1. Étienne Eustache Bruix (Unknow)

French Admiral

Étienne Eustache Bruix was a French Navy admiral.

2. Pierre François Étienne Bouvet de Maisonneuve (1775)

French Admiral

Pierre-François-Henri-Étienne Bouvet de Maisonneuve was a French Navy officer and privateer. Born to a Navy captain Bouvet started sailing at the age of 11 He served under his father on...

3. Jacques Lanxade (1934)

French Admiral

Jacques Lanxade is a French admiral and former navy chief and co-author of a recent proposed reform of NATO. He was a private chief of staff of François Mitterrand President...

4. Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume (1755)

French Admiral

Count Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume was a French Navy officer and Vice-admiral. Ganteaume started sailing on Indiamen before serving during the American War of Independence in the fleets of Admiral...

5. Ferdinand-Alphonse Hamelin (1796)

French Admiral

-Alphonse Hamelin French admiral was born in Pont-l'Évêque Normandy. He went to sea in 1806 as cabin boy with his uncle Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin on the frigate Vénus. The...

6. Bernard Jauréguiberry (1815)

French Admiral

Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry was a French admiral and statesman.

7. Émile Paul Amable Guépratte (1856)

French Admiral

Émile Paul Aimable Guépratte was a French admiral. Guépratte was born in Granville to a family of naval officers. He studied at the Lycée impérial in Brest from 1868 and...

8. François Thomas Tréhouart (1798)

French Admiral

çois Thomas Tréhouart was a French admiral notable as the last holder to date of the rank of Admiral of France to which he was appointed on 20 February 1869....

9. Pierre Roch Jurien de La Gravière (1772)

French Admiral

Pierre Roch Jurien de La Gravière was a French naval officer.

10. Louis-Armand de La Poype de Vertrieu (1721)

French Admiral

Louis-Armand de La Poype de Vertrieu was a French Navy officer and statesman.

11. Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez (1808)

French Admiral

Louis Edouard Bouët-Willaumez was a French admiral. He was born Louis Edouard Bouët the son of a businessman in Maison-Lafitte near Paris. Having joined the French Navy in 1824 he...

12. Maxime Julien Émeriau de Beauverger (1762)

French Admiral

Maxime Julien Émeriau de Beauverger was a French Navy officer and admiral.

13. Georges René Le Peley de Pléville (1726)

French Admiral

Georges-René Le Pelley de Pléville was the governor of the port of Marseilles a French admiral minister for the navy and the colonies from 15 July 1797 to 27 April...

14. Pierre César Charles de Sercey (1753)

French Admiral

Pierre César Charles de Sercey was a French admiral most notable for commanding French naval forces in the Indian Ocean from 1796 to 1800. His name is engraved on the...

15. Charles Rigault de Genouilly (1807)

French Admiral

Pierre-Louis-Charles Rigault de Genouilly was a nineteenth-century French admiral. He fought with distinction in the Crimean War and the Second Opium War but is chiefly remembered today for his command...

16. Charles Baudin (1784)

French Admiral

Charles Baudin was a French admiral whose naval service extended from the First Empire through the early days of the Second Empire. From 1800 Baudin served as a midshipman on...

17. François Darlan (1881)

French Admiral

Jean Louis Xavier François Darlan was a French Admiral and political figure. He was Admiral of the Fleet and commander in chief of the French Navy in 1939 at the...

18. Théophile Aube (1826)

French Admiral

Hyacinthe Laurent Théophile Aube was a French admiral who held several important governmental positions during the Third Republic. Aube served as Governor of Martinique between 1879 and 1881 and as...

19. Louis Henri de Gueydon (Unknow)

French Admiral

Louis Henri comte de Gueydon was a vice admiral in the French Navy and the first governor of Algeria under the Third Republic.

20. Emmanuel Halgan (1771)

French Admiral

Emmanuel Halgan was a French Navy officer and admiral.

21. Jean-Baptiste Grivel (1778)

French Admiral

Jean-Baptiste Grivel was a French naval officer and naval writer.

22. Louis Léon Jacob (1768)

French Admiral

Louis Léon Jacob was a French admiral. He was born at Tonnay Charente was educated at Rochefort and volunteered from a clerkship in the marine bureau to the navy. He...

23. Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (1750)

French Admiral

Louis-Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse was a French admiral. After serving in the Indies under Suffren Villaret rose in rank during the early stages of the French Revolution. He was in...

24. Guy-Victor Duperré (1775)

French Admiral

Guy-Victor Duperré was a French admiral Peer of France and thrice Naval Minister. Duperré commanded the fleet at the Battle of Grand Port where he was wounded. From 1812 to...

25. Henri de Rigny (1782)

French Admiral

Marie Henri Daniel Gauthier comte de Rigny was the commander of the French squadron at the Battle of Navarino in the Greek War of Independence.

26. Léonard Charner (1797)

French Admiral

Léonard Victor Joseph Charner was an Admiral of the French Navy.

27. Laurent Jean François Truguet (1752)

French Admiral

Laurent Truguet was a French admiral.

28. Jean-Baptiste Philibert Willaumez (1763)

French Admiral

Jean-Baptiste Philibert Willaumez was a French sailor Navy officer and admiral of the First French Empire. Willaumez joined the French Navy at the age of 14 and proved a competent...

29. Joseph Romain-Desfossés (1798)

French Admiral

Joseph Romain-Desfossés was a French naval officer and politician.

30. Julien Cosmao (1761)

French Admiral

Julien Marie Cosmao-Kerjulien was a French Navy officer admiral and hero of the Battle of Trafalgar.

31. Justin Bonaventure Morard de Galles (1741)

French Admiral

Justin-Bonaventure Morard de Galles was a French admiral.

32. Alain Oudot de Dainville (1947)

French Admiral

Admiral Alain Oudot de Dainville ) is a French Navy officer. He was Chief of Staff of the French Navy from 2005 to 2008.