43.2967° N, 5.3764° E

MARSEILLE

Most Famous People Born in Marseille, France

Notable people
2,271
Peak decade
1940s
Median birth year
1928
Most distinctive
Sculptor 2.8×

A Greek colony founded around 600 BC that is still, stubbornly, a Mediterranean city rather than a French one. Marseille's distinctive professions are sculptors, painters, and poets — the trades of a port city with a heavy North African and Italian presence and a long Mediterranean visual-arts lineage. Zinedine Zidane and Eric Cantona are both from here, as are Antonin Artaud and Edmond Rostand, and the 18th-century bench is unusually deep for a city outside Paris.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Marseille during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1940s with 178 notable births.

What Marseille Is Known For

Click any row to filter the list of people below.

Football is Marseille's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (295).

Marseille over-indexes on sculptor2.8× the global rate.

  1. Football295
  2. Politician218
  3. Actor183
  4. Painter136
  5. Writer96
  6. Singer56
  7. Film51
  8. Journalist50
  1. Sculptor422.8×
  2. Painter1362.3×
  3. Poet461.9×
  4. Film511.8×
  5. Physician251.6×
  6. Actor1831.5×
  7. Historian361.5×

Profession Mix Over Time

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

1550160016501700175018001850190019502000
  • Sports
  • Writing
  • Film & TV
  • Politics & Law
  • Art & Design
  • Music
  • Other
Film51
Sort By

Showing 51 of 2,271 notable people

0027 FILM

Robert Guédiguian

Born 1953

Preview
0078 FILM

Jacques Rouffio

1928 - 2016

Preview
0124 FILM

René Allio

1924 - 1995

Preview
0132 FILM

Paul Ricard

1909 - 1997

Preview
0141 FILM

Serge Marquand

1930 - 2004

Preview
0165 FILM

Georges de Beauregard

1920 - 1984

Preview
0206 FILM

Marion Hänsel

1949 - 2020

Preview
0241 FILM

Frédéric Auburtin

Born 1962

Preview
0271 FILM

Gilles Marchand

Born 1963

Preview
0281 FILM

Robert Darène

1914 - 2016

Preview
0292 FILM

Bernard Stora

Born 1942

Preview
0301 FILM

Cédric Jimenez

Born 1976

Preview
0309 FILM

Hervé Bromberger

1918 - 1993

Preview
0324 FILM

Robin Davis (director)

Born 1943

Preview
0338 FILM

Raphaël Nadjari

Born 1971

Preview
0370 FILM

Roger Richebé

1897 - 1989

Preview
0421 FILM

Gérard Guégan

Born 1940

Preview
0511 FILM

Maurice Mariaud

1875 - 1958

Preview
0552 FILM

Françoise Romand

Born 1955

Preview
0649 FILM

Robert Salis

Born 1954

Preview
0650 FILM

Philippe Dajoux

Born 1968

Preview
0657 FILM

Paul Carpita

1922 - 2009

Preview
0739 FILM

Maurice Cam

1901 - 1974

Preview
0740 FILM

Jean Feyte

1903 - 1996

Preview
0763 FILM

Jean-Louis Livi

Born 1941

Preview
0835 FILM

Stéphane Kazandjian

-

Preview
0993 FILM

François Kraus

Born 1969

Preview
1011 FILM

Cécile Decugis

1934 - 2017

Preview
1029 FILM

Jean-Michel Barjol

Born 1942

Preview
1048 FILM

Michel Andrieu

Born 1940

Preview
1053 FILM

Mikael Buch

Born 1983

Preview
1089 FILM

Alain Bévérini

Born 1945

Preview
1094 FILM

Alain Jaspard

Born 1940

Preview
1136 FILM

Eddy Matalon

Born 1934

Preview
1374 FILM

Alain Pancrazi

Born 1947

Preview
1377 FILM

Marie Hélia

Born 1960

Preview
1425 FILM

Gabriel Rongier

Born 1930

Preview
1499 FILM

Paul Calori

Born 1978

Preview
1534 FILM

Maurice Chateau

Born 1931

Preview
1587 FILM

Mika Ben Miled

Born 1936

Preview
1664 FILM

Jean-François Hassoun

Born 1965

Preview
1706 FILM

Marjorie Conrad

Born 1988

Preview
1710 FILM

Daouda Coulibaly

-

Preview
1717 FILM

Fernand Méric

1920 - 2005

Preview
1745 FILM

Louis Wipf

1910 - 1998

Preview
1790 FILM

Christiane Chabi-Kao

Born 1963

Preview
1838 FILM

Georges Cachoux

Born 1942

Preview
1979 FILM

Michèle Courbou

Born 1954

Preview
2061 FILM

Jeanne Rongier (monteuse)

1917 - 2009

Preview
2064 FILM

Marcel Gras

1896 - 1976

Preview
2090 FILM

Max Kalifa

Born 1925

Preview