48.1142° N, 1.6808° W

RENNES

Most Famous People Born in Rennes, France

Notable people

729

Peak decade

1960s

Median birth year

1905

Most distinctive

Prelate 8.1×

The Breton capital, and the Catholic one — a thick Prelate bench flags centuries of the Parlement de Bretagne doubling as an ecclesiastical training ground, with Historian and Militar lines filling out the provincial elite. The profile is stubbornly administrative rather than artistic, exactly what you'd expect from a town whose claim to fame for three hundred years was being where Brittany's paperwork got stamped.