Adolphe Thiers
IQ 160A French statesman and historian.
Adrien Marie Legendre
IQ 175A French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics.
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist.
Alphonse de Lamartine
IQ 160A French author, poet and statesman.
André-Marie Ampère
IQ 180A French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism.
André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin
IQ 160Serving in as President of the Chamber of Deputies for 7 years.
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
IQ 170A French economist and statesman.
Antoine Lavoisier
IQ 180A French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution.
Antoine Arnauld
IQ 175A French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician.
Auguste de Marmont
IQ 150A French general and nobleman who rose to the rank of Marshal of the Empire.
Auguste Rodin
a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.
Auguste Comte
IQ 185A French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
IQ 160A French mathematician, engineer, and physicist who made pioneering contributions to several branches of mathematics.
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
IQ 180A French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory
Benoît de Maillet
IQ 150A well-travelled French diplomat and natural historian.
Blaise Pascal
IQ 185Pascal's law
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
IQ 175French scientist & naturalist of the 18th century
Camille Saint-Saëns
A French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.
Cardinal Richelieu
IQ 160A French clergyman and statesman.
Charlemagne
IQ 180The King of the Franks, the King of the Lombards, and the Emperor of the Romans who united the majority of western and c
Charles Nicolle
A French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine
Charles-Valentin Alkan
A French-Jewish composer and virtuoso pianist.
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
IQ 170Coulomb's law
Charles-Guillaume Étienne
IQ 160A 19th-century French playwright.
Montesquieu
IQ 165A French social commentator & political thinker
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
IQ 165A French literary critic.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
IQ 160A French philosopher, freemason and littérateur.
Claude Bernard
IQ 160Physiology
Claude Monet
French painter and the founder of the French Impressionist painting movement
Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
IQ 170A French philosopher, abolitionist, writer, orientalist, and politician who was one of the first modern writers to advoc
Émile Durkheim
IQ 170A French sociologist who is considered to be the principal architect of modern social science along with Max Weber
Denis Diderot
IQ 180La Religieuse
Denis Papin
IQ 180a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forer
Marquis de Sade
IQ 165A French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer best known for The 120 Days of Sodom and Justine.
Ernest Renan
IQ 170A French Orientalist and Semitic scholar who wrote influential and pioneering historical works on the origins of early C
Étienne Bacrot
A French chess grandmaster and former chess prodigy who became the first French player to enter the top 10 in January 20
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
IQ 180A genius French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He believed in the underlying unity
Évariste Galois
IQ 165A French mathematician and political activist. He solved a mathematical problem nobody could solve for 350 years when he
François Quesnay
IQ 165A French economist and physician who is one of the fathers of political economy.
François Rabelais
IQ 170A French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk, and Greek scholar.
Voltaire
IQ 190French writer, historian & philosopher who wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets.
François Guizot
IQ 165French historian, orator, and statesman.
François-René de Chateaubriand
IQ 160A French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who dominated the literary scene in France in the first half of the
François Fénelon
IQ 180French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer
François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
IQ 170A noted French moralist and author of maxims and memoirs
François de La Mothe Le Vayer
IQ 170A French writer who was the tutor of Louis XIV.
George Sand
IQ 160A French novelist, memoirist, and journalist who had a vibrant personal and literary life.
Georges Bizet
French composer
Georges Cuvier
IQ 170A French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".
Georges Danton
IQ 155A leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution who was guillotined by the advocates of revolutionary terr
Germaine de Staël
IQ 175A French woman of letters and political theorist of Genevan origin.
Marcel Duchamp
IQ 175A French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual
Henri Matisse
A French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship
Henri de Saint-Simon
IQ 165A French political, economic and socialist theorist who created a political and economic ideology known as Saint-Simonia
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
IQ 180A leader of the early stages of the French Revolution
Honoré de Balzac
IQ 155A French novelist and playwright best-known for his magnum opus novel sequence La Comédie humaine.
Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais
IQ 170A French Catholic priest, philosopher and political theorist. He was an ardent supporter of separation of church and sta
Irène Joliot-Curie
A French chemist, physicist, and politician who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of
Jacques Cousteau
a French naval officer, explorer, and conservationist who co-developed the Aqua-Lung and pioneered marine conservation
Jacques Auguste de Thou
IQ 175A French historian, book collector and president of the Parlement de Paris.
Jacques Necker
IQ 155A Genevan banker who served as finance minister for Louis XVI and a statesman
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
IQ 180A French bishop and theologian who is considered by many to be one of the most brilliant orators of all time.
Jean de La Bruyère
IQ 165A French philosopher and moralist, who was noted for his satire
Léon Foucault
IQ 160A French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the E
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
A French naturalist who was one of the first to propose that biological evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance w
Jean Meslier
IQ 170A French Catholic priest who wrote a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism and materialism
Jean Victor Marie Moreau
IQ 145A French general who helped Napoleon Bonaparte to power, but later became a rival and was banished to the United States
Jean Racine
IQ 170A French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales
IQ 185A French philosopher noted for his multi-edition, multi-volume opus The Philosophy of Nature: Treatise on Human Moral Na
Jean Sylvain Bailly
IQ 180French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution.
Jean-Paul Marat
IQ 170A French political theorist, physician, and scientist who was a journalist and politician during the French Revolution.
Jean-François Champollion
IQ 175A French scholar, philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
IQ 185A French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist
Jean Fernel
IQ 180A French physician who was the first person to describe the spinal canal.
Jean de La Fontaine
IQ 155A French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.
Joseph Fourier
IQ 180A French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series.
Jean-Paul Sartre
IQ 155A French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter who is one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentiali
John Calvin
A French theologian, pastor, and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation.
Joseph Fouché
IQ 165French statesman and Minister of Police under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte
Joseph Justus Scaliger
A French Calvinist religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and anci