The Minister of Sports () is a

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in the Government of France. The position has changed names a number of times since its creation, having occasionally been discontinued or regrouped with the Minister of National Education. Since 2022

Amélie Oudéa-Castéra Amélie Oudéa-Castéra (born 9 April 1978) is a French businesswoman and former professional tennis player. She has been serving as Minister of National Education, Youth, Sports and Olympic and Paralympic Games in the government of Prime Min ...

has served Minister for Sport and the Olympic & Paralympic Games.

Officeholders

Fourth republic

Andrée Viénot Andrée Viénot (7 June 1901 – 20 October 1976) was a French politician. Biography Andrée Viénot was born as Andrée Mayrisch on 7 June 1901 in Dudelange. She studied political economy in London School of Economics. In 18 July 1929 she ...

(Under Secretary of State of Youth and Sports): 24 June 1946 - 22 January 1947 *

Pierre Bourdan Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

(Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 22 January – 22 October 1947 * André Morice (Secretary of State of Youth, Sports and Professional Education): 11 September 1948 – 11 August 1951 * Pierre Chevalier (Secretary of State of Youth, Sports and Professional Education): 11 August – 12 August 1951 * Claude Lemaître-Basset (Secretary of State of Youth, Sports and Professional Education): 12 August 1951 – 20 January 1952 * Jean Masson (Secretary of State of Youth, Sports and Professional Education): 20 January 1952 – 28 June 1953 *

René Billères René Billères (29 August 1910 in Ger, Hautes-Pyrénées – 2 October 2004 in Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées) was a French politician. Billères served as a Radical deputy for the Hautes-Pyrénées from 1946 till 1973 and Senator for the same dep ...

(Minister of National Education, Youth Affairs and Sports): 1 February 1956 – 14 May 1958

Fifth republic

Maurice Herzog Maurice André Raymond Herzog (15 January 191913 December 2012) was a French mountaineer and administrator who was born in Lyon, France. He led the 1950 French Annapurna expedition that first climbed a peak over 8000m, Annapurna, in 1950, and ...

(High-commissar of Youth and Sports) 27 September 1958 – 8 January 1966 * François Missoffe (Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 8 January 1966 – 30 May 1968 * Roland Nungesser (Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 30 May – 10 July 1968 * Jean-Pierre Soisson (Minister of Youth Affairs, Sports and of Leisure Activities): 5 April 1978 – 22 May 1981 *

André Henry André Henry (born 15 October 1934) is a French politician. He served as Minister of Free Time from 1981 to 1983, under former President François Mitterrand.Claire Frances Ullman, ''The welfare state's other crisis: explaining the new partnersh ...

(Minister of Free Time): 22 May 1981 – 22 March 1983 *

Alain Calmat Alain Calmat, (born 31 August 1940) is a French former competitive figure skater, surgeon, and politician. He is the 1964 Olympic silver medalist, the 1965 World champion, the 1962–1964 European champion, and the 1958 & 1962–1965 Fren ...

(Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 23 July 1984 – 20 March 1986 * Christian Bergelin (Secretary of State for Youth Affairs and Sports): 20 March 1986 – 13 May 1988 *

Lionel Jospin Lionel Robert Jospin (; born 12 July 1937) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002. Jospin was First Secretary of the Socialist Party from 1995 to 1997 and the party's candidate for President of France in ...

(Minister of National Education, Research and Sports): 13 May 1988 – 16 May 1991 *

Frédérique Bredin Frédérique Bredin (born 2 November 1956) is a French politician who used to serve as president of the National Center of Cinematography and the moving image (CNC). Born in Paris, Bredin graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, ...

(Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 16 May 1991 – 29 March 1993 *

Michèle Alliot-Marie Michèle Yvette Marie-Thérèse Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie (; born 10 September 1946), known in France as MAM, is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member of the Republicans, part of the Eu ...

(Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 29 March 1993 – 18 May 1995 *

Guy Drut Guy Drut (born 6 December 1950) is an Olympic champion and politician who won gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in the 110 m hurdles. In 1996, he became a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Biography Sports career B ...

(Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 7 November 1995 – 4 June 1997 *

Marie-George Buffet Marie-George Buffet (née Kosellek; born 7 May 1949) is a French politician. She was the head of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 2001 to 2010. She joined the Party in 1969, and she served in the government as Minister of Youth Affairs an ...

(Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 4 June 1997 – 7 May 2002 *

Jean-François Lamour Jean-François Lamour (born February 2, 1956, in Paris) is a French former fencer and current politician and cabinet minister. During his fencing career, Lamour achieved various athletic accomplishments, notably qualifying for the 1987 world cha ...

(Minister of Youth Affairs, Sports and Associative Life): 7 May 2002 – 18 May 2007 *

Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, generally known as Roselyne Bachelot (née Narquin; born 24 December 1946) is a French politician who served as Minister of Culture in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex (2020–2022) and as Minister of Solida ...

(Minister of Youth Affairs, Sports and Health): 18 May 2007 – 14 November 2010 *

Chantal Jouanno Chantal Jouanno (née Paul; born 12 July 1969 in Vernon, Eure, France) is a French politician who served as Minister of Sports in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from 14 November 2010 and 26 September 2011, succeeding to Rose ...

(Minister of Sports): 14 November 2010 – 26 September 2011 *

David Douillet David Donald Hubert Roger Douillet (; born 17 February 1969) is a French politician and retired judoka. Douillet was born in the city of Rouen. Standing at and weighing , he won the judo heavyweight gold medals in the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olym ...

(Minister of Sports): 26 September 2011 – 16 May 2012 * Valérie Fourneyron (Minister of Youth Affairs, Sports and Associative Life): 16 May 2012 – 31 March 2014 *

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (; ar, link=no, نجاة فالو بلقاسم; Riffian-Berber: ⵏⴰⵊⴰⵜ ⴱⵍⵇⴰⵙⵎ; born 4 October 1977) is a former Moroccan-French jurist and politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who was the first Fre ...

(Minister of Women's Rights, Minister of City Affairs, Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 2 April – 25 August 2014 * Patrick Kanner (Minister of the Urbanity, Youth Affairs and Sports): 26 August 2014 – 17 May 2017 *

Laura Flessel Laura Flessel-Colovic (born 6 November 1971) is a French politician and épée fencer who served as Minister of Sports from 2017 to 2018. Born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, she has won the most Olympic medals of any French sportswoman, wit ...

(Minister of Sports): 17 May 2017 – 4 September 2018 * Roxana Maracineanu (Minister of Sports): 4 September 2018 – 6 July 2020 * Roxana Maracineanu (Minister Delegate for Sport): 6 July 2020 – 20 May 2022 *

(Minister for Sport and the Olympic & Paralympic Games): 20 May 2022- incumbent

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