The following is a chronological list of French architects. Some of their major architectural works are listed after each name.
Étienne de Bonneuil (late 13th century)
Jean de Chelles (13th century)
Pierre de Montreuil ( - 1266)
Matthias of Arras (? - 1352)
Villard de Honnecourt (14th century) – architecture plans
Pierre d'Angicourt (late 13th century)
Pierre de Chaule (late 13th century)
Philibert Delorme (or De L'Orme) (1510/1515 - 1570)
Pierre Lescot (1515–1578)
Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau ( - 1590)
Jacques Androuet II du Cerceau ( - 1614)
Salomon de Brosse (1575–1626)
Jean Androuet du Cerceau (1585–1649)
Jacques Lemercier (1585–1654) – active for Richelieu
François Mansart (1598–1666)
Louis Le Vau (1612–1670)
Claude Perrault (1613–1688) – helped to establish French classicism
Libéral Bruant (c. 1636 - 1697)
Jules Hardouin Mansart (Jules Hardouin; he adopted the name Mansart in 1668) (1646–1708) – responsible for the massive expansion of the palace of Versailles into a permanent royal residence.
Pierre Lassurance (1655–1724)
Robert de Cotte (1656–1735) brother-in-law of J.H. Mansart, whom he assisted on numerous projects
Germain Boffrand (1667–1754)
Pierre-Alexis Delamair (1675/6–1745)
Jean Aubert (c. 1680–1741)
Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698–1782) – responsible for rococo constructions at Versailles
Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780)
Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux (1727–1793)
Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799)
Joseph Brousseau (1733–1797)
Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806) – famous for his mathematical neoclassicism.
Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757–1826)
Henri Labrouste (1801–1875) – famous for his use of steel
Victor Baltard (1805–1874) – famous for his use of steel and glass
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) – important theoretician of the 19th-century Gothic revival
Charles Garnier (1825–1898) – celebrated architect of the Second Empire
Clair Tisseur (1827–1896), Romanesque Revival architect and designer
Frantz Jourdain (1847–1935) – Art Nouveau architect and theorist
Auguste Louzier Sainte-Anne (1848-1925) – Chief architect of historic monuments
Eugène Vallin (1856–1922) – Art nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy
Lucien Weissenburger (1860–1929) – Art nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy
Hector Guimard (1867–1942) – Art nouveau architect and designer
Émile André (1871–1933) – Art nouveau architect, urbanist and artist, member of the École de Nancy
Auguste Perret (1874–1954) and his brothers Claude and Gustave – important for the first use of reinforced concrete
Paul Tournon (1881–1964)
Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886–1945) – modernist architect influenced by Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) (1887–1965)
Léon Azéma (1888–1978) – appointed Architect of the City of Paris in 1928
Eugène Beaudouin (1898–1983) – influential use of prefabricated elements
Jean Prouvé (1901–1984) – international style/Bauhaus-inspired
François Spoerry (1912–1999)
Christian de Portzamparc (born 1944)
Henry Bernard (1912–94)
Pascale Guédot (born 1960)
Jean Nouvel (born 1945)
Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986)
Florent Nédélec, DPLG