Julien Auguste Pélage Brizeux was a French poet. He was said to belong to a family of Irish origin, long settled in Brittany. He was educated for the law, but in 1827 he produced at the Théâtre Français a one-act verse comedy, Racine, in collaboration with Philippe Busoni.

Auguste Carayon was a French Jesuit author and bibliographer.

Auguste Choisy was a French architectural historian and author of Histoire de l'Architecture.

Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte's ideas were also fundamental to the development of sociology; indeed, he invented the term and treated that discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences.

Baron Auguste Creuzé de Lesser was a French poet, playwright, librettist and politician.

Auguste Groner, was an Austrian writer internationally notable for detective fiction. She also published under the pseudonyms Olaf Björnson, A. of the Paura, Renorga, and Metis.

Auguste Hilarion, comte de Kératry, was a French poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, historian, and politician. He was the father of Emile de Kératry.

Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry was a French Catholic priest, author and theologian.

Auguste Lacaussade was a French poet who also worked as a translator and a librarian.

Antoine-Auguste Laugel was a French historian and engineer born in Strasbourg.