This is a list of translators who have translated literature or non-fiction works into the French language.

Translators

• Étienne Aignan
• Jacques Amyot – produced a famous version of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, later rendered into English by Sir Thomas North
• E. S. Ariel – translator of the Kural
• Charles Baudelaire – produced a famous and influential translation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe
• Louise Swanton Belloc – translator of English literature and memoirs
• Yves Bonnefoy – noted contemporary translator, particularly of English poetry
• Rose Celli – translated English works including Not So Quiet by Evadne Price
• Chateaubriand – translator of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost into French prose
• Joséphine Colomb – translator of works from Italian
• Marguerite de Cambis – translator of works from Italian
• Marie De Cotteblanche (c. 1520 – c. 1584) – translator of works from Spanish
• Anne-Charlotte de Crussol de Florensac – translator of works by Alexander Pope and James Macpherson
• Anne Dacier – translator of classical Greek works
• Alain Daniélou – translator of the Kural, Silappathikaram , Manimekalai and other works
• Augustine De Rothmaler – translator of Johannes V. Jensen's Histoires du Himmerland
• Gnanou Diagou – translator of the Kural
• Adélaïde Dufrénoy – translator of classical poets Virgil and Horace from Latin
• John Durel – translator of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer
• Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès – translator of travel and geography works, and Fantasmagoriana
• Antoine Galland – translator of the first European edition of the Arabian Nights
• François Gros – translator of the Paripatal (part of the Eight Anthologies)
• Jean Hyppolite – translator of Hegel who popularized his work
• Louis Jacolliot – translator of the Kural
• Georges Jean-Aubry
• Pierre-Eugène Lamairesse – translator of the Kural, Kamasutra and other Indian works
• Marie Léra – translator of Brewster's Millions by George Barr McCutcheon
• Leconte de Lisle – translator of classical Greek authors
• Jean Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune – translator of medical and philological works
• Stéphane Mallarmé – translator of the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe
• J. C. Mardrus – translator of the Arabian Nights
• Lucie Paul-Margueritte – translator of Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Nadine Ribault – translator of The Lagoon and Other Stories by Janet Frame
• William Woodville Rockhill – translator of the Tibetan version of the Udanavarga by the Sarvāstivādins
• Madeleine Rolland, translator of Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• Danica Seleskovitch – conference translator; founder of the Interpretive Theory of Translation
• Boris Vian – translator of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler and The World of Null-A by A. E. van Vogt
• Martina Wachendorff – translator from German and Hungarian