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) (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 Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish writer, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature Georges Bégué (1911–1993), SOE Robert Benoist (1895–1944) Marie Bérenger (1865–1944), French Resistance activist Charles Berty (1911–1944), French professional cyclist Georges Bidault (1899–1983) Monique de Bissy (1923–2009) (1904–1944) (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) Sidney Chouraqui (1914–2018) Peter Churchill (1909–1972), SOE Eugène Claudius-Petit (1907–1989) Marianne Cohn (1922–1944) (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 Josèphe Jacquiot (1910-1995) 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 (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 (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 Vincent Malerba (1925–2025) 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 (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) Danielle Georgette Reddé (1911–2007) 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 Hélène Studler (1891–1944), religious sister 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 (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

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