Cartoonist Georges Wolinski, killed in 2015 in the attack against Charlie Hebdo
Globally-recognised artists such as Pablo Picasso, Victor Vasarely, Salvador Dali and Joan Miro
Figures who fought for France, including:
Aviator Roland Garros
Romanian and German Resistance figures Olga Bancic and Dora Schaul
Ouassini Bouarfa, an Algerian member of the Kieffer commando - the only French unit to have taken part in the Normandy Landings
Senegalese rifleman Bakary Diallo, the first French-speaking African to have testified about his experience during the First World War
Konrad Piotr Rygiel, Mohammed El Gharrafi, Christophe Barek-Deligny and Facrou Housseini, who all died in Afghanistan in 2011.