- 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.
- Jacques Chirac
Jacques René Chirac is a French politician and a former President of France. He served from 1995 until May 16 2007 and was re-elected in 2002. As President he was also an "ex officio" Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French Légion d'honneur. After completing his studies at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and the École Nationale d'Administration, Jacques Chirac began his career as a high-level civil servant, and soon entered politics.
- 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 Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand served as President of France and co-prince of Andorra from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS). First elected during the May 1981 presidential election, he became the first socialist president of the Fifth Republic and the first left-wing head of government since 1957. He was re-elected in 1988 and held office until 1995, before dying of prostate cancer the following year.
- Georges Pompidou
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (5 July 1911 - 2 April 1974) was President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974.
- Valéry Giscard D'Estaing
Valéry Marie René Giscard d'Estaing is a French centre-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981. His tenure as President was marked by a rupture with his predecessor on social issues—such as divorce, contraception, and abortion—and attempts to modernize the country and the office of the presidency, …
- Raymond Poincaré
Raymond Poincaré was a French conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of France on five separate occasions and as President of France from 1913 to 1920. Born in Bar-le-Duc, Département Meuse, France, the son of Nicolas Antoinin Hélène Poincaré, a distinguished civil servant and meteorologist. Educated at the University of Paris, Raymond was called to the Paris bar, and was for some time law editor of the "Voltaire".
- Vincent Auriol
Jules-Vincent Auriol (August 27, 1884 - January 1, 1966) was a French politician who served as the first President of the Fourth Republic from 1947 to 1954. He also served as interim President of the Provisional Govermment (head of state and government) from November to December 1946, making him one of only three person (with Charles de Gaulle and Alain Poher) who were heads of state of French Republic twice.
- Paul Doumer
Paul Doumer was the President of France from June 13, 1931 until his assassination. Born in Aurillac, in the Cantal "département", in France. He was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. After returning from French Indochina, Doumer served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (a post equivalent to the speaker of parliament) from 1902 to 1905. He was elected President of the French Republic on May 13, 1931, …
- Albert Lebrun
Albert Lebrun was a French politician, President of France from 1932 to 1940, and as such was the last president of the Third Republic. He was a member of the center-right Democratic Republican Alliance (ARD). Born to a farming family in Mercy-le-Haut, he attended the "École Polytechnique" and the "École des Mines", graduating from both at the top of his class. He then became a mining engineer in Vesoul and Nancy, …
- Félix Faure
Félix Faure was President of France from 1895 until his death.
- 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.
- Alexandre Millerand
Alexandre Millerand (February 10, 1859 - April 7, 1943) was a French socialist politician. He was President of France from September 23, 1920 to June 11, 1924 and Prime Minister of France January 20 to September 23, 1920. His participation in Waldeck-Rousseau's cabinet at the turn of the century, alongside the marquis de Galliffet who had directed the repression of the 1871 Paris Commune, …
- Gaston Doumergue
Pierre-Paul-Henri-Gaston Doumergue was a French politician of the Third Republic. Doumergue came from a Protestant family. Beginning as a Radical, he turned more towards the political right in his old age. He served as Prime Minister from 9 December 1913 to 2 June 1914. He held the portfolio for the colonies through the ministries of Viviani and Briand until the Ribot ministry of March, 1917, …
- Émile Loubet
Émile François Loubet was a French politician and the 7th President of France.
- Alain Poher
Alain Poher (April 17, 1909 - December 9, 1996) was a French politician. He was president of the French Senate from 1968 to 1992, and served twice as the country's interim president.
- Jules Grévy
François Paul Jules Grévy was a President of the French Third Republic.
- Paul Deschanel
Paul Eugène Louis Deschanel was a French statesman. He served as President of France from February 18, 1920 to September 21, 1920. Paul Deschanel, the son of Émile Deschanel (1819-1904), professor at the Collège de France and senator, was born at Brussels, where his father was living in exile (1851—1859), owing to his opposition to Napoleon III. Paul Deschanel studied law, and began his career as secretary to Deshayes de Marcère (1876), and to Jules Simon (1876-1877).
- René Coty
René Jules Gustave Coty was President of France from 1954 to 1959. He was the second and last president under the French Fourth Republic.
- Louis Jules Trochu
Louis Jules Trochu (March 12, 1815 - October 7, 1896) was a French military leader and politician. He served as President of the French Republic from September 4th 1870 to January 22nd 1871 (although he resigned as President in January, he retained the role symbolically until the legislative elections of February 1871), acting as Head of State for the Government of National Defence.
- Jean Casimir-Perier
Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier was a French politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic. He was born in Paris, the son of Auguste Casimir-Perier and the grandson of Casimir Pierre Perier, premier of Louis Philippe. He entered public life as secretary to his father, who was minister of the interior under the presidency of Thiers. In 1874 he was elected general councillor of the Aube "département", …
- Marie François Sadi Carnot
Marie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman, the fourth president of the Third French Republic. He served as the President of France from 1887 until his death.
- Armand Fallières
Clément Armand Fallières was a French politician, president of the French republic from 1906 to 1913. He was born at Mézin in the "département" of Lot-et-Garonne, France, where his father was clerk of the peace. He studied law and became an advocate at Nérac, beginning his public career there as municipal councillor (1868), afterwards mayor (1871), and as councillor-general of the "département" of Lot-et-Garonne (1871).
- 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".
- Claude Pompidou
Claude Jacqueline Pompidou (13 November 1912 - 3 July 2007) was the wife of President of France Georges Pompidou. She was a philanthropist and a patron of modern art, especially through the Centre Georges Pompidou.
- Michel Poniatowski
Michel Poniatowski. He was a Polish Prince and French politician. He was a founder of the Independent Republicans and a part of the government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Poniatowski served as Minister of Health from 1973 to 1974 and Minister of the Interior in the d'Estaing government from 1974 to 1977. He also was a founder and honorary president of the UDF.
- Henri de Gaulle
Henri de Gaulle was a French bureaucrat and later a teacher. He was the father of Charles de Gaulle, a military general and President of France. Henri de Gaulle's father was a graduate of the École nationale des chartes. He himself was a volunteer in the Franco-Prussian War; his men chose him as their second lieutenant on several occasions. A civil administrator in the interior ministry for fifteen years, …
- Mazarine Pingeot
Mazarine Marie Pingeot, who changed her name to Mazarine Marie Pingeot-Mitterrand in 2005, is the daughter of former French president François Mitterrand and his mistress Anne Pingeot. The existence of this daughter of president Mitterrand was long hidden from the press. Ensuring confidentiality about it was one of the motivations behind some of the illegal wiretapping that Mitterrand ordered under the guise of fighting terrorism.
- Patrice de Mac-Mahon duc de Magenta
Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de Mac-Mahon, duc de Magenta, Marshal of France (13 July 1808 - 16 October, 1893) was a Frenchman of Irish descent. He served as "Chief of State" of France from 1873 to 1875 and as the first president of the Third Republic, from 1875 to 1879. To date, he and Charles de Gaulle (his maternal grandmother being a McCartan) are the only people of Irish descent to have served as a head of state in Continental Europe.
- Jacqueline Auriol
Jacqueline Auriol was a French aviatrix who set several world speed records. Born Jacqueline Marie-Thérèse Suzanne Douet in Challans, Vendée, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, she graduated from the University of Nantes then she studied art at the École du Louvre in Paris. In 1938, Jacqueline Douet married Paul Auriol, son of Vincent Auriol who later became President of France During World War II, Jacqueline Auriol, …
- Roger Hanin
Roger Hanin is a French actor (and film director). He is the brother in law of former President of France François Mitterrand.
- Anne-Aymone Giscard D'Estaing
Anne-Aymone Marie Josèphe Christiane Sauvage de Brantès is the wife and distant cousin of former President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
- Frédéric Mitterrand
Frédéric Mitterrand is a French actor, screenwriter, television presenter, writer, producer and director. He is the nephew of the former French president François Mitterrand and the son of Edith Cahier, the niece of Eugène Deloncle, co-founder of La Cagoule
- Marguerite Steinheil
Marguerite Jeanne "Meg" Steinheil, "née" Japy (April 16, 1869 - July 17, 1954) was a French woman famous in connection with the deaths of President Félix Faure and her own husband and stepmother. Born in Beaucourt, in the Territoire de Belfort, in a rich industrial family, she married the well-known French painter Adolphe Steinheil in July 1890. She became a prominent figure in Parisian society, …
- Antoine Rigaudeau
Antoine Rigaudeau, nicknamed "Le Roi" (The King), is a retired French professional basketball player. In Autumn 2000, Antoine Rigaudeau was appointed as "Chevalier" (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur by French President. In 2001, before European Championship he retired from international basketball after 110 appearances with the French National Team, but he decided to come back for the 2005 European Championship where he won the Bronze medal.
- Alain Pompidou
Prof. Alain Pompidou (born April 5 1942, Paris, France) is a French scientist and politician. A former professor of histology, embryology and cytogenetics, he was the fourth president of the European Patent Office (EPO) from July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2007. He is the foster son of Georges Pompidou, former President of France.
- Agénor Bardoux
Agénor Bardoux was a French statesman and republican. A native of Bourges, he was established as an advocate in Clermont-Ferrand, and did not hesitate to proclaim his Republican sympathies. In 1871 he was elected deputy of the French National Assembly, and re-elected in 1876 and in 1877. In the chamber he was president of the group of the centre-left, standing strongly for the republic but against anti-clericalism. In the republican chamber elected after May 16, 1877, …
- Marie Adolphe Carnot
Marie Adolphe Carnot was a French chemist, mining engineer and politician. He came from a distinguished family: his father, Hippolyte Carnot, and brother, Marie François Sadi Carnot, were politicians, the latter becoming President of the third French Republic. He was born in Paris and graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1860, going on to join the Ecole des Mines, where he became professor in 1868, following a spell as an engineer around Limoges.
- Jacques Rueff
Jacques Rueff was a French economist and adviser to the French Government. An influential French conservative and free market thinker, Rueff was born the son of a well known Parisian physician and studied economics and mathematics at the École Polytechnique. An important economic advisor to French President Charles de Gaulle, Rueff was also a major figure in the management of the French economy during the Great Depression.
- Cedric Prakash
Father Cedric Prakash is a human rights activist and a Jesuit priest based in the city of Ahmedabad in western India. He is the director of Prashant, the Ahmedabad-based Jesuit Centre for Human Rights, Justice and Peace. He was awarded the Chevalier de la Legion d' Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour), one of the highest French civilian awards, acknowledging his commitment to the defence and the promotion of Human Rights in India. Other than this, Fr.