List of people involved with the French Resistance
Appearance
People involved with the French Resistance include:
- Apolônio de Carvalho (1912-2005), Brazilian revolutionary
- 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
- Pierre Arrighi (1921-1944)
- Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie (1900-1969)
- Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie, Roman Catholic conservative politician
- Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007)
- Jacqueline Auriol (1917-2000)
- Josephine Baker (1906-1975)
- Louis Bancel (1926-1978), sculptor
- Raoul Batany (1926-1944), assassin of Arthur Marissal
- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish writer, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Georges Bégué (1911-1993), SOE
- Robert Benoist (1895-1944)
- Georges Bidault (1899-1983)
- André Bloch (1914-1942), SOE
- 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)
- Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle (1922-1942), assassinated admiral François Darlan
- Claude Bourdet (1909-1996), co-founder of Combat
- Pierre Brossolette (1903-1944)
- Jean Cavaillès (1903-1944)
- 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)
- Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1915-2000)
- René Char (1907-1988)
- Peter Churchill (1909-1972), SOE
- Eugène Claudius-Petit (1907-1989)
- Marianne Cohn (1922-1944)
- Roger Coquoin (1897-1943)
- René-Yves Creston (1898-1964), Breton artist and ethnographer
- Nancy Cunard (1896–1965), poet, writer and anarchist who worked in London as a translator
- 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
- 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)
- Valentin Feldman (1909-1942), French philosopher
- 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
- 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
- Virginia Hall (1906-1982), American spy, SOE
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American writer and journalist
- Michel Hollard (1898-1993)
- Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
- Max Hymans (1900-1961)
- René Iché (1897-1954), artist, sculptor
- Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903-1985)
- Éliane Jeannin-Garreau (1911-1999)
- Louis Jourdan (1921-2015), French actor
- Germain Jousse (1895-1988)
- Bernard Karsenty (1920-2007)
- Marcelle Kellermann
- Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont (1914-2006)
- Marcel Langer (1903-1943)
- Joseph Laniel (1889-1975)
- Jacques Lecompte-Boinet (1905-1974)
- Édouard Le Jeune (1921- ), former Senator
- André Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986)
- André Le Troquer (1884-1963)
- Jacques Lusseyran (1924-1971)
- 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)
- Lucien Julien Meline (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
- Jean Moulin (1899-1943), head of the CNR
- Prince Louis Napoléon (1914-1997), pretender to the French Imperial throne
- Eileen Nearne (1921-2010), SOE, Agent Rose
- Camille Nicolas (1895-1967), French Resistance Leader
- Andrée Peel (1905-2010), Agent Rose
- Édith Piaf (1915-1963), French singer
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish artist)
- Jean Pierre-Bloch (1905-1999)
- Christian Pineau (1904-1995)
- Eliane Plewman (1917-1944), SOE
- Georges Politzer (1903-1942),
- Jean Prévost (1901-1944), writer, conceived and organized the Maquis du Vercors
- Paul Rassinier (1906-1967), member of Libération-Nord
- Serge Ravanel (1920-2009)
- Gilbert Renault (1904-1984)
- Jean-François Revel (1924-2006), French writer and philosopher
- Marc Riboud (born 1923), 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
- Alexander Sachal (born 1924), Russian artist
- 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
- Raymond Sommer (1906-1950, French racing driver
- Suzanne Spaak (1905-1944), sister-in-law of Paul-Henri Spaak
- Evelyne Sullerot (born 1924), historian and sociologist
- Violette Szabo (1921-1945), SOE
- François Tanguy-Prigent (1909-1970)
- Paul Tarascon (1882-1977), World War I flying ace
- Dorothy Tartiere (1903-?)
- Germaine Tillion (1907-2008), French anthropologist
- Charles Tillon (1897-1993), member of FTP
- Elsa Triolet (1896-1970), writer, wife of Louis Aragon
- Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), French-Romanian poet
- Berthe Vicogne-Fraser (1894-1956)
- Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (1912-1996)
- Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914-2007), French philologist and anthropologist
- 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
- Jean de Vomécourt (1899-1945)
- Philippe de Vomécourt (1902–1964)
- Pierre de Vomécourt (1906-1986)
- Nancy Wake (1912-2011), SOE
- Madeleine Truel (1904-1945)
- Traian Vuia (1872-1950), Romanian inventor
- Gabrielle Weidner (1914-1945)
- Johan Hendrik Weidner (1912-1994)
- Simone Weil (1909-1943)
- Jean-Pierre Wimille (1908-1949, French racing driver
- Chuck Yeager (born 1923), American test pilot, one of the Allied pilots shot down over France who made it back to England with the help of the Resistance