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Émile Auguste Forgue (29 December 1860 – 1 February 1943) was a French surgeon. In 1893 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Montpellier with the thesis Distribution des racines motrices dans les muscles des membres. In 1896 he obtained his agrégation for surgery, and later on, became a professor of operative medicine (1891–1930) and clinical surgery (from 1895) at Montpellier. In 1899 he became a correspondent member of the Académie de Médecine. In 1924 he was appointed director of the Centre anticancéreux de Montpellier.
Charles Joseph Frédéric Carron du Villards (1801–1860) was a French ophthalmologist whose 1838 book Guide pratique pour l'étude et le traitement des maladies des yeux was an important early text in the field. Although Charles Michel is frequently credited with inventing electrology for use in trichiasis, Carron du Villards has sometimes been credited with the invention. Carron du Villards CGF. Guide pratique pour l'étude et le traitement des maladies des yeux Cosson for Société Encyclographique des Sciences
Xavier Maniguet (17 October 1946 – 22 March 2009) was a French medical writer, doctor and intelligence service (DGSE) agent. Along with Roland Verge, Gerald Andries and Jean-Michel Barcelo, Maniguet bombed the Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand's Auckland Harbour on 10 July 1985. A specialist in aviation medicine, hyperbaric medicine and sports medicine, he died on 23 March 2009 at the controls of a light plane on the glacier near St. Sorlin St. Sorlin d'Arves, after taking off from the airfield in Meribel (France).