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PARIS
Most Famous People Born in Paris, France
- Notable people
- 19,561
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1888
- Most distinctive
- Playwright 7.0×
Paris is the salon and the studio. Notable births stretch unbroken from the late Renaissance through the Belle Époque to the Nouvelle Vague, and whole subgenres of fame — the chansonnier, the salonnière, the ébéniste, the gallerist — exist here at densities found almost nowhere else. Painters, playwrights, sculptors, and architects crowd every century since 1600, and each era seems to leave its own profession on the books before the next one arrives.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Paris Is Known For
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Politician is Paris's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (1,799).
Paris over-indexes on playwright — 7.0× the global rate.
Paris under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Paris's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1660s Clear ×
Prince Eugene of Savoy
1663 - 1736
François Couperin
1668 - 1733
Marie Louise d’Orléans
1662 - 1689
Guillaume de l'Hôpital
1662 - 1704
François Louis, Prince of Conti
1664 - 1709
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
1665 - 1729
Louis, Prince of Condé (1668–1710)
1668 - 1710
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
1669 - 1741
Guillaume Amontons
1663 - 1705
Antoine Coypel
1661 - 1722
Jean-Féry Rebel
1666 - 1747
Charles Rollin
1661 - 1741
James Louis Sobieski
1667 - 1737
Pierre Le Gros the Younger
1666 - 1719
Daniel Marot
1661 - 1752
Jean-Baptiste Labat
1663 - 1738
Henri Desmarets
1661 - 1741
Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin
1664 - 1736
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquess of Torcy
1665 - 1746
Victor-Marie d'Estrées
1660 - 1737
Marie Thérèse de Bourbon
1666 - 1732
Florent-Jean de Vallière
1667 - 1759
Charles Dieupart
1667 - 1740
Robert Le Lorrain
1666 - 1743
Nicolas Bertin
1667 - 1736
Jacques Gabriel
1667 - 1742
Gaspard Le Roux
1660 - 1707
Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier
1664 - 1734
Louis Lully
1664 - 1734
Jean d'Estrées
1666 - 1718
Jean-Baptiste Lully fils
1665 - 1743
Nicolas Vleughels
1668 - 1737
Jean-Louis Lully
1667 - 1688
Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti
1661 - 1685
Pierre-Denis Martin (1663–1742)
1663 - 1742
Jean-Paul Bignon
1662 - 1743
François Pourfour du Petit
1664 - 1741
Claude François Bidal d'Asfeld
1665 - 1743
Antonio I, Prince of Monaco
1661 - 1731
Jean-Louis Lemoyne
1665 - 1755
Antoine Parent
1666 - 1716
Anne-Élisabeth de France
1662 - 1662
Hercule Mériadec, Duke of Rohan-Rohan
1669 - 1749
Marie-Anne de France
1664 - 1664
Raveneau de Lussan
1663 - 1690
Charles-Joachim Colbert de Croissy
1667 - 1738
Daniel Sarrabat
1666 - 1748
Marie-Thérèse de Subligny
1666 - 1735
Jeanne Dumée
1660 - 1706
Joseph Fleuriau d'Armenonville
1661 - 1728
Claude-François Fraguier
1660 - 1728
Jean-Antoine de Mesmes
1661 - 1723
Philippe Bertrand
1663 - 1724
Charles d'Agar
1669 - 1723
Louis Chéron
1660 - 1725
Jacques Lelong
1665 - 1721
Jean André
1662 - 1753
Pierre Dulin
1669 - 1748
Henri, Duke of Elbeuf
1661 - 1748
Antoine Dieu
1662 - 1727
François-Antoine Jolly
1662 - 1753
Claude Duflos
1665 - 1727
Henri-Charles du Cambout de Coislin
1665 - 1732
Gaspard Duchange
1662 - 1757
Hippolyte Hélyot
1660 - 1716
Michel-Celse-Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
1669 - 1736
Zacharias Longuelune
1669 - 1748
Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye
1663 - 1723
Bacqueville de la Potherie
1663 - 1736
Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin
1666 - 1700
Joseph-François Duché de Vancy
1668 - 1704
Matthieu Marais
1664 - 1737
Jean-Baptiste Broebes
1660 - 1720
Pierre de Camboust, duc de Coislin
1664 - 1710
Armand Claude Mollet
1660 - 1742
Nicolas Gervaise
1663 - 1729
Agnes Le Louchier
1660 - 1717
Claude Ballin (le Jeune)
1661 - 1754
Jean-Nicolas de Francine
1662 - 1735
Pierre-Jean Burette
1665 - 1747
Charles de Caylus
1669 - 1754
Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Gaston de Noailles
1669 - 1720
Jacques-Charles Renaud Dubuisson
1666 - 1739
Jean-Marie Henriau
1661 - 1738
Claude-Jean-Baptiste Dodart
1664 - 1730
Jean Mariette (imprimeur)
1660 - 1742
François-Armand de Lorraine-Armagnac
1665 - 1728
Denis-François Bouthillier de Chavigny
1665 - 1730
Pierre Benoît Dumas
1668 - 1745
François Armand Gervaise
1660 - 1761
Louis Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy
1663 - 1734
Louis-François Dubois de Saint-Gelais
1669 - 1737
Charles-Louis de La Baume Le Blanc
1663 - 1665
René Chauveau
1663 - 1722
Jean-Claude Fabre de l'Oratoire
1668 - 1753
François Marot
1666 - 1719
Michel Le Peletier (évêque)
1660 - 1706
Louis-Gaston Fleuriau d'Armenonville
1662 - 1733
Jacques Bouillart
1669 - 1726
Esprit Madeleine Poquelin
1665 - 1723
Dominique Barnabé Turgot de Saint Clair
1667 - 1727
Caterina Bianconelli
1665 - 1716
Jean Laurent Le Semelier
1660 - 1725
Jean Baptiste Gayot Dubuisson
1660 - 1735
Laurent Ronde
1666 - 1734
Jean-Charles Allet
1668 - 1732
Claude Verdot
1667 - 1733
Marie-Thérèse Dancourt
1663 - 1725
Pierre La Croix
1660 - 1729
Jean-Baptiste Thiaudière de Boissy
1666 - 1729
Charles Trudaine
1660 - 1721
Louis de Balzac Illiers d'Entragues
1664 - 1720
Antoine Fagon
1665 - 1742
Jean-Louis du Bouchet de Sourches
1669 - 1748
Louis Thomas d'Aquin (1667-1710)
1667 - 1710
Charles-Eugène de Lévis-Charlus
1669 - 1734
Marie-Anne Colbert
1665 - 1750
Louis Colbert
1667 - 1745
Louis de Béthune
1663 - 1734
Pierre de Brilhac
1667 - 1734
Louis de Cotte
1665 - 1749
Gilles de Hautefort
1666 - 1727
Charles-Maurice Le Peletier
1665 - 1731
Guillaume de La Boissière de Chambors
1666 - 1742