47.9022° N, 1.9042° E
ORLEANS
Most Famous People Born in Orleans, France
- Notable people
- 502
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- Median birth year
- 1879
- Most distinctive
- Playwright 9.0×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Orleans during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Orleans Is Known For
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Politician is Orleans's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (64).
Orleans over-indexes on playwright — 9.0× the global rate.
Orleans under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Orleans's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Writing
- Politics & Law
- Sports
- Art & Design
- Science
- Religion
- Other
Charles Péguy
1873 - 1914
Robert II of France
972 - 1031
Florian Thauvin
Born 1993
Étienne Dolet
1509 - 1546
Abbo of Fleury
940 - 1004
Leonard of Noblac
496 - 545
Isaac Jogues
1607 - 1646
Augustin Saint-Hilaire
1779 - 1853
Tristán Ulloa
Born 1970
Jean Zay
1904 - 1944
Judith of Flanders
844 - 870
Erick Zonca
Born 1956
Robert Joseph Pothier
1699 - 1772
Gustave Lanson
1857 - 1934
Marie Touchet
1549 - 1638
Laure Calamy
Born 1975
Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues
1579 - 1633
Denis Pétau
1583 - 1652
Marie Alfred Cornu
1841 - 1902
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel
1851 - 1913
Michel-Joseph Maunoury
1847 - 1923
Véronique Gens
Born 1966
Stanislas Julien
1797 - 1873
Michel Vuillermoz
Born 1962
Monsef Zerka
Born 1981
Para One
Born 1979
Étienne Tempier
1210 - 1279
Reynald Pedros
Born 1971
Léon Delagrange
1872 - 1910
Étienne de Flacourt
1607 - 1660
Florian Rousseau
Born 1974
Alexandre Antigna
1817 - 1878
Thérèse Levasseur
1721 - 1801
Henri Lavedan
1859 - 1940
Hubert Saint-Macary
Born 1949
Hugh Primas
1095 - 1160
Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery
1797 - 1849
Jean-Yves Béziau
Born 1965
Raoul Blanchard
1877 - 1965
Paul Séjourné
1851 - 1939
Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye
1634 - 1706
Georges Goyau
1869 - 1939
Hyacinthe Loyson
1827 - 1912
Emmanuelle Boidron
Born 1978
Stephen of Tournai
1128 - 1203
Xavier Leroy
Born 1968
Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier
1832 - 1916
Aaron Cel
Born 1987
Olivier Carré
Born 1961
Jean de Hautefeuille
1647 - 1724
Joseph-Marie Martin
1891 - 1976
Philippe Juvin
Born 1964
Patrick Le Hyaric
Born 1957
Thérèse Peltier
1873 - 1926
Xavier Saint-Macary
1948 - 1988
Philippe Ragueneau
1917 - 2003
Philip Plisson
Born 1947
Fabien Lefèvre
Born 1982
Anatole Bailly
1833 - 1911
Marie Maxime Cornu
1843 - 1901
Niro (rapper)
Born 1987
Antoine Petit
1722 - 1794
Arthur Groussier
1863 - 1957
Bruno Germain
Born 1960
Loïc Puyo
Born 1988
Odo of Tournai
1060 - 1113
François-Henri Houbart
Born 1952
Marie Anne Barbier
1664 - 1742
Hilarius (poet)
1075 - 1150
Pierre Jamet
1893 - 1991
Jérôme Minière
Born 1972
Jean-Baptiste Morin (composer)
1677 - 1745
Guillaume-François Le Trosne
1728 - 1780
Alfred Merlin
1876 - 1965
Nicolas Gédoyn
1677 - 1744
Louis Gustave Vapereau
1819 - 1906
Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
1671 - 1749
Bruno Bini
Born 1954
Jacques Bongars
1554 - 1612
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Courcelles
1759 - 1834
Édouard Fournier
1819 - 1880
Georges Lafenestre
1837 - 1919
Charles Lassailly
1806 - 1843
Sophie Adriansen
Born 1982
Charlotte d'Ornellas
Born 1986
Florent Chrestien
1540 - 1596
Jean-Michel Raimond
Born 1955
Eucherius of Orléans
687 - 738
Karim El Mourabet
Born 1980
René Sédillot
1906 - 1999
Pierre Viette
1921 - 2011
Gabriel Huquier
1695 - 1772
Edgar Puaud
1889 - 1945
Charles Barbara
1817 - 1866
Amaury de Riencourt
1918 - 2005
Patrick Barul
Born 1977
Jacques Guillemeau
1549 - 1613
Louis of Lower Lorraine
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Aunarius
573 - 603
Pierre Courcelle
1912 - 1980
Catherine Feuillet
Born 1965
Édouard Mignan
1884 - 1969
Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne
1694 - 1779
Stanley Joseph
Born 1991
Michel Corneille the Elder
1601 - 1664
Franck Marlin
Born 1964
Christophe Moyreau
1700 - 1774
Jonas Aguenier
Born 1992
Augustin Jacob Landré-Beauvais
1772 - 1840
Jacques Aleaume
1562 - 1627
Claude de l'Aubespine, baron de Châteauneuf
1510 - 1567
Lauren Bastide
Born 1981
Bernard Schmetz
1904 - 1966
Anthony Rodriguez
Born 1979
Jean-Louis Ferrary
1948 - 2020
Boris Mahon de Monaghan
Born 1986
Stephen Badin
1768 - 1853
Josselin Garnier
Born 1971
Ambroise Chevreux
1728 - 1792
Joël-François Durand
Born 1954
Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor
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Pierre Courtin
1921 - 2012
Georges Maurice Jean Blanchard
1877 - 1954
Charlie Lea
1956 - 2011
Raymond Vanier
1895 - 1965
Charles Louis Simonneau
1645 - 1728
Roland de Mecquenem (archaeologist)
1877 - 1957
Alfred-Désiré Lanson
1851 - 1898
Henri Roussel de Courcy
1827 - 1887
Charles Malfray
1887 - 1940
Lupus of Sens
573 - 623
Fabienne Kanor
Born 1970
Louis Antoine Macarel
1790 - 1851
Albert Gombault
1844 - 1904
François Anatole Laurent de Rillé
1828 - 1915
Achille Lemot
1846 - 1909
Camille Bert
1880 - 1970
Thomas Renault
Born 1984
Dom Jacques Alexandre
1653 - 1734
Damien Adam
Born 1989
Eugène Caillaux
1822 - 1896
Gilles Delouche
1948 - 2020
Guillaume Chasteau
1635 - 1683
Arnaud Méthivier
Born 1971
Djédjé Apali
1975 - 2019
Pierre Louis Parisis
1795 - 1866
Pierre Georges Louis d'Hugues
1873 - 1961
Jean-Pierre Chaline
Born 1939
Ridsa
Born 1990
Jean Maréchal
1910 - 1993
Olivier Lejeune
Born 1951
Louis Daniel Arnault de Nobleville
1701 - 1778
Lionel Medeiros
Born 1977
Paul Pétau
1568 - 1614
Marc-Antoine Pellin
Born 1987
Patrice Esnault
Born 1961
Anatole Loquin
1834 - 1903
Claude Lucien Bergery
1787 - 1863
Thomas Bonnin
Born 1989
Baudilus
Died 259
Henry Lachouque
1883 - 1971
Pierre Gaultier
1599 - 1638
Jean-Claude Lavaud
1938 - 2011
Jean Michel Constant Leber
1780 - 1859
Yakup Ramazan Zorlu
Born 1991
Jacques de Thézac
1862 - 1936
Geoffroy Vallée
1550 - 1574
Reginaldo d'Orléans
1180 - 1220
Amélie Élie
1878 - 1933
Patrick Levaye
Born 1952
Charles Joseph Gravier
1865 - 1937
Maurice Asselin
1882 - 1947
Jean-Pierre Lesguillon
1799 - 1873
Stéphanie Kerbarh
Born 1975
Patrick Bornhauser
Born 1957
Louis Betbeder Matibet
1901 - 1986
Adrien Bart
Born 1991
Noël Quillerier
1594 - 1669
Siméon Marotte de Muis
1587 - 1644
Jean Claveret
1590 - 1666
Élie Dohin
Born 1983
Dosseh
Born 1986
Pierre-Eugène Grandsire
1825 - 1905
Philippe Chanlot
Born 1967
Simon Krauss
Born 1992
Adelaide Bartlett
Born 1855
Alfred Dufresne
1822 - 1863
Sylvie Gazeau
Born 1950
Jean-Baptiste Bordas
Born 1938
Félix Cazot
1790 - 1857
Jeanne Berta Semmig
1867 - 1958
François de Beauharnois de la Chaussaye, Baron de Beauville
1665 - 1746
Frank Samson
Born 1967
Charles Théodore Beauvais de Préau
1772 - 1830
Pierre Delaire
1919 - 1985
Georges Fleury (cyclisme)
1878 - 1968
Pierre Trahard
1887 - 1986
Laurent Nunez
Born 1978
Alexandre Moix
Born 1972
Fabrice Robert
Born 1971
Emmanuel-Marie-Stanislas Thibaut de La Rochethulon
1832 - 1890
Nicolas Ysambert
1565 - 1642
Laurent-Frédéric Bollée
Born 1967
Georges Fabre
1844 - 1911
Charles Rivière
1848 - 1920
Christophe Meneau
Born 1968
René Berthelot
1903 - 1999
Bruno Gutzeit
Born 1966
Vincent Labrune
Born 1971
Pierre d'Arrablay
1260 - 1331
Cyril Neveu
Born 1956
Daniel Jousse
1704 - 1781
Eugène Woestyn
1813 - 1861
Quentin de Parseval
Born 1987
Laurence Lacour
Born 1957
Marie-Odile Monchicourt
Born 1947
Namory Boundy
Born 1989
Christian de Montlibert
Born 1937
Pierre Levesville
1570 - 1632
Scott Sabourin
Born 1992
Jean-René Suratteau
1916 - 1998
David Lelait-Helo
Born 1971
Louis-Nicolas Brette Saint-Ernest
1802 - 1860
Georges Lerminier
1915 - 1978
Louis-Joseph Soulas
1905 - 1954
Christine Mallo
Born 1966
François Jérosme
Born 1954
Pierre Morin (acteur)
1896 - 1987
Roger Secrétain
1902 - 1982
Aignan-Thomas Desfriches
1715 - 1800
Gérard Calot
1934 - 2001
Roger Toulouse
1918 - 1994
Mesmin
Died 520
Christophe Tinseau
Born 1969
Bernard Vaussion
Born 1953
Éric Rondepierre
Born 1950
Florence Cadier
Born 1956
Paul Archambault
1883 - 1950
Marion Larat
Born 1987
Robert de Dampierre
1888 - 1974
Jean-Jacques Sergent
1945 - 2011
Philippe Madelin
1935 - 2010
Étienne Hubert (Arabist)
1567 - 1614
Paul Auguste Gombault
1786 - 1853
Michel Lezeau
Born 1942
Joseph Louis Ripault-Desormeaux
1724 - 1793
Philippe Nivet
Born 1967
Michel Boulard
Born 1935
Yacine Sene
Born 1982
Michel Woldemar
1750 - 1815
Marie-Christine Labourdette
Born 1961
Simone Saint-Clair
1896 - 1975
Pierre Vielhescaze
Born 1940
Michel Adam
1926 - 2007
Fabien Toulmé
Born 1980
Jean Claude Léonard Poisle Desgranges
1789 - 1876
Nicolas Faucier
1900 - 1992
Geneviève Laureau
Born 1941
Thémiseul de Saint-Hyacinthe
1684 - 1746
Albert Barbier
1845 - 1931
Laurent Fétis (écrivain)
Born 1970
Carlos Collado
Born 1938
François Gault
1933 - 2017
Jacques Asklund
1946 - 2012
Pierre Daniel (d'Orléans)
1531 - 1604
Charles Dubois
1834 - 1911
Claude de Beauharnais (1680–1738)
1680 - 1738
Pierre Dupuis (1833-1915)
1833 - 1915
Gilles Millet
1951 - 2018
Pierre Alexandre Jean Mollière
1800 - 1850
Jacques Météhen
1903 - 1986
Laurence Garcia
Born 1972
Charles Maurain
1871 - 1967
Brice Daubord
Born 1985
Marie Laubot
Born 1836
Pierre Bigot de Morogues
1776 - 1840
Catherine Deudon
Born 1940
Gérard Piouffre
1946 - 2020
Jean Henri Chouppe
1817 - 1894
Arnolfo di Orléans
964 - 1003
Cécile Daroux
1969 - 2011
Léon Lebègue
1863 - 1944
Gabriel-Jacques Laisné de Villévêque
1766 - 1851
Raymond Brugère
1885 - 1966
Pierre Chevallier (homme politique)
1909 - 1951
Alcide Bonneau
1836 - 1904
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
Born 1977
Octave de Champeaux
1827 - 1903
Michel Schifres
Born 1946
Jacqueline Pigeot
Born 1939
André Algarron
1909 - 1980
Claude Laurent
Born 1935
Yven Moyo
Born 1992
Louis Simonneau
1654 - 1727
Brizard (acteur)
1721 - 1791
Guy Beaujouan
1925 - 2007
Morgan Maunoir
Born 1993
Jean-Philippe Dally
Born 1996
André Petitfils
Born 1920
Henri Gérard
1818 - 1903