| 100% | LEMAT | 5 | French physician who invented a revolver that bears his name |
| 40% | BROCA | 5 | French physician for whom a part of the brain is named |
| 38% | RAYNAUD | 7 | Maurice —, 19th-century French physician after whom a condition affecting blood supply is named |
| 36% | LAENNEC | 7 | Rene —, French physician who invented the stethoscope in 1816 |
| 36% | ADDAMS | 6 | Cartoonist who created a creepy family that shares his own last name |
| 36% | TOURETTE | 8 | Georges Gilles de la —, French physician after whom a neurological condition characterized by physical and verbal tics is named |
| 35% | BLAISEPASCAL | 12 | French mathematician who invented a mechanical calculator: 2 wds. |
| 35% | JEANPAULMARAT | 13 | Physician who became a French revolutionary |
| 35% | HORNIMAN | 8 | Frederick —, tea merchant who opened a free museum bearing his name in London in 1901 |
| 34% | VENN | 4 | A diagram bears his name |
| 34% | THEREMIN | 8 | Leon —, Russian inventor in 1920 of an electronic musical instrument that bears his name |
| 34% | PARKINSON | 9 | English physician James who gave his name to a disease |
| 32% | MESMER | 6 | German physician who lent his name to an -ism |
| 32% | NEE | 3 | French word that indicates a name change |
| 32% | BONAPARTE | 9 | Whom a French dessert is named for |
| 32% | BROCA | 5 | French physician Paul for whom an area of the brain is named |
| 32% | HELENE | 6 | Moon of Saturn that's a French woman's name |
| 32% | NEE | 3 | French word that goes before a maiden name |
| 31% | HENRI | 5 | French name that is an anagram of a German river |
| 31% | MESMER | 6 | Austrian physician who lent his name to an English word ending in "-ize" |
| 30% | HENRI | 5 | French name that's an anagram of a mostly German river |
| 30% | ERNIE | 5 | Golfer Els who shares his first name with a Muppet |
| 30% | ELLE | 4 | Fashion magazine with a name that means "she" in French |
| 30% | JAYCUTLER | 9 | Former Chicago Bears quarterback who shares his name with a four-time Mr. Olympia winner: 2 wds. |
| 29% | ELLE | 4 | Fashion magazine that has a palindromic name with a French meaning |
| 29% | ANDRECITROEN | 12 | French motor car manufacturer who began selling cars under his own name in 1919 |
| 29% | ELON | 4 | Business leader Musk who named his new son "X AE A-XII" |
| 29% | EPEE | 4 | Sword with a French name that's used in an Olympic sport |
| 29% | LALANDE | 7 | Jerome —, French astronomer after whom a crater on the Moon is named |
| 29% | LORDBYRON | 9 | Poet who kept a bear in his Trinity College rooms |