49.1197° N, 6.1769° E

METZ

Most Famous People Born in Metz, France

Notable people

824

Peak decade

1890s

Median birth year

1885

Most distinctive

Militar 6.7×

A garrison city on the French-German fault line, and it reads like one: the Militar and Officer benches are outsized for any town this size, with a Physician count bulging from the military medical tradition. Paul Verlaine was born in the shadow of those barracks, and the Painter thread hints at the Lorraine schools and the Pompidou-Metz generations still to come.