List of French scientists

A–F

• José Achache, geophysicist and ecologist
• Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher
• Claude Allègre, geochemist
• André-Marie Ampère, physicist and mathematician
• Françoise Ardré, phycologist, marine scientist
• Louis Bachelier, mathematician
• Antoine Jérôme Balard, chemist
• Éliane Basse, paleontologist and geologist
• Pierre-Dominique Bazaine, mathematician and engineer
• Antoine César Becquerel, electrochemist
• A.E. Becquerel, physicist
• Henri Becquerel, physicist and Nobel laureate
• Jean Becquerel, physicist
• Jacques Benveniste, immunologist
• Claude Bernard, physiologist
• Marcellin Berthelot, chemist
• Julien Bessières, physician, diplomat, and member of the Commission des Sciences et des Arts
• Jean Bosler, astronomer
• Claude Bourgelat, veterinary surgeon
• Thomas Bourgeron, neuroscientist
• Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, chemist
• Gerard Brachet, space scientist
• Paul Broca, physician, surgeon, anatomist, and anthropologist
• Bernard Brunhes, physicist
• Bernard Cabane, physicist
• Pierre Jean George Cabanis, physiologist
• Albert Calmette, physician, bacteriologist and immunologist
• Georges Canguilhem, physician and philosopher
• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, physicist and military engineer
• Henri Cartan, mathematician
• Augustin-Louis Cauchy, mathematician and physicist
• Jean-François Champollion, philologist
• Georges Charpak, physicist, Nobel prize winner 1992
• Georges Charpy
• Albert Châtelet
• Émilie du Châtelet
• Jean Mathieu de Chazelles
• Michel Che
• Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu
• Alain Connes, mathematician; Fields Medalist 1982
• Louis Costaz
• Louis Couffignal
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist
• Jean Courtial, physician and polytechnitian
• Vincent Courtillot
• Philippe Cousteau
• Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle
• Adam de Craponne, engineer who implemented the Canal de Craponne in 1559
• Jean Cruveilhier
• Marie Curie, physicist and chemist
• Pierre Curie, physicist and chemist
• Georges Cuvier
• Thomas-François Dalibard
• Henry Darcy
• Raymond Daudel
• Jean Dausset, biologist, Nobel prize winner 1980
• André-Louis Debierne, chemist
• Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, mathematician and astronomer
• John Theophilus Desaguliers
• Guillaume Delisle, cartographer
• Girard Desargues, mathematician
• René Descartes, scientist and philosopher
• Robert Debré, physician
• Maurice Dongier
• Georges Duby, historian
• Jean-Baptiste du Hamel
• Émilien Dumas, paleontologist, and geologist
• Jean-Baptiste Dumas
• Charles François Dupuis
• Pierre Fauchard, dentist
• Hervé Faye, astronomer
• Pierre de Fermat, mathematician
• Louis Feuillée
• Bernard Foing
• Pierre Fourmanoir, ichthyologist
• Joseph Fourier, mathematician and physicist
• François Fresneau
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel, physicist

  G–M

• Pierre Gassendi, philosopher and mathematician
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, physicist, Nobel prize winner 1991
• Christophe Gadbled
• Évariste Galois, mathematician
• Vladimir Gavreau
• André Gernez
• Paul Gervais
• Jacques Géry, ichthyologist
• Mirko Grmek
• Camille Guérin, biologist
• Alexander Grothendieck, mathematician; Fields Medalist 1966
• Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
• André Guinier
• Jacques Hadamard, mathematician
• Charles Hermite, mathematician
• François Jacob, biologist, Nobel prize winner 1965
• Charles Janet
• Irène Joliot-Curie, physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• Frédéric Joliot-Curie, physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1935
• Jean Jouzel
• Gaston Julia, mathematician
• Étienne Hubert d'Orléans, Arabist
• Nicole El Karoui, mathematician
• Corentin Louis Kervran
• Robert Kühner, mycologist
• Yves Lacoste, geographer and geopolitician
• Laurent Lafforgue, mathematician; Fields Medalist 2002
• Frédéric de Lafresnaye
• Joseph Louis Lagrange, mathematician
• Jean Laherrère, consultant and petroleum engineer
• Claude François Lallemand
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• Paul Langevin, physicist
• Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician and physicist
• Lucien Laubier
• René Lavocat, paleontologist
• Antoine Lavoisier
• Jean-Marie Lehn, chemist, Nobel prize winner in 1987
• Xavier Le Pichon
• Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, physicist
• Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist
• Arnoult de Lisle, Arabist and physician
• Pierre-Louis Lions, mathematician; Fields Medalist 1994
• Edmond Locard, pioneer of forensic science
• André Lwoff, biologist, Nobel prize winner 1965
• Charles Madic
• Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan
• Ernest-François Mallard
• Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician
• Jacques Masquelier, phytochemist
• Albert Mathiez, historian
• Pierre Louis Maupertuis
• Prosper Ménière
• Marin Mersenne, mathematician
• Michel Meslin
• André Michaux, botanist and explorer
• François André Michaux, botanist
• Jean-Louis Michel, oceanographer and engineer
• Jules Michelet, historian
• Alphonse Milne-Edwards
• Abraham de Moivre, mathematician
• Jacques Monod, biologist, Nobel prize winner 1965
• Théodore Monod, naturalist and theologian
• Henri Louis Habert de Montmor
• Gabriel Mouton
• Henri Mouton

  N–Z

• Adolphe-Simon Neboux, surgeon and naturalist
• Louis Néel, physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1970
• Jean de Noailles, chemist
• Jean-Baptiste Noulet, archaeologist
• Henri Padé, mathematician
• Paul Painlevé, mathematician
• Denis Papin, physicist, mathematician, and inventor
• Blaise Pascal, mathematician and philosopher
• Étienne Pascal, mathematician
• Louis Pasteur, microbiologist and chemist
• Jean Pecquet, psychologist
• Jean-Pierre Petit, astrophysicist and mathematician
• Jean Robert Petit, paleoclimatologist
• André Pichot, geneticist
• Alphonse Pinart, philologist
• Gilles Pisier, mathematician
• Hippolyte Pixii, inventor
• Henri Poincaré, mathematician and physicist
• Lucien Poincaré, physicist
• Siméon Poisson, mathematician and physicist
• Pierre Poivre
• Albéric Pont, dentist and pioneer in maxillofacial surgery
• Alberte Pullman
• Bernard Pullman
• Lucien Quélet
• Petrus Ramus, mathematician and logician
• Louis-Antoine Ranvier
• René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
• Jean-Baptiste Robinet
• Paul Rohmer, physician
• Michel Rolle, mathematician
• Henri Romagnesi, mycologist
• Joël de Rosnay
• Jean Rostand, biologist and philosopher
• Louis Rougier, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
• Nicolas Sarrabat
• Henri Émile Sauvage, ichthyologist, paleontologist, and herpetologist
• Schlumberger brothers
• Laurent Schwartz, mathematician; Fields Medalist 1950
• Laurent Schwartz, oncologist
• Géraud Sénizergues, computer scientist and 2002 Gödel Prize recipient.
• Jean-Pierre Serre, mathematician; Fields Medalist 1954
• Célestin Sieur, physician
• Albert Soboul, historian
• Jules Tannery, mathematician
• Auguste Ambroise Tardieu
• Melchisédech Thévenot
• Adrien-Jean-Pierre Thilorier, discovered dry ice
• René Thom, mathematician; Fields Medalist 1958
• Pierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet
• François Trèves, mathematician
• Georges Valiron, mathematician
• Jean-Pierre Vernant, historian
• Jean-Christophe Victor, geographer
• Paul-Émile Victor, ethnologist
• Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian and civil-rights activist
• François Viète, mathematician
• Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot
• Charles Athanase Walckenaer
• Wendelin Werner, mathematician; Fields Medalist 2006
• Rachid Yazami
• Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, mathematician; Fields Medalist 1994