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People involved with the
French Resistance include:
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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) [
fr ] (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)
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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
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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
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Jacques Levi, b 1899 Nice France, d 1971, Panama City Panama
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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