Broca's Area was first suggested to play a role in speech function by the French neurologist and anthropologist Paul Broca in 1861.

* 1907 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance ( d. 2008 )

* 1908 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist ( d. 2009 )

French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss was arguably the first such scholar, sparking a widespread interest in Structuralism ..

The term " structuralism " itself appeared in the works of French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.

French demographer, anthropologist and historian Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine L ' Observateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term Third World, referring to countries that were unaligned with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc during the Cold War His usage was a reference to the Third Estate, the commoners of France who, before and during the French Revolution, opposed priests and nobles, who composed the First Estate and Second Estate, respectively.

* November 28 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born French anthropologist ( d. 2009 )

** Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance ( d. 2008 )

* June 28 – Paul Broca, French anthropologist ( d. 1880 )

It has been noted, at times with disapproval and amazement by many social scientists, that Durkheim traveled little and that, like many French scholars and the notable British anthropologist Sir James Frazer, he never undertook any fieldwork.

* Louis Dumont ( anthropologist ) ( 1911 – 1998 ), French sociologist and anthropologist

* Marc Augé, a French anthropologist

* Maurice Godelier ( born 1934 ), social anthropologist, neo-Marxist, and French intellectual

Two millennia before the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss wrote The Raw and the Cooked, the Chinese differentiated " raw " and " cooked " categories of barbarian peoples who lived in China.

Pierre Paul Broca ( 28 June 1824 – 9 July 1880 ) was a French physician, surgeon, anatomist, and anthropologist.

Structuralism itself was a theory developed by the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss ( 1908 – 2009 ), and held to the idea that " cultural patterns need not be caused by anything outside themselves … that underlying every culture was a deep structure, or essence, governed by its own laws, that people were unaware of but which ensured regularities in the cultural productions that emanate from it.

In 1982, she narrated a book about her life to Venezuelan author and anthropologist Elizabeth Burgos, " Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia " ( My Name is Rigoberta Menchu and this is how my Conscience was Born ), which was translated into five other languages including English and French.

From 1931 to 1956 the French anthropologist Marcel Griaule studied the Dogon.

Bruno Latour (; born 22 June 1947 ) is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies ( STS ).

The French cultural anthropologist and sari researcher Chantal Boulanger categorised sari drapes in the following families:

Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist ( 1090 – August 20, 1153 ) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order.

Louis VI of France convened a national council of the French bishops at Étampes in 1130, and Bernard was chosen to judge between the rivals for pope.

The crossing of the St. Bernard Pass had allowed the French to surprise the Austrian army and win victory at the Battle of Marengo on 14 June 1800.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

* 1657 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters ( d. 1757 )

In the mid-1700s, French engineer Bernard Forest de Bélidor published Architecture Hydraulique which described vertical-and horizontal-axis hydraulic machines.

Charles Bernard Renouvier was the first Frenchman after Nicolas Malebranche to formulate a complete idealistic system, and had a vast influence on the development of French thought.

Bernard d ' Espagnat a French theoretical physicist best known for his work on the nature of reality wrote a paper titled The Quantum Theory and Reality according to the paper: " The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.

* 1928 – Bernard Buffet, French painter ( d. 1999 )

* 1964 – Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach

* 1916 – Bernard Blier, French actor ( d. 1989 )

* 1813 – Claude Bernard, French physiologist ( d. 1878 )

* 1948 – Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist

* 1935 – Bernard Pivot, French journalist and television host

* 1923 – Bernard Clavel, French novelist ( d. 2010 )

* 1907 – Jean Bernard, French physician ( d. 2006 )

* 1989 – Bernard Blier, French actor ( b. 1916 )

* 1754 – Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary ( d. 1794 )

* 1785 – Bernard de Bury, French composer ( b. 1720 )

* 2002 – Bernard Fresson, French actor ( b. 1931 )

* 1946 – Bernard Lavilliers, French singer

Stephen of Senlis, the Bishop of Paris, had been heavily influenced by the reforming zeal of Bernard of Clairvaux, and actively sought to remove royal influence in the French church.

* 1866 – Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist ( d. 1947 )

Tristan Bernard ( 7 September 1866 – 7 December 1947 ) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer.

His son, Raymond Bernard became an influential French filmmaker ( using as scripts a number of works authored by his father ) while his son Jean-Jacques Bernard published a memoir of his father in 1955 titled Mon père Tristan Bernard ( My Father, Tristan Bernard ).