly in 1936, running as a conservative.
- Jacques Soustelle
Jacques Soustelle was a French anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations. He became vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1938. Soustelle was born in Montpellier. An anti-fascist, he joined the French resistance and Charles de Gaulle in London, coming to head the information and intelligence services. In 1945, he served first as Minister of Information, then of the Colonies.
- Paul Quilès
Paul Quilès is a French Socialist politician. Deputy of Tarn "département", close to Laurent Fabius, he was Defense Minister from 1985 to 1986, after the Rainbow Warrior scandal. He was Interior Minister from 1992 to 1993, then chairman of the Defense commission in the French National Assembly from 1997 to 2002.
- Benjamin Constant
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque was a Swiss-born thinker, writer and French politician. Constant was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, to descendants of Huguenots. He was educated by private tutors and at the University of Erlangen, Bavaria, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In the course of his life, he spent many years in France, Switzerland, Germany, and Great Britain.
- Guy Canivet
Guy Canivet is a French judge. As of 2005, he is president of the Court of Cassation and as such is the highest judge in France. On February 22, 2007, Jean-Louis Debré, president of the French National Assembly, appointed Guy Canivet to the Constitutional Council of France, replacing Jean-Claude Colliard.
- Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet is a French politician, who sits in the French National Assembly representing the department of Essonne, to the south of Paris. She is a member of the UMP group and has been a sitting deputée since 2002. Although close to Jacques Chirac throughout his presidency, she is a strong advocate of green issues, and can be described as a part of the "blue ecologists" group.
- Jean-Claude Gaudin
Jean-Claude Gaudin was born October 8, 1939, in Mazargues, in southern Marseille. He is a French politician and was a member of the French National Assembly. He is currently mayor of Marseille, a position he has held since 1995.
- Bruno Mégret
Bruno Mégret is a French politician. He is the leader of the "Mouvement National Républicain" political party. Bruno Mégret studied at the École Polytechnique and at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and is by profession a senior civil servant. He also holds a Master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. A graduate of the armored cavalry school of Saumur, he is also a reserve captain.
- Jean Tiberi
Jean Tiberi is a French politician who was mayor of Paris from May 22, 1995 to March 24, 2001. As of 2004, he is now mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris and deputy to the French National Assembly. Jean Tiberi and his wife Xavière Tiberi were involved in some corruption scandals in the Paris region in which Mr Tiberi was accused of vote-rigging.
- Pascal Clément
Pascal Clément is a French politician. He has been the French Minister of Justice since 2005. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, he is a barrister by training. Clément has been a Member of the French National Assembly since 1978, representing the Loire. From 1977 to 2001, he was Mayor of Saint-Marcel-de-Felines and from 1993 to 1995 was Minister-Delegate for Parliamentary Relations. Clément succeeded Dominique Perben as Justice Minister on 2 June 2005.
- Catherine Picard
Catherine Picard (August 14, 1952 -) is a French politician from the French Socialist Party. She used to be a member of the French National Assembly.
- Serge Dassault
Serge Dassault is a French entrepreneur and conservative politician. According to "Forbes" magazine, as of 2006 he was the 56th richest person in the world. Dassault is the son of Marcel Dassault, from whom he inherited the Dassault Group. Since the elder Dassault's death, he has continued developing the company, with the help of current CEO Charles Edelstenne. Serge Dassault studied at the École polytechnique and Supaéro.
- Paul Bacon
Paul Bacon was a French politician. During World War 2, Bacon was active in the French Resistance. He was a member of Georges Bidault's National Liberation Movement, and distributed a manifesto about trade unionism in December 1940. Bacon was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943. After the war, Bacon continued his political career. A member of the Christian Democratic "Mouvement Républicain Populaire", …
- Lori Andrews
Lori Andrews is a distinguished professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law; Director of Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute for Science, Law and Technology; and in Spring 2002, she was a visiting professor at Princeton University. She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Yale College and her J.D. from Yale Law School.
- Olivier Dassault
Olivier Dassault (born 1 June 1951 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French politician, currently serving as a deputy in the French National Assembly. He is also the son of Serge Dassault and grandchild of Marcel Dassault. He was elected 16 June 2002 as deputy for the first "circonscription" of Oise, running on the UMP ticket. His mandate ends in 2007. A child of the founding family of the Dassault Group, …
- Jean Lassalle
Jean Lassalle is a French Occitan politician and UDF deputy in the National Assembly.
- Pierre Poujade
Pierre Poujade, born in Saint-Céré, was a French populist politician after whom the Poujadist movement was named. Poujadism flourished most vigorously in the last years of the French Fourth Republic, and articulated the economic interests and grievances of shopkeepers and other proprietor-managers of small businesses facing economic and social change. The movement's ideological issues were: lower taxes, corporatism, …
- Guy Drut
Guy Drut is an Olympic champion and politician who won gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in the 110m hurdles. Born in Oignies, Pas-de-Calais, France, Drut captured the silver medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, finishing behind the American Rodney Milburn. In the European Championship of 1974 Drut came a comfortable first. It was at the next Olympics that Guy was to realise his dream, …
- Jacques Duclos
Jacques Duclos (October 2, 1896 in Louey, Hautes-Pyrénées-April 25, 1975 in Montreuil) was a French Communist politician who played a key role in French politics from 1926, when he entered the French National Assembly after defeating Paul Reynaud, until 1969, when he achieved a substantial proportion of the vote in the Presidential Elections. During World War I, Duclos fought in the Battle of Verdun, where he was wounded.
- Lamine Guèye
Lamine Guèye (born 1891, Médine (now in Mali); died 1968) was a Senegalese politician who became leader of the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action ("Parti Sénégalais de l'Action Socialiste"). In 1945 he and his associate Leopold Senghor were elected to represent Senegal in the French National Assembly. He gave his name to the 1946 Lamine Guèye law ("loi Lamine Guèye") which granted French citizenship to the inhabitants of France's overseas colonies.
- François Tanguy-Prigent
François Tanguy-Prigent was a French politician. He was born in Saint-Jean-du-Doigt, in the Finistère "département" of Bretagne, France (The name "Prigent" comes from "Prit" "beautiful" and "Gent" "race - line". It first appears in Redon in the year 869 A.D.). Tanguy-Prigent became politically active at age 16. At age eighteen he published his first political articles and in 1934 won his first elections ("Cantonales").
- Manuel Aeschlimann
Manuel Aeschlimann is a French politician. He began his political career at the early age of 25, as a city councillor in Asnières sur Seine. He was appointed first deputy major and went on to be elected mayor of Asnières in 1999. He was elected deputy to the French National Assembly in June 2002 as a member of the ruling right-wing party UMP; he is a member of the commissions of laws of the Assembly.
- Didier Julia
Didier Julia is a French politician. He is currently (as of 2007) representing the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) from Seine-et-Marne in the French National Assembly, a post he has held from 1967. He is mainly known for his interference in liberation operations of French hostages detained in Iraq following the US invasion in 2003. Didier Julia was born in Paris. He is doctor of State in Literature, "agrégé" in philosophy and university professor.