- Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy is the current President of France and "ex officio" Co-prince of Andorra. He was elected President of the French Republic on 6 May, 2007 after defeating left wing Socialist Party contender Ségolène Royal during the 2007 election. Before his presidency, he was leader of the UMP right wing party.
- Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Marie Le Pen is a French far-right nationalist politician, founder and president of the Front National (National Front) party. Le Pen has run for the French presidency 5 times, including in 2002, when in a surprise upset he came second, polling more votes in the first round than the main left candidate, Lionel Jospin. Le Pen lost in the second round to president Jacques Chirac. Le Pen again ran in the 2007 French presidential election and finished fourth.
- Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (November 22, 1890 – November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as "Général de Gaulle", was a French military leader and statesman. Prior to World War II, he was primarily known as an armoured warfare tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armoured and aviation forces.
- François Bayrou
François Bayrou is a French politician, president of Union for French Democracy since 1998, and a candidate in the 2007 French presidential election. In the first round, he received 18.5% of votes, finishing in 3rd place and therefore was eliminated from the race. (Only the top two candidates participated in the runoff election, which was held on May 6). A former Member of the European Parliament, …
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- Louis Blanc
Louis Jean Joseph Charles Blanc (October 29, 1811 - December 6, 1882), was a French politician and historian.
- Rachida Dati
Rachida Dati (Arabic رشيدة داتي "rašīda dātī", born November 27, 1965 in Saint-Rémy, Burgundy) is a French politician of Moroccan and Algerian descent. She was appointed Minister of Justice on the 18th of May 2007 by Nicolas Sarkozy. She was Nicolas Sarkozy's spokeswoman during the 2007 French presidential election.
- Maurice Papon
Maurice Papon was a French civil servant, known for his collaboration with Nazi Germany during the Second World War, later reconverted as a Gaullist politician. He is best known as prefect of police of Paris during the 1950s and 1960s, treasurer of the Gaullist Party and member of the French government under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. During the Second World War he was secretary general for police of the Prefecture of Bordeaux.
- Georges Mandel
Georges Mandel (June 5, 1885-July 7, 1944) was a French politician, journalist, and French Resistance leader, born Louis George Rothschild in Chatou, Seine-et-Oise, the son of a tailor: his family (not related to the banking dynasty) was Jewish, and had fled from Alsace in to preserve their French citizenship when Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by the German Empire at the end of the Franco-Prussian War.
- Christine Lagarde
Christine Lagarde (born 1 January 1956) is the current Minister of Finance of France, appointed in June 2007. She was previously Minister of Agriculture and Fishing and Minister of Trade in the government of Dominique de Villepin. Lagarde was the first woman ever to ever become finance minister of a [G8] economy. Previous to her appointment as Minister of Finance, Lagarde was ranked the 30th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes Magazine.
- Michel Barnier
Michel Barnier is a conservative French politician. Michel Barnier was born in La Tronche in the Isère "département" of the Rhône-Alpes "région", in France. He graduated from the École supérieure de commerce de Paris in 1972. He was elected to the House of Representatives as a deputy for the Savoie in 1978 and served in this function until 1993.
- Léon Gambetta
Léon Gambetta was a French statesman prominent after the Franco-Prussian War.
- Roselyne Bachelot
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, generally known as Roselyne Bachelot (born 24 December 1946 in Nevers), is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France. She currently is the French Minister of Health, Youth Affairs and Sport. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
- Xavier Bertrand
Xavier Bertrand is a French politician. He is the current Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Solidarity in François Fillon's second government. He was for over two years Minister of Health in Dominique de Villepin's government under President Jacques Chirac. He played a foremost role in Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential campaign in 2007.
- André Maginot
André Maginot was a French civil servant, soldier, and member of parliament. He is undoubtedly best known for his advocacy for the string of forts that would be known as the Maginot Line.
- 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.
- Hervé Morin
Hervé Morin is a French Norman politician and the French Minister of Defense. He was the head of the UDF group in the French Parliament.
- Pierre Gaspard Chaumette
Pierre Gaspard Chamette (1763 - April 13, 1794) was a French politician of the Revolutionary period.
- Brice Hortefeux
Brice Hortefeux is a French politician and Minister-Delegate for Local Government at the Ministry of the Interior. He was formerly Member of the European Parliament for central France. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
- Jules Favre
Jules Claude Gabriel Favre was a French statesman. He was born in Lyon, and began his career as an advocate. From the time of the revolution of 1830, he openly declared himself a republican, and in political trials he took the opportunity to express this opinion. After the revolution of 1848 he was elected deputy for Lyon to the Constituent Assembly, where he sat among the moderate republicans, voting against the socialists.
- Hippolyte Carnot
Lazare Hippolyte Carnot (October 6, 1801 - March 16, 1888) was a French statesman.
- Louis Jacquinot
Louis Jacquinot was a French lawyer and politician, and chief of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré's office. Jacquinot was born in Gondrecourt-le-Château (Meuse) in 1898. Entering parliament in 1932, he later served for a short time as under-secretary of state for home affairs in Paul Reynaud's cabinet (1940). He served in the army World War II and followed General de Gaulle to London.
- Édith Cresson
Édith Cresson is a French politician. She is the only female Prime Minister of France.
- Marielle de Sarnez
Marielle de Sarnez is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She is a member of the Union for French Democracy, vice-chair of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education. She is also substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, …
- Christine Albanel
Christine Albanel is a French civil servant. She is currently France's Minister of Culture since May 2007 in François Fillon's governement. Albanel is agrégé in classical Letters. In 1982, she joined the administration of the city of Paris, and followed Jacques Chirac - working in his cabinet - when he became Prime Minister in 1986 and French President in 1995. In 2000, she became "Conseiller d'État" for Education and Culture.
- Gaston Defferre
Gaston Defferre was a French socialist politician. Lawyer and member of the Socialist party SFIO (French Section of the Workers' International), he led a Resistance Socialist group during World War II. A long-standing member of the National Assembly (1945-1958, 1962-1986) and member of the Senate (1959-1962), he also served for many years as mayor of Marseille (1944-1945, 1953-1986). He was a formidable political force in the South-East, …
- Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS, was a French journalist and politician. He co-founded "L'Express" in 1954 with Françoise Giroud, and then went on to become president of the Radical Party in 1969. He tried to found in 1972 the Reforming Movement with Christian Democrat Jean Lecanuet, with whom he supported Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's conservative candidacy to the 1974 presidential election.
- Christian Jacob
Christian Jacob (b. December 4 1959 in Rozay-en-Brie (Seine-et-Marne)) is the Minister of French Civil Service. Before being appointed to cabinet position in 2002, he was deputy for the 4th circonscription of Seine-et-Marne (Provins). A farmer, Christian Jacob has been in position of responsibility in farm trade unions, local, departemental, regional then national. He was the President of the CNJA ("Centre National des Jeunes Agriculteurs") from 1992 to 1994.
- Brice Lalonde
Brice Lalonde is a former socialist and Green Party leader in France, who ran for President of France in the Presidential elections, 1981. In 1988 he was named Minister of the Environment, and in 1990 founded the Green Party "Génération Ecologie".
- Alain Lamassoure
Alain Lamassoure (born 10 February 1944 in Pau) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets. He is a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, …
- François Léotard
François Gerard Marie Léotard is a retired French politician. He is the brother of singer/actor Philippe Léotard. Member of the Republican Party, the liberal-conservative component of the Union for French Democracy (UDF), he appeared in the foreground of the political scene in the 1980s. He led a new generation of right-wing politicians, the "renovationmen", who opposed to the old right-wing leaders Jacques Chirac and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
- Georges Boulanger
Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger was a French general and reactionary politician.
- Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen (born Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen, on August 5, 1968 at Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French National Front (FN) politician; a lawyer by profession, she is mainly known for being Jean-Marie Le Pen's daughter.
- Thierry Meyssan
Thierry Meyssan is a French journalist and political activist. He is the author of investigations into the extreme right wing (particularly about the National Front Militias, which are the object of a parliamentary investigation and caused a separation of the extreme right wing party), as well as into the Catholic Church (Opus Dei, for example), and the discrimination of homosexuality, among others. Meyssan is best known for his controversial book 9/11: The Big Lie, …
- Frédéric Dutoit
Frédéric Dutoit is a French politician from the French Communist Party.
- Jean-Baptiste Carrier
Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1756 - November 16, 1794) was a French Revolutionary, known for his cruelty to his enemies, especially to clergy.
- François Piétri
François Piétri was a minister in several governments in the later years of the French Third Republic and was French ambassador to Spain from 1940 to 1944 under the Vichy regime. Born in Bastia, Corsica to Antoine Piétri, a lawyer and "préfecture" councilman, and Claude Gavini, the daughter of a French National Assembly member.
- François Hanriot
François Hanriot was a French popular leader and street orator of the Revolution.