48.8573° N, 2.3509° E

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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12882 SINGER

Edwige Belmore

1957 - 2015

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12889 CINEMA

Pierre Boffety

Born 1956

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12893 WRITER

Jérôme d'Astier

Born 1952

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12898 SPORT

Bruno Fitoussi

Born 1958

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12909 GEOGRAPHER

Marie-Françoise André

Born 1953

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12916 HARPSICHORDIST

Noëlle Spieth

Born 1950

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12921 FILMMAKER

Pierre Schumacher

Born 1958

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12924 DIPLOMAT

Pascal Le Deunff

Born 1959

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12927 ILLUSTRATOR

Diane de Bournazel

Born 1956

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12991 PLAYWRIGHT

Frédéric Sabrou

Born 1957

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12993 FONCTIONNAIRE

Yannick Blanc

Born 1955

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13001 COMPOSER

Hervé Rozoum

Born 1955

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13014 ARCHITECT

Nicolas Soulier

Born 1951

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13015 WRITER

Franck Senninger

Born 1955

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13022 ESSAYIST

Isabelle Filliozat

Born 1957

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13068 FILM

Frédérique Devaux

Born 1956

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13104 TELEVISION

Paule Zajdermann

Born 1951

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13128 BOTANIST

Odile Poncy

Born 1950

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13130 COMPOSER

Gilles Diederichs

Born 1958

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13149 BUSINESS

Stéphane Pallez

Born 1959

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13205 ARCHITECT

Marc Van Peteghem

Born 1957

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13206 DRUMMER

Bruno Tocanne

Born 1955

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13223 ENGINEER

Anne Chopinet

Born 1953

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13233 SCREENWRITER

Olivier Douyère

Born 1953

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13247 MUSIC

Tom Sturges

Born 1956

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13272 PHYSICIST

Olivier Sire

Born 1954

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13275 PLAYER

Pascal Perrault

Born 1959

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13293 JOURNALIST

Jean-Luc Mano

Born 1956

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13312 PHOTOGRAPHER

Marie-Paule Nègre

Born 1950

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13322 POLITICIAN

Patrick Achi

Born 1955

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13328 PSYCHOANALYST

Jean-Pierre Winter

Born 1951

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13342 LAWYER

Thierry Herzog

Born 1955

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13355 PERFUMER

Patricia de Nicolaï

Born 1957

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13387 PAINTER

Frédéric Gracia

Born 1959

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13392 PHOTOGRAPHER

Laurence Chanfro

1959 - 2012

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13417 PAINTER

Michèle Iznardo

Born 1957

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13443 WRITER

Julius-Amédée Laou

Born 1950

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13457 CONDUCTOR

Benoît Fromanger

Born 1959

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13497 ACTOR

Gérard Rouzier

Born 1955

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13520 ENTREPRENEUR

Guy Berruyer

Born 1951

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13569 HISTORIAN

Fabienne Cardot

Born 1954

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13571 WRITER

Jean-François Susbielle

Born 1954

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13587 SINGER

Yvon Étienne

Born 1950

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13588 PHYSICIST

Marc Fermigier

Born 1955

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13594 BUSINESS

Dominique Mouillot

Born 1952

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13645 NOVELIST

Marie-Florence Ehret

Born 1950

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13669 DESIGNER

Barbara Bui

Born 1956

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13687 POLITICIAN

Françoise Briand

Born 1951

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13688 MILITAR

Yves Domergue

1954 - 1976

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13731 SAXOPHONIST

Olivier Peters

Born 1955

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13748 PHILOSOPHER

Dominique Ottavi

Born 1954

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13756 ACTOR

Catherine Jarrett

Born 1957

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13800 SINGER

Philippe Barbot

Born 1953

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13818 MISSING

Christian Brun

Born 1951

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13840 FILM

Alain Mazars

Born 1955

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13841 ARTIST

Jean-Louis Janssens

Born 1959

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13858 NOVELIST

Sylvie Aymard

Born 1954

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13859 WRITER

Jean-François Gautier

Born 1950

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13865 POLITICIAN

Éric Pinel

Born 1959

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13867 POLITICIAN

Laure Olga Gondjout

Born 1953

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13881 MUSIC

Jean-Luc Manet

Born 1959

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13928 ACTOR

Joël Flateau

Born 1950

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13941 POET

Pierre Fourny

Born 1956

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13958 WRITER

Marie-Laure Susini

Born 1950

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13976 PAINTER

Stéphane Delaprée

Born 1956

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14025 PIANIST

Michael Habermann

Born 1950

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14027 ACADEMIC

François Bry

Born 1956

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14066 CONDUCTOR

Luc Le Masne

Born 1950

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14082 POLITICIAN

Gilles Lemaire

Born 1951

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14089 TRANSLATOR

Henry-Luc Planchat

Born 1953

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14097 AUTHOR

Thomas Declaude

Born 1950

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14101 SCULPTOR

Alain-Marcel Linse

Born 1956

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14102 DIPLOMAT

Pierre Lévy (diplomate)

Born 1955

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14115 OFFICER

Martial de Braquilanges

Born 1955

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14207 BUSINESS

Jacques Rapoport

Born 1952

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14250 WRITER

Jean-Jacques Nguyen

Born 1958

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14308 WRITER

Flora Berger

Born 1953

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14311 POLITICIAN

Évelyne Guilhem

Born 1955

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14312 PHYSICIST

Luc Blanchet

Born 1956

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14328 WRITER

Corinne Bouvet de Maisonneuve

Born 1954

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14348 LAWYER

Pierre Servan-Schreiber

Born 1955

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14350 PRINTMAKER

Pierre Collin (artiste)

Born 1956

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14377 MUSIC

Étienne Brunet (musicien)

Born 1954

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14467 ENTREPRENEUR

Jean-François Decaux

Born 1959

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14479 COMPOSER

Jean-Marc Singier

Born 1954

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14494 PUBLISHER

Bernard Lefort (écrivain)

1951 - 2014

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14504 COMPOSER

Michel Meynaud

1950 - 2016

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14546 PHOTOGRAPHER

Hélène Bamberger

Born 1956

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14554 PAINTER

Iván de León Rodríguez

Born 1955

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14565 POET

Colette Klein

Born 1950

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14582 ACTIVIST

Eric Garris

Born 1953

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14593 PAINTER

Knut Navrot

Born 1955

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14618 ATHLETIC

Sylvie Prenveille

Born 1958

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14657 WRITER

Catherine Laurent

Born 1954

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14669 CHESS

Jean-Marc Loustau

Born 1958

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14720 PHOTOGRAPHER

Emmanuel Ciepka

Born 1950

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14730 WRITER

Patrick Kéchichian

Born 1951

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14763 LAWYER

Jean-François Hebert

Born 1955

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14768 WRITER

Romain Sarnel

Born 1953

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14774 FILM

Michel Daeron

Born 1957

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14777 BASKET

Jean-Paul Rebatet

Born 1951

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14788 GUITAR

Didier Bernoussi

1956 - 2011

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14805 NAVIGATOR

Philippe Valetoux

Born 1954

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14809 FOOTBALL

Patrick Martet

Born 1955

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14818 DIPLOMAT

Jean-Christophe Peaucelle

Born 1959

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14846 ARTIST

Jean-François Guiton

Born 1953

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14875 POLITICIAN

Évelyne Perrot

Born 1951

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14903 FILM

Sylvain Bursztejn

Born 1953

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14910 ACTOR

Jean-Marie Lecoq

Born 1953

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14968 ENGINEER

Denis Chevrier

Born 1954

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14969 ARTIST

Jean-Claude Claeys

Born 1951

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14976 PHOTOGRAPHER

Thierry Secretan

Born 1955

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14978 ATHLETIC

Philippe Legrand (athlétisme)

Born 1958

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14987 PAINTER

Jean Plichart

1950 - 2006

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15013 FILM

Albert Pigot

Born 1956

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15035 PUBLISHER

Guy Stavridès

Born 1952

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15043 FOOTBALL

Bruno Blachon

Born 1959

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15044 WRITER

Benigno Morilla

Born 1950

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15054 FILM

Philippe Charigot

Born 1955

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15061 BANK

Vincent Taupin

Born 1959

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15064 FOOTBALL

Philippe Thys (football)

Born 1959

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15071 FILM

Michèle Rollin

Born 1957

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15073 PHYSICIAN

José Manuel Tunon de Lara

Born 1958

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15074 WRITER

Sylvie Cassez

Born 1959

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15109 MATHEMATICIAN

Ilan Vardi

Born 1957

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15119 BASSIST

Charles Calamel

Born 1956

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15165 LAWYER

Jean-Yves Le Borgne

Born 1950

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15219 BASEBALL

Steve Jeltz

Born 1959

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15236 ACTOR

Nathalie Zeiger

Born 1952

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15260 HISTORIAN

Gérard Louise

1952 - 2001

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15266 ARTIST

Nicole Stenger

Born 1950

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15273 TELEVISION

Jean-Louis Lorenzi

Born 1954

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15280 SCREENWRITER

Didier Lacoste

Born 1956

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15285 LAWYER

Philippe Péninque

Born 1952

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15288 LAWYER

Christoph Weber (Jurist)

Born 1958

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15298 ECONOMIST

Didier Marteau

Born 1953

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15341 WRITER

Bernard Fauconnier (écrivain)

Born 1959

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15344 COMPOSER

Henri Nafilyan

Born 1956

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15388 JOURNALIST

Jean-Luc Blain

1953 - 2013

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15416 ACTOR

Marc François (acteur)

1951 - 2009

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15428 ENTREPRENEUR

Christian Poyau

Born 1959

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15431 PAINTER

Paul Hunter (peintre)

Born 1954

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15434 BIOINFORMATICIAN

François Fages

Born 1959

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15476 WRITER

Patricia Delahaie

Born 1954

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15488 JOURNALIST

Philippe Aimar

Born 1958

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15518 ARCHITECT

Jean-Pierre Carniaux

Born 1951

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15520 ENTREPRENEUR

Laurent Faibis

Born 1953

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15527 FOOTBALL

Rudi Roussillon

Born 1952

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15532 BUSINESS

Vincent de Rivaz

Born 1953

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15540 ARTIST

Jean-Pierre Umbdenstock

1950 - 2011

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15615 MUSIC

Fouad Ali Saleh

Born 1958

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15617 FOOTBALL

Luc Rabat

Born 1950

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15629 POLITICIAN

Jean-François Fountaine

Born 1951

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15645 ARTIST

Owanto

Born 1953

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15660 WRITER

Dominique Zay

Born 1952

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15661 DIPLOMAT

Teuku Mohammad Hamzah Thayeb

Born 1952

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15671 MUSIC

Yves Torchinsky

Born 1957

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15691 SURGEON

Bertrand Guillonneau

Born 1959

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15714 CINEMA

Éric Weber

Born 1957

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15716 TRANSLATOR

Antonia Kerrigan

Born 1952

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15725 PIANIST

Hervé Sellin

Born 1957

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15751 WRITER

Françoise Henry (romancière)

Born 1959

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15753 MUSIC

Marc Thomas

1959 - 2015

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15770 ARTIST

Didier Eberoni

Born 1958

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15774 PAINTER

Fabrice Rebeyrolle

Born 1955

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15788 ILLUSTRATOR

Hélène Tran

Born 1954

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15864 AUTHOR

Sylvie Pécot-Douatte

1958 - 2004

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15893 PSYCHIATRIST

Sylvie Wieviorka

Born 1950

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15938 BUREAUCRAT

Holly Petraeus

Born 1952

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15951 GALLERIST

Michel Rein

Born 1952

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15970 JOURNALIST

Jean-Charles Marchand

Born 1953

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15974 NOVELIST

Wilfrid Simon

Born 1955

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15982 ARTIST

Hélène de Saint Lager

Born 1957

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16035 JOURNALIST

Tony Comiti

Born 1950

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16047 DRUMMER

Éric Dervieu

Born 1956

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16075 DRIVER

Jean-Pierre Malcher

Born 1950

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16126 PHILOSOPHER

Jean-Louis Vullierme

Born 1955

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16142 ACTOR

Olivier Richard

1950 - 2015

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16147 DRUMMER

François Laizeau

Born 1955

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16167 FILM

Richard Martin-Jordan

Born 1958

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16182 ACADEMIC

Philippe Plantade

Born 1958

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16186 DRUMMER

François Laudet

Born 1958

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16189 ARTIST

Dominique Renson

Born 1956

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16199 SCULPTOR

Patrick Pietropoli

Born 1953

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16201 ILLUSIONNISTE

Dominique Duvivier

Born 1950

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16220 FILM

Ousmane William Mbaye

Born 1952

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16263 ARCHITECT

Alain Silberstein

Born 1950

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16267 BUSINESS

Marc Eisenberg

Born 1955

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16277 BUSINESS

Philippe Gœbel

Born 1953

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16283 PAINTER

Olaf Van Cleef

1950 - 2018

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16331 PHOTOGRAPHER

Jean Hincker

Born 1958

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16334 POLITICIAN

Louis-Tobie Mbida

Born 1956

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16349 FONCTIONNAIRE

Guillaume Schlumberger

Born 1959

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16358 JOURNALIST

Olivier Rey (journaliste)

1955 - 2012

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16374 FILM

Annie Breit

Born 1954

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16398 ATHLETIC

Thierry Watrice

Born 1957

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16421 POLITICIAN

Franck Briffaut

Born 1958

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16427 CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Arnaud Gobet

Born 1952

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16491 BUSINESS

Philippe Pradel

Born 1956

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16496 SAXOPHONIST

Nicolas Montier

Born 1955

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16530 FOOTBALL

Guy Ferrier

Born 1951

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16567 PLAYER

Pierre-Édouard Detrez

Born 1956

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16568 PHYSICIAN

Christophe de Jaeger

Born 1959

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16578 JOURNALIST

Christophe Graizon

Born 1956

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16595 POLITICIAN

Jean-Luc Touly

Born 1953

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16620 POLITICIAN

Michel Dumont (homme politique)

Born 1952

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16639 COMPOSER

Antoine Bonnet

Born 1958

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16652 BOXER

Farid Gallouze

Born 1958

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16659 PSYCHOANALYST

Max Kohn

Born 1951

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16661 PAINTER

Agnès Boulloche

Born 1951

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16688 POET

Brigitte Byrd

Born 1959

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16697 PHILOSOPHER

Michaël de Saint-Cheron

Born 1955

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16720 FOOTBALL

Gérard Bacconnier

Born 1959

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16733 CURATOR

Emmanuel Starcky

Born 1955

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16754 BUSINESS

Richard Vainopoulos

Born 1953

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16784 ACADEMIC

Jean-Baptiste Joly

Born 1951

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16828 OFFICER

Thierry Cambournac

Born 1953

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16830 PRODUCER

Anne Barrère (productrice)

Born 1954

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16861 PHOTOGRAPHER

Arnaud du Boistesselin

Born 1951

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16882 CIRCUS

Sergio (artiste)

Born 1950

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16883 PSYCHOANALYST

Jean-Jacques Rassial

Born 1950

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16885 ACTIVIST

Jean-Baptiste Eyraud

Born 1954

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16888 THEATRE

Patrick Czaplinski

Born 1957

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16899 SURGEON

Jacques Saglier

1953 - 2015

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16902 TRADE UNION

Didier Le Reste

Born 1955

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16911 JOURNALIST

Kit Rachlis

Born 1951

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16922 WRITER

Denis Chabroullet

Born 1953

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16927 OPERA

Véronique Fourcaud

Born 1952

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16934 POLITICIAN

Dominique Le Sourd

Born 1950

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16957 ARTIST

Carabal

Born 1955

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16966 WRITER

Bernard Guiraud

Born 1955

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16968 POET

Jacques Morin

Born 1950

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16972 GUITAR

Jean-Michel Kajdan

Born 1954

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16988 WRITER

Dominique Boudou

Born 1955

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17006 ARTIST

Max (auteur)

Born 1957

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17009 WRITER

Eve Rudschies

Born 1959

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17028 MISSING

Antoine Bouvier (dirigeant d'entreprise)

Born 1959

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17038 DÉLÉGUÉ

Emmanuel Forest

Born 1956

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17054 MATHEMATICIAN

Lionel Schwartz

Born 1953

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17058 FOOTBALL

Patrice Heaulmé

Born 1958

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17100 FOOTBALL

Jean-Jacques Amorfini

Born 1954

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17138 PHOTOGRAPHER

Jean-Marie Fadier

Born 1958

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17152 CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Christophe Ducasse

Born 1956

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17161 FILM

Pascal Vimenet

Born 1951

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17162 ENVIRONMENTALIST

Gregory Kats

Born 1959

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17194 ENTREPRENEUR

Denis Metzger

Born 1951

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17220 MUSIC

Benoît Rolland

Born 1954

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17275 CHEMIST

Laurent Charlet

Born 1955

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17279 SINGER

Adrián Barrenechea

Born 1954

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17283 CONSEILLER

Gérard Cicurel

Born 1951

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17284 BASSIST

Dominique Lemerle

Born 1955

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17329 FOOTBALL

Jean-Louis Brost

Born 1951

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17348 JOURNALIST

Thierry Gandillot

Born 1953

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17354 PLAYER

Stéphane Faure

Born 1957

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17368 POET

Patricia Castex Menier

Born 1956

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17383 PAINTER

Andre Miripolsky

Born 1951

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17384 GUITAR

Jean-Jacques Rébillard

Born 1956

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17409 FOOTBALL

Kamel Djabour

Born 1959

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17453 SCREENWRITER

Marc Guilbert

Born 1956

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17476 FINANCIER

Joël André Ornstein

Born 1954

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17478 BUSINESS

Philippe Vannier

Born 1959

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17492 PAINTER

Jean-Paul Landais

Born 1950

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17524 MUSIC

Frédéric Manoukian

Born 1955

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17525 PAINTER

Laurent Schkolnyk

Born 1953

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17529 MISSING

Armand Hadida

Born 1950

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17531 ATHLETIC

Marc Noé

1953 - 2019

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17563 SCULPTOR

Jean-Bernard Susperregui

Born 1952

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17564 POLITICIAN

Éric Ferrand

Born 1959

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17636 DRIVER

Éric Ferreux

Born 1957

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17646 MISSING

Olivier Pougin de La Maisonneuve

Born 1957

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17674 SCREENWRITER

Françoise Tourmen

Born 1954

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17760 ECONOMIST

Olivier Klein (dirigeant)

Born 1957

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17800 PRIEST

Bruno de Blignières

Born 1952

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17842 DIPLOMAT

Jean-François Valette

Born 1952

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17862 FILM

Patrice Haddad

Born 1957

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17872 ENGINEER

Lionel Tarassenko

Born 1957

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17884 POLITICIAN

Jacques Bourgoin

Born 1952

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17894 ARCHITECT

François Cointe

Born 1957

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17929 LITERARY

Olivier Rubinstein

Born 1958

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17935 POLITICIAN

Patricia Potigny

Born 1955

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17940 WRITER

Philippe Di Maria

Born 1955

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17963 POLITICIAN

Isabelle Lesens

Born 1952

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17987 GEOLOGIST

Charles Frankel

Born 1956

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18063 SINGER

Nadine Expert

Born 1957

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18069 POLITICIAN

Alexandré Barro Chambrier

Born 1958

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18118 POLITICIAN

Bernard Van Craeynest

Born 1957

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18120 JOURNALIST

Fabian Gastellier

Born 1956

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18133 RESEARCH

Dominique Placko

Born 1957

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18145 FONCTIONNAIRE

Bernard Fragneau

1951 - 2014

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18153 DRIVER

Gilles Vannelet

Born 1959

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18201 JOURNALIST

Pierre-Marie Christin

Born 1953

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18229 MUSIC

Gilles Hekimian

Born 1954

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18243 BUSINESS

Patrick Rajaonary

Born 1955

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18270 DIPLOMAT

Jean-Michel Marlaud

Born 1953

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18306 ACTOR

Charlotte-Rita Pichon

Born 1951

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18312 ACTOR

Pierre-Louis Rivière

Born 1951

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18334 ATHLETIC

Philippe Gauthier (athlétisme)

Born 1956

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18393 CHEF

Christophe Cussac

Born 1955

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18402 MANAGER

Patrick Goudou

Born 1950

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18413 LAWYER

Dominique Tricaud

Born 1955

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