Berthe Auroy: Retired Parisian schoolteacher
Simone de Beauvoir: Novelist and essayist
Hélène Berr: Jewish teenager
Brassaï: Photographer
Jean Bruller (aka Vercors): Author and résistant
Albert Camus: Author and clandestine editor
Jacques Chirac: Fifth president of the French Fifth Republic, 1995–2007
Jean Cocteau: Poet, dramatist, and filmmaker
Colette: Novelist and journalist
Marguerite Duras: Writer and résistante
Charles de Gaulle: Leader of the Free French; first president of the Fifth Republic
Benoîte and Flora Groult: Novelists and journalists; sisters
Jean Guéhenno: Lycée instructor; diarist
François Hollande: Seventh president of the French Fifth Republic, 2012–
Dominique Jamet: Commentator who writes about his youth in occupied Paris
Vivienne Jamet: Bordello madam; no relation to Dominique
Maurice Jouhandeau: Pro-Vichy author and professor
Sarah Kofman: Philosopher and memoirist
Roger Langeron: Prefect of Paris police when Germans arrived
Pierre Laval: Two-time president of Council of Ministers under Pétain
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque: Commanded Deuxième Division Blindée (Second Armored Division), which helped liberate Paris
Jacques Lusseyran: Blind teenager who ran one of the largest resistance groups
Missak Manouchian: Resistance leader; born in Armenia
François Mitterrand: Fourth president of the French Fifth Republic (1981–95), early member of Vichy government and later a résistant
Guy Môquet: Teenage résistant
Philippe Pétain: President of the État français (Vichy); hero of Verdun (World War I)
Georges Pompidou: Second president of the French Fifth Republic (1969–1974)
Henri Rol-Tanguy: Communist and leader of the Free French Forces at the Liberation
Nicolas Sarkozy: Sixth president of the French Fifth Republic (2007–12)
Jean-Paul Sartre: Philosopher
Liliane Schroeder: Parisian memoirist
Françoise Siefridt: Parisian teenager
Jean Texcier: Journalist
Jacques Yonnet: Writer and résistant
André Zucca: Photographer
Otto Abetz: Third Reich’s ambassador to France
Arno Breker: Sculptor
Dietrich von Choltitz: Commander of Paris at the Liberation
Joseph Goebbels: Head of Reich’s Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
Hermann Göring: Head of the Luftwaffe; heir apparent to Hitler
Felix Hartlaub: Historian and soldier assigned to Paris
Gerhard Heller: Propaganda bureaucrat in Paris
Adolf Hitler: Tourist
Ernst Jünger: Novelist and aide-de-camp to military administrator of Paris
Friedrich Sieburg: Author of Gott in Frankreich? (To Live Like God in France)
Albert Speer: Hitler’s architect and city planner
Hans Speidel: Chief of staff to general commanding German troops in France
Josephine Baker: American entertainer in Paris; member of the Resistance
Jacques Biélinky: Russian-Jewish journalist
Dora Bruder: Immigrant Jewish teenager and runaway
William Bullitt: American ambassador to France at time of Occupation
Edmond Dubois: Swiss journalist; visited Paris often during the Occupation
Hélène Elek: Hungarian-born mother of Thomas Elek
Thomas Elek: Teenage résistant and member of the Manouchian Group
Janet Flanner: Columnist for The New Yorker; Genêt was her pseudonym
Albert Grunberg: Jewish barber who hid in an attic room on the Left Bank of Paris for two years
Ernest Hemingway: American novelist
A. J. Liebling: American journalist
Irène Némirovsky: Russian novelist and Jewish; wrote in French; deported from France and died in concentration camp
Raoul Nordling: Swedish diplomat in Paris during the Liberation
Pablo Picasso: Spanish artist
Gertrude Stein: American novelist and essayist