48.8354° N, 2.2416° E

BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT

Most Famous People Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Notable people
661
Peak decade
1950s
Median birth year
1954
Most distinctive
Business 5.3×

A Parisian western edge where Renault built cars and everyone else built careers — a Business bench running at better than five times the global baseline, a Film and Screenwriter presence that reads like a Nouvelle Vague afterparty, and the Journalist and Actor concentrations of a suburb that functions as Paris's overflow green room.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Boulogne-Billancourt during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1950s with 147 notable births.

What Boulogne-Billancourt Is Known For

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Actor is Boulogne-Billancourt's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (83).

Boulogne-Billancourt over-indexes on business5.3× the global rate.

Boulogne-Billancourt under-produces football — only 0.1× the global rate.

  1. Actor83
  2. Politician56
  3. Writer46
  4. Business35
  5. Film29
  6. Journalist28
  7. Painter25
  8. Singer17
  1. Business355.3×
  2. Screenwriter124.2×
  3. Driver83.9×
  4. Film293.6×
  5. Economist93.3×
  6. Entrepreneur73.1×
  7. Journalist282.7×
  8. Actor832.4×
  1. Football110.1×
  2. Lawyer80.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Boulogne-Billancourt's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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661 notable people

0001 SCREENWRITER

Patrick Modiano

Born 1945

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0002 ACTOR

Leslie Caron

Born 1931

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0003 SCREENWRITER

Guillaume Canet

Born 1973

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0004 ACTOR

Marie Trintignant

1962 - 2003

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0005 ACTOR

Vincent Lindon

Born 1959

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0006 PHILOSOPHER

André Glucksmann

1937 - 2015

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0007 ACTOR

Sandrine Kiberlain

Born 1968

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0008 COMEDIAN

Thierry Lhermitte

Born 1952

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0009 ACTOR

Marc Levy

Born 1961

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0010 POLITICIAN

Édith Cresson

Born 1934

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0011 ACTOR

Michael Vartan

Born 1968

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0012 GUITAR

Matthieu Chedid

Born 1971

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0013 SINGER

Zazie

Born 1964

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0014 ACTOR

Philippe Garrel

Born 1948

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0015 PHILOSOPHER

Élisabeth Badinter

Born 1944

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0016 FILM

Bertrand Blier

Born 1939

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0017 NOVELIST

Anna Gavalda

Born 1970

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0018 SINGER

Catherine Spaak

Born 1945

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0019 ACTOR

Gérard Lanvin

Born 1950

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0020 ACTOR

Édouard Baer

Born 1966

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0021 POLITICIAN

Jean-François Copé

Born 1964

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0022 ZIONISM

Edmond James de Rothschild

1845 - 1934

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0023 ACTOR

Pierre Niney

Born 1989

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0024 ACTOR

Ariane Mnouchkine

Born 1939

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0025 ACTOR

Marina Foïs

Born 1970

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0026 PAINTER

Daniel Buren

Born 1938

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0027 WRITER

Delphine de Vigan

Born 1966

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0028 WRITER

Jean-Christophe Grangé

Born 1961

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0029 ACTOR

Elsa Zylberstein

Born 1968

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0030 POLITICIAN

Michel Sapin

Born 1952

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0031 SINGER

Véronique Sanson

Born 1949

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0032 ACTOR

Bulle Ogier

Born 1939

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0033 ACTOR

Hippolyte Girardot

Born 1955

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0034 MUSIC

Laurent Garnier

Born 1966

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0035 SAILOR

Florence Arthaud

1957 - 2015

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0036 RAPPER

Keny Arkana

Born 1982

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0037 WRITER

Pierre Bellemare

1929 - 2018

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0038 POLITICIAN

Corinne Lepage

Born 1951

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0039 PHILOLOGIST

Barbara Cassin

Born 1947

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0040 ACTOR

Ophélie Winter

Born 1974

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0041 FILM

Michel Deville

Born 1931

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0042 FILM

Claude Pinoteau

1925 - 2012

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0043 MUSIC

St Germain (musician)

Born 1969

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0044 RACING

Paul Belmondo

Born 1963

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0045 SCREENWRITER

Nina Companeez

1937 - 2015

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0046 ACTOR

Frédéric Pierrot

Born 1960

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0047 POLITICIAN

Cécilia Attias

Born 1957

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0048 SINGER

David Hallyday

Born 1966

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0049 WRITER

Catherine Clément

Born 1939

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0050 ILLUSTRATOR

Martin van Maële

1863 - 1926

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0051 POLITICIAN

Charles, Prince Napoléon

Born 1950

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0052 WRITER

Guy Hocquenghem

1946 - 1988

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0053 ACTOR

Marina de Van

Born 1971

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0054 WRITER

Olivier Rolin

Born 1947

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0055 ACTOR

Sara Giraudeau

Born 1985

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0056 MUSIC

Sebastian (French musician)

Born 1981

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0057 SCREENWRITER

Didier Decoin

Born 1945

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0058 ACTOR

Joséphine de Meaux

Born 1977

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0059 CHOREOGRAPHER

Bartabas

Born 1957

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0060 ACTOR

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu

Born 1963

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0061 CHANSONNIER

Jean Baptiste Clément

1836 - 1903

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0062 FILM

Axel Corti

1933 - 1993

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0063 ACTOR

Didier Flamand

Born 1947

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0064 ACTOR

Anicée Alvina

1953 - 2006

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0065 JOURNALIST

Thierry Roland

1937 - 2012

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0066 ACTOR

Valérie Quennessen

1957 - 1989

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0067 ACTOR

Manuel Blanc

Born 1968

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0068 SCREENWRITER

Emmanuèle Bernheim

1955 - 2017

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0069 BUSINESS

Vincent Bolloré

Born 1952

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0070 ARISTOCRAT

Prince Jean, Duke of Vendôme

Born 1965

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0071 CINEMA

Pierre Lhomme

1930 - 2019

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0072 NOVELIST

Ann Scott

Born 1965

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0073 NOVELIST

Romain Sardou

Born 1974

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0074 FILM

Frédéric Schoendoerffer

Born 1962

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0075 FILM

Raphaël Glucksmann

Born 1979

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0076 ACTOR

Camille Cottin

Born 1978

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0077 BUSINESS

Paul-Loup Sulitzer

Born 1946

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0078 POLITICIAN

Olivier Dassault

Born 1951

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0079 MUSIC

Rone (musician)

Born 1980

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0080 WRITER

Claire Castillon

Born 1975

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0081 ACTOR

Laurent Gamelon

Born 1960

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0082 ACTOR

Pascale Roberts

1933 - 2019

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0083 ACTIVIST

Frigide Barjot

Born 1962

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0084 WRITER

Jean Rolin

Born 1949

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0085 ECONOMIST

Jean Pisani-Ferry

Born 1951

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0086 STAGE

Philippine de Rothschild

1933 - 2014

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0087 ACTOR

Davy Sardou

Born 1978

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0088 FILM

Julie Bertuccelli

Born 1968

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0089 POLITICIAN

Florence Parly

Born 1963

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0090 ACTOR

Jean-Claude Dauphin

Born 1948

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0091 POLITICIAN

Pascal Clément

1945 - 2020

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0092 ECONOMIST

Xavier Gabaix

Born 1971

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0093 ACTOR

France Rumilly

Born 1939

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0094 JUMPER

Roger-Yves Bost

Born 1965

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0095 ACTOR

Laurence Badie

Born 1934

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0096 CHEMIST

Henri B. Kagan

Born 1930

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0097 RAPPER

LIM (rapper)

Born 1979

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0098 WRITER

Laurence Cossé

Born 1950

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0099 FILM

Alain Sarde

Born 1952

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0100 LAWYER

Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc

Born 1938

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0101 SKIER

Perrine Pelen

Born 1960

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0102 PAINTER

Rodolphe d'Erlanger

1872 - 1932

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0103 PHYSICIAN

Olivier Ameisen

1953 - 2013

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0104 POLITICIAN

Martine Billard

Born 1952

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0105 MATHEMATICIAN

Paul-André Meyer

1934 - 2003

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0106 SCHOLAR

Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch

1909 - 1999

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0107 SCREENWRITER

Alexis (comics)

1946 - 1977

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0108 ACTOR

Lola Dewaere

Born 1979

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0109 ACTOR

Claire Borotra

Born 1973

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0110 FILM

Claude Picasso

Born 1947

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0111 FILM

Luc Barnier

1954 - 2012

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0112 ACTOR

Geneviève Casile

Born 1938

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0113 PUBLISHER

Arnaud Lagardère

Born 1961

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0114 FOOTBALL

Vincent Guérin

Born 1965

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0115 ACTOR

Eye Haïdara

Born 1983

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0116 ACTOR

Julie Jézéquel

Born 1964

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0117 FILM

David Moreau

Born 1976

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0118 POLITICIAN

Dominique Raimbourg

Born 1950

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0119 ACTOR

Jérôme Pradon

Born 1964

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0120 BUSINESS

Pierre Gattaz

Born 1959

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0121 ACTOR

Lorraine Lévy

Born 1959

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0122 MATHEMATICIAN

Jean-Marc Fontaine

1944 - 2019

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0123 CERAMIST

Joan Gardy Artigas

Born 1938

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0124 ACTOR

Agnès Spaak

Born 1944

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0125 POLITICIAN

Ségolène Neuville

Born 1970

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0126 JOURNALIST

Jean-Christophe Mitterrand

Born 1946

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0127 ACTOR

Gwendoline Hamon

Born 1970

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0128 ECONOMIST

Christian de Boissieu

Born 1947

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0129 ENGINEER

Vincent Reynouard

Born 1969

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0130 HISTORIAN

François Cusset

Born 1969

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0131 HISTORIAN

François Ewald

Born 1946

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0132 SINGER

Françoise Pollet

Born 1949

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0133 ACADEMIC

Jean-Yves Tadié

Born 1936

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0134 MATHEMATICIAN

Arnaud Beauville

Born 1947

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0135 POLITICIAN

Nathalie Goulet

Born 1958

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0136 PLAYER

Hubert Henno

Born 1976

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0137 SKATER

Stéphane Bernadis

Born 1974

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0138 ECONOMIST

Yann Moulier-Boutang

Born 1949

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0139 MUSIC

Paul-Gilbert Langevin

1933 - 1986

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0140 ENTREPRENEUR

Augustin de Romanet de Beaune

Born 1961

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0141 POLITICIAN

François d'Aubert

Born 1943

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0142 DESIGNER

Isabel Marant

Born 1967

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0143 POLITICIAN

Ladislas Poniatowski

Born 1946

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0144 JOURNALIST

Bernard Guetta

Born 1951

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0145 RAPPER

Nessbeal

Born 1978

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0146 ACTOR

Géraldine Danon

Born 1968

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0147 DRAUGHTSWOMAN

Fred Deux

1924 - 2015

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0148 REJONEADOR

Marie Sara

Born 1964

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0149 JOURNALIST

Guillaume Durand (journalist)

Born 1952

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0150 POLITICIAN

Olivier Stirn

Born 1936

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0151 PHYSICIAN

Irène Frachon

Born 1963

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0152 SINGER

Dominique Walter

Born 1942

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0153 MILITAR

Nissim de Camondo

1892 - 1917

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0154 FOOTBALL

Émile Bongiorni

1921 - 1949

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0155 PRESENTER

Benjamin Castaldi

Born 1970

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0156 ROYAL FAMILY

Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este

Born 1955

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0157 ACTOR

Catherine Lachens

Born 1945

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0158 ACTOR

Laurent Spielvogel

Born 1955

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0159 JOURNALIST

Yves Calvi

Born 1959

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0160 SINGER

Gérard Presgurvic

Born 1953

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0161 ACTOR

Garance Le Guillermic

Born 1997

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0162 PSYCHIATRIST

Caroline Eliacheff

Born 1947

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0163 ACTOR

Fiona Gélin

Born 1962

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0164 WRITER

Tiphaine Samoyault

Born 1968

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0165 POLITICIAN

Maurice de Rothschild

1881 - 1957

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0166 JOURNALIST

Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber

1937 - 2020

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0167 DAUGHTER

Maya Widmaier-Picasso

Born 1935

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0168 JOURNALIST

Patrick de Saint-Exupéry

Born 1962

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0169 ACTOR

Daniel Cauchy

1930 - 2020

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0170 PUBLISHER

Dominique de Roux

1935 - 1977

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0171 JOURNALIST

Nelson Monfort

Born 1953

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0172 EMPEROR

Prince Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza

1909 - 1981

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0173 LAWYER

Geoffroy Didier

Born 1976

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0174 COMPOSER

Lucien Durosoir

1900 - 1955

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0175 ACTOR

Florence Moncorgé-Gabin

Born 1949

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0176 SINGER

Ours (singer)

Born 1978

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0177 POLITICIAN

Gilbert Mitterrand

Born 1949

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0178 ENTREPRENEUR

Serge Weinberg

Born 1951

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0179 FILM

Denys Granier-Deferre

Born 1949

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0180 ACTOR

Jean-Claude Roy

1933 - 2018

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0181 COMPOSER

Guillaume Connesson

Born 1970

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0182 POLITICIAN

Lionnel Luca

Born 1954

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0183 DIPLOMAT

Jacques Huntzinger

Born 1943

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0184 FILM

Jean Devaivre

1912 - 2004

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0185 EXPLORER

Antoine-Alfred Marche

1844 - 1898

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0186 JOURNALIST

Xavier de Moulins

Born 1971

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0187 BIOCHEMIST

Guy Ourisson

1926 - 2006

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0188 DRIVER

Marcel Renault

1872 - 1903

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0189 SPORT

Louis Gérardin

1912 - 1982

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0190 FILM

Gilles de Maistre

Born 1960

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0191 POLITICIAN

Laurence Vichnievsky

Born 1955

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0192 ENGINEER

Bernard Ziegler

Born 1933

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0193 COMPOSER

Isabelle Aboulker

Born 1938

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0194 FOOTBALL

Ilan Boccara

Born 1993

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0195 COMPOSER

Frédéric Botton

1936 - 2008

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0196 POLITICIAN

Jean de Boishue

Born 1943

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0197 ART HISTORIAN

Laurence Bertrand Dorléac

Born 1957

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0198 ACTOR

Valérie Dréville

Born 1962

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0199 SPORT

Laurent Bezault

Born 1966

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0200 PRINCE

Joachim, 8th Prince Murat

Born 1944

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0201 ACTOR

Diana Frank

Born 1965

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0202 ACTOR

Anne-Marie Philipe

Born 1954

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0203 POLITICIAN

Annick Lepetit

Born 1958

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0204 BUSINESS

Frédéric Malle

Born 1962

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0205 HISTORIAN

Bernard Cottret

1951 - 2020

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0206 WRITER

François-Olivier Rousseau

Born 1947

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0207 BUSINESS

Pierre Bellanger

Born 1958

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0208 BUSINESS

Luc Oursel

1959 - 2014

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0209 SCREENWRITER

Thomas Gilou

Born 1955

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0210 MUSIC

Raphaël Hamburger

Born 1981

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0211 ACTOR

Laly Meignan

Born 1968

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0212 ACTOR

Zoé Chauveau

Born 1959

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0213 SINGER

Ronnie Bird

Born 1946

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0214 DRAUGHTSWOMAN

Hélène Bruller

Born 1968

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0215 POLITICIAN

Olivier Marleix

Born 1971

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0216 WRITER

Bernard Chambaz

Born 1949

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0217 PHYSICIST

Emmanuel Desurvire

Born 1955

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0218 ADVERTISING

Jean-Marie Dru

Born 1947

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0219 PHILOSOPHER

Xavier Léon

1868 - 1935

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0220 ENTREPRENEUR

Jean-Paul Agon

Born 1956

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0221 BUSINESS

Bruno Lafont

Born 1956

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0222 ACTOR

Alice Butaud

Born 1983

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0223 AIRMAN

Prince João Maria of Orléans-Braganza

1916 - 2005

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0224 FENCER

Philippe Bonnin

Born 1955

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0225 SINGER

Vivien Savage

Born 1955

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0226 POLITICIAN

Maud Olivier

Born 1953

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0227 PHILOSOPHER

Baudouin de Bodinat

Born 1954

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0228 BASKET

Pape Badiane

1980 - 2016

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0229 OFFICER

Victor-Constant Michel

1850 - 1937

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0230 WATCHMAKER

Dominique Loiseau

1949 - 2013

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0231 CINEMA

Romain Winding

Born 1951

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0232 JOURNALIST

Philippe Simonnot

Born 1941

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0233 POLITICIAN

Hubert Julien-Laferrière

Born 1966

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0234 MOUNTAIN GUIDE

Nicolas Jaeger

1946 - 1980

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0235 WRITER

Philippe Corentin

Born 1936

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0236 BUSINESS

Alexandre Mars

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0237 ACTOR

Olivier Carreras

Born 1969

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0238 NAVY

Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie

1834 - 1895

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0239 MUSIC

Loy Ehrlich

Born 1950

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0240 FILM

Jean-Loup Passek

1936 - 2016

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0241 WRITER

Dominique Schneidre

Born 1942

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0242 JOURNALIST

Pierre Pujo

1929 - 2007

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0243 NOVELIST

Louise L. Lambrichs

Born 1952

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0244 ACTOR

Marie Adam

Born 1968

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0245 ILLUSTRATOR

Marc Taraskoff

1955 - 2015

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0246 COMPOSER

Thierry Pécou

Born 1965

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0247 ARISTOCRAT

Prince François, Count of Clermont

1961 - 2017

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0248 POLITICIAN

Xavier de Roux

1940 - 2015

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0249 BIOLOGIST

Philippe Kourilsky

Born 1942

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0250 HISTORIAN

Jacques Dalarun

Born 1952

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0251 MUSIC

Pierre de Bethmann

Born 1965

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0252 ARCHITECT

Édouard François

Born 1958

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0253 COMPOSER

Christian Manen

1934 - 2020

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0254 LAWYER

Jean-Louis Baudouin

Born 1938

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0255 PAINTER

Jacques Doucet (peintre)

1924 - 1994

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0256 TRANSLATOR

Nikita Struve

1931 - 2016

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0257 WRITER

Thibault de Montaigu

Born 1978

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0258 HISTORIAN

Pierre Lavedan

1885 - 1982

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0259 DRIVER

Philippe Gurdjian

1945 - 2014

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0260 POLITICIAN

Loïc Dombreval

Born 1966

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0261 WRITER

Olivier Mathieu

Born 1960

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0262 POET

Geneviève Clancy

1937 - 2005

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0263 SINGER

Eric John Kaiser

Born 1973

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0264 PSYCHOLOGIST

Alain Vanier

Born 1948

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0265 WRITER

Marin de Viry

Born 1962

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0266 PAINTER

Monique de Roux

Born 1946

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0267 MILITAR

Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord

1832 - 1910

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0268 ACTOR

Manuel Gélin

Born 1958

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0269 EDITOR

Guy Birenbaum

Born 1961

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0270 POET

Didier Cahen

Born 1950

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0271 PRIEST

Didier Berthet

Born 1962

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0272 ENTREPRENEUR

Maelle Gavet

Born 1978

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0273 ARTIST

Sylvie Gaudin

1950 - 1994

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0274 COMPOSER

Claudia Solal

Born 1971

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0275 CHEMIST

Odile Eisenstein

Born 1949

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0276 SINGER

Clarika

Born 1967

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0277 HISTORIAN

Alexandre Moatti

Born 1959

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0278 ECONOMIST

Claude d'Aspremont Lynden

Born 1946

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0279 PRINCESS

Princess Pia Maria of Orléans-Braganza

1913 - 2000

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0280 COMPOSER

Philippe Leroux

Born 1959

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0281 FILM

Michael Henry Wilson

1946 - 2014

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0282 ENTREPRENEUR

Michel Combes

Born 1962

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0283 DIPLOMAT

Hélie de Noailles

Born 1943

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0284 ECONOMIST

Laurence Boone

Born 1969

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0285 CONDUCTOR

François Polgár

Born 1946

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0286 MARRIAGE

Sophie, Princess of Windisch-Graetz

Born 1959

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0287 ACTOR

Chrystelle Labaude

Born 1959

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0288 IMPERIAL

Prince Jérôme Napoléon

Born 1957

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0289 ACTOR

Pascale Rocard

Born 1960

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0290 POLITICIAN

Isabelle Balkany

Born 1947

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0291 PIANIST

Nathalie Béra-Tagrine

Born 1960

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0292 ACTOR

Alain Feydeau

1934 - 2008

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0293 SKATER

Philippe Pélissier

Born 1947

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0294 SPORT

Roger Labric

1893 - 1962

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0295 JOURNALIST

Périco Légasse

Born 1959

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0296 ARCHITECT

André Arfvidson

1870 - 1935

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0297 ACTOR

Roger Monteaux

1879 - 1974

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0298 POLITICIAN

Élisabeth Dufourcq

Born 1940

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0299 RACECAR

Paul Bablot

1873 - 1932

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0300 CREATIVE

Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia

Born 1958

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