Alfred Dreyfus (9 October, 1859 - 12 July, 1935) was a French-Jewish officer best known for being the focus of the Dreyfus affair.

Henri-Louis Bergson (October 18, 1859-January 4, 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century.

Mayer Alphonse James Rothschild, born February 1, 1827 in Paris - died May 26, 1905 in Paris, was a banker and philanthropist and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. Known as Alphonse, he was the eldest son of James Mayer de Rothschild (1792-1868). His mother was Betty de Rothschild (1805-1886), the daughter of Salomon Mayer von Rothschild from the Austrian branch of the family.

Léon Blum, French politician, was the Prime Minister of France three times: from 1936 to 1937, for one month in 1938, and from December 1946 to January 1947.

James de Rothschild, born May 15, 1792 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany - died November 15, 1868 in Paris, France, was a banker and a member of the prominent Rothschild family. James de Rothschild was the fifth son and youngest child of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812). James de Rothschild moved to Paris in 1811 and in 1817 expanded the family banking empire to the city, opening de Rothschild Frères.

Edmond de Rothschild (1845-1934): The Man who redeemed the Holy Land. Edmond de Rothschild has always been a mystery and an enigma. First, the mystery: why the youngest son of James de Rothschild (1791-1868) - himself the son of the founder of the dynasty - decided, despite the hostility of the rest of his family, to dedicate his energy, time and money to the Jewish settlements in Palestine, from 1882 until his death in 1934?

Jean André Wahl was a French philosopher.

Denise Madeleine Bloch was a heroine of World War II. Bloch was from a Jewish family who were rounded up by the Gestapo by the middle of 1942 in occupied France. In the city of Lyon, Bloch was recruited to work for the Special Operations Executive (SOE). She began resistance work with SOE radio operator Brian Stonehouse until his arrest near the end of October that year.

Baroness Bethsabée de Rothschild (name sometimes spelled Batsheva; b. September 23, 1914, in London; died April 20, 1999, in Tel Aviv, Israel) was a philanthropist, a patron of dance, and member of the prominent Rothschild family. Bethsabée de Rothschild was the great-granddaughter of James Mayer Rothschild (1792-1868), …

Ilan Halimi (1982? - 13 February 2006) was a young French Jew (of Moroccan parentage) kidnapped on 21 January 2006 by a gang of Muslim immigrants called the "Barbarians" and subsequently tortured to death over a period of three weeks. The murder, amongst whose motives authorities include anti-Semitism, incited a public outcry in a France already marked by intense public controversy about the role of children of immigrants in its society.

Edouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (February 24, 1868 - June 30, 1949) was a French financier and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. Born in Paris, Edouard de Rothschild was the only son of Baron Alphonse James de Rothschild (1827-1905). His mother was Leonora de Rothschild (1837-1911), the daughter of Lionel de Rothschild of the English branch of the family.

Johan Hendrik Weidner (October 22, 1912, Brussels, Belgium - May 21, 1994, Monterey Park, California, United States) was a highly decorated hero of World War II. Johan Weidner, born to Dutch parents, grew up in Collonges, France in the Ain département near the Swiss border where his father served as the minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Following his education at French public schools, he studied at the Seventh-day Adventist Seminary in Collonges, …

Gabrielle Weidner was a heroine of World War II. The child of Dutch parents, she grew up in Collonges, France in the Ain département, near the Swiss border where her father served as the minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. She was sent to secondary school in London and as a result of her background, spoke several languages. A devoutly religious girl, she was living and doing church work in Paris at the outbreak of World War II.

David René James de Rothschild is a banker and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. He is the son of Guy de Rothschild (1909-2007) and his first wife and distant cousin, the former Baroness Alix Hermine Jeannette Schey de Koromla (1911-1982). David de Rothschild was born in the United States as a result of his parents having to escape the Nazis during the German occupation of France in World War II.

Charlotte Béatrice de Rothschild was a French socialite, art collector, and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family. Known as Béatrice, she was born in Paris, France, the daughter of the extremely wealthy banker Alphonse James de Rothschild (1827-1905) and Leonora de Rothschild (1837-1911).

Edouard Etienne Alphonse de Rothschild is a businessman and part of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. He is the son of Guy de Rothschild (1909-2007) and Marie-Hélène van Zuylen van Nyevelt (1927-1996). Edouard de Rothschild studied law in France and in 1985 graduated with an M.B.A. degree from the Stern School of Business at New York University. In 1981 he married Mathilde Alexe Marie Christiane Coche de la Ferté (b.1952).

André Meyer was a French-born Jewish Wall Street investment banker. André Benoit Mathieu Meyer was born in Paris to a low-income family. As a boy, he began following the workings of the stock market and out of necessity left school at age sixteen to work as a messenger at the Paris Bourse.

Jacob Rodrigues Pereira was an academic and the first teacher of deaf-mutes in France. Born Jacob Rodrigues Pereira in Peniche, Portugal, he was a descendant of a Marrano family and was baptized with the name of Francisco Antonio Rodrigues. He returned to Judaism together with his mother. His parents are Magalhães Rodrigues Pereira and Abigail Ribea Rodrigues.

Pierre David-Weill was a French investment banker. Born Pierre Sylvain Désiré Gérard David-Weill in Paris, France, he was the son of Flora Raphael and David David-Weill (1871-1952), Chairman of Lazard Frères. He followed in his father's footsteps and in 1927 became a partner in the Paris office of the family's bank at the time under the direction of the brilliant Raymond Philippe. In 1932 Pierre David-Weill married Berthe Haardt with whom he had a son, …

Lisette de Brinon was best known as the Jewish wife of the notorious pro-Nazi French collaborator, Marquis Fernand de Brinon. Born Jeanne Louise Rachel Franck, she lived in an internal exile throughout the Second World War: declared an "honorary Aryan," she was not deported to her death, but neither was she welcome in Vichy or in Paris. Born to a bourgeois family in Paris, Lisette Franck was an inveterate socialite, …

Michel Nathaniel Robert de Rothschild is an American banker and member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. Know as Nathaniel, he is the first child and only son of Elie Robert de Rothschild and Liliane Elizabeth Victorie Fould-Springer. He will inherit from his father one-sixth of Château Lafite-Rothschild vineyard and one-quarter of Rothschild & Cie Banque. In 1975 he married Nili Limon (b. 1951).

Abraham Furtado (1756-1817), was born to a French Jewish family of Portuguese Marano descent. He was elected president of the Assembly of Notables; later he served as secretary of Napoleon's "Grand Sanhedrin".

Nissim de Camondo was a French banker. Named for his grandfather, he was born into the Camondo family of Paris, the son of the prominent and wealthy Jewish banker, Moïse de Camondo. As the only son of two children, Nissim de Camondo was expected to take over the family business. However, immediately upon the outbreak of World War I, he joined the French Army, then served as a pilot in the Aéronautique Militaire.

Béatrice de Camondo was a French socialite and a Holocaust victim. Born into the Camondo family of Paris, she was the daughter of Moïse de Camondo and Irène Cahen d'Anvers, both of whom were from prominent Jewish banking families. One of two children, her older brother Nissim served as a fighter pilot during World War I and in 1917 was killed in action. In 1918 Béatrice de Camondo married composer Léon Reinach (1893-1944).

Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noailles, was one of the 20th century's most daring and influential patrons of the arts, noted for her associations with Salvador Dalí, Balthus, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Luis Bunuel, Francis Poulenc, Jean-Michel Frank and others as well as her tempestuous life and eccentric personality. She and her husband financed Ray's film "Mystery of the Chateau of Dice" (1929), Poulenc's "Aubade" (1929), …

Alexandre Louis Philippe Marie Berthier was the son of Bertha Clara von Rothschild of the prominent Rothschild banking family of Germany and Louis Philippe Marie Alexandre Berthier, 3rd Prince de Wagram (1836-1911). The family resided in the ancestral home, the Château de Grosbois, a large estate in Boissy-Saint-Léger, southeast of Paris. Alexandre Berthier was an active collector of impressionist paintings and owned works by Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, …

Makhir of Narbonne was a Babylonian-Jewish scholar who settled in Narbonne, France, at the end of the eighth century and whose descendants were for many generations the leaders of that important community.

Elisabeth Rachel Félix, better known only as Rachel, was a French theatre actress.

"Rabbeinu" Abraham ben David was a Jewish, French commentator on the Talmud. He was born in Provence, France, about 1125 CE; died at Posquières, 27 November 1198 CE. He was the son-in-law of Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne "Av Beth Din" (known as the "Ravad" II). He was the father of "Rabbeinu" Isaac the Blind, a Neoplatonist and important Jewish mystical thinker.