List of French playwrights

This is an incomplete list of playwrights from France in chronological order, according to date of birth.

Theodore Beza (1519–1605)
Étienne Jodelle (1532–1573)
Robert Garnier (1544–1590)
Alexandre Hardy (1570–1632)
Jean Mairet (1604–1686)
Pierre du Ryer (1606–1658)
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
Jean Rotrou (1609–1650)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655)
Molière (1622–1673)
Samuel Chappuzeau (1625–1701)
Thomas Corneille (1625–1709)
Philippe Quinault (1635–1688)
Jean Racine (1639–1699)
Charles Rivière Dufresny (1648–1724)
Jean Palaprat (1650–1721)
Antoine de La Fosse (1653–1708)
Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672–1731)
Pierre de Marivaux (1688–1763)
Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps (1689–1761)
Voltaire (1694–1778)
Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758)
Pierre Beaumarchais (1732–1799)
Louis-François Faur (1746–1829)
Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793)
Jean Armand Charlemagne (1753–1838)
Étienne Aignan (1773–1824)
Victor Henri Joseph Brahain Ducange (1783–1833)
Eugène Scribe (1791–1861)
Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863)
Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (1797–1872)
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)
Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870)
Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870)
Alfred de Musset (1810–1857)
Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)
Émile Augier (1820–1889)
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895)
Henri de Bornier (1825–1901)
Laetitia Marie Wyse Bonaparte (1831–1902)
Victorien Sardou (1831–1908)
Henry Becque (1837–1899)
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838–1889)
Émile Zola (1840–1902)
Brada (1847-1938)
Jules Lemaître (1853–1914)
François, Vicomte de Curel (1854–1928)
Maurice Bouchor (1855–1929)
Paul Hervieu (1857–1915)
Georges Courteline (1858–1929)
Eugène Brieux (1858–1932)
Marie Léopold-Lacour (1859-1942)
Henri Lavedan (1859–1949)
Charles Maurice Donnay (1859–1945)
Georges Feydeau (1862–1921)
Albert Guinon (1863–1923)
Jules Renard (1864–1910)
Edmond Rostand (1868–1918)
Paul Claudel (1868–1955)
Henry Kistemaeckers (1872–1938)
Alfred Jarry (1873–1907)
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)
Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)
Sacha Guitry (1885–1957)
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
Louis Verneuil (1893–1952)
Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
Marcel Achard (1899–1974)
Jean Tardieu (1903–1995)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980)
Georges Schehadé (1905–1989)
Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994)
Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)
Jean Genet (1910–1986)
Albert Camus (1913–1960)
Armand Gatti (1924–2017)
Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948–1989)
Yasmina Reza (born 1959)
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born 1960)
Pavel Hak (born 1962)