French Presidents and Prime Ministers
This list is comprised of French Presidents and Prime Ministers. The French Republic was first formed in 1792 after the French Revolution, though the office of President did not exist until the creation of the Second Republic in 1848. The Third (1870-1940), Fourth (1947-1959) and Fifth (1959-present) Republics have also been led by presidents.
The modern office of Prime Minister was created in 1815 (in French the title was Président du Conseil des Ministres until 1959, when it became Premier ministre). Unlike some other European democracies with both a president and a prime minister, the French Prime Minister has less actual power compared to the President.
| Name | Years | Type | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adolphe Thiers | 1836; 1840; 1871-1873 | prime minister; president | (Marie, Joseph, Louis) |  |
| Alain Juppé | 1995-1997 | prime minister | (Marie) | |
| Alain Poher | 1969; 1974 | president | (Émile, Louis, Marie) | |
| Albert de Broglie | 1873-1874; 1877 | prime minister | (Jacques, Victor) | |
| Albert François Lebrun | 1932-1940 | president | | |
| Albert Sarraut | 1933; 1936 | prime minister | (Pierre) | |
| Alexandre Millerand | 1920; 1920-1924 | prime minister; president | | |
| Alexandre Ribot | 1892-1893; 1895; 1914; 1917 | prime minister | (Félix, Joseph) | |
| Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul | 1849-1851 | prime minister | | |
| André Marie | 1948 | prime minister | | |
| André Tardieu | 1929-1930; 1930; 1932 | prime minister | (Pierre, Gabriel, Amédée) | |
| Antoine Pinay | 1952-1953 | prime minister | | |
| Aristide Briand | 1909-1911; 1913; 1915-1917; 1921-1922; 1925-1926; 1929 | prime minister | | |
| Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis | 1815-1818; 1820-1821 | prime minister | (Sophie, Septimanie) | |
| Armand Fallières | 1883; 1906-1913 | prime minister; president | (Clément) | |
| Bernard Cazeneuve | 2016-2017 | prime minister | (Guy, Georges) | |
| Camille Chautemps | 1930; 1933-1934; 1937-1938 | prime minister | | |
| Casimir Pierre Périer | 1831-1832 | prime minister | | |
| Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao | 1870 | prime minister | (Guillaume, Marie, Appollinaire, Antoine) | |
| Charles de Freycinet | 1879-1880; 1882; 1886; 1890-1892 | prime minister | (Louis) | |
| Charles de Gaulle | 1958-1959; 1959-1969 | prime minister; president | (André, Joseph, Marie) | |
| Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord | 1815 | prime minister | | |
| Charles Duclerc | 1882-1883 | prime minister | (Théodore, Eugène) | |
| Charles Dupuy | 1893; 1894-1895; 1898-1899 | prime minister | (Alexandre) | |
| Charles Floquet | 1888-1889 | prime minister | (Thomas) | |
| Dominique de Villepin | 2005-2007 | prime minister | (Marie, François, René) | |
| Edgar Faure | 1952; 1955-1956 | prime minister | | |
| Édith Cresson | 1991-1992 | prime minister | | |
| Édouard Balladur | 1993-1995 | prime minister | | |
| Édouard Daladier | 1933; 1934; 1938-1940 | prime minister | | |
| Édouard Herriot | 1924-1925; 1926; 1932 | prime minister | (Marie) | |
| Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise | 1834-1835 | prime minister | (Adolphe, Casimir, Joseph) | |
| Édouard Philippe | 2017-2020 | prime minister | (Charles) | |
| Élie, duc Decazes | 1819-1820 | prime minister | | |
| Élisabeth Borne | 2022-2024 | prime minister | | |
| Émile Combes | 1902-1905 | prime minister | (Justin, Louis) | |
| Émile Loubet | 1892; 1899-1906 | prime minister; president | (François) | |
| Émile Ollivier | 1869-1870 | prime minister | (Olivier) | |
| Emmanuel Macron | 2017- | president | (Jean, Michel, Frédéric) | |
| Ernest Courtot de Cissey | 1874-1875 | prime minister | (Louis, Octave) | |
| Ernest Monis | 1911 | prime minister | (Antoine, Emmanuel) | |
| Étienne Maurice Gérard | 1834 | prime minister | | |
| Félix Faure | 1895-1899 | president | (François) | |
| Félix Gaillard | 1957-1958 | prime minister | | |
| Ferdinand Sarrien | 1906 | prime minister | (Jean, Marie) | |
| Fernand Bouisson | 1935 | prime minister | | |
| François Arago | 1848 | prime minister | (Dominique, Jean) | |
| François Bayrou | 2024- | prime minister | (René, Jean, Lucien) | |
| François Fillon | 2007-2012 | prime minister | (Charles, Armand) | |
| François Guizot | 1847-1848 | prime minister | (Pierre, Guillaume) | |
| François Hollande | 2012-2017 | president | (Gérard, Georges, Nicolas) | |
| François Mitterrand | 1981-1995 | president | (Maurice, Adrien, Marie) | |
| Frédéric François-Marsal | 1924 | prime minister | | |
| Gabriel Attal | 2024 | prime minister | (Nissim) | |
| Gaëtan de Rochebouët | 1877 | prime minister | | |
| Gaston Doumergue | 1913-1914; 1924-1931; 1934 | president; prime minister | (Pierre, Paul, Henri) | |
| Georges Bidault | 1949-1950 | prime minister | (Augustin) | |
| Georges Clemenceau | 1906-1909; 1917-1920 | prime minister | (Benjamin) | |
| Georges Leygues | 1920-1921 | prime minister | | |
| Georges Pompidou | 1962-1968; 1969-1974 | prime minister; president | (Jean, Raymond) | |
| Guy Mollet | 1956-1957 | prime minister | | |
| Henri Brisson | 1885-1886; 1898 | prime minister | (Eugène) | |
| Henri Queuille | 1948-1949; 1950; 1951 | prime minister | | |
| Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano | 1834 | prime minister | | |
| Jacques Chaban-Delmas | 1969-1972 | prime minister | | |
| Jacques Chirac | 1974-1976; 1986-1988; 1995-2007 | prime minister; president | (René) | |
| Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure | 1848 | prime minister | | |
| Jacques Laffitte | 1830-1831 | prime minister | | |
| Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles | 1818-1819 | prime minister | (Paul, Augustin) | |
| Jean-Marc Ayrault | 2012-2014 | prime minister | | |
| Jean Casimir-Perier | 1893-1894; 1894-1895 | prime minister; president | (Paul, Pierre) | |
| Jean Castex | 2020-2022 | prime minister | | |
| Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac | 1828-1829 | prime minister | (Sylvère) | |
| Jean-Pierre Raffarin | 2002-2005 | prime minister | | |
| Jean-de-Dieu Soult | 1832-1834; 1839-1840; 1840-1847 | prime minister | (Nicolas) | |
| Jean-Baptiste de Villèle | 1821-1828 | prime minister | | |
| Joseph Caillaux | 1911-1912 | prime minister | (Marie, Auguste) | |
| Joseph Laniel | 1953-1954 | prime minister | | |
| Joseph Paul-Boncour | 1932-1933 | prime minister | (Augustin, Alfred) | |
| Jules Armand Dufaure | 1871-1873; 1876; 1877-1879 | prime minister | (Stanislas) | |
| Jules Ferry | 1880-1881; 1883-1885 | prime minister | (François, Camille) | |
| Jules Grévy | 1879-1887 | president | (François, Paul) | |
| Jules Méline | 1896-1898 | prime minister | (Félix) | |
| Jules de Polignac | 1829-1830 | prime minister | | |
| Jules Simon | 1876-1877 | prime minister | (François) | |
| Laurent Fabius | 1984-1986 | prime minister | | |
| Léon Blum | 1936-1937; 1938; 1946-1947 | prime minister | (André) | |
| Léon Bourgeois | 1895-1896 | prime minister | (Victor, Auguste) | |
| Léon Faucher | 1851 | prime minister | (Léonard, Joseph) | |
| Léon Gambetta | 1881-1882 | prime minister | | |
| Lionel Jospin | 1997-2002 | prime minister | | |
| Louis Barthou | 1913 | prime minister | (Jean) | |
| Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte | 1848-1852 | president | (Charles) | |
| Louis Buffet | 1875-1876 | prime minister | (Joseph) | |
| Louis-Eugène Cavaignac | 1848 | prime minister | | |
| Louis-Mathieu Molé | 1836-1839; 1848 | prime minister | | |
| Louis-Jules Trochu | 1870-1871 | prime minister | | |
| Manuel Valls | 2014-2016 | prime minister | (Carlos) | |
| Marie François Sadi Carnot | 1887-1894 | president | | |
| Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury | 1957 | prime minister | (Jean, Marie) | |
| Maurice Couve de Murville | 1968-1969 | prime minister | | |
| Maurice Rouvier | 1887; 1905-1906 | prime minister | | |
| Michel Barnier | 2024 | prime minister | (Jean) | |
| Michel Debré | 1959-1962 | prime minister | (Jean, Pierre) | |
| Michel Rocard | 1988-1991 | prime minister | | |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | 2007-2012 | president | (Paul, Stéphane) | |
| Odilon Barrot | 1848-1849 | prime minister | (Camille, Hyacinthe) | |
| Patrice de Mac-Mahon | 1873-1879 | president | (Marie, Edme, Maurice) | |
| Paul Deschanel | 1920 | president | (Eugène, Louis) | |
| Paul Doumer | 1931-1932 | president | (Joseph, Athanase) | |
| Paul Painlevé | 1917; 1925 | prime minister | | |
| Paul Ramadier | 1947 | prime minister | | |
| Paul Reynaud | 1940 | prime minister | | |
| Philippe Pétain | 1940 | prime minister | (Henri, Benoni, Omer, Joseph) | |
| Pierre Bérégovoy | 1992-1993 | prime minister | (Eugène) | |
| Pierre-Étienne Flandin | 1934-1935; 1940-1941 | prime minister | | |
| Pierre Laval | 1931-1932; 1935-1936; 1940; 1942-1944 | prime minister | | |
| Pierre Mauroy | 1981-1984 | prime minister | | |
| Pierre Mendès France | 1954-1955 | prime minister | | |
| Pierre Messmer | 1972-1974 | prime minister | (Joseph, Auguste) | |
| Pierre Pflimlin | 1958 | prime minister | (Eugène, Jean) | |
| Pierre Tirard | 1887-1888; 1889-1890 | prime minister | (Emmanuel) | |
| Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau | 1899-1902 | prime minister | (Marie, René, Ernest) | |
| Raymond Barre | 1976-1981 | prime minister | (Octave, Joseph) | |
| Raymond Poincaré | 1912-1913; 1913-1920; 1922-1924; 1926-1929 | president; prime minister | | |
| René Coty | 1954-1959 | president | (Jules, Gustave) | |
| René Goblet | 1886-1887 | prime minister | | |
| René Mayer | 1953 | prime minister | | |
| René Pleven | 1950-1951; 1951-1952 | prime minister | | |
| René Viviani | 1914-1915 | prime minister | (Jean, Raphaël, Adrien) | |
| Robert Schuman | 1947-1948; 1948 | prime minister | (Jean, Baptiste, Nicolas) | |
| Théodore Steeg | 1930-1931 | prime minister | | |
| Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | 1974-1981 | president | (Marie, René, Georges) | |
| Victor de Broglie | 1830; 1835-1836 | prime minister | (Achille, Léonce, Charles) | |
| Vincent Auriol | 1947-1954 | president | (Jules) | |
| William Waddington | 1879 | prime minister | (Henry) | |