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PARIS
Most Famous People Born in Paris, France
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Voltaire
1694 - 1778
Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 - 1980
Claude Monet
1840 - 1926
Molière
1622 - 1673
Paul Gauguin
1848 - 1903
Napoleon III
1808 - 1873
Roman Polanski
Born 1933
Brigitte Bardot
Born 1934
Charles Baudelaire
1821 - 1867
Nicolas Sarkozy
Born 1955
Marquis de Sade
1740 - 1814
Marcel Proust
1871 - 1922
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Antoine Lavoisier
1743 - 1794
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
George Sand
1804 - 1876
Marion Cotillard
Born 1975
Jean-Luc Godard
Born 1930
Jacques-Louis David
1748 - 1825
Cardinal Richelieu
1585 - 1642
David Guetta
Born 1967
Catherine Deneuve
Born 1943
Luc Besson
Born 1959
Sarah Bernhardt
1844 - 1923
Henri Bergson
1859 - 1941
François Truffaut
1932 - 1984
André Gide
1869 - 1951
Isabelle Huppert
Born 1953
Georges Méliès
1861 - 1938
Louis Philippe I
1773 - 1850
Alexis de Tocqueville
1805 - 1859
Charles Perrault
1628 - 1703
W. Somerset Maugham
1874 - 1965
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
1754 - 1838
Pierre Curie
1859 - 1906
Madame de Pompadour
1721 - 1764
Simone Weil
1909 - 1943
André Malraux
1901 - 1976
Georges Seurat
1859 - 1891
Eva Green
Born 1980
Anatole France
1844 - 1924
François Villon
1431 - 1463
Prince Eugene of Savoy
1663 - 1736
Vincent Cassel
Born 1966
Jean Genet
1910 - 1986
Léon Blum
1872 - 1950
Alfred de Musset
1810 - 1857
Henri Becquerel
1852 - 1908
Prosper Mérimée
1803 - 1870
Vilfredo Pareto
1848 - 1923
Maurice Chevalier
1888 - 1972
Yo-Yo Ma
Born 1955
Napoleon II
1811 - 1832
Henrietta Maria of France
1609 - 1669
Charles VI of France
1368 - 1422
Pierre Beaumarchais
1732 - 1799
Francis Poulenc
1899 - 1963
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
1717 - 1783
Claude Chabrol
1930 - 2010
Alfred Sisley
1839 - 1899
Claude Lelouch
Born 1937
Louise Bourgeois
1911 - 2010
Germaine de Staël
1766 - 1817
Philip II of France
1165 - 1223
Charles VII of France
1403 - 1461
Alexandre Dumas fils
1824 - 1895
Manu Chao
Born 1961
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
1789 - 1857
Stéphane Mallarmé
1842 - 1898
Guy Debord
1931 - 1994
Jean-Martin Charcot
1825 - 1893
Rudolf Diesel
1858 - 1913
Mathieu Kassovitz
Born 1967
Renaud
Born 1952
Henri de Saint-Simon
1760 - 1825
Roger Vadim
1928 - 2000
Alexandre Desplat
Born 1961
Gérard de Nerval
1808 - 1855
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
1755 - 1842
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
1809 - 1891
Oscar I of Sweden
1799 - 1859
Robert Delaunay
1885 - 1941
François Boucher
1703 - 1770
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
1796 - 1832
Isabella of France
1292 - 1358
Gustave Caillebotte
1848 - 1894
Émilie du Châtelet
1706 - 1749
Charles Gounod
1818 - 1893
Michel Hazanavicius
Born 1967
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
1814 - 1879
Paul Signac
1863 - 1935
Joris-Karl Huysmans
1848 - 1907
Nadar
1820 - 1910
Christian Clavier
Born 1952
Gustave Moreau
1826 - 1898
Adèle Exarchopoulos
Born 1993
Edgar Morin
Born 1921
Eugène de Beauharnais
1781 - 1824
Suzanne Lenglen
1899 - 1938
Pierre de Marivaux
1688 - 1763
Alain Finkielkraut
Born 1949
Francis Picabia
1879 - 1953
Adrien-Marie Legendre
1752 - 1833
François Cluzet
Born 1955
Maurice Druon
1918 - 2009
François Ozon
Born 1967
Jules Michelet
1798 - 1874
Balthus
1908 - 2001
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
1699 - 1779
Richard Clayderman
Born 1953
Robert Desnos
1900 - 1945
Jacques Audiard
Born 1952
François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
1613 - 1680
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
1636 - 1711
Jamel Debbouze
Born 1975
Jacques Maritain
1882 - 1973
Jacques Delors
Born 1925
Sully Prudhomme
1839 - 1907
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
1729 - 1811
Sophie Germain
1776 - 1831
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Born 1944
Louis VI of France
1081 - 1137
Jacques Dutronc
Born 1943
Louis X of France
1289 - 1316
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1643 - 1704
Jean-Pierre Cassel
1932 - 2007
Henri, Count of Chambord
1820 - 1883
Catherine of Valois
1401 - 1437
Louis, Grand Condé
1621 - 1686
Emmanuelle Seigner
Born 1966
Philippe Starck
Born 1949
Louis VII of France
1120 - 1180
Edgard Varèse
1883 - 1965
Paul Langevin
1872 - 1946
Charles I of Anjou
1226 - 1285
Hortense de Beauharnais
1783 - 1837
Léon Foucault
1819 - 1868
Louis VIII of France
1187 - 1226
François Couperin
1668 - 1733
Félix Faure
1841 - 1899
André Le Nôtre
1613 - 1700
Gaston Leroux
1868 - 1927
Michel Debré
1912 - 1996
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
1727 - 1781
Nicolas Malebranche
1638 - 1715
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Born 1946
Charles Le Brun
1619 - 1690
Anne Parillaud
Born 1960
Nicolas Fouquet
1615 - 1680
Fred Vargas
Born 1957
Romain Duris
Born 1974
Éliphas Lévi
1810 - 1875
Thomas Bangalter
Born 1975
Louis Garrel
Born 1983
Ève Curie
1904 - 2007
Charles, Duke of Orléans
1394 - 1465
Irène Jacob
Born 1966
Régis Debray
Born 1940
Adolphe Adam
1803 - 1856
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné
1626 - 1696
Héloïse
1101 - 1164
Madame de La Fayette
1634 - 1693
Olivier Assayas
Born 1955
Jean de La Bruyère
1645 - 1696
Marcellin Berthelot
1827 - 1907
Raymond Loewy
1893 - 1986
Charles-Valentin Alkan
1813 - 1888
Stéphane Grappelli
1908 - 1997
Caterina Valente
Born 1931
Julien Green
1900 - 1998
Alexandre Millerand
1859 - 1943
Fabrice Luchini
Born 1951
Martin Solveig
Born 1976
René Clair
1898 - 1981
Maurice de Vlaminck
1876 - 1958
François Berléand
Born 1952
Jean Sylvain Bailly
1736 - 1793
Christian Louboutin
Born 1964
Yeardley Smith
Born 1964
Eugène Sue
1804 - 1857
Isabelle Carré
Born 1971
Henri Giraud
1879 - 1949
B. H. Liddell Hart
1895 - 1970
Catherine Frot
Born 1956
Georges Dumézil
1898 - 1986
Jean-Pierre Aumont
1911 - 2001
Prince Philippe, Count of Paris
1838 - 1894
Josiane Balasko
Born 1950
Patrice Leconte
Born 1947
Luis Federico Leloir
1906 - 1987
Flora Tristan
1803 - 1844
Elena Poniatowska
Born 1932
Louis Saha
Born 1978
Albert I, Prince of Monaco
1848 - 1922
Paul Delaroche
1797 - 1856
Georges Rouault
1871 - 1958
Marcel Carné
1906 - 1996
Madame Roland
1754 - 1793
Lassana Diarra
Born 1985
Érik Orsenna
Born 1947
André Weil
1906 - 1998
Maurice Allais
1911 - 2010
Jean-Marie Lustiger
1926 - 2007
Lili Boulanger
1893 - 1918
Benoît Magimel
Born 1974
Olivier Martinez
Born 1966
Claire Denis
Born 1946
Guy Hamilton
1922 - 2016
Yasmina Reza
Born 1959
Antoine-Jean Gros
1771 - 1835
Gérard Oury
1919 - 2006
Mamadou Sakho
Born 1990
Richard Berry (actor)
Born 1950
Henri Moissan
1852 - 1907
Ninon de l'Enclos
1620 - 1705
Marin Marais
1656 - 1728
Emmanuel Carrère
Born 1957
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
1754 - 1825
Mr. Oizo
Born 1974
Alphonse Bertillon
1853 - 1914
Amel Bent
Born 1985
Ernest Gellner
1925 - 1995
Dominique Wilkins
Born 1960
Jean-Claude Pascal
1927 - 1992
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
1675 - 1755
Maurice Gamelin
1872 - 1958
Marie-Antoine Carême
1784 - 1833
Charles Richet
1850 - 1935
Pierre Janet
1859 - 1947
Seán MacBride
1904 - 1988
Jeanne Balibar
Born 1968
Martine Aubry
Born 1950
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
1700 - 1771
Georges Duhamel
1884 - 1968
Roland Topor
1938 - 1997
N'Golo Kanté
Born 1991
Théodore Rousseau
1812 - 1867
Napoléon, Prince Imperial
1856 - 1879
Victorien Sardou
1831 - 1908
Adèle Haenel
Born 1989
Marie-Christine Barrault
Born 1944
Gaël Monfils
Born 1986
Pauline Viardot
1821 - 1910
Albert Gleizes
1881 - 1953
Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu
1766 - 1822
Kavinsky
Born 1975
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Born 1944
Inessa Armand
1874 - 1920
Charles Lucien Bonaparte
1803 - 1857
Jacques Ibert
1890 - 1962
Horace Vernet
1789 - 1863
Frédéric Passy
1822 - 1912
Jean Vigo
1905 - 1934
Hervé Villechaize
1943 - 1993
Maria Malibran
1808 - 1836
Claudine Longet
Born 1942
Sophie Calle
Born 1953
Pierre Henry
1927 - 2017
Étienne-Louis Boullée
1728 - 1799
Jean-Baptiste Biot
1774 - 1862
Alexandre Aja
Born 1978
Antoine Galland
1646 - 1715
Guillaume de l'Hôpital
1662 - 1704
Julie Depardieu
Born 1973
Jean Casimir-Perier
1847 - 1907
Pierre Brasseur
1905 - 1972
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
1646 - 1708
Jean Rouch
1917 - 2004
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Born 1947
Melvil Poupaud
Born 1973
Henry Louis Le Chatelier
1850 - 1936
Eugène Marin Labiche
1815 - 1888
Ernest Chausson
1855 - 1899
Christian Jacq
Born 1947
Max Aub
1903 - 1972
Zygmunt Krasiński
1812 - 1859
Michel Déon
1919 - 2016
François Mansart
1598 - 1666
Ferdinand Buisson
1841 - 1932
Hippolyte Fizeau
1819 - 1896
Pierre Lemaitre
Born 1951
Henri Wallon (psychologist)
1879 - 1962
Alexis Korner
1928 - 1984
Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy
1766 - 1847
Elizabeth Debicki
Born 1990
Louis Leterrier
Born 1973
Eva Gonzalès
1849 - 1883
Pierre Fresnay
1897 - 1975
Paul Painlevé
1863 - 1933
Raymond Roussel
1877 - 1933
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
1780 - 1857
Charles-François Daubigny
1817 - 1878
Anna de Noailles
1876 - 1933
Claude Zidi
Born 1934
Austen Henry Layard
1817 - 1894
Jean Bruller
1902 - 1991
Liliane Bettencourt
1922 - 2017
Charles Marie de La Condamine
1701 - 1774
Louis I, Duke of Orléans
1372 - 1407
Paul Poiret
1879 - 1944