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Adèle Foucher was the wife of French writer Victor Hugo, with whom she was acquainted from childhood. Her affair with the critic Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve became the raw material for Sainte-Beuve's 1834 novel, Volupté. Adèle wrote a biography of her husband, published in 1863.

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Adèle Hugo was the fifth and youngest child of French writer Victor Hugo. She is remembered for developing schizophrenia as a young woman, which led to a romantic obsession with an Irish military officer who rejected her. Her story has been retold in film and books, such as The Story of Adèle H.

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Charles-Victor Hugo was a French journalist, photographer, the second son of French novelist Victor Hugo and his wife Adèle Foucher.

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François-Victor Hugo was the fourth of five children of French novelist Victor Hugo and his wife Adèle Foucher. François-Victor is best known for his translations of the works of William Shakespeare into French, which were published in 18 volumes between 1859 and 1866.

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Jean Hugo was a painter, illustrator, theatre designer and author. He was born in Paris and died in his home at the Mas de Fourques, near Lunel, France. Brought up in a lively artistic environment, he began teaching himself drawing and painting and wrote essays and poetry from a very early age. His artistic career spans the 20th century, from his early sketches of the First World War, through the creative ferment of the Parisian interwar years, and up to his death in 1984. He was part of a number of artistic circles that included Jean Cocteau, Raymond Radiguet, Pablo Picasso, Georges Auric, Erik Satie, Blaise Cendrars, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Paul Eluard, Francis Poulenc, Charles Dullin, Louis Jouvet, Colette, Marcel Proust, Jacques Maritain, Max Jacob, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Marie Bell, Louise de Vilmorin, Cecil Beaton and many others.

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Léopoldine Clémence Adèle Lucie Jeanne Hugo was a Belgian-born French heiress and socialite during La Belle Époque. She was a granddaughter of French novelist, poet, and politician Victor Hugo. As an adult, Hugo was often written about in the press due to her status in Parisian high society and her connections to other members of the French elite.

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Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo was a French general in the Napoleonic Wars. He was the father of Victor Hugo.

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Julie Hugo was a 19th-century French painter.

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Léopoldine Cécile Marie-Pierre Catherine Hugo; 28 August 1824 – 4 September 1843) was the eldest daughter of Victor Hugo and Adèle Foucher.

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Valentine Hugo (1887–1968) was a French artist and writer. She was born Valentine Marie Augustine Gross, only daughter to Auguste Gross and Zélie Démelin, in Boulogne-sur-Mer. She is best known for her work with the Russian ballet and with the French Surrealists. Hugo died in Paris.

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Pauline Ménard-Dorian was a French woman of letters and a literary salon hostess of La Belle Époque.

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Sophie Françoise Trebuchet was a French painter and the mother of Victor Hugo. She was born on June 19, 1772 in Nantes and died on June 27, 1821 in Paris, France.