List of people involved with the French Resistance

People involved with the French Resistance include:

A[]

• José Aboulker (1920–2009)
• Berty Albrecht (1893–1943)
• Dimitri Amilakhvari (1906–1942), French-Georgian Prince
• Louis Aragon (1897–1982), poet, novelist and editor, husband of Elsa Triolet
• Raymond Aron (1905–1983)
•  ^[fr] (1921–1944)
• Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie (1900–1969)
• Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie, Roman Catholic conservative politician
• Lucie Aubrac (1912–2007)
• Marie-Thérèse Auffray (1912–1990), artist
• Jacqueline Auriol (1917–2000)

B[]

• Josephine Baker (1906–1975), African American singer, dancer,
• Louis Bancel (1926–1978), sculptor
• Raoul Batany (1926–1944), assassin of  ^[fr]
• Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish writer, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Georges Bégué (1911–1993), SOE
• Robert Benoist (1895–1944)
• Charles Berty (1911–1944), French professional cyclist
• Georges Bidault (1899–1983)
• Louise de Bettignies (1880 – 1918)
• Monique de Bissy (1923–2009)
•  ^[fr] (1904–1944)
•  ^[fr] (1914–1942)
• Denise Bloch (1916–1945)
• Marc Bloch (1886–1944), historian, founded the Annales School of historiography
• France Bloch-Sérazin (1913–1943), chemist, bomb-maker for the Resistance
• Tony Bloncourt (1921–1942)
• Marc Boegner (1881–1970)
• Cristina Luca Boico (1916–2002)
• Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle (1922–1942), assassinated admiral François Darlan
• Claude Bourdet (1909–1996), co-founder of Combat
• Éliane Brault (1898–1982)
• Gilberte Brossolette (1905–2004), French journalist and politician
• Pierre Brossolette (1903–1944)

C[]

• Claude Cahun (1894–1954), French photographer, sculptor and writer
• Albert Camus (1913–1960), French novelist, winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Marcel Carné (1906–1996), French film director
• Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004), French photographer
• Rouben Melik (1921–2007), French-Armenian poet
• Shapour Bakhtiar (1914–1991), later to become Prime minister of Iran during last days of Iranian Revolution
• Roger Carcassonne (1911–1991)
• Donald Caskie (1902–1983)
• Neus Català (1915–2019), Spanish Holocaust survivor and Republican militan
• Jean Cavaillès (1903–1944)
• Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1915–2000)
• René Char (1907–1988)
• Marie-Louise Charpentier 1905–1998
• Peter Churchill (1909–1972), SOE
• Eugène Claudius-Petit (1907–1989)
• Marianne Cohn (1922–1944)
•  ^[fr] (1897–1943)
• Daniel Cordier (1920–2020), secretary of Jean Moulin and later historian
• René-Yves Creston (1898–1964), Breton artist and ethnographer
• Nancy Cunard (1896–1965), poet, writer and anarchist who worked in London as a translator

D[]

• Apolônio de Carvalho (1912–2005), Brazilian revolutionary
• Jacques Decour (1910–1942), French writer
• Charlotte Delbo (1913–1985)
• Jacques Desoubrie (1922–1949)
• Martha Desrumeaux (1897–1982)
• François Ducaud-Bourget (1897–1984), Roman Catholic priest
• Jacques Duclos (1896–1975)
• Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), French writer

E[]

• Jacques Ellul (1912–1994)
• Paul Éluard (1895–1952), French poet
• Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (1901–1941), French right wing naval officer
• Joseph Epstein (1911–1944)

F[]

• Valentin Feldman (1909–1942), French philosopher
• Henri Fertet (1926–1943), schoolboy and Resistance fighter
• Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912–2003), wife of David Feuerwerker, member of Combat
• David Feuerwerker, (1912–1980), rabbi of Brive-la-Gaillarde, member of Combat
• Marie-Madeleine Fourcade (1909–1989)
• Henri Frager (1897–1944)
• Henri Frenay (1905–1988), founder of Combat, minister in the first post-liberation government
• Varian Fry (1907–1967), American journalist

G[]

• Cristino García (1914–1946)
• Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz (1920–2002), niece of General de Gaulle
• Salomon Gluck (1914–1944), physician
• Gheorghe Gaston Grossmann (1918–2010) (changed his name from Grossman to Marin after he returned to Romania after World War II)
• Henri Marie Joseph Grouès (1912–2007), better known as Abbé Pierre, (Catholic priest and Maquis
• William Grover-Williams (1903–1945), Anglo-French racing driver
• Albert Guérisse (1911–1989)
• Georges Guingouin (1913–2005), communist resistance

H[]

• Virginia Hall (1906–1982), American spy, SOE
• Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist
• Boris Holban (1908-2004), leader of the FTP-MOI
• Michel Hollard (1898–1993)
• Wilhelm Holst (1895–1949) SOE
• Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)
• André Hue (1923-2005), SOE
• Max Hymans (1900–1961)

I[]

• René Iché (1897–1954), artist, sculptor

J[]

• Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903–1985)
• Éliane Jeannin-Garreau (1911–1999)
• Louis Jourdan (1921–2015), French actor
• Germain Jousse (1895–1988)

K[]

• Bernard Karsenty (1920–2007)
• Marcelle Kellermann
• Chana Kowalska (1899–1942), Polish Jewish painter and journalist
• Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont (1914–2006)

L[]

•  ^[fr]
• Joseph Laniel (1889–1975)
• Madeleine Lavigne (1912–1945), Isabelle, agent of the Special Operations Executive
•  ^[fr] (1905–1974)
• Édouard Le Jeune (1921–2017), former Senator
• André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986)
• André Le Troquer (1884–1963)
• Jacques Lusseyran (1924–1971)

M[]

• André Malraux (1901–1976) ("Colonel Berger"), French writer and government minister
• Missak Manouchian (1906–1944), poet, leader of the eponymous network as part of FTP-MOI
• Robert Marjolin (1911–1986)
• Suzanne Masson (1901–1943)
• Marie Médard (1921–2013)
• (1901–1943)
• Jean-Pierre Melville (1917–1973), French film director
• Pierre Mendès-France (1907–1982), French politician
• Edmond Michelet (1899–1970), last to leave Dachau while aiding the sick, twice government minister after the war
• Jacques Monod (1910–1976), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1965)
• Marcel Moore (1892–1972), French illustrator, designer, and photographer
• Jean Moulin (1899–1943), head of the CNR

N[]

• Prince Louis Napoléon (1914–1997), pretender to the French Imperial throne
• Eileen Nearne (1921–2010), SOE, Agent Rose
•  ^[fr] (1895–1967), French Resistance Leader
• Collette Nirouet (1926–1944), French resistance fighter and French army combatant
• Suzanne Noël (1878–1954), French plastic surgeon

P[]

• Andrée Peel (1905–2010), Agent Rose
• Édith Piaf (1915–1963), French singer
• Pablo Picasso (1881–1973, Spanish artist)
• Thérèse Pierre (1908–1943)
• Jean Pierre-Bloch (1905–1999)
• Christian Pineau (1904–1995)
• Eliane Plewman (1917–1944), SOE
• Georges Politzer (1903–1942)
• Francis Ponge (1899–1988)
• Jean Prévost (1901–1944), writer, conceived and organized the Maquis du Vercors

R[]

• Adrienne Ranc-Sakakini (1916–2014), member of F2 network in Marseille
• Paul Rassinier (1906–1967), member of Libération-Nord
• Adam Rayski, FTP-MOI leader.
•  ^[fr] (1920–2009)
• Gilbert Renault (1904–1984)
• Jean-François Revel (1924–2006), French writer and philosopher
• Marc Riboud (1923–2016), photographer, participated in the Maquis du Vercors
• Madeleine Riffaud (born 1924), French poet and war correspondent
• André Rogerie (1921–2014), French writer and Holocaust survivor

S[]

• Alexander Sachal (born 1924), Russian artist
• Armand Salacrou (1899–1989)
• Raymond Samuel (1914–2012), alias Raymond Aubrac
• Odette Sansom (1912–1995), SOE
• Jorge Semprún (1923–2011), Spanish writer, member of FTP and then FTP-MOI, later Culture Minister of Spain
• Ariadna Scriabina (1905–1944), daughter of composer Alexander Scriabin, co-founder of the Armée Juive
• Marcelle Semmer (1895 – c. 1944), recipient of the Croix de Guerre (1915)
• Claude Simon (1913–2005)
• Susana Soca (1906–1959), Uruguayan poet and socialité
• Raymond Sommer (1906–1950, French racing driver
• Suzanne Spaak (1905–1944), sister-in-law of Paul-Henri Spaak
• Roger Stéphane (1919–1994), French journalist
• Evelyne Sullerot (1924–2017), historian and sociologist
• Violette Szabo (1921–1945), SOE

T[]

• François Tanguy-Prigent (1909–1970)
• Paul Tarascon (1882–1977), World War I flying ace
• Drue Leyton (1903–1997), also known as Dorothy Tartière
• Édith Thomas (1909–1979), French historian and journalist
• Germaine Tillion (1907–2008), French anthropologist
• Charles Tillon (1897–1993), member of FTP
• Elsa Triolet (1896–1970), writer, wife of Louis Aragon
• Michael Trotobas, 1914–1943), "Capitaine Michel," agent, Special Operations Executive
• Madeleine Truel (1904–1945)
• Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), French-Romanian poet

V[]

• Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (1912–1996)
• Rose Valland (1898–1980), French art historian and museum curator of Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume
• Marie Léonie Vanhoutte (1888 – 1967), secret-agent during World War I
• Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007), French philologist and anthropologist
• Berthe Vicogne-Fraser (1894–1956)
• Pierre Villon (1901–1980), member of FTP, one of the three leaders of the Committee of Military action created by the Conseil National de la Résistance
•  ^[fr] (1899–1945)
• Philippe de Vomécourt (1902–1964)
• Pierre de Vomécourt (1906–1986)
• Traian Vuia (1872–1950), Romanian inventor

W[]

• Nancy Wake (1912–2011), SOE
• Gabrielle Weidner (1914–1945)
• Johan Hendrik Weidner (1912–1994)
• Simone Weil (1909–1943)
• Jean-Pierre Wimille (1908–1949, French racing driver

Y[]

• Chuck Yeager (1923–2020), American test pilot, one of the Allied pilots shot down over France who made it back to England with the help of the Resistance