List of people involved with the French Resistance

List of people involved with the French Resistance

People involved with the French Resistance include:

* Abbé Pierre (Catholic priest, Maquis, transition of Jews to Switzerland and safe Spain)
* Edith Piaf
* José Aboulker
* Gilbert Renault, (1904-1984)
* Berty Albrecht, (1893-1943)
* Dimitri Amilakhvari, (1906-1942)
* Louis Aragon, (1897-1982)
* Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, (1900-1969)
* Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie, Roman Catholic conservative politician
* Msgr. François Ducaud-Bourget, Roman Catholic priest. Helped Jews. Escaped to Spain from the Gestapo.
* Serge Asher-Ravanel
* Lucie Aubrac
* Jacqueline Auriol, (1917-2000)
* Josephine Baker
* Raoul Batany, (1926-1944)
* Samuel Beckett
* Robert Benoist
* Georges Bidault, (1899-1983)
* Denise Bloch
* Marc Bloch, (Historian, 1886-1944)
* France Bloch-Serazin, (Chemist, 1913-1943)
* Tony Bloncourt
* Marc Boegner, (1881-1970)
* Raoul Boulanger
* Claude Bourdet, (1909-1996)
* Pierre Brossolette
* Jean Cavailles
* Albert Camus (writer)
* Roger Carcassonne
* Donald Caskie, (1902-1983)
* Rene Char
* Peter Churchill, SOE
* René-Yves Creston, Breton artist and ethnographer
* Nancy Cunard Poet, writer and anarchist worked in London as a translator (1896 – 1965)
* Charlotte Delbo, (1913-1985)
* Martha Desrumeaux
* Jacques Duclos
* Marguerite Duras (writer)
* Paul Eluard (poet, communist resistance)
* Honoré D'Estienne d'Orves, Catholic, sympathizer of the Action Française, naval officer (1901-1941)
* Joseph Epstein
* 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
* Henri Frager
* Henri Frenay (Founder of Combat, government minister)
* Varian Fry
* Cristino Garcia, (1914-1946)
* Genevieve de Gaulle-Anthonioz, (niece of General de Gaulle)
* Albert Guérisse
* Georges Guingouin, communist resistance
* Salomon Gluck, physician
* Michel Hollard,
* Arthur Honegger, (1892-1955)
* Max Hymans
* René Iché, (artist, sculptor, 1897-1954)
* Éliane Jeannin-Garreau
* Germain Jousse
* Bernard Karsenty
* Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont
* Marcel Langer
* André Leroi-Gourhan
* Jacques Lusseyran
* André Malraux ("Colonel Berger")
* Missak Manouchian
* Robert Marjolin
* Julien Meline
* Jean-Pierre Melville (Filmaker)
* Pierre Mendès-France
* Edmond Michelet (government minister)
* Jean Moulin (head of the CNR)
* Jean Pierre-Bloch (1905-1999)
* Christian Pineau
* Eliane Plewman, SOE
* Paul Rassinier, Libération Nord resistance group
* Jorge Semprun, Former Culture Minister of Spain, communist resistance "Francs-Tireurs Partisans"
* Odette Sansom
* Raymond Sommer
* Suzanne Spaak
* Evelyne Sullerot (historian and sociologist)
* Violette Szabo
* Dorothy Tartiere
* Germaine Tillion (anthropologist)
* Charles Tillon, communist resistance
* Berthe Vicogne-Fraser
* Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier
* Jean-Pierre Vernant, philologist and anthropologist
* Pierre Villon, communist resistance
* Pierre de Vomécourt
* Philippe de Vomécourt
* Nancy Wake
* Gabrielle Weidner (1914-1945)
* Johan Hendrik Weidner (1912-1994)
* Simone Weil (1909-1943)
* William Grover-Williams
* Jean-Pierre Wimille
* Chuck Yeager, a US pilot shot down over France and with the help of the Resistance made it back to England.
* Tristan Tzara
* Gheorghe Gaston Grossmann (changed his name from Grossman to Marin after he returned to Romania after WW2)
* Vladimir Jankélévitch, (1903-1985)
* Ostap Kuzma, member of FFI based in Troyes
* Dimitri Shterban
* Darius Campbell
* Raymonde Reimbert
* Prince Louis Napoléon, pretender to the Imperial French throne


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