List of French Jews#Politicians

• René Cassin (1887–1976), drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, won Nobel Peace Prize (1968){{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/cassin.html|title = Rene Cassin}}
• Lewis Goldsmith (c. 1763–1846), English-born journalist and political writerOxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he was of Portuguese Jewish descent"
• Alain Krivine (1941–2022), student leader and Trotskyist MEP{{Cite web|url=http://www.acpr.org.il/NATIV/2000-2/stavxs.htm|title=NATIV - March 2000 -Peace Now: The Latest Link in the Chain of Jewish Radicalism|website=acpr.org.il|access-date=6 February 2007|archive-date=26 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926231213/http://www.acpr.org.il/NATIV/2000-2/stavxs.htm|url-status=dead}}
• André Spire (1868–1966), lawyer, journalist, poet, Jewish society and French Zionism leader{{cite web|url=http://library.ucsc.edu/exhibits/1996.html |title=1996.HTML 1996 UC Santa Cruz Library Exhibits |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314140749/http://library.ucsc.edu/exhibits/1996.html |archive-date=14 March 2007 }}

• Aaron ben Perez of Avignon, fl.1300–1310
• Abraham Auerbach (mid 1700s – 3 November 1846), Alsatian-born rabbi and liturgical poet. Fled France for Germany after imprisonment during the Reign of Terror.
• Benjamin ben Samuel (11th-century), Talmudist and liturgical poet{{Cite Jewish Encyclopedia|article=BENJAMIN B. SAMUEL OF COUTANCES|author=Louis Ginzberg|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2984-benjamin-b-samuel-of-coutances}}
• Gilles Bernheim (born 1952), chief rabbi of France 2009–2013{{cite web|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/13660/|title=New Chief Rabbi Appointed in France| date=27 June 2008 }}
• Mordecai Karmi (1749–1825), rabbi and Talmudic writer
• Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926–2007), former Catholic archbishop of Paris and cardinal; converted to Catholicism when he was 13{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/aug/06/religion.france | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Peter | last=Walker | title=Cardinal Lustiger of France dies aged 80 | date=6 August 2007}}
• Rashi (1040–1105), medieval rabbi based in Troyes, famed as the author of the first comprehensive commentary on the Talmud, as well as a comprehensive commentary on the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible){{Cite web|url=http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/111831/jewish/Rashi.htm|title=Who Was Rashi? – (4800-4865) – Chabad.org}}{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/rashi.html|title = Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)}}
• Joseph Sitruk (1944–2016), Tunisian-born former Chief Rabbi of France, 1987–2008{{cite news |last=Weiss |first=Sharon |url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/international/reaching_out_battle_against_hate |title=Reaching Out in Battle Against Hate |newspaper=Jewish Week |date=24 December 2004 |accessdate=2 July 2017 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304115420/http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/international/reaching_out_battle_against_hate |url-status=dead }}
• Rabbeinu Tam (1100–1171), rabbinical authority, grandson of Rashi

• Denise Bloch (1915–1945), World War II SOE spy{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/daughters-of-yael-two-jewish-heroines-of-the-soe|title=Daughters of Yael – Two Jewish Heroines of the SOE|website=jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}
• Nissim de Camondo (1892–1917), pilot in World War I{{cite web|url=http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/gb/04museecamondo/index.html |title=Il n'y a pas de page à cette adresse |publisher=Lesartsdecoratifs.fr |accessdate=2 July 2017}}
• Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935), military officer{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Dreyfus.html|title = Alfred Dreyfus & "The Affair"}}
• Robert Gamzon, French resistant, commanding the 2nd company of Maquis de Vabre
• Alter Mojze Goldman (1909–1988), Polish-born, active during the French Résistance; father of Jean-Jacques Goldman, Robert Goldman and Pierre Goldman{{cite web|url=http://search.intelius.com/Alter-Mojze-Goldman|title=Free People Search Engine – ZabaSearch|access-date=26 August 2010|archive-date=13 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713044839/http://search.intelius.com/Alter-Mojze-Goldman|url-status=dead}}
• Paulette Weill Oppert (1911–2005), Second World War resistance fighter

• Cahen d'Anvers, Papal title of 1867Impressionists and politics: art and democracy in the nineteenth century, by Philip G. Nord
• Liefmann Calmer, Baron of Picquigny and Viscount of Amiens
• d'Estienne, one of the early Franco/Jewish ennoblements in 16th-century Provence, after the family converted to Catholicism and changed their name from Cohen to Estienne in 1501L'expulsion des Juifs de Provence et de l'Europe méditerranéenne, Danièle Iancu, Université Paul Valéry
• Maurice Ephrussi, Russian Empire-born, husband of Beatrice de RothschildBéatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild: creator and collector
• Arnaud Henry Salas-Perez, Prince Obolensky (1982-), French born fashion editor and Designer, half Jewish.
• KoenigswarterTitled outsiders: Jewish nobility in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Huibert Schijf1
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• Angelo Donati (1885–1960), Italian-born, from 1919 to 1960, saved the Jews from Nazi persecution in the Italian-occupied France between 1942 and 1943 while staying in Nice{{cite web|url=http://www.fotomuseo.it/mostre/archivio/2004/donati.asp |title=Fotomuseo Giuseppe Panini – Mostre: Archivio – Angelo Donati |accessdate=26 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123045840/http://www.fotomuseo.it/mostre/archivio/2004/donati.asp |archive-date=23 January 2010 }}

• Gabriel Attal, Jewish father; Prime Minister of France (2024); is also the first openly gay Prime Minister of France.{{cite news|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/macron-names-gabriel-attal-as-frances-youngest-and-first-gay-pm/|title=Macron names Gabriel Attal as France's youngest and first gay PM|work=The Times of Israel|date=9 January 2024|accessdate=28 March 2024}}{{Cite web |language=fr |author=Mathilde Siraud|title=Gabriel Attal, sur les traces de Macron ?|url=https://www.lepoint.fr/politique/gabriel-attal-sur-les-traces-de-macron-01-03-2023-2510568_20.php|website=lepoint.fr |date= 1 March 2023}}.{{cite web| first= Delphine | last= Bancaud |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/societe/2355071-20181016-gabriel-attal-plus-jeune-membre-gouvernement-ve-republique|title=Qui est Gabriel Attal, le plus jeune membre d'un gouvernement de la Ve République? |trans-title=Who is Gabriel Attal, the youngest member of a government of the Fifth Republic? |language=fr|publisher=20 Minutes|date=16 October 2018|access-date=26 October 2018}}
• Jacques Attali (born 1943), Algerian-born advisor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991{{cite web |url=http://www.eurojewcong.org/ejc/article.php?id_article=4582 |title=European Jewish Congress – Jacques Attali : 'There is no problem of anti-Semitism in France' |website=eurojewcong.org |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719235445/http://www.eurojewcong.org/ejc/article.php?id_article=4582 |archive-date=19 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}
• Robert Badinter (1928–2024), Justice minister, 1981–86; abolished the death penalty in France{{cite web|url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0411/is_n2_v42/ai_13977172 |title=French-Jewish assimilation reassessed: A review of the recent literature | Judaism | Find Articles at BNET.com |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212140632/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0411/is_n2_v42/ai_13977172 |archive-date=12 February 2008 }}
• Patrick Balkany (born 1948), member of the National Assembly of France{{cite web|url=http://actu.orange.fr/le-talk/20100118/1681-interview-patrick-balkany.html |title=Patrick Balkany : l'Interview vidéo du Talk Orange Figaro |accessdate=26 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100404045559/http://actu.orange.fr/le-talk/20100118/1681-interview-patrick-balkany.html |archive-date=4 April 2010 }}
• Léon Blum (1872–1950), Prime Minister, 1936–37, 1938, and 1946–47{{cite web|url=http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/travel/ |title=The Jewish Advocate | Travel |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207033706/http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/travel/ |archive-date=7 February 2007 }}
• Élisabeth Borne (born 1961), Jewish father, first woman of Jewish descent to serve as Prime Minister, (2022–2024).{{cite web |last1=Wattenberg |first1=Frida |title=Joseph Bornstein, dit Borne |url=http://www.ajpn.org/personne-Joseph-Bornstein-2253.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220528222110/http://www.ajpn.org/personne-Joseph-Bornstein-2253.html |archive-date=28 May 2022 |date=5 October 2010 |quote=Date de naissance: 02/05/1924 (Anvers (Belgique))}}
• Agnès Buzyn (born 1962), medical doctor and university professor, Minister of Health from 2017 to 2020
• Daniel Cohn-Bendit (born 1945), French-born German politician, active in both countries, best known as leader of the 1968 student uprising in France; more recently a leader of the European Greens{{cite web|url=http://www.cohn-bendit.com/fr/dany/lebenslauf/index.html|title=Daniel Cohn-Bendit – Biographie|access-date=26 August 2010|archive-date=8 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708174323/http://www.cohn-bendit.com/fr/dany/lebenslauf/index.html|url-status=dead}}
• Jean-François Copé (born 1964), President of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) Group in the French National Assembly{{cite web |url=http://www.jeanfrancoiscope.fr/site/index.php |title=Jean-Francois Cope.fr – site de Jean-Francois Cope – Actualite, Media et blog de JFC |website=jeanfrancoiscope.fr |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430155432/http://www.jeanfrancoiscope.fr/site/index.php |archive-date=30 April 2009 |url-status=dead}}
• Adolphe Crémieux (1796–1880), Justice Minister, 1848, 1870–71{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/reference/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cremieux-isaac-adolphe|title=Crémieux, (Isaac) Adolphe | Encyclopedia.com|website=encyclopedia.com}}
• Julien Dray (born 1955), Algerian-born member of the National Assembly of France for the Socialist Party (PS)
• Michel Debré (1912–1996), Prime Minister 1959–1962
• Léon Halévy (1802–1883), civil servant, historian, and dramatist; son of Élie Halévy, brother of Fromental Halévy and father of Ludovic Halévy and grandfather to Élie Halévy, Daniel Halévy and Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol{{Cite web|url=https://www-landrucimetieres-fr.translate.goog/spip/spip.php?article135&_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en|title=HALÉVY famille – Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs|website=www-landrucimetieres-fr.translate.goog}}
• Roger Karoutchi (born 1951), Moroccan-born Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, with responsibility for Relations with Parliament
• Louis-Lucien Klotz (1868–1930), journalist and politician; Minister of Finance during World War I{{cite journal |last1=Reder |first1=Melvin Warren |title=The Anti-Semitism of Some Eminent Economists |journal=History of Political Economy |date=2000 |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=833–856 |doi=10.1215/00182702-32-4-833 |s2cid=153960185 |id={{Project MUSE|13267}} }}
• Bernard Kouchner (born 1939), Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007–2010) and physician,.co-founder of NGO's Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde{{Cite web|url=http://www.zeek.net/605finkiel/|title=Zeek | France's Jewish Prophets: Alain Finkielkraut, Albert Memmi, and the Looming Crisis of Liberalism | Dr. Michael Shurkin|website=zeek.net}}
• Henri Krasucki (1924–2003), Polish-born former secretary general of the Confédération générale du travail (CGT) from 1982 to 1992
• Jack Lang (born 1939), Minister of Culture (1981–1986, 1988–1993) and Minister of Education (1992–1993, 2000–2002){{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/urban-disaster-brews-in-french-slum-the-gaullist-pierre-lellouche-wants-the-votes-of-the-ethnic-groups-in-sarcelles-julian-nundy-saw-him-woo-them-1496342.html | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Julian | last=Nundy | title=Urban disaster brews in French slum: The Gaullist Pierre Lellouche wants the votes of the ethnic groups in Sarcelles. Julian Nundy saw him woo them | date=8 March 1993}}
• Pierre Lellouche (born 1951), Tunisian-born member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party
• Georges Mandel (1885–1944), Interior Minister, 1939{{Cite web|url=http://worldatwar.net/biography/m/mandel/index.html|title=Georges Mandel|website=worldatwar.net}}
• René Mayer (1895–1972), Prime Minister 1953
• Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982), Prime Minister, 1954–55; withdrew from Indochina{{cite web|url=http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id%3D8163 |title=Canadian Jewish News |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203040720/http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=8163 |archive-date=3 February 2007 }}
• Alexandre Millerand (1859–1943), first Jewish Prime Minister, 1920, and first Jewish President of France, serving 1920 to 1924Alexandre Millerand: socialiste discuté, ministre contesté et président déchu : 1859-1943 Jean-Louis Rizzo Harmattan, 2013
• Jules Moch (1893–1985), Transport Minister, 1945–47; Interior Minister, 1947–50; Defense Minister, 1950–51{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/1870.htm |title=Jewish History |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070212115241/http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/1870.htm |archive-date=12 February 2007 }}
• Pierre Moscovici (born 1957), European Union Economic Affairs Commissioner, former French Finance Ministerer and member of the French Parliament for the Socialist Party (PS){{Cite web|url=https://www1.alliancefr.com/magazine/paroles-dhommes/pierre-moscovici-desir-d-avenir-503729|title=Pierre Moscovici, Désir d'avenir}}
• Yaël Braun-Pivet (born 1970), Jewish grandparents, first practicing Jew, as well as woman, to serve as President of the French National Assembly, serving since 2022.{{cite news|url=https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20220628-french-lawmakers-pick-yael-braun-pivet-as-first-ever-woman-president-of-national-assembly|title=French lawmakers pick Yael Braun-Pivet as first ever woman president of National Assembly|publisher=Radio France Internationale|date=28 June 2022|accessdate=29 June 2022}}{{cite news|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/france-taps-jewish-lawyer-to-serve-as-first-ever-female-speaker/|title=France taps Jewish lawyer to serve as first-ever female speaker|first=Lazar|last=Berman|work=The Times of Israel|date=29 June 2022|accessdate=29 June 2022}}
• Maurice Schumann (1911–1998), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1969–1973), Jewish father
• Alexandre Stavisky (1886–1934), Ukrainian-born financier and embezzler; Stavisky AffairPaul Webster (2001) Petain's Crime. London, Pan: pp 36–43
• Abraham Schrameck (1867–1948), Minister of the Interior, and colonial governor of French Madagascar, senator.{{cite web|title=David P. Boder Interviews Abraham Schrameck; August 21, 1946; Paris, France {{!}} Voices of the Holocaust|url=https://voices.library.iit.edu/interview/schrameckA|access-date=2021-12-15|website=voices.library.iit.edu|archive-date=2021-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215214813/https://voices.library.iit.edu/interview/schrameckA|url-status=live}}
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn (born 1949), Finance Minister, 1997–99;{{cite web |url=http://ejpress.org/article/news/5698 |title=Western Europe | Netanyahu to visiting German FM Steinmeier: 'Tell the Palestinians to stop their campaign to delegitimize Israel' |publisher=Ejpress.org |date=1 June 2015 |accessdate=2 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019074128/http://ejpress.org/article/news/5698 |archive-date=19 October 2017 |url-status=dead}} President of the International Monetary Fund, 2007–11
• Simone Veil (1927–2017), Health Minister, 1974–76; legalized abortion; President of the European Parliament, 1979–82{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/veil-simone|title=Veil, Simone | Encyclopedia.com|website=encyclopedia.com}}
• Éric Zemmour (born 1958), French far-right politician, political journalist, essayist and 2022 French presidential election candidate{{Cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2014/11/08/et-zemmour-devint-zemmour_4520705_823448.html|title=Et Zemmour devint Zemmour |trans-title=And Zemmour became Zemmour |newspaper=Le Monde.fr|date=8 November 2014|access-date=17 October 2021|archive-date=16 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016041725/https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2014/11/08/et-zemmour-devint-zemmour_4520705_823448.html|url-status=live}}

• Paul Amar (born 1950), journalist and television presenter
• Michel Drucker (born 1942), journalist and TV host
• Erik Izraelewicz (1954–2012), journalist and author, specialised in economics and finance; director and editorial executive of the daily Le Monde{{cite web |last=France |first=Agence |url=http://www.interaksyon.com/article/49121/le-monde-director-erik-izraelewicz-dead-at-58 |title=Le Monde director Erik Izraelewicz dead at 58 |publisher=InterAksyon.com |accessdate=28 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130103742/http://www.interaksyon.com/article/49121/le-monde-director-erik-izraelewicz-dead-at-58 |archive-date=30 November 2012}}
• Ruth Elkrief (born 1960), journalist and television presenter
• Jean-François Kahn (born 1938), founder of Marianne magazine{{cite web |url=http://www.evene.fr/livres/livre/axel-et-jean-francois-kahn-comme-deux-freres-18280.php |title=Comme deux frères |accessdate=29 October 2007| language = fr}} Book summary published on evene.fr
• Ariel Wizman (born 1962), Moroccan-born TV journalist, DJ, musician and stage actor{{

• Hippolyte Bernheim (1840–1919), hypnosis pioneer{{cite web|url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2267/is_n2_v65/ai_20964259 |title=Sibling incest, madness, and the "Jews" Social Research – Find Articles |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060719154216/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2267/is_n2_v65/ai_20964259 |archive-date=19 July 2006 }}
• Georges Charpak (1924–2010), Polish-born, Nobel Prize in physics in 1992
• Claude Cohen Tannoudji (born 1933), Nobel Prize in physics in 1997
• Serge Haroche (born 1944), Nobel Prize in physics in 2012
• François Jacob (1920–2013), Nobel Prize in medicine in 1965
• Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921), Luxembourgish-born physicist, Nobel Prize (1908){{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10014-lippmann-gabriel|title=LIPPMANN, GABRIEL – JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=jewishencyclopedia.com}}
• Andre Michael Lwoff (1902–1994), microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1965){{Cite web|url=http://www.bookrags.com/#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Andr%C3%83%C2%A9+Michel+Lwoff|title=BookRags.com | Study Guides, Essays, Lesson Plans, & Homework Help|website=bookrags.com}}

• Immanuel Bonfils (c. 1300 – 1377), mathematician and astronomer
• Maurice Block (1816–1901), German-born statisticianEncyclopædia Britannica 11th ed: "He was born in Berlin of Jewish parents. He studied at Bonn and Giessen, but settled in Paris, becoming naturalized there"
• Paul Lévy, mathematician specialized in probability theory{{cite book |last1=Barbut |first1=Marc|last2=Locker |first2=Bernard | last3=Mazliak |first3=Laurent |date=2013 |title=Paul Lévy and Maurice Fréchet: 50 Years of Correspondence in 107 Letters|page=xii|publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-4471-5618-5}}
• Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010), Polish-born mathematician{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/oct/17/benoit-mandelbrot-obituary|title = Benoît Mandelbrot obituary|website = The Guardian|date = 17 October 2010}}
• Olinde Rodrigues (1795–1851), mathematician and social reformer{{cite web |url=http://www.maa.org/reviews/SocialUtopias.html |title=Read This: Mathematics and Social Utopias in France |accessdate=2007-02-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209194647/http://www.maa.org/reviews/SocialUtopias.html |archive-date=9 December 2006}}
• Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002), mathematicianhttps://www.ams.org/notices/199809/chandra.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}
• André Weil (1906–1998), mathematician and leader in the Bourbaki group{{cite web |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Weil/|title=André Abraham Weil|date= November 2014}}

• Albert Aftalion (1874–1956), Bulgarian-born French economistEncyclopædia Britannica, 2nd ed., art. "Aftalion, Albert"
• Raymond Aron (1905–1983), sociologist{{cite journal|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-2280977.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516145741/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-2280977.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 May 2011|title=Raymond Aron Comes in From the Cold: Jean-Paul Sartre Gets Dealt|date=8 April 1994}}
• Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi (1932–2004), specialist in the work of Albert Camus{{cite web |title=Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi |url=https://www.theses.fr/026988003 |website=theses.fr |access-date=24 August 2022}}
• Élisabeth Badinter (born 1944), sociologist, philosopher and historian{{cite web|title=Elisabeth Badinter: The Celebrity French Intellectual Every Jew (And Feminist) Should Know|url=http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/elisabeth-badinter-the-celebrity-french-intellectual-every-jew-and-feminist-should-know/|access-date=2020-12-16|website=jewishweek.timesofisrael.com|language=en-US|archive-date=31 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131010619/https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/elisabeth-badinter-the-celebrity-french-intellectual-every-jew-and-feminist-should-know/|url-status=dead}}
• Julien Benda (1867–1956), philosopher and novelist{{cite web|url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/benda.htm |title=Julien Benda |website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=Kuusankoski Public Library |location=Finland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210175324/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/benda.htm |archive-date=10 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}
• Berachyah (12th or 13th century), philosopher{{cite web |url=http://www.radicalacademy.com/adiphiljewish2.htm#Berachyah |title=radicalacademy.com |publisher=radicalacademy.com |accessdate=2 July 2017 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901205624/http://www.radicalacademy.com/adiphiljewish2.htm#Berachyah |archive-date=1 September 2011}}
• Henri Bergson (1859–1941), philosopher, Nobel Prize (1927)
• Danielle Bleitrach (born 1938), sociologist, academic and journalist{{cite journal |last1=Albera |first1=François |title=Danielle Bleitrach, Richard Gehrke, Bertolt Brecht et Fritz Lang. Le nazisme n'a jamais été éradiqué. Sociologie du cinéma: La Madeleine, LettMotif, 2015 |journal=1895 |date=March 2016 |issue=78 |pages=233–235 |doi=10.4000/1895.5155 |url=https://journals.openedition.org/1895/5155 |url-access=subscription }}
• Marc Bloch (1886–1944), historian and Resistance leader{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/testament-of-marc-bloch|title=Testament of Marc Bloch|website=jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}
• Hélène Cixous (born 1937), Algerian-born feminist critic{{Cite web|url=https://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/Cixous.html|title=Helene Cixous|website=cddc.vt.edu}}
• Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), Algerian-born philosopher{{cite web|url=http://www.filmforum.org/films/derrida.html |title=DERRIDA - TRIBUTE TO JACQUES DERRIDA (1930-2004) previously at Film Forum in New York City |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927012532/http://www.filmforum.org/films/derrida.html |archive-date=27 September 2007 }}
• Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), sociologist{{cite journal|jstor=1396218|title=David Emile Durkheim and the Jewish Response to Modernity|first=Deborah Dash|last=Moore|date=1 January 1986|journal=Modern Judaism|volume=6|issue=3|pages=287–300|doi=10.1093/mj/6.3.287}}
• Josy Eisenberg (1933–2017), author, TV host, rabbi, screenwriter{{cite web|url=http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/126736/|title=Rabbi Josy Eisenberg, France's Jewish Media Star|access-date=6 August 2011|archive-date=7 July 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707011742/http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/126736/|url-status=dead}}
• Alain Finkielkraut (born 1949), essayist{{Cite web|url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=650155|title=French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut apologizes after death threats}}
• Gersonides (1288–1344), philosopher{{cite journal|jstor=236517|title=Review of Studies on Gersonides: A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist|first=David B.|last=Ruderman|date=1 January 1994|journal=Isis|volume=85|issue=2|page=315|doi=10.1086/356836}}
• Pierre Goldman (1944–1977), philosopher, author, thief; was mysteriously assassinated; son of Alter Mojze Goldman; half-brother to Robert Goldman and Jean-Jacques Goldman (half Jewish){{Cite web|url=https://www-parler--de--sa--vie-net.translate.goog/pierre/biographie.html?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en|title=Qui était Pierre Goldman ?|website=www-parler--de--sa--vie-net.translate.goog}}
• Jean Gottmann (1915–1994), Russian Empire-born geographerOxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only child of prosperous Jewish parents"
• Daniel Halévy (1872–1962), historian; son of Ludovic Halévy, brother to Élie Halévy, grandson of Élie Halévy, half brother to Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), cultural anthropologist and ethnologist
• Emmanuel Lévinas (1906–1995), Russian Empire-born philosopher{{cite web |url=http://www.jafi.org.il/education/culture/levinas.html |title=Culture | Dispersion and the Longing for Zion, 1240-1840 |accessdate=2007-02-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926223502/http://www.jafi.org.il/education/culture/levinas.html |archive-date=26 September 2007}}
• Bernard-Henri Lévy (born 1948), Algerian-born philosopher{{cite web |url=http://www.paris-expat.com/interviews/3-06levy.htm |title=Where to stay |publisher=Paris-expat.com |date=25 June 2017 |accessdate=2 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905125640/http://www.paris-expat.com/interviews/3-06levy.htm |archive-date=5 September 2017 |url-status=dead }}
• Serge Moscovici (1925–2014), Romanian-born social psychologist, currently the director of the Laboratoire Européen de Psychologie Sociale; father of Pierre Moscovici
• Salomon Reinach (1858–1932), historian and archaeologist{{cite web|url=http://www2.u-bourgogne.fr/STIMULUS/D001/200/600.htm |title=Salomon Reinach, l'Athénien |accessdate=20 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216072549/http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/STIMULUS/D001/200/600.htm |archive-date=16 February 2008 }}
• Maxime Rodinson (1915–2004), historian{{cite web |url=http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article.jsp?id=6&articleId=2819 |title=Maxime Rodinson: In praise of a "marginal man" Fred Halliday – openDemocracy |website=opendemocracy.net |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060721194856/http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article.jsp?id=6&articleId=2819 |archive-date=21 July 2006 |url-status=dead}}
• Jacob Rodrigues Pereira (1715–1780), first to teach the deaf{{cite web|url=http://www.saudades.org/My_Diary.htm |title=Im Test – saudades.org – |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207050420/http://www.saudades.org/My_Diary.htm |archive-date=7 February 2007 }}
• Ignacy Sachs (1927–2023), Polish-born economist{{Cite web|url=https://www-ameriquelatine-msh--paris-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article90&_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en|title=Ignacy Sachs, portrait – Le Salon d'Amerique latine. Débats et entretiens vidéos|website=www-ameriquelatine-msh--paris-fr.translate.goog}}
• George Steiner (1929–2020), literary critic{{cite web|url=http://www.jewish-sci-tech-books.com/catalogue/general.htm |title=Jewish Science and Technology Books: Catalogue: General science |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216113607/http://www.jewish-sci-tech-books.com/catalogue/general.htm |archive-date=16 February 2007 }}
• Simone Weil (1909–1943), philosopher and mystic{{cite web|url=http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/20/mar02/weil.htm |title=The New Criterion – A Review of the Arts + Intellectual Life |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209204326/http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/20/mar02/weil.htm |archive-date=9 February 2007 }}

• Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon (1818–1881), photographer and sculptor{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/765-adam-salomon-antony-samuel|title=ADAM-SALOMON, ANTONY SAMUEL – JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=jewishencyclopedia.com}}
• Christian Boltanski (1944–2021), photographer, sculptor and installation artist (half Jewish){{Cite news |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |date=17 July 2021 |title=Christian Boltanski, Whose Art Installations Dazzled, Dies at 76 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/15/arts/christian-boltanski-dead.html |work=The New York Times |page=B12 |language=en-US |volume=170 |issue=59122 |issn=0362-4331}}
• Claude Cahun (1894–1954), photographer{{cite web|url=http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/claudecahun.html |title=Knitting Circle |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070117132938/http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/claudecahun.html |archive-date=17 January 2007 }}
• André François (1915–2005), cartoonist{{cite web |url=http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=cat&category1=In+Passing&newsitem_no=13754 |title=Headline News |accessdate=2007-02-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050108080055/http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=cat |archive-date=8 January 2005}}
• Alexandre Frenel (1899–1981), École de Paris painter
• Marcel Gotlib (1934–2016), comics artist{{Cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http://www.vsd.fr/contenu-editorial/en-coulisses/cv-de-stars/693-marcel-gotlib|title=Google Translate|date=15 July 2008 }}
• Michel Kikoine (1892–1968), Russian Empire-born painter{{cite web |url=http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/kikoine.html |title=Michel Kikoine |accessdate=2007-02-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195444/http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/kikoine.html |archive-date=27 September 2007}}
• Moise Kisling (1891–1953), Polish-born painter{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishmuseum.org/home/content/exhibitions/special/paris/paris.html |title=Special Exhibitions – Paris in New York |website=jewishmuseum.org |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031218001919/http://www.jewishmuseum.org/home/content/exhibitions/special/paris/paris.html |archive-date=18 December 2003 |url-status=dead}}
• Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), Danish West Indies-born painter widely considered the "father of Impressionism"{{cite web|url=http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/pissarro/ |title=Pissarro: The First Impressionist | NGV |publisher=Ngv.vic.gov.au |accessdate=2 July 2017}}
• Willy Ronis (1910–2009), photographer{{cite web|author=Benjamin Ivry |url=http://www.forward.com/articles/111442/ |title=Photographs That Are Deserved – The Forward |publisher=Forward.com |date=5 August 2009 |accessdate=2 July 2017}}
• Joann Sfar (born 1971), cartoonist, film director{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/31035/format/html/displaystory.html|title='Klezmer' cartoonist Sfar draws with a rhythm of his own – j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California|last=admin}}
• Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943), Belarusian-born painter{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Soutine.html|title = Chaïm Soutine}}
• Roland Topor (1938–1997), illustrator, novelist{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/04/magazine/endpaper-the-lives-they-lived-roland-topor-a-graphic-wit.html | work=The New York Times | first=Jerelle | last=Kraus | title=Endpaper -- The Lives They Lived: Roland Topor; A Graphic Wit | date=4 January 1998}}
• Pauline Trigère (1909–2002), fashion designer{{cite web|url=http://www.suzanne.tv/show.asp?sid%3D179 |title=Seeking Solutions with Suzanne |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007015128/http://www.suzanne.tv/show.asp?sid=179 |archive-date=7 October 2007 }}
• Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967), Russian-born sculptor (half Jewish){{Cite web|url=https://research.huji.ac.il/page/researchers_database|title=Something went wrong...|website=research.huji.ac.il}}

• Anouk Aimée (1932-2024), actress{{cite encyclopedia | title =Motion Pictures| encyclopedia =Encyclopaedia Judaica| publisher =Keter Publishing House| date =1971–1972}}
• Alexandre Aja (born 1978), film director (Haute Tension){{cite web|url=http://www.movieweb.com/news/73/11473.php |title=The Cast and Crew of the Hills Have Eyes Speak! |accessdate=21 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080103085044/http://www.movieweb.com/news/73/11473.php |archive-date=3 January 2008 }}
• Mathieu Amalric (born 1965), actor, film director (half Jewish){{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/11/3 | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Elizabeth | last=Day | title=The intellectual villain | date=11 May 2008}}
• Richard Anconina (born 1953), actor{{Cite web|url=http://evene.lefigaro.fr/celebre/biographie/richard-anconina-19851.php|title=Richard Anconina|website=Evene.fr|date=28 January 1953 }}
• Alexandre Arcady (born 1947), film director, scriptwriter{{cite web|url=https://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=6413.html|title = Alexandre Arcady}}
• Arthur (born 1966), Moroccan-born TV producer, TV host{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://www.melty.fr/arthur-condamne-a-verser-7000-a-dieudonn-actu5665.html&act=url|title=Google Translate|date=25 April 2008}}
• Aure Atika (born 1970), actress, writer and director
• Yvan Attal (born 1965), Israeli-born filmmaker, actor{{Cite web|url=https://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7050779|title=Patriots DVD Movie|website=cduniverse.com}}
• Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911–2001), actor{{cite news | title =Jean-Pierre Aumont ... returned to fight for his country despite the danger to him as a Jew| page=31| newspaper =The Jewish Chronicle| date =16 February 2001 }}
• Guy Béart (1930–2015), Egyptian-born singer and songwriter
• Emmanuelle Béart (born 1963), actress (half Jewish), daughter of Guy Béart
• Véra Belmont (born 1932), film producer, director and screenwriterPlotkin, Janis. "Filmmakers, Independent European." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 1 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive.. Accessed 17 June 2012.
• Maurice Benichou (1943–2019), actor
• Raymond Bernard (1891–1977), film director and screenwriter, son of Tristan Bernard and brother of Jean-Jacques Bernard{{Cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/587-eclipse-series-4-raymond-bernard|title=Eclipse Series 4: Raymond Bernard|first=Michael|last=Koresky|website=The Criterion Collection}}
• Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923), stage actress (half Jewish)"After the Franco-Prussian war (1871), Bernhardt was forced to defend herself against press accusations that she was German and Jewish. Her proud reaction, reported in her biographies, was: "Jewish most certainly, but German, no. ... I am a daughter of the great Jewish race" https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bernhardt-sarah
• Claude Berri (1934–2009), film director, producer, actor and writer{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/claude-berri-film-director-and-screenwriterbest-known-for-jean-de-florette-and-manon-des-sources-1334132.html | location=London | work=The Independent | title=Claude Berri: Film director and screenwriterbest known for 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' | date=14 January 2009}}
• Simone Bitton (born 1955), Moroccan-born French-Israeli documentary filmmaker
• Michel Boujenah (born 1952), Tunisian-born humorist, actor, producer, director{{Cite web|url=http://www.monsieur-biographie.com/celebrite/biographie/alain_chabat-5146.php|title=Alain CHABAT|website=Monsieur Biographie}}
• Pierre Braunberger (1905–1990), film producer{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LafNzvlqYZ0C|title=Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture|first=Glenda|last=Abramson|date=1 December 2004|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9780203494356}}
• Alain Chabat (born 1958), actor, writer, director{{cite news|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http://www.lexpress.fr/informations/un-nul-bourre-de-talents_647058.html&act=url|title=Google Translate|newspaper=Lexpress.fr |date=24 January 2002}}
• David Charvet (born 1972), French-born actor and singer (Baywatch) (half Jewish){{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/30189/format/html/displaystory.html|title=Celebrity Jews – j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California|last=Bloom|first=Nate}}
• Elie Chouraqui (born 1953), film director, producer, scriptwriter, actor{{Cite web|url=http://www.col.fr/article-516.html|title=Rencontre avec Elie Chouraqui|website=col.fr}}
• Gerard Darmon (born 1948), actor, singer{{Cite web|url=http://www.crif.org/?page=sheader/detail&aid=2456&artyd=5|title=Crif – Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France | Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France|website=crif.org}}
• Charles Denner (1926–1995), Polish-born actor{{cite news | first=Alan | last=Riding | title=Charles Denner, 69, French Star of Truffaut and Lelouch Films | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/12/obituaries/charles-denner-69-french-star-of-truffaut-and-lelouch-films.html | work=The New York Times | date=12 September 1995 | accessdate=15 July 2013}}
• Marcel Dalio (1900–1983), actor{{cite web |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800043714 |title=Marcel Dalio – Yahoo! Movies |accessdate=2017-01-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111025193100/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800043714 |archive-date=25 October 2011}}
• Pascal Elbé (born 1967), actor{{cite web|url=https://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=29028.html|title = Pascal Elbé}}
• Gad Elmaleh (born 1971), Moroccan-born humorist, actor, film director, singer, brother of Arié{{Cite web|url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=739996|title=Nasrallah's Shi'ite error}}
• Daniel Emilfork (1924–2006), Chilean-born actor{{cite news |date=26 October 2006 |title=Daniel Emilfork, April 7, 1924 - October 17, 2006 |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article613558.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522202836/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article613558.ece |archive-date=22 May 2011 |work=The Times}}
• Jean Epstein (1897–1953), filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist (half Jewish){{Cite web|url=https://www.enotes.com/topics/jean-epstein|title=Jean Epstein Critical Essays – eNotes.com|website=eNotes}}
• Sami Frey (born 1937), actor, director, movie actor{{cite web|url=http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/127202/|title=French Actor Sami Frey: or 'Beckett Judaizing Beckett'|access-date=18 September 2011|archive-date=14 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111014232152/http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/127202/|url-status=dead}}
• Charlotte Gainsbourg (born 1971), actress, singer (half Jewish); daughter of Serge Gainsbourg{{Cite web|url=http://www.wfmu.org/~bart/sg.html|title=Serge Gainsbourg: The Obscurity of Fame|access-date=6 February 2007|archive-date=29 June 1997|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970629141334/http://www.wfmu.org/~bart/sg.html|url-status=dead}}
• Eva Green (born 1980), actress (half Jewish), daughter of Marlène Jobert{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/eva-green-1798225065|title=Eva Green|website=The A.V. Club|date=14 April 2011}}
• Roger Hanin (1925–2015), actor, director{{Cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://yerouchalmi.web.officelive.com/Hanin.aspx&act=url|title=Google Translate}}
• Serge Hazanavicius (born 1963), actor
• Michel Hazanavicius (born 1967), film director, screenwriter, and producer{{cite web|url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/arts/music/artist_directors_nod_billy_wilder|title=The Jewish Week – Connecting the World to Jewish News, Culture, and Opinion|date=29 April 2015|access-date=28 February 2012|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173400/http://www.thejewishweek.com/arts/music/artist_directors_nod_billy_wilder|url-status=dead}}
• Anna Held (1872–1918), Polish-born actress{{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Ray |title=Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway (review) |journal=Theatre Journal |date=2005 |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=337–338 |doi=10.1353/tj.2005.0070 |s2cid=194083764 |id={{Project MUSE|183304}} }}
• Isabelle Huppert (born 1953), actress (half Jewish){{Cite news|last=Leon|first=Masha|title=Sea of Faces: FRENCH FILM STAR ISABELLE HUPPERT PRESENTS AWARD TO ROBERT WILSON AT FIAF GALA |publisher=Forward|date=18 November 2009|url=http://forward.com/articles/119165/|accessdate=24 February 2012}}
• Agnès Jaoui (born 1964), director and actress{{cite web|url=http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/france_159/label-france_2554/themes_3713/culture_3922/cinema_3925/agnes-jaoui-or-taste-for-our-own_6261.html |title=France-Diplomatie |accessdate=21 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208094904/http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/france_159/label-france_2554/themes_3713/culture_3922/cinema_3925/agnes-jaoui-or-taste-for-our-own_6261.html |archive-date=8 February 2012 }}
• Marlène Jobert (born 1940), actress, author, singer; mother of Eva Green[https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmadame.lefigaro.fr%2Ffeminin%2Fmarlene-jobert-091210-22698&act=url&act=url], Novembre 2010, Par Sophie Carquain, Madame, Le FigaroElizabeth Day, [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/05/eva-green-interview-playing-evil "Eva Green interview: Playing evil"], The Guardian, 4 June 2011
• Elie Kakou (1960–1999), humorist, actor{{cite web|url=http://www.rudy-lagersie.net/eliekakou.html|title=勃起力回復の効果|access-date=29 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911082121/http://www.rudy-lagersie.net/eliekakou.html|archive-date=11 September 2016|url-status=dead}}
• Marin Karmitz (born 1938), Romanian-born producer
• Tcheky Karyo (born 1953), film actor
• Mathieu Kassovitz (born 1967), film director, actor, producer (half Jewish), son of Peter Kassovitz{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/14/movies/a-french-director-straight-out-of-enfin-spike-lee.html | work=The New York Times | first=Alan | last=Riding | title=A French Director Straight Out of (Enfin) Spike Lee | date=14 August 1994}}
• Peter Kassovitz (born 1938), Hungarian-born film director and scriptwriter
• Sandrine Kiberlain (born 1968), actress{{Cite web|url=http://www.liberation.fr/portrait/0101100649-la-passante-du-sans-chichi|title=La passante du sans chichi|access-date=16 August 2010|archive-date=7 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807095133/http://www.liberation.fr/portrait/0101100649-la-passante-du-sans-chichi|url-status=dead}}
• Cédric Klapisch (born 1961), film director{{Cite web |last=McCann |first=Ben |date=2019-10-14 |title=Klapisch, Cédric – Senses of Cinema |url=https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2019/great-directors/cedric-klapisch/ |access-date=2024-12-02 |language=en-US}}
• Diane Kurys (born 1948), filmmaker and actressCarrie Tarr, Diane Kurys (Manchester University Press, 1999), p. 12.
• Arlette Langmann (born 1946); film editor and screenwriter; sister of Claude Berri{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
• Greg Lansky (born 1982), pornographic film producer{{cite tweet |user=haaretzcom|author=Haaretz.com|number=1195408875907739648|date=15 November 2019|access-date=18 March 2021|title=He was rejected by his Jewish community, but found home in the porn industry: Meet Greg Lansky, the world's top adult film director}}
• Claude Lanzmann (1925–2018), filmmaker{{cite web |url=http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/9236 |title=Western Europe | Warsaw ghetto uprising leader looks at love amid terror |publisher=Ejpress.org |date=18 February 2009 |accessdate=2 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204135810/http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/9236 |archive-date=4 February 2012 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/9236 |title=EJP | News | France's favourite song-writer dies |access-date=2 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204135810/http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/9236 |archive-date=4 February 2012 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2018/07/claude-lanzmann-dies-director-holocaust-documentary-shoah-1202421678/|title=Claude Lanzmann Dies: Director of Acclaimed Holocaust Doc 'Shoah' Was 92|first1=Andreas Wiseman,Nancy|last1=Tartaglione|first2=Andreas|last2=Wiseman|first3=Nancy|last3=Tartaglione|date=5 July 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/claude-lanzmann-dead-holocaust-documentary-shoah-director-was-92-1125041/|title=Claude Lanzmann, French Director of Holocaust Documentary 'Shoah,' Dies at 92|first1=Jordan Mintzer,Georg|last1=Szalai|first2=Jordan|last2=Mintzer|first3=Georg|last3=Szalai|website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=5 July 2018}}
• Mélanie Laurent (born 1983), actress, singer, director{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemablend.com/new/M-lanie-Laurent-Interview-On-Inglourious-Basterds-And-Loving-France-14478.html|title=Mélanie Laurent Interview: On Inglourious Basterds And Loving France – CINEMABLEND|date=22 August 2009|access-date=20 February 2020|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220905/http://www.cinemablend.com/new/M-lanie-Laurent-Interview-On-Inglourious-Basterds-And-Loving-France-14478.html|url-status=dead}}
• Claude Lelouch (born 1937), director{{Cite web|url=http://thehollywoodinterview.blogspot.com/2008/04/claude-lelouch-hollywood-interview.html|title=Claude Lelouch: The Hollywood Interview}}
• Gilles Lellouche (born 1972), actor (half Jewish){{cite web|url=https://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=91503.html|title = Gilles Lellouche}}
• Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), mime artist{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=8991|title=Silence Speaks Volumes – Arts}}
• Jean-Pierre Melville (1917–1973), film director and screenwriter{{cite web|url=http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:36742|title=Do the right thing|first=David|last=Fellerath|access-date=10 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203123032/http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A36742|archive-date=3 February 2016|url-status=dead}}
• Radu Mihăileanu (born 1958), Romanian-born film director, screenwriter, poet{{cite web|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/129931/|title=Bluffing the Bolshoi| date=10 August 2010 }}
• Claude Miller (1942–2012), directorMerav Yudilovitch: French director Claude Miller to visit Israel, in Ynetnews, 29 January 2008
• Serge Moati (born 1958), Tunisian-born film director, screenwriter, journalist, artist, political consultant{{cite web|url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/arts/film/holes_screen|title=The Jewish Week – Connecting the World to Jewish News, Culture, and Opinion|date=29 April 2015|access-date=11 September 2011|archive-date=11 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011083905/http://www.thejewishweek.com/arts/film/holes_screen|url-status=dead}}
• Jean-Pierre Mocky (1929–2019), film director, screenwriter and actor{{Cite web|url=https://www-dvdclassik-com.translate.goog/article/entretien-avec-jean-pierre-mocky?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en|title=Entretien avec Jean-Pierre Mocky – DVDClassik|website=www-dvdclassik-com.translate.goog}}
• Marcel Ophüls (born 1927), German-born documentary filmmaker, son of Max OphülsVincent Brook, Driven to Darkness: Jewish Emigré Directors and the Rise of Film Noir, Rutgers University Press, 2009, p. 1.{{cite web|url=http://www.filmdirectorssite.com/marcel-ophuls |title=Marcel Ophuls Films – Marcel Ophuls Filmography – Marcel Ophuls Biography – Marcel Ophuls Career – Marcel Ophuls Awards – Film Director – Movie Director – Film Directors – Movie Directors – Filmmaker – FilmDirectorsSite.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826165656/http://www.filmdirectorssite.com/marcel-ophuls |archive-date=26 August 2016 }}
• Max Ophüls (1902–1957), German-born film director, father of Marcel Ophüls{{cite web |url=http://www.filmdirectorssite.com/max-oph%3Fls |title= Max Oph?ls Films | Max Oph?ls Filmography | Max Oph?ls Biography | Max Oph?ls Career | Max Oph?ls Awards | Film Director | Movie Director | Film Directors | Movie Directors | Filmmaker | FilmDirectorsSite.com|website=filmdirectorssite.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026073340/http://www.filmdirectorssite.com/max-oph?ls |archive-date=26 October 2012}}
• Gérard Oury (1919–2006), film director, screenwriter; father of Danièle Thompson{{Cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/20060720.WWW000000313_gerard_oury_est_mort.html&act=url|title=Google Translate}}
• Roman Polanski (born 1933), film director, screenwriter, actor (three-fourths Jewish){{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jul/15/romanpolanski.2005inreview | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Peter | last=Bradshaw | title=The Guardian profile: Roman Polanski | date=15 July 2005}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pckg8k3g-PkC&q=jew|title=Roman Polanski: Interviews|first1=Roman|last1=Polanski|first2=Paul|last2=Cronin|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=9781578067992}}
• Rachel (1821–1858), Swiss-born stage actress{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/france-virtual-jewish-history-tour|title=France Virtual Jewish History Tour|website=jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}
• Éric Rochant (born 1961), film director and screenwriter.{{cite web|url=http://next.liberation.fr/cinema/2017/05/22/eric-rochant-phenomene-et-malotru_1571420 |title=Eric Rochant, phénomène et malotru – Libération |publisher=Next.liberation.fr |date=2017-05-22 |accessdate=2022-08-30}}
• Alexandra Rosenfeld (born 1986), Miss France 2006{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/29795/edition_id/561/format/html/displaystory.html|title=Celebrity Jews – j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California|first=nate|last=bloom}}
• Ida Rubinstein (1885–1960), Russian-born Belle Epoque icon{{cite journal|jstor=1478385|title=Ida Rubinstein: A Twentieth-Century Cleopatra|first=Charles S.|last=Mayer|date=1 January 1988|journal=Dance Research Journal|volume=20|issue=2|pages=33–51|doi=10.2307/1478385|s2cid=191651195}}
• Suzanne Schiffman (1929–2001), screenwriter, film director (half Jewish){{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jun/14/guardianobituaries.filmnews | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Sophie | last=Baker | title=Suzanne Schiffman | date=14 June 2001}}
• Simone Signoret (1921–1985), German-born actress (half Jewish){{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/discover-books/nonfiction|title=Book Reviews & Recommendations|website=Kirkus Reviews}}
• Tomer Sisley (born 1974), German-born actor and comedian{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/tomer-sisley-s-tour-de-force-1.117833|title=Tomer Sisley's tour de force|newspaper=Haaretz}}
• Estelle Skornik (born 1971), actress"The granddaughter of Polish Jews ... "My family couldn't be more different than the one in the advert. My father is a salesman, and our family is Jewish"" Jewish Chronicle, 4 April 1997, page 38
• Nicole Stéphane (1923–2007), film producer, actress, and director{{Cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=www.cineartistes.com/fiche-Nicole+St%C3%A9phane.html&act=url|title=Google Translate}}{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/mar/23/guardianobituaries.obituaries | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Ronald | last=Bergan | title=Nicole Stéphane | date=23 March 2007}}
• Charlotte Szlovak (born 1947), Moroccan-born cinematographer, film director, and screenwriter
• Danièle Thompson (born 1942), film director, screenwriter (half Jewish); daughter of Gérard Oury
• Alexandre Trauner (1906–1993), Hungarian-born Academy Award winning Scenic designer{{Cite web|url=https://lpce.com/trauner/us/bio-us.html|title=Alexandre Trauner Exhibition , 50 years of cinema|website=lpce.com}}
• Michael Vartan (born 1968), actor (half Jewish){{cite web|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7856813/site/newsweek/ |title=Newsmakers: 23 May issue – Newsweek Entertainment – MSNBC.com |accessdate=23 January 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050526232429/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7856813/site/newsweek/ |archive-date=26 May 2005 }}
• Francis Veber (born 1937), film director, playwright and screenwriter (half Jewish){{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/28/movies/french-films-american-style.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all | work=The New York Times | first1=Annette | last1=Insdorf | title=French Films, American Style | date=28 July 1985}}
• André Weinfeld (born 1947), film and television producer, director, screenwriter, photographer and journalist{{cite web|url=http://www.andreweinfeld.com/WEBSITE/index.html#/scale/|title=ANDRE WEINFELD //}}
• William Wyler (1902–1981), film director{{cite web|url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pw/William_Wyler.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060422030354/http://www.adherents.com/people/pw/William_Wyler.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=22 April 2006|title=The religion of director William Wyler}}
• Yolande Zauberman, film director and screenwriter
• Elsa Zylberstein (born 1968), actress (half Jewish){{Cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://www.selectionclic.com/people-elsa-zylberstein-4789&act=url|title=Google Translate}}

• Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888), composer and pianist{{Cite web|url=http://www.alkansociety.org/About-Alkan/about-alkan.html|title=About Alkan|website=alkansociety.org}}
• Franck Amsallem (born 1961), Algerian-born jazz pianist and composer
• Monique Andrée Serf (1930–1997), French singer known as Barbara
• Keren Ann (born 1974), Israeli-born folk singer
• Thomas Bangalter (born 1975), French musician known as half of the electro duo Daft Punk
• Patrick Bruel (born 1959), singer, musician, actor{{cite web |url=http://www.a7fr.com/Default.aspx?tabid=52&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=34906 |title=Boujenah se joint à Bruel pour dénoncer Dieudonné (Canoe.com – Agnès Gaudet / Le Journal de Montréal) |website=a7fr.com |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008114257/http://www.a7fr.com/Default.aspx?tabid=52&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=34906 |archive-date=8 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}
• Barbara Butch (born 1981), DJ, activist
• Marcel Dadi (1951–1996), guitarist{{cite web|url=https://sudestavenir.fr/conservatoire/conservatoire-marcel-dadi/|title = Conservatoire Conservatoire Marcel Dadi}}
• Joe Dassin (1938–1980), American-born singer, son of Jules Dassin{{cite web |url=http://www.ejpress.org/article/culture/5893 |title=Western Europe | Museum marks Belgium Judaism |publisher=Ejpress.org |date=9 August 2005 |accessdate=2 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019062820/http://www.ejpress.org/article/culture/5893 |archive-date=19 October 2017 |url-status=dead}}
• Mike Brant (1947–1975), singer
• Natalie Dessay (born 1965), opera singer soprano (converted to Judaism){{Cite web|url=http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm10-8/Natalie-Dessay.htm|title=Natalie Dessay in Conversation|website=scena.org}}
• Sacha Distel (1933–2004), singer, guitarist{{cite web|url=http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1099_death_of_distel.htm|title=Death of Distel|access-date=6 February 2007|archive-date=31 December 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061231102812/http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1099_death_of_distel.htm|url-status=dead}}
• Paul Dukas (1865–1935), composerFERGUSON, D. (1954). Paul Dukas (1865–1935). In Masterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire: A Guide for Listeners (pp. 228–230), University of Minnesota Press. {{JSTOR|10.5749/j.cttts92j.19}}
• Jean Ferrat (1930–2010), singer-songwriter, poet{{cite web|url=https://culture.tv5monde.com/musique/biographies-artistes/jean-ferrat-1156|title = Biographie Jean Ferrat, âge et discographie | Culture TV5MONDE}}
• Serge Gainsbourg (1928–1991), singer-songwriter, musician, film composer, actor, film director, writer; father of Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Jean-Jacques Goldman (born 1951), singer-songwriter, musician; son of Alter Mojze Goldman, brother to Robert Goldman and half-brother to Pierre Goldman{{cite web|url=http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6307.asp |title=RFI Musique – - Jean-Jacques GOLDMAN |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070126074948/http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6307.asp |archive-date=26 January 2007 }}
• David Guetta (born 1967), DJ, remixer, songwriter
• Fromental Halévy (1799–1862), composer{{Cite web|url=http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001132.php|title=The Social Affairs Unit – Web Review: Halévy's Hit – Fromental Halévy's La Juive performed in concert by the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House at the Barbican Hall}}
• Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908), librettist; son of Élie Halévy{{cite web|url=http://www.kol-ami.org/news/archive/2004/06/index.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=10 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813233025/http://www.kol-ami.org/news/archive/2004/06/index.html |archive-date=13 August 2006 }}
• Jenifer (born 1982), French pop singer (half Jewish)
• Joseph Kosma (1905–1969), Hungarian-born film composer{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00004TL0K|title=Kosma: Les Feuilles Mortes – Chansons|date=8 August 2000|publisher=Amazon}}
• Norbert Krief (born 1956), guitarist{{Cite web|url=https://www.fnac.com/ia979309/Norbert-Krief|title=Norbert Krief : tous les produits | fnac|website=fnac.com}}
• Jacques Lanzmann (1927–2006), lyricist; brother of Claude Lanzmann
• Isidore de Lara (1858–1930), English-born composer{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9639-lara-isidore-de|title=LARA, ISIDORE DE – JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=jewishencyclopedia.com}}
• René Leibowitz (1913–1972), Polish-born composer{{cite journal|jstor=944986|title=Rene Leibowitz (1913-1972)|first=Jan|last=Maguire|date=1 January 1979|journal=Tempo|issue=131|pages=6–10|doi=10.1017/S0040298200030898|s2cid=148376881 }}
• Daniel Levi (born 1961), singer, composer{{Cite web|url=http://www.col.fr/article-1.html|title=Site under construction|website=col.fr}}
• Enrico Macias (born 1938), Algerian-born singer, guitarist{{cite web|url=http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6206.asp |title=RFI Musique – - Biography – Enrico Macias |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103024541/http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6206.asp |archive-date=3 January 2007 }}
• Emmanuelle Haïm (born 1967), harpsichordist and conductor (half Jewish){{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3619044/Out-of-the-niche.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Michael | last=White | title=Out of the niche | date=16 June 2004}}
• Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), composer,{{cite web|url=http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/articles.taf?function%3Ddetail%26ID%3D35 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003025/http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/articles.taf?function=detail&ID=35 |archive-date=27 September 2007 }} member of the Groupe des six
• Pierre Monteux (1875–1964), conductor{{Cite web|url=http://daniellathompson.com/Texts/Le_Boeuf/milhaud_at_mills.htm|title=The Boeuf Chronicles | Sitting out the War :: Milhaud at Mills College|website=daniellathompson.com}}
• Georges Moustaki (1934–2013), Egyptian-born composer, singer{{cite web|url=http://www.rfimusique.com/siteEn/biographie/biographie_6170.asp |title=RFI Musique – - Georges Moustaki |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210065428/http://www.rfimusique.com/siteEn/biographie/biographie_6170.asp |archive-date=10 February 2007 }}
• Yael Naim (born 1978), singer-songwriter, guitarist{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3574064,00.html|title=Yael Naim makes the cut|newspaper=Ynetnews|date=29 July 2008|last1=Shechnik|first1=Raz}}
• Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880), German-born composer{{cite web|url=http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/94_95season/1st_concert/offenbach.cfm |title=Offenbach, la Vie Parisienne |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070520023141/http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/94_95season/1st_concert/offenbach.cfm |archive-date=20 May 2007}}
• Catherine Ringer (born 1957), singer-songwriter, actress{{Cite web|url=https://www.deezer.com/fr/artist/156724|title=Catherine Ringer|website=Deezer}}
• Sapho (born 1950), Moroccan-born singer{{cite web |url=http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/000511/2000051131.html |title=Jewish Moroccan-born singer Sapho tours morocco |accessdate=2007-02-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930203257/http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/000511/2000051131.html |archive-date=30 September 2007}}
• David Serero (born 1981), French opera singer, actor, producer; his parents are Sephardi Jews from Morocco{{cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/David-Serero-to-Star-in-THE-MERCHANT-OF-VENICE-at-the-Center-for-Jewish-History-This-June-20150407|title=David Serero to Star in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE at the Center for Jewish History This June|author=BWW News Desk}}
• Martial Solal (1927-2024), jazz pianist and composer{{cite web|url=http://jazztimes.com/columns_and_features/table_of_contents/article_excerpts/index.cfm?article_id%3D17666 |title=Jazz | JazzTimes Magazine > Columns and Features > Table of Contents > Article Excerpts |accessdate=6 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070122174331/http://jazztimes.com/columns_and_features/table_of_contents/article_excerpts/index.cfm?article_id=17666 |archive-date=22 January 2007 }}
• Tal (born 1989), Israeli-born pop / R'n'B singer
• Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986), Polish-born composer, pianist{{cite web|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-1543860_ITM |title=Find Local Contractors | Home Remodeling Contractors on Ecnext |publisher=Goliath.ecnext.com |accessdate=2 July 2017}}
• Daniel Vangarde (born 1947), French songwriter and producer, father of Thomas Bangalter
• Émile Waldteufel (1837–1915), composer{{cite web |url=http://www.leedsconcertseason.com/MODULES/NEWS/LICS_NEWSmoduleASP/NEWSMOD_newsitem.asp?type=explore%20and%20learn&itemid=87 |title=Home |publisher=Leedsconcertseason.com |accessdate=2 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205060617/http://www.leedsconcertseason.com/MODULES/NEWS/LICS_NEWSmoduleASP/NEWSMOD_newsitem.asp?type=explore%20and%20learn&itemid=87 |archive-date=5 February 2012 |url-status=dead}}

• Tristan Bernard (1866–1947), playwright and novelist, father of Raymond Bernard and Jean-Jacques Bernard{{cite web|url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005215|title = Drancy}}
• Jean-Jacques Bernard (1888–1974), playwright, son of Tristan Bernard and brother of Raymond Bernard{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xrZRbC0vCPAC|title=In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century|first1=Omer|last1=Bartov|first2=Phyllis|last2=Mack|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=9781571812148}}
• Henri Bernstein (1876–1953), playwright{{cite web|url=http://www.schwarzreport.org/Essays/wvdestruction.htm |title=The Fundamentals (Zondervan).WPD |accessdate=10 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061229153855/http://www.schwarzreport.org/Essays/wvdestruction.htm |archive-date=29 December 2006 }}
• Henri Blowitz (1825–1903), Bohemian-born journalistEncyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed., art. "Blowitz, Henri
• Paul Celan (1920–1970), Romanian-born poet{{cite web|url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/celan.htm |title=Paul Celan |website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=Kuusankoski Public Library |location=Finland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331045959/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/celan.htm |archive-date=31 March 2014 |url-status=dead }}
• Benjamin Fondane (1898–1944), Romanian-born poetPaul Daniel, "Destinul unui poet" and "Tabla ilustrațiilor", pp.595–644
• Romain Gary (1914–1980), Russian Empire-born novelist{{cite web |url=http://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/academic/languages/yiddish/mendele/vol5.021 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205020157/http://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/academic/languages/yiddish/mendele/vol5.021 |archive-date=5 December 2007}}
• René Goscinny (1926–1977), comic book author and editor, co-creator of Asterix{{Cite web|url=https://www-lamed-fr.translate.goog/index.php?id=1&_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en|title=Lamed.fr – Article|website=www-lamed-fr.translate.goog}}{{cite web|url=http://jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/article747a.html?articleid=331|title=The Jewish Quarterly|access-date=24 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614100018/http://jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/article747a.html?articleid=331|archive-date=14 June 2012|url-status=dead}}
• Élie Halévy (1760–1826), Bavarian-born French Hebrew poet, author and secretary of the Jewish community of Paris; father of Fromental Halévy and Léon Halévy{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jacques-halevy-judaic-treasures|title=Jacques Halevy – Judaic Treasures|website=jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}
• Marek Halter (born 1936), writer and activist
• Léon Hollaenderski (1808–1878), writer and poet
• Max Jacob (1876–1944), poet{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=1514|title=Poetry Magazines – Foreword to 14 Poems by Max Jacob|first=codegent|last=ltd}}
• Edmond Jabès (1912–1991), Egyptian-born poet{{cite web |url=http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ISBN/1900755718/Location/DBBC |title=David Brown Book Company – Edmond Jabès:The Hazard of Exile by Steven Jaron |accessdate=2007-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040309161833/http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ISBN/1900755718/Location/DBBC |archive-date=9 March 2004}}
• Joseph Joffo (1931–2018), writer"A Bag of Marbles" – Joseph Joffo
• Gabriel Josipovici (born 1940), novelist(Jewish Year Book 2005 p215)
• Gustave Kahn (1859–1936), poet and art critic{{cite web|url=http://mushecht.haifa.ac.il/hecht/art/GhezCollection_eng.aspx?id=14|title=Hecht Museum – Adolphe (Aizik) Feder|last=Dudy|access-date=10 February 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112105143/http://mushecht.haifa.ac.il/hecht/art/GhezCollection_eng.aspx?id=14|archive-date=12 January 2008|url-status=dead}}
• Joseph Kessel (1898–1979), Argentinian-born novelist and journalist
• Justine Lévy (born 1974), novelist, daughter of Bernard-Henri Lévy{{Cite web|url=http://www.lire.fr/enquete.asp/idC%3D31236%26idTC%3D15%26idR%3D200%26idG%3D3|title=Enquête|access-date=3 September 2006|archive-date=27 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927004239/http://www.lire.fr/enquete.asp/idC%3D31236%26idTC%3D15%26idR%3D200%26idG%3D3|url-status=dead}}
• André Maurois (1885–1967), author
• Alain Mamou-Mani (born 1949), Tunisian-born French film producer and writer
• Albert Memmi (1920–2020), Tunisian-born novelist and sociologist{{Cite web|url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/languages-cultures/|title=Department of Languages and Cultures – University of Reading|website=reading.ac.uk}}
• Catulle Mendès (1841–1909), poet and man of letters (half Jewish){{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10668-mendes-catulle|title=MENDÈS, CATULLE – JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=jewishencyclopedia.com}}
• Patrick Modiano (born 1945), writer (half Jewish){{cite web|url=https://www.bu.edu/agni/essays-reviews/print/1999/50-charbonneau.html |title=AGNI | Essays/Reviews | 50 | 'Patrick Modiano: Remembrance of Shadowy Things Past' by Jean Charbonneau |accessdate=10 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060920174227/https://www.bu.edu/agni/essays-reviews/print/1999/50-charbonneau.html |archive-date=20 September 2006 }}
• Nine Moati (1938–2021), Tunisian-born novelist Les Belles de Tunis and screenwriter; sister of Serge Moati{{cite web |url=http://researchfrontiers.uark.edu/13638.php |title=Spring 2011 - Research Frontiers - University of Arkansas |accessdate=2011-09-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004204808/http://researchfrontiers.uark.edu/13638.php |archive-date=4 October 2011}}
• Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942), writer{{cite web |url=http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5481 |title=Ir?ne N?mirovsky : Her Life and Works – Jonathan Weiss |access-date=29 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061010164335/http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5481 |archive-date=10 October 2006 |url-status=dead}}
• Georges Perec (1936–1982), novelist{{cite web |url=http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/perec.html |title=Scriptorium – George Perec |accessdate=2007-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218001947/http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/perec.html |archive-date=18 February 2007}}
• Marcel Proust (1871–1922), writer{{cite web|url=http://www.adherents.com/people|title=The religion of Marcel Proust, writer|access-date=10 February 2007|archive-date=15 February 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060215222413/http://www.adherents.com/people/pp/Marcel_Proust.html|url-status=usurped}}
• Yasmina Reza (born 1959), playwright{{Cite news |last=Gibbons |first=Fiachra |date=22 September 2016 |title=The tears and laughter of Yasmina Reza's lost Babylon |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-tears-and-laughter-of-yasmina-rezas-lost-babylon/ |work=The Times of Israel}}
• Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999), Russian-born writer{{cite web|url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sarraute.htm |title=Nathalie Sarraute |website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=Kuusankoski Public Library |location=Finland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210175324/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sarraute.htm |archive-date=10 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}
• Jean-Jacques Schuhl (born 1941), writer{{cite web|url=http://www.nhanvan.com/thuvien/authors/jean-jacques_schuhl.htm |title=Jean-jacques_schuhl |accessdate=10 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061125042212/http://www.nhanvan.com/thuvien/authors/jean-jacques_schuhl.htm |archive-date=25 November 2006 }}
• Anne Sinclair (born 1948), political journalist; wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/france/story/0,11882,690114,00.html | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Adar | last=Primor | title=The veil? It protects us from ugly women | date=14 February 2005}}
• André Suarès (1868–1948), poet{{cite web|url=https://dbs.bh.org.il/place/marseille|title=The Jewish Community of Marseille|publisher=The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot|access-date=11 June 2018|archive-date=18 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918064118/https://dbs.bh.org.il/place/marseille|url-status=dead}}
• Elsa Triolet (1896–1970), Russian-born novelist{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0020_0_20051.html|title = Triolet (Blick), Elsa}}
• Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), Romanian-born poet{{Cite web|url=http://members.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/art_dada_1.html|title=Yahoo! – Romania Erects Monument To Dada Founder|website=members.peak.org}}
• Ilarie Voronca (1903–1946), Romanian-born poet and essayist{{Cite web|url=http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/getdocument.aspx?logid=5&id=D78C773F-3268-424D-A254-FDAC0148D8CF|title=CEEOL – Error}}
• Bernard Werber (born 1961), best-selling author{{Cite web|url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=318715&contrassID=2&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y|title=The wisdom of the ants|access-date=17 March 2007|archive-date=13 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113145111/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=318715&contrassID=2&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y|url-status=dead}}

• Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet (1906–1996), founder and head of Publicis Groupe{{cite web|url=http://www.cedost.it/testi/UK/1974_inglese.htm |title=1974 inglese |accessdate=10 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928082019/http://www.cedost.it/testi/UK/1974_inglese.htm |archive-date=28 September 2007 }}
• Moïse de Camondo (1860–1935), Ottoman Empire-born banker
• Isaac and Daniel Carasso, founders of Danone{{Cite web|url=http://www.public-histoire.com/saga/yaourt/yaourt7.html|title=Public Histoire|access-date=10 February 2007|archive-date=15 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015040444/http://www.public-histoire.com/saga/yaourt/yaourt7.html|url-status=dead}}
• André Citroën (1878–1935), founder of Citroënhttp://www.citroen.mb.ca/cItROeNeT/resources/books/biblio7.html{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• Marcel Dassault (1892–1986), aerospace industrialist;http://p2.www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9029419{{dead link|date=March 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} converted to Catholicism in 1950
• Achille Fould (1800–1867), financier{{Cite web|url=https://androom.home.xs4all.nl/index.htm|title=The Androom Archives|website=androom.home.xs4all.nl}}
• Maurice Girodias (1919–1990), founder of Olympia Press (half Jewish){{cite web|url=http://www.reading.ac.uk/library/colls/special/girodias.html |accessdate=10 February 2007 }}
• Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896), bankerOxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His grandfather Jacob had established the family as one of the first Jewish families to acquire great wealth and social acceptability in Bavaria ... His mother came from an Orthodox Frankfurt family and ensured that the children were properly instructed in Jewish matters ... he moved to Paris ... He was a well-known and ubiquitous member of the smart set in Paris"
• Philippe Kahn (born 1952), founder of Borland{{cite web|title=Fullpower Technologies, Inc. Philippe Kahn's Weblog Archives: 1996-1998|url=http://www.fullpower.com/?Page=Vision&Side=Blog&View=1996-1998&ID=1996-February-22|publisher=Fullpower Technologies, Inc.|accessdate=11 February 2012}}{{cite book|author=Harry Henderson|title=A to Z of computer scientists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pNmm_Axdor8C&pg=PA127|accessdate=14 January 2012|year=2003|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-4531-0|page=127}}{{cite news|last=Lewis|first=Peter H.|title=The Executive Computer; Philippe Kahn of Borland, in His Own Words|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/18/business/the-executive-computer-philippe-kahn-of-borland-in-his-own-words.html|accessdate=16 January 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=18 August 1991}}{{cite news|last=Parks|first=Bob|title=The Big Picture|work=Wired Magazine|date=October 2000|url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/kahn.html|accessdate=7 February 2012}}
• Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (1932–2016), owner of Louis-Dreyfus & Co. (half Jewish){{cite web|url=http://www.superiorpics.com/julia_louis_dreyfus/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203071448/http://www.superiorpics.com/julia_louis_dreyfus/|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 February 2013|title=The Julia Louis-Dreyfus Picture Pages}}
• Michel Adam Lisowski (born 1950), Polish-born founder and president of Fashion TV{{Cite web|url=http://www.col.fr/article-259.html|title=Fashion TV fait son alya en Israel|website=col.fr}}
• André Meyer (1898–1979), French-American financier{{cite journal |last1=Goodwin |first1=George M |title=A New Jewish Elite: Curators, Directors, and Benefactors of American Art Museums |journal=Modern Judaism |date=1998 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=119–152 |id={{Project MUSE|22042}} |doi=10.1093/mj/18.2.119 }}
• Emile and Isaac Péreire, bankersEncyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Pereire, Emile and Isaac"
• Rothschild banking and wine growing family of France{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12909-rothschild|title=ROTHSCHILD – JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=jewishencyclopedia.com}}

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• Sarah Abitbol (born 1975), figure skater, World Figure Skating Championship bronze{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X5WAzo00SGgC&q=jewish+%22sarah+abitbol%22 |title=A Year in Figure Skating |publisher=McClelland & Stewart |author=Beverley Smith, Dan Diamond|year=1997|isbn= 0-7710-2755-9 |accessdate=1 July 2010}}
• Gary Assous (born 1988), football player
• Jonathan Assous (born 1983), France/Israel, soccer defensive midfielder (Hapoel Ramat Gan){{cite news |first=Or |last=Spunder |script-title=he:הקשר ג'ונתן אסוס מועמד למכבי ת"א |url=http://www.one.co.il/Article/109149.html |publisher=One.co.il |date=24 January 2008 |accessdate=28 January 2008 |language=he |quote=קשרה היהודי/צרפתי של ראים מהליגה ה-2 בצרפת עשוי להגיע להתרשמות במכבי. }}
• Fabrice Benichou (born 1966), boxer, World Champion, super bantamweight{{cite web|url=https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/3260|title = Please login}}
• Cyril Benzaquen (born 1989), World Champion Kickboxing, World Champion Muay-thaï, light heavyweight{{cite web |title=Kickboxing Champions |url=https://www.iskaworldhq.com/kickboxing-champions/ |website=iskaworldhq.com |accessdate=27 July 2020}}
• Ossip Bernstein (1882–1962), Russian-born chess grandmasterEncyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Chess"
• Jean Bloch (born 1877), soccer, Olympic silver
• Ilan Boccara (born 1993), France/Netherlands, football player
• Alain Calmat (born 1940), figure skater, Olympic silver, World Championship gold, silver, two-time bronze
• François Cevert (1944–1973), racing driver (half Jewish){{cite web|url=http://www.research-racing.de/tyrrell73-3.htm|title=elf Team Tyrrell 1973|access-date=10 February 2007|archive-date=27 August 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040827190503/http://www.research-racing.de/tyrrell73-3.htm|url-status=dead}}
• Robert Cohen (1930–2022), boxer, World Champion, bantamweight{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishsports.com/jewsin/history/boxinghistory.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=29 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110921142321/http://www.jewishsports.com/jewsin/history/boxinghistory.htm |archive-date=21 September 2011 |url-status=dead}}
• Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro (born 1983), tennis player
• Steven Cohen (born 1986), football player
• Pierre Darmon (born 1934), tennis player, highest world ranking #8{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishsports.net/biopages/PierreDarmon.htm |title=Pierre Darmon |access-date=10 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010153440/http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/PierreDarmon.htm |archive-date=10 October 2015 |url-status=dead}}
• René Dreyfus (1905–1993), racing driver{{cite web |title=History of Jews in Other Sports |url=http://www.jewishsports.com/jewsin/history/a2mhistory.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010522161754/http://www.jewishsports.com/jewsin/history/a2mhistory.htm |archive-date=22 May 2001 |access-date=29 November 2018}}
• Yves Dreyfus (1931–2021), épée fencer, Olympic bronze, French champion
• Johann Fauveau (born 1982), kickboxer, World Champion, welterweight{{cite web|url=https://boxemag.com/fighters/item/johann-fauveau.html|title = FAUVEAU Johann}}
• Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi (born 1961), slalom canoer, Olympic bronze (K-1 slalom), five golds at ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships (two-time K-1, three-time K-1 team)
• Stéphane Haccoun (born 1967), boxer, featherweight, super featherweight, and junior lightweight[http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Stephane_Haccoun Stephane Haccoun]. Boxrec Boxing Encyclopaedia. 11 June 2008. Retrieved 21 June 2010.[https://www.amazon.com/dp/1155534964 Jewish Boxers: Pedro Montañez, Barney Ross, Abe Attell]. Amazon. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
• Rudy Haddad (born 1985), soccer midfielder (LB Châteauroux & U21 national team){{cite news |script-title=he:דיווחים בצרפת: מכבי ת"א מעוניינת ברודי חדד |url=http://www.one.co.il/cat/articles/article.aspx?id=94947&bz=8 |publisher=One.co.il |date=7 July 2007 |accessdate=7 July 2007 |language=he |quote=האם הקשר היהודי, רודי חדד, בדרך למכבי תל-אביב? }}
• Alphonse Halimi (1932–2006), boxer, World Champion, bantamweight{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AlphonseHalimi.htm|title=Alphonse Halimi|website=jewishsports.net}}
• Maurice Herzog (1919–2012), mountaineer; first 8000 m; mountain Annapurna (1950); later a politicianJewish Chronicle, 30 November 1962 p.1
• Alexandre Lippmann (1881–1960), épée fencer, two-time Olympic champion, two-time silver, bronze
• Armand Mouyal (1925–1988), épée fencer, Olympic bronze, world champion
• Alfred "Artem" Nakache (1915–1983), swimmer; world record (200-m breaststroke), one-third of French two-time world record (3x100 relay team); imprisoned by Nazis in Auschwitz, where his wife and daughter were killed
• Claude Netter (1924–2007), foil fencer, Olympic champion, silver
• Jacques Ochs (1883–1971), French-born Belgian épée, saber, and foil fencer, Olympic champion
• Kevin Pariente (born 1987), football player
• Maxime Partouche (born 1990), football player
• Victor Perez (1911–1945), Tunisian-French boxer, World Champion, flyweight; murdered in the Holocaust
• François Rozenthal (born 1975), ice hockey, France national team; brother of Maurice Rozenthal{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC|author= Bob Wechsler |isbn=978-1-60280-013-7|title=Day by day in Jewish Sports History |publisher=KTAV Publishing House|year= 2008|accessdate=25 May 2010}}
• Maurice Rozenthal (born 1975), ice hockey, right wing, France national team
• Eric Sitruk (born 1978), football player
• Jean Stern (1875–1962), épée fencer, Olympic champion
• Daniel Wildenstein (1917–2001), racehorse ownerEncyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Wildenstein"
• Mickaël Madar (1968–), French former professional footballer

• Abraham of Aragon, Jewish physician specializing in diseases of the eye
• Bonet de Lattes (by 1450–after 1514), astrologer and papal physician
• Ilan Halimi (1982–2006), salesman; kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by an anti-semitic gang mistaking him for a wealthy man{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3708128,00.html|title=Suspects in death of French Jew face trial|newspaper=Ynetnews|date=29 April 2009}}

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