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)
 * Pierre Arrighi (1921–1944)
 * Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie (1900–1969)
 * Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie (1897–1952), Roman Catholic conservative politician
 * Lucie Aubrac (1912–2007)
 * Marie-Thérèse Auffray (1912–1990), artist
 * Jacqueline Auriol (1917–2000)
 * Vera Atkins, (1907–2000), SOE

B

 * Josephine Baker (1906–1975), African American singer, dancer,
 * Joe Balfe O.B.E and family Hornoy-le- Bourg Amiens (The Balfe Line)
 * 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)
 * Charles Berty (1911–1944), French professional cyclist
 * Georges Bidault (1899–1983)
 * Monique de Bissy (1923–2009)
 * Georges Blind (1904–1944)
 * André Bloch (French Resistance) (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)
 * Roger Coquoin (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)
 * Catherine Dior (1917–2008) sister of French Couturier, Christian Dior
 * 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
 * John Howard Griffin (1920–1980), journalist and author best known for his 1959 project to temporarily pass as a black man and journey through the Deep South in order to see life and segregation from the other side of the color line first-hand published under the title Black Like Me (1961)
 * 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
 * Charles Geffroy (1920–1997), French 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
Jacques Levi, b 1899 Nice France, d 1971, Panama City Panama
 * Marcel Langer (French Resistance) (1903–1943)
 * Joseph Laniel (1889–1975)
 * Madeleine Lavigne (1912–1945), Isabelle, agent of the Special Operations Executive
 * Jacques Lecompte-Boinet (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)
 * Lucien Julien Meline (1901–1943)
 * Jean-Pierre Melville (1917–1973), French film director
 * Pierre Mendès-France (1907–1982), French politician
 * Pierre Meunier (1908–1996), General Secretary of the CNR
 * 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
 * Camille Nicolas (1895–1967), French Resistance Leader
 * Odette Nilès (1922–2023)
 * Jean Maurice Paul Jules de Noailles (1893–1945), French nobleman and the 6th Duke of Ayen
 * 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)
 * Gabriel Plançon (1919–1943), French resistance fighter
 * 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 (1913–2008), FTP-MOI leader
 * Serge Ravanel (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
 * Yvonne Rokseth (1890–1948), French composer, musicologist, and teacher
 * André Rogerie (1921–2014), French writer and Holocaust survivor
 * Justus Rosenberg (1921–2021), Jewish-Polish professor of literature

S

 * Alexander Sachal (1924–2020), Russian artist
 * Armand Salacrou (1899–1989)
 * Raymond Samuel (1914–2012), alias Raymond Aubrac
 * Solange Sanfourche (1922–2013), alias Marie-Claude
 * Odette Sansom (1912–1995), SOE
 * Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism
 * 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
 * Marina Vega (1923–2011), Spanish spy for French Resistance
 * 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
 * Jean de Vomécourt (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)
 * Suzanne Wesse (1914–1942)
 * 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