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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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0001 SCREENWRITER

Patrick Modiano

Born 1945

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0014 ACTOR

Philippe Garrel

Born 1948

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0015 PHILOSOPHER

Élisabeth Badinter

Born 1944

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0018 SINGER

Catherine Spaak

Born 1945

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0031 SINGER

Véronique Sanson

Born 1949

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0039 PHILOLOGIST

Barbara Cassin

Born 1947

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0052 WRITER

Guy Hocquenghem

1946 - 1988

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0054 WRITER

Olivier Rolin

Born 1947

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0057 SCREENWRITER

Didier Decoin

Born 1945

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0063 ACTOR

Didier Flamand

Born 1947

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0077 BUSINESS

Paul-Loup Sulitzer

Born 1946

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0084 WRITER

Jean Rolin

Born 1949

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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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0107 SCREENWRITER

Alexis (comics)

1946 - 1977

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0110 FILM

Claude Picasso

Born 1947

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0122 MATHEMATICIAN

Jean-Marc Fontaine

1944 - 2019

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0124 ACTOR

Agnès Spaak

Born 1944

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0126 JOURNALIST

Jean-Christophe Mitterrand

Born 1946

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0128 ECONOMIST

Christian de Boissieu

Born 1947

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0131 HISTORIAN

François Ewald

Born 1946

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0132 SINGER

Françoise Pollet

Born 1949

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0134 MATHEMATICIAN

Arnaud Beauville

Born 1947

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0138 ECONOMIST

Yann Moulier-Boutang

Born 1949

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0141 POLITICIAN

François d'Aubert

Born 1943

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0143 POLITICIAN

Ladislas Poniatowski

Born 1946

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0152 SINGER

Dominique Walter

Born 1942

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0157 ACTOR

Catherine Lachens

Born 1945

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0162 PSYCHIATRIST

Caroline Eliacheff

Born 1947

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0175 ACTOR

Florence Moncorgé-Gabin

Born 1949

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0177 POLITICIAN

Gilbert Mitterrand

Born 1949

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0179 FILM

Denys Granier-Deferre

Born 1949

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0183 DIPLOMAT

Jacques Huntzinger

Born 1943

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0196 POLITICIAN

Jean de Boishue

Born 1943

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0200 PRINCE

Joachim, 8th Prince Murat

Born 1944

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0206 WRITER

François-Olivier Rousseau

Born 1947

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0213 SINGER

Ronnie Bird

Born 1946

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0216 WRITER

Bernard Chambaz

Born 1949

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0218 ADVERTISING

Jean-Marie Dru

Born 1947

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0230 WATCHMAKER

Dominique Loiseau

1949 - 2013

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0232 JOURNALIST

Philippe Simonnot

Born 1941

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0234 MOUNTAIN GUIDE

Nicolas Jaeger

1946 - 1980

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0241 WRITER

Dominique Schneidre

Born 1942

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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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0259 DRIVER

Philippe Gurdjian

1945 - 2014

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0264 PSYCHOLOGIST

Alain Vanier

Born 1948

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0266 PAINTER

Monique de Roux

Born 1946

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0275 CHEMIST

Odile Eisenstein

Born 1949

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0278 ECONOMIST

Claude d'Aspremont Lynden

Born 1946

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0281 FILM

Michael Henry Wilson

1946 - 2014

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0283 DIPLOMAT

Hélie de Noailles

Born 1943

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0285 CONDUCTOR

François Polgár

Born 1946

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0290 POLITICIAN

Isabelle Balkany

Born 1947

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0293 SKATER

Philippe Pélissier

Born 1947

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0298 POLITICIAN

Élisabeth Dufourcq

Born 1940

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0301 LITERARY

Olivier Barrot

Born 1948

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0309 POLITICIAN

Didier Maus

Born 1947

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0317 POLITICIAN

Christian Philip

Born 1948

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0333 BROADCAST

Alain De Greef

1947 - 2015

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0335 JOURNALIST

Patrice Duhamel

Born 1945

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0339 PHYSICIAN

Pierre Corvol

Born 1941

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0343 SOCIOLOGIST

Anne Chayet

1943 - 2015

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0348 BUSINESS

Philippe Houzé

Born 1947

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0356 ESSAYIST

Jean-Pierre Vesperini

Born 1941

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0369 PLAYWRIGHT

Noëlle Renaude

Born 1949

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0381 DRIVER

Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière

Born 1943

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0389 ACTOR

Fabrice Rouleau

1947 - 2001

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0393 BUSINESS

Didier Truchot

Born 1946

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0404 EDITOR

Jean-Claude Kebabdjian

Born 1942

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0408 POLITICIAN

Michel Recanati

1948 - 1978

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0412 ACTOR

Gérard Falconetti

1949 - 1984

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0414 SURGEON

Guy Vallancien

Born 1946

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0423 PHYSICIAN

Francis Charhon

Born 1946

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0428 PHOTOGRAPHER

Florence Gruère

Born 1943

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0437 EDITOR

Éric Seydoux

1946 - 2013

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0450 BUSINESS

Cyril Bourlon de Rouvre

Born 1945

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0451 ARCHITECT

Rémy Butler

Born 1948

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0454 PUBLISHER

Charles-Henri Flammarion

1946 - 2020

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0457 PAINTER

Stéphane Ruais

Born 1945

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0458 POLITICIAN

Thierry Philip

Born 1949

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0481 SCRIPT

Catherine Prévert

1944 - 2017

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0482 DRIVER

Jean-Louis Ricci

1944 - 2001

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0488 JOURNALIST

Colombe Pringle

Born 1948

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0501 BUSINESS

Thierry Funck-Brentano

Born 1947

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0508 PROFESSEUR

Michel Nebenzahl

1941 - 2018

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0522 BUSINESS

Laurent Burelle

Born 1949

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0524 LAWYER

Henri Hajdenberg

Born 1947

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0538 WRITER

Marion Desjardins

Born 1948

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0543 SOCIOLOGIST

Jean-Marie Charon

Born 1948

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0560 BIOLOGIST

Jacques Tréton

Born 1947

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0574 DESIGNER

Joël Desgrippes

Born 1945

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0575 ART CRITIC

Ghislain Mollet-Viéville

Born 1945

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0588 POLITICIAN

Charles de Bourbon Busset

Born 1945

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0593 FOOTBALL

Yves Le Floch

Born 1947

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0594 ACCORDIONIST

Michèle Buirette

Born 1949

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0604 THEORIST

Thierry Chaput

1949 - 1990

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0606 BUSINESS

Arnaud Bamberger

Born 1945

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0624 HOCKEY

Jean-Claude Sozzi

Born 1943

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0627 POET

Élie Delamare-Deboutteville

1947 - 2013

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0628 POET

Michel Lagrange

Born 1941

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0634 TEACHER

Martine Le Gal

1947 - 2007

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0636 ATHLETIC

Michel Butet

1947 - 2005

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