* 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist ( d. 1829 )

* 1660 – Hubert Gautier, French scientist and engineer ( d. 1737 )

* 1838 – Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist ( d. 1912 )

In 1898, the French scientist Paul-Louis Simond ( who had also come to China to battle the Third Pandemic ) established the rat-flea vector that drives the disease.

In 1800 German scientist Alexander von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland explored the river.

Although recognized previously by others, the mathematical expression for the Coriolis force appeared in an 1835 paper by French scientist Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, in connection with the theory of water wheels, Early in the 20th century, the term Coriolis force began to be used in connection with meteorology.

* 1822 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist ( d. 1895 )

* Robert M. French – cognitive scientist

However, in 1900 the French scientist Paul Villard discovered a third neutrally charged and especially penetrating type of radiation from radium, and after he described it, Rutherford realized it must be yet a third type of radiation, which in 1903 Rutherford named gamma rays.

Édouard Alexandre de Pomiane, sometimes Édouard Pozerski ( 20 April 1875 – 26 January 1964 ) was a French scientist, radio broadcaster and food writer.

* 1799 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor ( b. 1733 )

* 1583 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist ( d. 1656 )

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

* 1683 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist ( d. 1757 )

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis or Gustave Coriolis (; 21 May 1792 – 19 September 1843 ) was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist.

* 1633 – Jean de Thévenot, French linguist, scientist, and botanist ( d. 1667 )

* 1592 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist ( d. 1655 )

In an irony of fate, Rousseau's later injunction to women to breastfeed their own babies ( as had previously been recommended by the French natural scientist Buffon ), probably saved the lives of thousands of infants.

* 1867 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French scientist and medical doctor ( d. 1936 )

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (; commonly known in English as Jacques Cousteau ; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997 ) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.

Lutetium was independently discovered in 1907 by French scientist Georges Urbain, Austrian mineralogist Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, and American chemist Charles James.

It took nearly 10 years before a general acceptance of the origin of meteorites was achieved through the work of the French scientist Jean-Baptiste Biot and the British chemist, Edward Howard.

The French political scientist Maurice Duverger drew a distinction between cadre parties and mass parties.

Charles Cros, a French poet and amateur scientist, is the first person known to have made the conceptual leaps from recording sound as a traced line to the theoretical possibility of reproducing the sound from the tracing and then to a definite method for accomplishing the reproduction.

* 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet ( d. 1955 )

* 1581 – Vincent de Paul, French saint ( d. 1660 )

French poet Paul Verlaine's " Chanson d ' automne " (" Autumn Song ") is likewise characterised by strong, painful feelings of sorrow.

In June 2006 publishers Skira / Wildenstein released Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings, compiled by Joachim Pissarro ( descendant of the painter ) and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts ( descendant of the French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel ).

French chemist Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, while working with holmium oxide, separated dysprosium oxide from it in Paris in 1886.

* 1971 – Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician ( b. 1886 )

* 1694 – Pierre Paul Puget, French artist ( b. 1622 )

* 1895 – Paul Eluard, French poet ( d. 1952 )

Paul Ricœur has translated many works of Husserl into French.

Expressive aphasia was first identified by the French neurologist Paul Broca.

* 1778 – The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.

* 1612 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French military officer ( d. 1676 )

* 1905 – Paul Nizan, French author ( d. 1940 )

* 1855 – Paul Deschanel, French President ( d. 1922 )

* 1926 – Paul Bocuse, French chef

* 1913 – Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher ( d. 2005 )

French chemist Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran actually carried out the separation of gadolinium metal from gadolinia, in 1886.

* Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ), founder of the French School of geopolitics and possibilism.

* Hélène ( drama ), a drame in four acts and five tableaux of 1891, with French words by Paul Delair and incidental music by André Messager

At the request of Azam, Paul Broca, and others, the French Academy of Science, who had examined Mesmerism in 1784, examined Braid's writings shortly after his demise.

In 1886, a group of French and British language teachers, led by the French linguist Paul Passy, formed what would come to be known from 1897 onwards as the International Phonetic Association ( in French, l ’ Association phonétique internationale ).