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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

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.

  1. Politician 1,799 0.8×
  2. Actor 1,636 1.6×
  3. Painter 1,632 3.2×
  4. Writer 1,043 1.6×
  5. Journalist 490 1.6×
  6. Architect 470 2.7×
  7. Film 463 1.9×
  8. Composer 451 1.8×
  1. Playwright 212 7.0×
  2. Sculptor 408 3.2×
  3. Painter 1,632 3.2×
  4. Architect 470 2.7×
  5. Photographer 207 2.2×
  6. Film 463 1.9×
  7. Composer 451 1.8×
  8. Diplomat 197 1.7×
  1. Football 445 0.2×

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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4719 PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophie Ristelhueber

Born 1949

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4727 LINGUIST

François Grosjean

Born 1946

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4731 PHYSICIAN

Alain Fischer

Born 1949

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4766 POLITICIAN

Jean-Pierre Stirbois

1945 - 1988

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4772 POLITICIAN

Philippe Augier

Born 1949

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4791 SINGER

Annie Philippe

Born 1946

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4830 WRITER

Odile Barski

Born 1946

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4836 JOURNALIST

Hervé Claude

Born 1945

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4856 POLITICIAN

Guy Geoffroy

Born 1949

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4891 WRITER

Agnès Rosenstiehl

Born 1941

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4900 FILM

Yann Dedet

Born 1946

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4912 POLITICIAN

Chantal Brunel

Born 1948

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4917 ORIENTALIST

Jean-Noël Robert

Born 1949

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4988 MUSIC

Ghédalia Tazartès

Born 1947

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5015 FILM

Jacques Fansten

Born 1946

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5021 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Rodnay Zaks

Born 1946

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5060 COMPOSER

Laurent Rossi

1948 - 2015

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5092 JOURNALIST

Michel Gurfinkiel

Born 1948

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5122 ESSAYIST

Florence de Baudus

Born 1946

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5140 COMPOSER

Jean-Yves Bosseur

Born 1947

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5166 POLITICIAN

Véronique Neiertz

Born 1942

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5188 ASTRONOMER

France A. Córdova

Born 1947

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5191 MATHEMATICIAN

Jean-Marc Deshouillers

Born 1946

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5192 PHYSICIST

André Neveu

Born 1946

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5208 WRITER

Alain Nadaud

1948 - 2015

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5221 ART CRITIC

Alain Weill (art critic)

Born 1946

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5232 ARTIST

Gérard Zlotykamien

Born 1940

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5244 SURGEON

Alain Deloche

Born 1940

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5259 MAESTRO

Roland Rech

Born 1944

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5263 COMPOSER

Édith Lejet

Born 1941

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5308 SCULPTOR

Daniel Druet

Born 1941

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5329 SPRINT

Gérard Fenouil

Born 1945

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5333 HISTORIAN

Jean-Thomas Nordmann

Born 1946

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5359 BANK

Philippe Junot

Born 1940

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5392 SCREENWRITER

Christine Edzard

Born 1945

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5394 POLITICIAN

Éric Doligé

Born 1943

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5410 WRITER

Jean Frémon

Born 1946

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5411 MODEL

Betty Catroux

Born 1945

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5428 ACADEMIC

Marina Yaguello

Born 1944

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5442 WRITER

Françoise Lefèvre

Born 1942

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5452 POLITICIAN

Michel Charzat

Born 1942

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5454 FILM

Jean-Claude Biette

1942 - 2003

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5460 BUSINESS

Yves Carcelle

1948 - 2014

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5510 POET

Pascal Payen-Appenzeller

Born 1944

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5520 SINGER

Joël Daydé

Born 1947

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5530 SOCIOLOGIST

Henri-Pierre Jeudy

Born 1945

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5537 WRITER

Paquita Paquin

Born 1949

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5541 WRITER

Pascal Bonafoux

Born 1949

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5543 ATHLETIC

Bernard Lamitié

Born 1946

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5566 MATHEMATICIAN

Bernard Helffer

Born 1949

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5568 FILM

Bertrand Van Effenterre

Born 1946

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5573 NOVELIST

Guy Konopnicki

Born 1948

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5580 SINGER

Gilles Marchal

1944 - 2013

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5596 ACTOR

Ellen Parker (actress)

Born 1949

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5613 MATHEMATICIAN

Claude Lemaréchal

Born 1944

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5648 POLITICIAN

Jean-Pierre Schosteck

Born 1942

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5655 NOVELIST

Jeanne Cordelier

Born 1944

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5677 BANK

Édouard Carmignac

Born 1947

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5696 FOOTBALL

Jean-Claude Bras

Born 1945

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5739 MUSICOLOGIST

Bernard Lortat-Jacob

Born 1941

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5761 MATHEMATICIAN

Jean Dhombres

Born 1942

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5776 PHOTOGRAPHER

Maurice Renoma

Born 1940

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5781 SCULPTOR

Serge Mangin

Born 1947

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5786 JOURNALIST

Jean-Louis Gouraud

Born 1943

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5798 HARPIST

Martine Géliot

1948 - 1988

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5806 HISTORIAN

Jean-Claude Cheynet

Born 1947

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5836 POLITICIAN

Catherine Procaccia

Born 1949

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5837 ACTOR

Véronique Le Flaguais

Born 1947

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5857 FILM

François Porcile

Born 1944

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5872 FILM

Claudie Ossard

Born 1943

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5901 HISTORIAN

Jean-Philippe Genet

Born 1944

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5957 ACTOR

Charlotte Dubreuil

Born 1940

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5967 SOCIOLOGIST

Yves Stourdzé

1947 - 1986

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5997 HISTORIAN

Diana Pinto (historian)

Born 1949

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6018 FILM

André Génovès

1941 - 2012

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6028 ACTOR

Patrick Floersheim

1944 - 2016

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6031 BIOLOGIST

Éric Karsenti

Born 1948

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6045 CONDUCTOR

Roland Pidoux

Born 1946

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6053 POLITICIAN

Pierre Gosnat

1948 - 2015

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6067 ARTIST

Nicole Lambert

Born 1948

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6068 ARTIST

Bernadette Després

Born 1941

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6071 MUSIC

Daniel Huck

Born 1948

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6074 BOXER

Johnny Famechon

Born 1945

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6115 MATHEMATICIAN

Olivier Pironneau

Born 1945

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6120 PAINTER

Pierre Risch

Born 1943

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6140 POPE

Alain Paul Lebeaupin

Born 1945

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6179 ECONOMIST

François Morin (économiste)

Born 1945

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6181 JOURNALIST

Marie-Claire Pauwels

1945 - 2011

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6193 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Guillemette Andreu

Born 1948

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6202 CURATOR

Catherine Massip

Born 1946

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6249 CHOREOGRAPHER

Jean Guizerix

Born 1945

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6268 WRITER

Christian Léourier

Born 1948

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6271 POLITICIAN

Bernard Lehideux

Born 1944

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6287 POLITICIAN

Jacques Vernier

Born 1944

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6323 POLITICIAN

Eneko Landaburu

Born 1948

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6325 RESEARCH

Patrick Forterre

Born 1949

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6332 ENTREPRENEUR

Philippe Camus (businessman)

Born 1948

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6344 CELLIST

Alain Meunier

Born 1942

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6350 JOURNALIST

Florence Hervé

Born 1944

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6352 PIANIST

Alice Ader

Born 1945

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6354 CONDUCTOR

Michel Piquemal

Born 1947

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6367 SCREENWRITER

Aline Issermann

Born 1948

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6432 JOURNALIST

Anne-France Dautheville

Born 1944

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6461 PASTOR

Jean-Arnold de Clermont

Born 1941

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6503 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Michèle Petit

Born 1946

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6532 INDOLOGIST

Ysé Tardan-Masquelier

Born 1949

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6557 WRITER

Jean-Jacques Greif

Born 1944

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6560 FILM

Gérard Mordillat

Born 1949

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6579 SINGER

Cléo (French singer)

Born 1946

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6592 ACTOR

Catherine Arditi

Born 1946

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6651 FILM

Martine Giordano

1944 - 2012

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6653 LAWYER

Danièle Bourcier

Born 1946

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6658 HISTORIAN

Jean-Christian Petitfils

Born 1944

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6681 MUSIC

Nicolas de Angelis

Born 1949

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6701 SOCIOLOGIST

Claude S. Fischer

Born 1948

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6721 CARDIOLOGIST

Alain Cribier

Born 1945

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6723 FENCER

Gilles Berolatti

Born 1944

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6741 SCULPTOR

Brigitte Terziev

Born 1943

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6742 ECONOMIST

Jacques Mairesse (economist)

Born 1940

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6762 CONDUCTOR

Alain Pâris

Born 1947

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6776 MUSIC

Irakli

Born 1940

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6794 PAINTER

Roberto Mangú

Born 1948

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6813 CURATOR

Anne Distel

Born 1947

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6848 POLITICIAN

Brigitte Douay

Born 1947

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6864 JOURNALIST

Allain Bougrain-Dubourg

Born 1948

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6867 FILM

Denis Amar

Born 1946

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6877 PRESENTER

Juan Claudio Cifuentes

1941 - 2015

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6881 PHOTOGRAPHER

Claude Nuridsany

Born 1946

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6884 ARTIST

Al Coutelis

Born 1949

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6890 HISTORIAN

Renee Poznanski

Born 1949

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6892 JOURNALIST

Francis Pisani

Born 1942

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6913 SINGER

Patrick Abrial

Born 1946

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6920 SCULPTOR

Christian Renonciat

Born 1947

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6941 ACTOR

Philippe Duclos

Born 1946

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6953 ETHNOLOGIST

Pascal Dibie

Born 1949

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6988 POLITICIAN

Catherine Barbaroux

Born 1949

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6995 SCREENWRITER

Myriam Mézières

Born 1949

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7009 COMPOSER

Dominique Regef

Born 1947

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7042 PHYSICIAN

Jean-Luc Caron

Born 1948

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7054 MUSIC

Michel Santangeli

1945 - 2014

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7059 POLITICIAN

Jean Bardet

Born 1941

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7074 POLITICIAN

Sylvia Bassot

1940 - 2014

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7107 ENGINEER

Bernard Marti

Born 1943

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7109 PHYSICIST

Gérard Mégie

1946 - 2004

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7115 SCREENWRITER

Frédéric H. Fajardie

1947 - 2008

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7135 SCULPTOR

Guénolé Azerthiope

Born 1944

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7146 SCULPTOR

Daniel Nadaud

Born 1942

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7172 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Patrick Wajsman

Born 1946

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7174 POLITICIAN

Roland du Luart

Born 1940

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7175 JOURNALIST

Jacques Pradel

Born 1947

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7179 LAWYER

Bruno Genevois

Born 1941

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7216 ESSAYIST

Xavier Raufer

Born 1946

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7217 BUSINESS

Sophie de Menthon

Born 1948

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7228 MAGISTRAT

Jean-Pierre Dintilhac

1943 - 2014

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7236 ACTOR

Gérard Desarthe

Born 1945

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7245 TEACHER

Séverine Auffret

Born 1942

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7281 WRITER

Ali Magoudi

Born 1948

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7286 BUSINESS

Yannick d'Escatha

Born 1948

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7290 ACTOR

Philippe Magnan

Born 1948

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7299 LINGUIST

Judith Woodsworth

Born 1948

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7305 ACTOR

François Leccia

1948 - 2009

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7316 ACTOR

Catherine Salviat

Born 1947

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7348 MATHEMATICIAN

François Laudenbach

Born 1945

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7394 ACTOR

Jean Sarrus (acteur)

Born 1945

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7398 ILLUSTRATOR

Lionel Koechlin

Born 1948

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7400 ARTIST

Patrice Serres

Born 1946

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7408 DRIVER

François Mazet

Born 1943

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7435 COMPOSER

Joël Fajerman

Born 1948

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7459 PHILOSOPHER

Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron

Born 1944

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7461 HISTORIAN

Jean-Michel David

Born 1947

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7492 WRITER

Bernard Oyharçabal

Born 1949

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7504 MATHEMATICIAN

Dominique Perrin

Born 1946

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7536 POLITICIAN

Claudine Lepage

Born 1949

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7555 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Nicole Lapierre

Born 1947

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7558 WIFE OF

Dominique-France Loeb-Picard

Born 1948

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7581 JOURNALIST

François Jouffa

Born 1943

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7610 PHYSICIAN

Pierre Lasjaunias

1948 - 2008

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7769 PAINTER

Jean-Pierre Schneider

Born 1946

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7814 PROFESSOR

Alain Prochiantz

Born 1948

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7834 ENGINEER

Guy Paillotin

1940 - 2017

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7851 ACADEMIC

Bernard Boëne

Born 1947

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7857 JOURNALIST

Alain Pacadis

1949 - 1986

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7877 SCULPTOR

Pollès

Born 1945

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7890 LITERARY

Jean-Didier Wolfromm

1941 - 1994

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7897 THEATRE

Michael C. Steinlauf

Born 1947

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7912 DIPLOMAT

Jean de Ponton d'Amécourt

Born 1945

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7913 WRITER

Jean-François Ménard

Born 1948

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7914 ACTOR

Annick Nozati

1945 - 2000

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7919 ARTIST

Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Born 1947

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7941 POET

Claude Adelen

Born 1944

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7954 ARCHITECT

Patrick Berger (architecte)

Born 1947

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7955 FILM

Jean-François Tarnowski

1948 - 2005

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7960 ACADEMIC

Rémy Dor

Born 1946

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7965 SINGER

Géraldine Gaulier

Born 1947

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8048 SINGER

Nicole Paquin

Born 1940

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8074 PUBLISHER

Jean Mascolo

Born 1947

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8108 POET

Jil Silberstein

Born 1948

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8125 ENGINEER

Olivier Appert

Born 1949

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8162 WRITER

Jean Larriaga

1945 - 2016

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8193 WRITER

Gilles Taurand

Born 1943

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8204 ACTOR

Daniel Colas

Born 1947

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8210 FILM

Laurent Heynemann

Born 1948

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8212 COMPOSER

Pierre Billon (auteur-compositeur)

Born 1947

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8225 HISTORIAN

Ève Gran-Aymerich

Born 1947

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8232 ACTOR

Claude Aufaure

Born 1942

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8251 WRITER

Patrick Raynal (écrivain)

Born 1946

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8267 POLITICIAN

Didier Schuller

Born 1947

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8307 SINGER

Alain Kan

1944 - 2000

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8313 CIVIL SERVANT

Jean-Pierre Landau

Born 1946

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8329 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Pierre Rouillard

Born 1948

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8381 CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Patrick Cescau

Born 1948

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8382 SCULPTOR

Pierre Antonuicci

Born 1943

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8390 POET

Patrice Delbourg

Born 1949

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8395 LAWYER

Michel Grimaldi

Born 1949

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8397 PRIEST

Michael Donskoff

Born 1943

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8401 PRIEST

Hervé Renaudin

1941 - 2003

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8435 PHOTOGRAPHER

François Lartigue

Born 1949

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8442 DRIVER

Étienne Smulevici

Born 1947

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8452 ANIMATRICE

Élisabeth Antébi

Born 1945

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8460 POLITICIAN

Jean-François Voguet

Born 1949

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8473 ARCHITECT

David Mangin

Born 1949

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8476 SCREENWRITER

Jean-Louis Guillermou

Born 1946

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8482 ACTIVIST

Alexandros Giotopoulos

Born 1944

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8485 COMPOSER

Solange Ancona

Born 1943

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8486 FILM

Annick Lanoë

Born 1948

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8511 ARCHITECT

Christian Devillers

Born 1946

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8514 HISTORIAN

Patrick Eveno

Born 1947

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8519 POLITICIAN

Jean Marsaudon

1946 - 2008

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8547 WRITER

Jean Alambre

Born 1946

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8580 NOVELIST

Michel Loirette

Born 1943

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8591 PRODUCER

Pascale Breugnot

Born 1940

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8626 SWIMMER

Gérard Gropaiz

1943 - 2012

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8638 SCULPTOR

Michel Bassompierre

Born 1948

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8640 ACTOR

Claude Barrois

1941 - 2017

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8644 HERPETOLOGIST

Alain Dubois

Born 1948

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8669 WRITER

Alain Paucard

Born 1945

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8670 PAINTER

Jean-Pierre Ceytaire

Born 1946

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8682 SINGER

Long Chris

Born 1942

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8685 POET

Marc Petit (écrivain)

Born 1947

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8713 HISTORIAN

Michel Kerautret

Born 1949

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8718 PLAYER

Denis Grozdanovitch

Born 1946

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8724 PAINTER

Hervé Loilier

Born 1948

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8734 NOVELIST

Michèle Ressi

Born 1942

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8752 WRITER

Christian Godefroy

1948 - 2012

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8794 TRUMPET

Jean-François Canape

1945 - 2012

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8807 COSTUME DESIGNER

Édith Vesperini

Born 1945

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8828 BANDIT

Michel Ardouin

1943 - 2014

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8835 PUBLISHER

Jean-Pierre Duteuil

Born 1944

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8849 NOVELIST

Cookie Allez

Born 1947

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8853 POLITICIAN

Philippe Moreau Defarges

Born 1943

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8856 PHYSICIST

Denis Gratias

Born 1947

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8859 SCULPTOR

François Cante-Pacos

Born 1946

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8881 ACTOR

Sophie Darel

Born 1944

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8903 WRITER

Henri Raczymow

Born 1948

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8925 PHILOSOPHER

Jean Petitot (philosophe)

Born 1944

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8928 PHILOSOPHER

Michel Blay

Born 1948

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8929 JOURNALIST

Michel Polacco

Born 1948

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8939 POLITICIAN

Jean-François Probst

1949 - 2014

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8941 WRITER

Jacques Mazeau

Born 1949

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8945 PRINTMAKER

Patrice Jeener

Born 1944

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8950 POET

Robert Einbeck

Born 1944

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8951 MATHEMATICIAN

Philippe Cassou-Noguès

Born 1944

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8956 GOVERNMENT

Jean-Paul Cluzel

Born 1947

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8958 ACTOR

Patrick Messe

Born 1945

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8984 ECONOMIST

André Zylberberg

Born 1947

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8987 SCHOLAR

Michel Quesnel (théologien)

Born 1942

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9005 ACTOR

Luis de Cespedes

1949 - 2013

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9008 WRITER

Michel Anthonioz

1947 - 2009

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9021 WRITER

Christian Poslaniec

Born 1944

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9023 JOURNALIST

Geneviève Jurgensen

Born 1946

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9033 ASTRONOMER

Jean-Pierre Bibring

Born 1948

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9049 HISTORIAN

André Rauch

Born 1942

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9060 PHOTOGRAPHER

Kiki of Paris

Born 1945

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9081 PHOTOGRAPHER

Pierre Zucca

1943 - 1995

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9088 HISTORIAN

Jacques Perot

Born 1945

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9106 JOURNALIST

Antoine Spire

Born 1946

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9120 PHYSICIST

Pierre Sokolsky

Born 1946

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9121 SINGER

Gilbert Laffaille

Born 1948

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9125 CONDUCTOR

Guy-Claude Luypaerts

Born 1949

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9158 ACTOR

Frank Bertrand

1949 - 2018

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9164 HISTORIAN

Simon Epstein

Born 1947

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9172 GUITAR

Claude Engel

Born 1948

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9193 JOURNALIST

Patrice Drevet

Born 1948

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9195 ACTOR

Gérard Jourd'hui

Born 1946

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9199 ORNITHOLOGIST

Jacques Vielliard

1944 - 2010

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9217 HISTORIAN

Laurent Theis

Born 1948

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9232 PROFESSEUR

Henri Béhar

Born 1940

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9256 WRITER

Michel Falempin

Born 1945

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9273 WRITER

Marc de Gouvenain

Born 1947

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9301 AUTHOR

Alain Chouet

Born 1946

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9304 FOOTBALL

Alain de Martigny

Born 1946

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9305 JOURNALIST

Jérôme Duhamel

1949 - 2015

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9321 ARCHITECT

Renaud Bardon

1942 - 2011

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9325 MUSIC

Michel Edelin

Born 1941

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9342 ACTOR

Philippe Rouleau

1940 - 2009

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9356 MATHEMATICIAN

Nicolas Bouleau

Born 1945

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9365 ACTOR

Raphaël Delpard

Born 1942

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9388 ACTOR

Alain Flick

Born 1949

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9399 CURATOR

Daniel Marchesseau

Born 1947

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9426 FILM

Denis Gheerbrant

Born 1948

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