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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.
- Art & Design
- Writing
- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Music
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- Filtered to 1870s Clear ×
Jean-Pierre Laurens
1875 - 1932
Fanny Clar
1875 - 1944
Jacques Liouville
1879 - 1960
Pierre Rivière (évêque)
1871 - 1961
Maurice Nicloux
1873 - 1945
Paul Dupuy (homme politique)
1878 - 1927
Georges Choquet
1878 - 1946
Edmond Malherbe
1870 - 1963
Paul Guadet
1873 - 1931
Edward Blum (architect)
1876 - 1944
Henri Contenet
1875 - 1962
Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague
1870 - 1939
Paul Aubriot
1873 - 1959
Bertrand Marie de Lesseps
1875 - 1918
Louis Mandin
1872 - 1943
Guy-Charles Cros
1879 - 1956
Léon Bernard
1877 - 1935
Robert Picqué
1877 - 1927
Georgette Bréjean-Silver
1870 - 1951
Henri Salmet
Born 1878
Pierre Jean Henri Didelot
1870 - 1941
Maurice Dide
1873 - 1944
Eugène Osty
1874 - 1938
Ernest Jean-Marie Millard de Bois Durand
1872 - 1946
René Thévenin
1877 - 1967
Jeanne Landre
1874 - 1936
Auguste Eugène Méquignon
1875 - 1958
Auguste Roubille
1872 - 1955
George Blum
1870 - 1928
Pierre Leprince-Ringuet
1874 - 1954
Léon Arvel
1873 - 1956
Paul Sieffert
1874 - 1957
Henry Paté
1878 - 1942
Charles Huard
1874 - 1965
Jacques Marcel Auburtin
1872 - 1926
Georges Mouveau
1878 - 1959
Georges Chevrot
1879 - 1958
Clotilde-Camille Deflandre
1871 - 1946
Émile Vardannes
1873 - 1951
Georges Sporck
1870 - 1943
François Carnot
1872 - 1960
Alba Chrétien-Vaguet
1872 - 1963
Jean Javal
1871 - 1915
Paul Renaudin
1873 - 1964
Lucien Biva
1878 - 1965
Henry Arnold (sculpteur)
1879 - 1945
Armand Lurville
1875 - 1955
Paul Dalbret
1876 - 1927
Edmond Pilon
1874 - 1945
Henriette Desportes
1877 - 1951
Louis de Lubersac
1878 - 1932
Charles Vickery Drysdale
1874 - 1961
Pierre Gauthier (sailor)
Born 1879
Pierre d'Argenson
1877 - 1915
Gab Sorère
Born 1878
Charlotte Barbier-Krauss
1877 - 1938
Frances Jenkins Olcott
1872 - 1963
Georges Cahen-Salvador
1875 - 1963
Josselin de Rohan-Chabot
1879 - 1916
Alphonse Mustel
1873 - 1937
Albert Huyot
1872 - 1968
Léon Ponscarme
1879 - 1916
Édouard Autant
1872 - 1964
Paul-Louis
1872 - 1955
Léon Rosenthal
1870 - 1932
José María Quiñones de León
1873 - 1957
André Dumas (poète)
1874 - 1943
Paulo do Rio Branco
1876 - 1927
Henri Beylie
1870 - 1944
William Ablett
1877 - 1936
André Ventre
1874 - 1951
René Huchon
1872 - 1940
Marc Henry
1873 - 1943
Exoristo Salmerón
1877 - 1925
François Veuillot
1870 - 1952
Charles-Albert Walhain
1877 - 1936
Pierre Goujon
1875 - 1914
Jacques Morel (writer)
Born 1870
Paul Tisseyre
1873 - 1931
Jean Béguin-Billecocq
1875 - 1936
Marguerite Hasselmans
1876 - 1947
Pierre Dézarnaulds
1879 - 1975
Charles Barberot
1876 - 1915
Blanche Denège
1876 - 1957
Paul Vitry
1872 - 1941
Fernand Maurette
1878 - 1937
André Rostand
1878 - 1965
Edmond Bloud
1876 - 1948
Jacques Zeiller
1878 - 1962
André Picard (dramaturge)
1873 - 1926
Louis Roger (peintre)
1874 - 1953
Pierre Marodon
1873 - 1949
René Péan
1875 - 1955
Marie-Jeanne Bassot
1878 - 1935
Irène Hillel-Erlanger
1878 - 1920
Félix Chautemps
1877 - 1915
Leo Jordan
1874 - 1940
Auguste Marchais
1872 - 1952
Henri Bornecque
1871 - 1935
Jacques Taffanel
1875 - 1946
Henri Anthoine
Born 1878
Charles Abella
1879 - 1961
André Lepère
1878 - 1964
René Kieffer
1876 - 1963
André Mayer
1875 - 1956
Marcelle Lapicque
1873 - 1962
Georges Crès
1875 - 1935
Louis Poinssot
1879 - 1967
Jean Viollet
1875 - 1956
André Hesse
1874 - 1940
Pierre Duval (chirurgien)
1874 - 1941
Émilie Lamotte
1876 - 1909
Charles Delvert
1879 - 1940
Lucien de Vissec
1872 - 1953
Albert Harlingue
1879 - 1963
Charles Fallot
1874 - 1939
Louis Périn
1871 - 1940
Henry Gutton
1874 - 1963
André d'Ormesson
1877 - 1957
Georges Thibout
1878 - 1951
Gustave Rodrigues
1871 - 1940
Lucien Graux
1878 - 1944
Therese-Marthe-Francoise Cotard-Dupre
1877 - 1920
Edmond Malassis
1874 - 1944
Paul Gaultier
1872 - 1960
Georges Ripart
Born 1871
Louis Brachet
1877 - 1968
Eugène Léon L'Hoëst
1874 - 1937
Pierre Sauvaire de Barthélémy
1870 - 1940
Victor Crémieu
1872 - 1935
Maurice Potron
1872 - 1942
Raymond Woog
1875 - 1949
Charles Naillod
1876 - 1941
Élisabeth Zabeth
1879 - 1933
Théophile Fras
Born 1873
Jean Guiffrey
1870 - 1952
Joseph Bassompierre-Sewrin
1871 - 1950
Camille Decreus
1876 - 1939
Richard Wallace (fencer)
1872 - 1941
Gustave Louis Blanc
1872 - 1927
Alphonse Tellier (constructeur aéronautique)
1879 - 1929
Pierre Villetard
1874 - 1956
Paul Blanchet
1870 - 1900
Maurice Delcourt
1877 - 1916
Maurice de Lambert
1873 - 1952
Auguste-Siméon Colas
1876 - 1968
Eugène Cools
1877 - 1936
Ernest-Marie Herscher
1870 - 1939
Georges Bidault de l'Isle
1874 - 1956
Paul Ruinart
1876 - 1959
Jean-Joseph Marquet de Vasselot
1871 - 1946
Amédée Joyau
1872 - 1913
Georges Boussenot
1876 - 1974
Jean Lerolle
1873 - 1962
Georges Weulersse
1874 - 1950
Édouard Couturier
1871 - 1903
Robert Trébor (dramaturge)
1879 - 1942
Lubin de Beauvais
1873 - 1917
Louis Bénech (parolier)
1875 - 1925
Jérôme Labourt
1874 - 1957
François Benoît
1870 - 1947
François Laurentie
1874 - 1915
Charles Dubois (Archäologe)
1877 - 1965
Jules Zirnheld
1876 - 1940
André Bérard (architecte)
1871 - 1948
Charles d'Harcourt
1870 - 1956
Ismaël de Lesseps
1871 - 1915
Jean Tannery
1878 - 1939
Albert Cahen (fencer)
1877 - 1937
Pierre Jacobé de Haut de Sigy
1876 - 1960
Pierre Dupuy (homme politique)
1876 - 1968
Louis Amiard
1872 - 1935
Édouard Bague
1879 - 1911
Henry Kapférer
1870 - 1958
Camille Beltrand
1877 - 1951
Marcel Givierge
1871 - 1931
Pascal Garnier (ingénieur)
1872 - 1898
Raoul Calary de Lamazière
1879 - 1932
Marie-Louise Pailleron
1870 - 1951
André Helbronner
1878 - 1944
Alphonse Gibory
1873 - 1952
Jeanne-Marie Barbey
1876 - 1960
Charles Bigonet
1877 - 1931
Alfred Forbin
1872 - 1956
Émile Cahen (helléniste)
1874 - 1941
Sandy-Hook (peintre)
1879 - 1960
Gaston Fayet
1874 - 1967
Maurice Quentin (homme politique)
1870 - 1955
Maurice Sizaire
1877 - 1969
Alphonse Crozière
1873 - 1946
Henri de Polignac
1878 - 1915
Max Fuchs
1876 - 1949
Constant Verlot
1876 - 1933
Henri de Monti de Rezé
1874 - 1965
Édouard Michel
1873 - 1953
Paul-François Berthoud
1870 - 1939
Paul Arbelet
1874 - 1938
Léo Courtois
1878 - 1941
Jean Lionnet
1872 - 1910
Adrien Oudin
1873 - 1934
Marcel Éric Audemard d'Alançon
1874 - 1917
Bernard Crocé-Spinelli
1871 - 1932
Henry Tattegrain
1874 - 1949
Victor Schleiter
1872 - 1933
Agnès Barron
1874 - 1968
Léon Bonhomme
1870 - 1924
Édouard Dubuc
1872 - 1945
Lucien Dayle
1871 - 1952
Albert Devaux
Born 1874
Pierre Bracquemond
1870 - 1926
Émile Boyer
1877 - 1948
Louis Segondi
1879 - 1949
Maurice Mahut
1878 - 1929
Maurice Dutreil
1875 - 1940
Charles Krauss
1871 - 1926
Youssef Khan Nazare-Aga
1870 - 1942
Émile Artus Boeswillwald
1873 - 1935
Georges Vaudoyer
1877 - 1947
Simone Bodève
1876 - 1921
Henri Pétin
1870 - 1911
Thilda Harlor
1871 - 1970
André Chapuy
1879 - 1941
Maurice Langlois-Meurinne
1873 - 1943
Julien Clément (réalisateur)
Born 1870
Pierre Prins (explorateur)
1870 - 1945
Louis Brandin
1874 - 1940
Henri-Georges Bréard
1873 - 1950
Jean Julien Champagne
1877 - 1932
Jean Hulot
1871 - 1959
Léon Mac-Auliffe
1876 - 1937
Georges Plasse
1878 - 1948
Georges Nanteuil
1870 - 1918
Margyl
1874 - 1907
Marcel Slawick
1877 - 1976
Henri Collen
1876 - 1924
Camille Marchand
1873 - 1972
Edmond Delphaut
1873 - 1943
Isabelle Viviani
1872 - 1923
Émile Lassailly
1875 - 1918
Jean Vuillet
1877 - 1961
André Détolle
1876 - 1962
Gaston Brun
1873 - 1918
Jules Dallet
1876 - 1970
Robert Herold
1879 - 1938
Léontine Bouchetal
1872 - 1932
Marthe Bertheaume
1878 - 1963
Louis Riché
1877 - 1949
Jacques Weismann
Born 1878
Harry Van Bergen
1871 - 1963
Pierre Heuzey
1875 - 1910
Lucien Chauvière
1876 - 1966
Joseph Petitjean
1875 - 1960
Juliette Milési
1872 - 1959
Robert Brussel
1874 - 1940
Louis-Édouard Byasson
1870 - 1911
Georges Desmoulins
1879 - 1959
Pauline Valmy
1876 - 1962
Gilbert Garnier
1874 - 1964
Henriette Marion
1879 - 1978
Joseph Imbrecq
1875 - 1948
Georges Bureau
1876 - 1940
Jean Billiter
1877 - 1965
Maurice Fouchet
1873 - 1924
Charles Dhéré
1876 - 1955
Charles Louis Joseph Belhague
1871 - 1942
Christopher von Tangen
1877 - 1941
Julien Ochsé
1876 - 1936
André Félix Roberty
1877 - 1963
Emanuel Ypsilanti
1877 - 1940
Jean Thureau-Dangin
1876 - 1942
Louis Héliès
1872 - 1932
Henri Delannoy
1873 - 1976
Étienne de Riche
1875 - 1950
Georges Térof
1874 - 1949
Maurice Antoine François Monguillot
1874 - 1945
Maurice Senart
1878 - 1962
Eugène Gabriel Mansuelle
1873 - 1938
Louis Brunet (homme politique, 1870-1927)
1870 - 1927
Jean Bon
1872 - 1944
Marthe Boyer-Breton
1879 - 1926
François-Henri Jolivet
1875 - 1955
André Goirand
1879 - 1962
Henri Georges Roulleaux-Dugage
1879 - 1932
André Camille Chazal
1875 - 1939
André Pradels
1878 - 1916
Alfred Baudon
1875 - 1932
Jeanne de Rothschild
1874 - 1929
Lucy Isnardon
Born 1879
Émile Ouzou
1870 - 1914
René-Félix Berger
1878 - 1954
Maurice Léger
1873 - 1948
Philippe Delaroche-Vernet
1878 - 1935
Adrien Rey-Golliet
1870 - 1948
André Payer
1877 - 1953
Wilhelm Wohlgemuth (Maler)
1870 - 1942
Jeanne Thomassin
Born 1873
Jeanne Debat-Ponsan
1879 - 1929
Georges Marty
1875 - 1959
Gaston Treignier
1878 - 1949
Madeleine Caudel
1879 - 1962