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Jeanne Calment
French supercentenarian, person with the longest confirmed lifespan (1875–1997)
Marjane Satrapi
Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author (born 1969)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic
Gisèle Pelicot
Gisèle Pelicot is a French woman who became a feminist icon in 2024, when she waived her right to anonymity as the victim in a multiple rape case.
Violette Szabo
French-British SOE spy
Amélie of Orléans
Queen Consort of Portugal (1889 - 1908)
Karina Lombard
French-American actress
Hubertine Auclert
French feminist and suffragist (1848–1914)
Élodie Yung
French actress
Princess Hélène of Orléans
Princess of France
Clémentine of Orléans, Princess of Koháry
French Royal
Blanche Monnier
French woman kept locked for 25 years (1849–1913)
Bernadette Chirac
French politician
Maryse Bastié
French aviator (1898-1952)
Suzanne Flon
French film actress (1918-2005)
Princess Isabelle d’Orléans
Orléans-French Royal (1878-1961)
Marina Ginestà
Spanish reporter
Princess Louise of Orléans
French princess (1882-1958)
Anne Lacaton
French architect (born 1955)
Marie-Thérèse Walter
cohabitant of Pablo Picasso (1909–1977)
Maria Skobtsova
Russian saint (1891–1945)
Ksenia Milicevic
French painter
Sandrine Testud
French tennis player
Karen Lancaume
French pornographic film actress
Barbara Cassin
French philologist and philosopher (1947-)
Jacqueline Auriol
French aviator (1917–2000)
Florence Baverel
French biathlete
Marina Tchebourkina
French-Russian concert organist and musicologist
Hélène Boucher
French pilot
Élisabeth Roudinesco
French historian and psychoanalyst
Renée Faure
French actress (1918–2005)
Lilyan Chauvin
French-American actress (1925–2008)
Betsy Drake
American actress and writer (1923–2015)
Linda Hardy
French actress and model
Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz
French resistance member (1920-2002)
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French psychoanalyst & feminist (1936–2014)
Jacqueline Joubert
actor and Continuity announcer (1921–2005)
Mona Ozouf
French historian and philosopher (born 1931)
Adrienne Bolland
French aviator (1895-1975)
Gwladys Épangue
Taekwondo practitioner
Odette Hallowes
French resistance member (1912-1995)
Rose Valland
French resistance member, art historian (1898-1980)
Anne Beaumanoir
French physician, Righteous among the Nations
Anne Ancelin Schützenberger
French psychologist and psychotherapist (1919–2018)
Samira Bellil
French feminist activist and campaigner for the rights of girls and women (1972–2004)
Marthe Richard
French politician, prostitute and spy (1889-1982)
Marylise Lebranchu
French politician
Catherine Malabou
French philosopher
Marianne Grunberg-Manago
French biochemist (1921–2013)
Florence Henri
photographer and painter (1893-1982)
Susan Travers
member of French Foreign Legion (1909–2003)
Christine Albanel
French politician and civil servant
Jacqueline Maillan
French actress (1923–1992)
Dina Vierny
Besarabia-born French model and muse
Maryse Hilsz
French aviator (1901–1946)
Odette Myrtil
French actor (1898-1978)
Pascale Jeuland
French cyclist
Caroline Lagerfelt
American actress
Carole Péon
French triathlete
Jacqueline Audry
French film director (1908–1977)