17 Members of the French School at Athens

Edmond François Valentin About was a French novelist, publicist and journalist.

Charles Marie Adolphe Louis Bayet was a French historian, who was a specialist in Byzantine art.

Victor Bérard was a French diplomat and politician.

Alexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand was a French archaeologist born in Rennes.

Jean Bingen was a Belgian papyrologist and epigrapher, specialized in Greek and Roman history and civilizations, especially ancient Egypt, economic history of Ptolemaic Egypt, Greek papyrology and epigraphy, Greek and Roman archaeology, Greek and Latin epigraphy, Greek (Thorikos) and Roman numismatics, Greek philology and literature (Menander).

Fernand Henri Fabien Courby was a French archaeologist and Hellenist, a specialist of ancient Greece, a member of the French School at Athens, and professor at the Faculté des lettres of the University of Lyon.

Pierre Jérôme Honoré Daumet was a French architect.

Charles Pierre Gaston Napoléon Deschamps was a French archaeologist, writer and journalist.

Charles Diehl was a French historian born in Strasbourg. He was a leading authority on Byzantine art and history.

Jean-Yves Empereur is a French archeologist. He studied classic literature in the University Paris IV Sorbonne.

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges was a French historian. Joseph McCarthy argues that his first great book, The Ancient City (1864), was based on his in-depth knowledge of the primary Greek and Latin texts. The book argued that:Religion was the sole factor in the evolution of ancient Greece and Rome, the bonding of family and state was the work of religion, that because of ancestor worship the family, drawn together by the need to engage in the ancestral cults, became the basic unit of ancient societies, expanding to the gens, the Greek phratry, the Roman tribe, to the patrician city state, and that decline in religious belief and authority in the moral crisis provoked by Roman wealth and expansion doomed the republic and resulted in the triumph of Christianity and the death of the ancient city state.

Maurice Holleaux was a 19th–20th-century French historian, archaeologist and epigrapher, a specialist of Ancient Greece.

Jean Théophile Homolle was a French archaeologist and classical philologist.

Paul Jamot was a French painter, art critic and museum curator.

Salomon Reinach was a French archaeologist and religious historian.

Othon Riemann was a French classical philologist and archaeologist.

Paul Vidal de La Blache was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics. He conceived the idea of genre de vie, which is the belief that the lifestyle of a particular region reflects the economic, social, ideological and psychological identities imprinted on the landscape.