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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 1850s Clear ×
Henri Bergson
1859 - 1941
Pierre Curie
1859 - 1906
Georges Seurat
1859 - 1891
Henri Becquerel
1852 - 1908
Rudolf Diesel
1858 - 1913
Alexandre Millerand
1859 - 1943
Henri Moissan
1852 - 1907
Alphonse Bertillon
1853 - 1914
Charles Richet
1850 - 1935
Pierre Janet
1859 - 1947
Napoléon, Prince Imperial
1856 - 1879
Léon Bourgeois
1851 - 1925
Vincent d'Indy
1851 - 1931
Henry Louis Le Chatelier
1850 - 1936
Ernest Chausson
1855 - 1899
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
1857 - 1939
Robert de Montesquiou
1855 - 1921
Cécile Chaminade
1857 - 1944
Joseph Babinski
1857 - 1932
Émile Cohl
1857 - 1938
Maximilien Luce
1858 - 1941
Roland Bonaparte
1858 - 1924
Wojciech Kossak
1856 - 1942
Émile Picard
1856 - 1941
Maurice Paléologue
1859 - 1944
André Michelin
1853 - 1931
Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret
1852 - 1929
Gabrielle Réjane
1856 - 1920
Jean-François Raffaëlli
1850 - 1924
Jacques Doucet (fashion designer)
1853 - 1929
Pierre Marie
1853 - 1940
François Flameng
1856 - 1923
Julien Dupré
1851 - 1911
Mélanie Bonis
1858 - 1937
Caroline Rémy de Guebhard
1855 - 1929
Alphonse Pénaud
1850 - 1880
Philippe Bunau-Varilla
1859 - 1940
Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart
1859 - 1942
Victor Loret
1859 - 1946
Raphaël Collin
1850 - 1916
Gaston Bonnier
1853 - 1922
Léon Teisserenc de Bort
1855 - 1913
Paul-Jacques Curie
1855 - 1941
Joseph Reinach
1856 - 1921
Alfred Bruneau
1857 - 1934
André Gedalge
1856 - 1926
Gustave Geffroy
1855 - 1926
Gaston Méliès
1852 - 1915
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac
1853 - 1905
Alphonse Osbert
1857 - 1939
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
1853 - 1948
Maurice Donnay
1859 - 1945
Charles Mengin
1853 - 1933
Eugène Brieux
1858 - 1932
Norbert Goeneutte
1854 - 1894
August Czartoryski
1858 - 1893
Louis de Beaufront
1855 - 1935
Alexandre Charpentier
1856 - 1909
Pierre Carrier-Belleuse
1851 - 1932
Paul Marie Eugène Vieille
1854 - 1934
Eugène Galien-Laloue
1854 - 1941
Jean-Eugène Buland
1852 - 1926
Jacques Bertillon
1851 - 1922
Paul Jamin
1853 - 1903
Albert Vandal
1853 - 1910
Jules Carpentier
1851 - 1921
Camille Chevillard
1859 - 1923
Georges Petit
1856 - 1920
Jules Girardet
1856 - 1938
Henri Caïn
1857 - 1937
Étienne Moreau-Nélaton
1859 - 1927
Jules de Gaultier
1858 - 1942
Maurice Leloir
1853 - 1940
Emmanuel Drake del Castillo
1855 - 1904
Pierre Puiseux
1855 - 1928
Philipp von Ferrary
1850 - 1917
Pierre Decourcelle
1856 - 1926
Martial Caillebotte
1853 - 1910
Paul d'Ivoi
1856 - 1915
Paul Nadar
1856 - 1939
Jeanne Samary
1857 - 1890
Guillaume Dubufe
1853 - 1909
Augustus Desiré Waller
1856 - 1922
Eugène-Anatole Demarçay
1852 - 1903
Jean Gabriel-Marie
1852 - 1928
Arthur de Rothschild
1851 - 1903
Denys Cochin
1851 - 1922
James Dwight
1852 - 1917
Augustus Harris
1852 - 1896
Julien Le Blant
1851 - 1936
Ellen Andrée
1856 - 1933
Antoine Béclère
1856 - 1939
Fernand de La Tombelle
1854 - 1928
René Vilatte
1854 - 1929
Jean Dybowski
1856 - 1928
Henry Bauër
1851 - 1915
Paul-Émile Boutigny
1853 - 1929
Gabriel Jean Edmond Séailles
1852 - 1922
René Cagnat
1852 - 1937
Henri Paul Nénot
1853 - 1934
Hugues Krafft
1853 - 1935
Georges Cain
1856 - 1919
Francis de Pressensé
1853 - 1914
Gabriel Delanne
1857 - 1926
Pierre de Ségur
1853 - 1916
Ary Renan
1858 - 1900
Alfred Vallette
1858 - 1935
Joseph-Félix Bouchor
1853 - 1937
Lucien Gaulard
1850 - 1888
Armand du Paty de Clam
1853 - 1916
Julien Noël Costantin
1857 - 1936
Marie Georges Humbert
1859 - 1921
Ernest Laurent
1859 - 1929
Maurice Leblanc (engineer)
1857 - 1923
Henri Babinski
1855 - 1931
Joseph de Baye
1853 - 1931
Pierre Roche
1855 - 1922
Herman Bemberg
1859 - 1931
Paul Desjardins
1859 - 1940
Albert Aublet
1851 - 1938
Clément Huart
1854 - 1926
André Wormser
1851 - 1926
Georges Cochery
1855 - 1914
Edmond Gustave Camus
1852 - 1915
Charles Malherbe
1853 - 1911
Jacqueline Comerre-Paton
1859 - 1955
Paul Segond
1851 - 1912
Frédéric-Charles-Victor de Vernon
1858 - 1912
Maurice Maindron
1857 - 1911
Robert de Bonnières
1850 - 1905
Jacques Hermant
1855 - 1930
René Vallery-Radot
1853 - 1933
Henry Roujon
1853 - 1914
Maurice Fenaille
1855 - 1937
Paul Ginisty
1855 - 1932
Arsène Alexandre
1859 - 1937
Parfait-Louis Monteil
1855 - 1925
Paul Grandhomme
1851 - 1944
Jeanne Julia Bartet
1854 - 1941
Jules Andrade
1857 - 1933
Georges Eugène Charles Beauvisage
1852 - 1925
Gustave Michel
1851 - 1924
Louis-Félix Henneguy
1850 - 1928
Henri Lucien Doucet
1856 - 1895
Victor Gustave Robin
1855 - 1897
Georges Rouy
1851 - 1924
Louis Édouard Fournier
1857 - 1917
Émile Bourgeois
1857 - 1934
Louis Mangin
1852 - 1937
Camille-Félix Bellanger
1853 - 1923
Adolphe Steinheil
1850 - 1908
Eugène Beyens (1855-1934)
1855 - 1934
Jane de La Vaudère
1857 - 1908
Eugène Girardet
1850 - 1907
Georges Fragerolle
1855 - 1920
Paul de Choudens
1850 - 1925
Paul Hillemacher
1852 - 1933
Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger
1853 - 1924
Édouard François Zier
1856 - 1924
Henri Menier
1853 - 1913
Antoine Simon (composer)
1850 - 1916
Harry de Windt
1856 - 1933
Frédéric Samuel Cordey
1854 - 1911
Jeanne Granier
1852 - 1939
Edmond Lachenal
1855 - 1948
Louis Capitan
1854 - 1929
Adolphe Philippe Millot
1857 - 1921
Noël Valois
1855 - 1915
Emmanuel Rodocanachi
1859 - 1934
Henry Duhamel
1853 - 1917
Armand Berton (painter)
1854 - 1927
John Grand-Carteret
1850 - 1927
Henri-Auguste Patey
1855 - 1930
Charles Jules Edmée Brongniart
1859 - 1899
Charles Eugène Bertrand
1851 - 1917
Eugène Mougin
1852 - 1923
Maurice Desvallières
1857 - 1926
Félix Gaudin
1851 - 1930
Camille Bellaigue
1858 - 1930
Alfred Lenoir
1850 - 1920
Gustave Lyon
1857 - 1936
Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert
1858 - 1945
Maurice Balfourier
1852 - 1933
Henri Deglane
1855 - 1931
Antoine Mizon
1853 - 1899
Antonin Marmontel
1850 - 1907
Louis Aucoc
1850 - 1932
Alfred Choubrac
1853 - 1902
Auguste Gérard
1852 - 1922
Joseph, Prince de Caraman-Chimay
1858 - 1937
Emma Pieczynska-Reichenbach
1854 - 1927
Florence Bell (writer)
1851 - 1930
Elise Hall (musician)
1853 - 1924
Octave Lebesgue
1857 - 1933
Paul Bar
1853 - 1945
Walter Van Rensselaer Berry
1859 - 1927
Adrien Karbowsky
1855 - 1945
Paul Ollendorff
1851 - 1920
Émile-Alexandre Taskin
1853 - 1897
Stanislas Lami
1858 - 1944
Georges Le Faure
1856 - 1953
Auguste Pellerin
1853 - 1929
Alfred-Henri Bramtot
1852 - 1894
Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte
1853 - 1927
Gustave Frédéric Dollfus
1850 - 1931
Israël Lévi
1856 - 1939
Léon Koëlla-Leenhoff
1852 - 1927
Adolphe Cohn
1851 - 1930
Pierre Fritel
1853 - 1942
Alexandre Bloch
1857 - 1919
Tadeusz Kossak
1857 - 1935
Dornac
1858 - 1941
Gabrielle Ferrari
1851 - 1921
Maurice Bunau-Varilla
1856 - 1944
Gaston Da Costa
1850 - 1909
Alfred-Arthur Brunel de Neuville
1852 - 1941
Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus
1851 - 1915
Gustave Goublier
1856 - 1926
Henry Cochin
1854 - 1926
Jean Henri Georges Laguerre
1858 - 1912
Étienne Flandin
1853 - 1922
Abraham Bloch
1859 - 1914
Jules Truffier
1856 - 1943
Jorge Tibiriçá Piratininga
1855 - 1928
Charlotte Dubray
1854 - 1931
Georges Duruy
1853 - 1918
Paul Wachs
1851 - 1915
Hermine Lecomte du Nouÿ
1854 - 1915
Raphaël-Georges Lévy
1853 - 1933
Bernard Haussoullier
1853 - 1926
Edmond Blanc
1856 - 1920
Marcel Dubois
1856 - 1916
Émile-Gustave Cavallo-Péduzzi
1851 - 1917
Bertrand Auerbach
1856 - 1942
Frédéric Lachèvre
1855 - 1943
Léon Lécuyer
1855 - 1915
Henri Brosselard-Faidherbe
1855 - 1893
Charles François Laurent
1856 - 1939
Louis-Alexandre Bottée
1852 - 1940
Eugène Marioton
1857 - 1933
Paul Tavernier
1852 - 1943
Marie Adrien Lavieille
1852 - 1911
Leo Herrmann
1853 - 1927
Juliette Simon-Girard
1859 - 1954
Charles Rabut
1852 - 1925
Henry Marcel
1854 - 1926
Gustave Pellet
1859 - 1919
Julia Cruger
1850 - 1920
Louis Ganderax
1855 - 1940
Jean-Paul Sinibaldi
1857 - 1909
Paul Roux
1851 - 1918
Louis Conneau
1856 - 1930
Horace Daillion
1854 - 1937
Tivadar Andrássy
1857 - 1905
Henri Lanos
1859 - 1929
Jules Jouy
1855 - 1897
Charles Bioche
1859 - 1949
Eugène d'Harcourt
1859 - 1918
Charles Moreau-Vauthier
1857 - 1924
Albert Renaud
1855 - 1924
Gustave Bémont
1857 - 1937
Herminie de La Brousse de Verteillac
1853 - 1926
Antoine Banès
1856 - 1924
Henri Carot
1850 - 1919
Agénor de Gramont (1851-1925)
1851 - 1925
Eugène Fournière
1857 - 1914
Jeanne Royannez
1855 - 1932
Jean-Louis Brémond
1858 - 1943
Paul Louis Bouchard
1853 - 1937
Fabrice Carré
1855 - 1921
Amand Louis Bauqué
1851 - 1903
Charles Lebayle
1856 - 1898
Léon de Bercy
1857 - 1915
Georges Chicotot
1855 - 1937
Paul Girard
1852 - 1922
Louis Thuasne
1854 - 1940
Paul Gout
1852 - 1923
Paul Fauchey
1858 - 1936
Gabriel-Charles Deneux
1856 - 1926
Amédée Pigeon
1851 - 1905
Paul Pisani
1852 - 1933
Ernest Jean Aimé
1858 - 1916
Max Revel
1850 - 1850
Mily-Meyer
1852 - 1927
Alfred Saint-Yves
1855 - 1933
Robert Charvay
1858 - 1925
Paul Marmottan
1856 - 1932
Lucien Pallez
1853 - 1933
René Le Bègue (Fotograf)
1857 - 1914
Georges Rolland
1852 - 1910
Louise Théo
1854 - 1922
Paul Nourrisson
1858 - 1940
Guillaume Livet
1856 - 1919
Albert Fourié
1854 - 1937
Louis Morin (peintre)
1855 - 1938
Suzanne Reichenberg
1853 - 1924
Camille Dumény
1854 - 1920
Édouard Bisson
1856 - 1939
Léon Lindet
1857 - 1929
Antoine Breguet
1851 - 1882