# 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 [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)
* Monique de Bissy (1923–2009)
* Georges Blind [fr] (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 [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)
* Catherine Dior (1917–2008) sister of French Couturier, Christian Dior
* Jacques Desoubrie (1922–1949)
* Martha Desrumeaux (1897–1982)
* Eugène Droulers (1917-1945)
* 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
* Germaine Guérin, brothel owner in Lyons
* 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

* Marcel Langer (French Resistance) [fr] (1903–1943)
* Joseph Laniel (1889–1975)
* Madeleine Lavigne (1912–1945), Isabelle, agent of the Special Operations Executive
* Suzanne Leclézio (1898–1987), French social worker, nurse
* Jacques Lecompte-Boinet [fr] (1905–1974)
* Édouard Le Jeune (1921–2017), former Senator
* André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986)
* André Le Troquer (1884–1963)
* Jacques Levi (1899–1971)
* 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
* Hélène Nautré (1904–1976), French politician
* Eileen Nearne (1921–2010), SOE, Agent Rose
* Camille Nicolas [fr] (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 (1924–2024), 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 [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)
* 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

## Z

* Yvonne Ziegler (1902–1988), French artist, educator