List of people associated with the French Revolution

This is a partial list of people involved in the French Revolution. It includes both supporters and opponents of the revolution. It attempts to give identifying facts and ultimate fates. As a rule, the best place to clarify complexities is in the article on the individual in question.

• Charles Pierre François Augereau – officer throughout the Revolutionary era and Empire, general, later Marshal of France.
• François-Noël Babeuf – proto-socialist, guillotined in 1797 after a coup attempt
• Jean Sylvain Bailly – leader of the Third Estate, administered the Tennis Court Oath, made mayor of Paris after the storming of the Bastille, guillotined during the Reign of Terror
• Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras – Montagnard, then a Thermidorian, finally the main executive leader during the Directory regime
• Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave – constitutional monarchist / Feuillant (faction)
• François Barthélemy – briefly a Director, exiled to French Guiana, returned during the Empire
• Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte – General, later king of Sweden
• Louis Alexandre Berthier – General, effectively Napoleon Bonaparte's chief of staff
• Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne – on Committee of Public Safety, more radical Robespierre, but survived on 9 Thermidor; was later deported to French Guiana
• Louis de Breteuil – royalist, briefly supplanted Necker in the royal cabinet
• Cardinal Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne – royalist, President of the Royal Council of Finances shortly before the Revolution
• Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville – Girondist (faction), (Girondists are sometimes designated "Brissotins"), guillotined
• Guillaume Marie Anne Brune – political journalist, Jacobin, friend of Georges Danton. Went directly from civilian life to being a general; later marshal of France. Murdered by royalists during the White Terror
• Edmund Burke – English philosopher and politician, author of a famous 1790 polemic against the Revolution
• Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès – a moderate throughout the Revolutionary era, Second Consul under Bonaparte, chief contributor to the Napoleonic Code
• Pierre Joseph Cambon – a rather independent member of the Committee of Public Safety
• Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot – mathematician, physicist, on Committee of Public Safety, turned against Robespierre on 9 Thermidor, a Director, ousted in 18 Fructidor coup
• Jacques Antoine Marie Cazalès – royalist
• François-René de Chateaubriand – royalist
• Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, like Jacques Hébert a devotee of the Cult of Reason, guillotined with Hébert
• André Chénier, poet, guillotined
• Étienne Clavière – Girondist (faction), finance minister in 1792, died in prison 1793
• Jean Marie Collot d'Herbois – actor, part of the insurrectionary Paris Commune (French Revolution), belated Montagnard (faction), on Committee of Public Safety. After the Thermidorian Reaction, was deported to French Guiana, where he died
• Marquis de Condorcet – philosopher, mathematician, loosely associated with the Girondist faction, probably suicide in prison.
• Charlotte Corday – assassin of Marat
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb – major contributor to the metric system
• Georges Couthon – Montagnard (faction), on Committee of Public Safety, guillotined after 9 Thermidor
• Georges Danton – writer, Jacobin but neither a Girondist nor a Montagnard (factions), on Committee of Public Safety, guillotined 3 months before Robespierre
• Pierre Claude François Daunou – historian, loosely associated with the Girondist faction, survived to serve under the Directory and Empire as well.
• Jacques Louis David – painter, Montagnard (faction), on Committee of General Security, fell from power after 9 Thermidor but survived
• Camille Desmoulins – journalist, Montagnard (faction), close to Danton and shared in his downfall, guillotined
• Denis Diderot – Enlightenment author and atheist philosopher, influential on the Revolution
• Jacques François Dugommier – General
• Charles François Dumouriez – General, sometime Girondist (faction), foreign minister in the Girondist cabinet, eventually defected to the Austrians
• Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours – constitutional monarchist, president of the National Constituent Assembly, eventual exile
• Fabre d'Églantine – author of the names and months of the French Revolutionary Calendar
• Joseph Fesch – Roman Catholic cardinal, closely associated with Napoleon Bonaparte
• Henri Grégoire – revolutionary priest, supporter of Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
• Jacques Hébert – polemical writer, editor of Le Père Duchesne , guillotined late in Reign of Terror for advocating yet more radical measures than those in place
• Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles – on Committee of Public Safety, revised Condorcet's Constitution of 1793, close to Danton and shared in his downfall, guillotined
• Lazare Hoche – ascended from corporal to general in the early years of the Revolution, died in 1797 of tuberculosis
• Joséphine de Beauharnais – Empress, wife of Napoleon
• François Christophe Kellermann – longtime officer, became general early in the Revolution, hero of Valmy, marshal of France, employed in the administration of the army under the Empire
• Jean-Baptiste Kléber – Revolutionary general, assassinated in Cairo 1800
• Pierre Choderlos de Laclos – Bonapartist general, author of Les Liaisons dangereuses
• Lafayette – general, constitutional monarchist / Feuillant (faction)
• Jean Lannes – rose through the ranks to become general, marshal of France. Close to Napoleon Bonaparte, killed during the campaign of 1809
• Antoine Lavoisier – a major contributor to the metric system; guillotined for his role as a tax collector.
• Charles Leclerc – General, close to Napoleon Bonaparte, served in Haiti
• Louis LePeletier de Saint Fargeau – ex-noble, voted for the execution of Louis XVI, assassinated shortly thereafter.
• Jacques-Donatien Le Ray – a key figure in engineering French support for the American Revolution, but an émigré during the French Revolution.
• Robert Lindet – a rather independent member of the Committee of Public Safety, but opposed the Girondist faction
• Louis XVI of France – king at the start of the Revolution, deposed, guillotined
• Louis XVII of France – the "lost dauphin"
• François-Séverin Marceau – General
• Marie Antoinette – queen at the start of the Revolution, deposed, guillotined
• Jean-Paul Marat – radical journalist, Montagnard (faction), assassinated by Charlotte Corday
• Jean-Sifrein Maury – royalist
• Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes – while not particularly a royalist, was the former king's defense counsel at his trial.
• Philippe-Antoine Merlin – a Director, later a Bonapartist
• Honoré Mirabeau – Although noble, entered the Estates-General of 1789 as a representative of the Third Estate and was a major figure until his 1791 death from natural causes
• Montesquieu – Enlightenment political philosopher, influential on the Revolution
• Jean Victor Marie Moreau – general, with a complicated career full of intrigues
• Napoleon Bonaparte – General, then First Consul, then Emperor
• Jacques Necker – liberal royalist, Director-General of Finances at start of Revolution
• Olympe de Gouges – writer, advocate of gender equality, guillotined.
• Thomas Paine – American revolutionary writer, imprisoned and sentenced to death during Reign of Terror, but survived
• Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve – insurrectionary mayor of Paris, on the firstCommittee of Public Safety, loosely connected to the Girondist faction, ultimately a suicide during the Reign of Terror
• Pierre Phélippeaux – Montagnard (faction)
• Philippe-Egalité – Duke of Orleans, constitutional monarchist, voted for the execution of his own cousinLouis XVI; guillotined on (probably false) suspicions of intriguing
• Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois (a.k.a. Prieur de la Côte-d'Or) – engineer, on Committee of Public Safety, close to Carnot, turned against Robespierre on 9 Thermidor, under the Directory he sat in the Council of Five Hundred
• Pierre Louis Prieur (a.k.a. Prieur de la Marne) – on Committee of Public Safety
• Maximilien Robespierre – Montagnard (faction), on Committee of Public Safety, prominent in Reign of Terror, guillotined after 9 Thermidor.
• Jean Marie Roland de la Platière – Girondist (faction), interior minister in 1792, committed suicide in 1793
• Madame Roland (born Manon Jeanne Philpon) – wife of Jean Marie Roland, author of many writings under his name, salonière, guillotined
• Gilbert Romme
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Enlightenment political philosopher, influential on the Revolution
• Jacques Roux – Hebertist
• Marquis de Sade – erotic and philosophic author
• Jean Bon Saint-André – Montagnard (faction), on Committee of Public Safety, later a naval officer
• Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just – on Committee of Public Safety – Montagnard (faction), on Committee of Public Safety, close to Robespierre, prominent in Reign of Terror, guillotined after 9 Thermidor
• Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan, princesse de Lamballe – victim of the September Massacres who was raped, dismembered and beheaded
• Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès – Although a member of the clergy, entered the Estates-General of 1789 as a representative of the Third Estate. Author of pamphlet "What is the Third Estate?". Instigated the coup of 18 Brumaire, but was outflanked by Napoleon Bonaparte
• Madame de Staël – salonière, writer, daughter of Jacques Necker
• Jean Lambert Tallien – Montagnard, then a leading Thermidorian
• Madame Tallien – "Notre-Dame de Thermidor", she played interesting roles in different stages of the Revolution
• Talleyrand – clergyman and diplomat; first a royalist, then one of the authors of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and a constitutional bishop, eventually Foreign Minister under Napoleon.
• Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target – lawyer, generally associated with Directory-era politics.
• Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud – Girondist (faction) leader, guillotined.
• Louis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux – general, died in battle 1800
• Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac – Girondist, then a Montagnard (factions), on Committee of Public Safety, drew up the 9 Thermidor report outlawing Robespierre; later a Bonapartist.
• Voltaire — Enlightenment author, deist/agnostic philosopher, influential on the Revolution

See also

• For groups and factions, see Glossary of the French Revolution
• List of Historians of the French Revolution