Victims of the Paris terror attack
The 12 victims of the terror attack on Paris-based satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo included the newspaper's founder, its editor, its deputy chief-editor and several cartoonists.
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In a targeted attack, two gunmen broke into a conference room and killed many of the newspaper's staff, as well as a police officer in charge of protecting one of the cartoonists.
The newspaper was a weekly that ridiculed religious leaders of all persuasions, as well as politicians.
Sources at the newspaper said the deceased included co-founder and cartoonist Jean Cabut, editor-in-chief Stephane 'Charb' Charbonnier, deputy chief editor Bernard Maris and cartoonists Georges Wolinski and Tignous.
Editor-in-chief Stephane 'Charb' Charbonnier
Charbonnier, 47, was the newspaper's editor and chief cartoonist. He started editing Charlie Hebdo in 2009.
Two of his best known cartoon characters were Maurice and Patapon, an anti-capitalist cat and dog featured in irreverent cartoons.
His work in Charlie Hebdo appeared under the title Charb n'aime pas les gens (Charb does not like people).
However it was his cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that caused the most controversy.
Co-founder and cartoonist Jean Cabut
Cabut, better known as "Cabu", was 76 and reportedly the highest-paid cartoonist in the world.
He studied at art school and his work was first published in a Paris newspaper in 1954.
He kept drawing even after being conscripted into the French army and fighting in the Algerian War.
Deputy chief editor Bernard Maris
Maris, 68, was the editorial director of Charlie Hebdo, as well as a writer and an economist with the Bank of France.
He wrote a column under the pseudonym Oncle (Uncle) Bernard.
Maris also contributed to France's state-run radio service Radio France.
Bank of France governor Christian Noyer paid tribute to Maris.
"Bernard Maris was a cultured, kind and very tolerant man," he said in a statement.
Cartoonist Georges Wolinski
Wolinski, 80, was born in French Tunisia to Jewish parents who fled oppression in Europe.
The family moved to France in 1946, 10 years after the father was murdered by a disgruntled ex-employee.
Wolinski studied architecture in Paris before switching to drawing cartoons.
His drawings ridiculed romance and sexuality and also targeted politicians, particularly French far-right politician Jean Marie Le Pen and former French president Francois Mitterrand.
Bernard Verlhac
Known by the pseudonym Tignous, the 58-year-old's drawings had appeared in Charlie Hebdo, as well as Marianne and Fluide Glacial.
