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NANTES

Most Famous People Born in Nantes, France

Notable people

1,043

Peak decade

1970s

Median birth year

1910

Most distinctive

Architect 4.4×

Jules Verne grew up watching the Loire shipyards that would populate every one of his adventure novels with captains and engineers, and the architect over-index at 4.4× keeps that maker tradition alive five generations later. A newer wave — Christine and the Queens, Madeon — has been exporting French pop from the same port the slave trade once made rich.