49.4430° N, 1.1025° E
ROUEN
Most Famous People Born in Rouen, France
- Notable people
- 943
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1845
- Most distinctive
- Explorer 6.8×
The Norman capital and deep-water Seine port, running from medieval Plantagenet births through the Ancien Régime bourgeoisie to the Impressionist Seine valley. The outsized Explorer count descends from the Dieppois and Norman navigators who ran the 16th-century Newfoundland cod trade, while the thick Architect, Painter, and Poet benches mark the cathedral-and-studio culture that drew the Impressionists here. The Botanist bump is a quieter surprise from the city's 18th-century Jardin des Plantes tradition.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Rouen during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Rouen Is Known For
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Politician is Rouen's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (127).
Rouen over-indexes on explorer — 6.8× the global rate.
Rouen under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Rouen's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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François Hollande
Born 1954
Gustave Flaubert
1821 - 1880
Edward IV of England
1442 - 1483
Pierre Corneille
1606 - 1684
Théodore Géricault
1791 - 1824
Édouard Philippe
Born 1970
Jacques Rivette
1928 - 2016
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
1643 - 1687
Maurice Leblanc
1864 - 1941
Karin Viard
Born 1966
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
1657 - 1757
David Douillet
Born 1969
David Trezeguet
Born 1977
Philippe Torreton
Born 1965
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
1711 - 1780
Anny Duperey
Born 1947
Marcel Dupré
1886 - 1971
Charles Nicolle
1866 - 1936
François-Adrien Boieldieu
1775 - 1834
Théodore Monod
1902 - 2000
Thomas Pesquet
Born 1978
Jacques-François Blondel
1705 - 1774
Jean Goujon
1511 - 1562
Fayçal Fajr
Born 1988
Thomas Corneille
1625 - 1709
Jean Lecanuet
1920 - 1993
Raymond Duchamp-Villon
1876 - 1918
Nicolas Lemery
1645 - 1715
Marie-Louise O'Murphy
1737 - 1814
Pierre Louis Dulong
1785 - 1838
Amaury Vassili
Born 1989
Isaac Oliver
1556 - 1617
Michel Corrette
1707 - 1795
Armand Salacrou
1899 - 1989
Keen'V
Born 1983
Jean-Pierre Houël
1735 - 1813
Jean Jouvenet
1644 - 1717
Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert
1646 - 1714
Charles-Louis Havas
1783 - 1858
Félix Archimède Pouchet
1800 - 1872
Ian Mahinmi
Born 1986
Estelle Lefébure
Born 1966
Jacques Duphly
1715 - 1789
Armand Carrel
1800 - 1836
Robert Antoine Pinchon
1886 - 1943
Pierre Desfontaines
1685 - 1745
Samuel Bochart
1599 - 1667
Georgette Leblanc
1869 - 1941
Alexis Gougeard
Born 1993
Charles-Victor Langlois
1863 - 1929
Jean-Jacques Lequeu
1757 - 1826
Henri Sauvage
1873 - 1932
Adrien Auzout
1622 - 1691
Enzo Crivelli
Born 1995
Roger Apéry
1916 - 1994
Georges Guillain
1876 - 1961
Dominique Lebrun
Born 1957
François d'Agincourt
1684 - 1758
Nathalie Péchalat
Born 1983
André Berthomieu
1903 - 1960
Jean II Restout
1692 - 1768
Pénélope Leprevost
Born 1980
William Clito
1102 - 1128
Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier
1743 - 1824
Jean Fournet
1913 - 2008
Pierre Gasly
Born 1996
Marie Champmeslé
1642 - 1698
Edmund, Earl of Rutland
1443 - 1460
Jean-Pascal Mignot
Born 1981
Hippolyte de Villemessant
1812 - 1879
Arnaud Ducret
Born 1978
Raynald Denoueix
Born 1948
Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare
1731 - 1807
Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk
1444 - 1503
Petit Biscuit
Born 1999
Jacques Basnage
1653 - 1723
Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio
1810 - 1871
Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier
1738 - 1826
Jacqueline Pierreux
1923 - 2005
Joseph-Désiré Court
1797 - 1865
Gabriel Daniel
1649 - 1728
Jean-Pierre Duprey
1930 - 1959
Guy de La Brosse
1586 - 1641
Stéphan Caron
Born 1966
Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne
1798 - 1881
Peter Anthony Motteux
1663 - 1718
Georges Pouchet
1833 - 1894
Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays
1729 - 1765
Karim Boudiaf
Born 1990
Gilles-William Goldnadel
Born 1954
Gunnora
950 - 1031
Anne-Marie du Boccage
1710 - 1802
Léon Heuzey
1831 - 1922
Jade Laroche
Born 1989
Jérôme Leroy (écrivain)
Born 1964
Henda Ayari
Born 1976
Charles Granval
1882 - 1943
René Fauchois
1882 - 1962
Charles Mouton
1626 - 1710
Noël Alexandre
1639 - 1724
Charles Lenepveu
1840 - 1910
Frédéric Bérat
1801 - 1855
Philippe Étancelin
1896 - 1981
Catherine Bernard
1662 - 1712
Bocage (actor)
1799 - 1863
Paul Duboc
1884 - 1941
Jean-Yves Lechevallier
Born 1946
Christophe Bouillon
Born 1969
Georges Henri Halphen
1844 - 1889
Camille Maurane
1911 - 2010
Céline Minard
Born 1969
Nicolas François, Count Mollien
1758 - 1850
Élise Lucet
Born 1963
Paul Lucas (traveller)
1664 - 1737
Étienne de La Vallée Poussin
1735 - 1802
Joseph-Henri Altès
1826 - 1895
Geoffrey, Count of Nantes
1134 - 1158
Jacques Lancelot
1920 - 2009
Nicolas-Étienne Framery
1745 - 1810
Ulric Guttinguer
1787 - 1866
Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont
1797 - 1881
Frank Le Gall
Born 1959
Pierre Fontaine (composer)
1380 - 1450
Catherine Henriette de Bourbon
1596 - 1663
Chantal Nobel
Born 1948
Henri Joutel
1643 - 1725
Paul Allard
1841 - 1916
Jean Dumont (publicist)
1667 - 1727
Jacques Pradon
1632 - 1698
Pascal Wintzer
Born 1959
Guillaume Couture
1617 - 1701
Roger Roger (composer)
1911 - 1995
Damien Top
Born 1963
François Labourie
Born 1960
Barbara Doll
Born 1972
Richard Waddington
1838 - 1913
Robert Duval
1490 - 1567
Casey (rappeuse)
Born 1976
René Dumesnil
1879 - 1967
Pierre Bardin
1590 - 1635
Mathilde Lemoine
Born 1969
Gerloc
910 - 962
Jean Charles Davillier
1823 - 1883
Pierre Adolphe Chéruel
1809 - 1891
Nicolas Mesnager
1658 - 1714
Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait
1752 - 1807
Victor Boucher
1877 - 1942
Nicolas Thyrel de Boismont
1715 - 1786
Gaspard Corrette
1671 - 1732
Guillaume Guéroult
1507 - 1569
André-Joseph Exaudet
1710 - 1762
John-Christophe Ayina
Born 1991
Jean-François Blondel
1683 - 1756
Alexis Nolent
Born 1967
Arnaud Hauchard
Born 1971
François Raguenet
1660 - 1722
François Gabriel de Bray
1765 - 1832
Pat O'May
Born 1961
Jean-Jacques Antier
Born 1928
Patrick Dehornoy
1952 - 2019
Pierre François le Courayer
1681 - 1776
Jean-Baptiste Cécille
1787 - 1873
Henry Somm
1844 - 1907
Benjamin Alard
Born 1985
Adorée Villany
1891 - 1915
Louis de Bechamel
1630 - 1703
Jacques Hébertot
1886 - 1970
Matelo Ferret
1918 - 1989
Emmanuel Bondeville
1898 - 1987
Charles Brook Dupont-White
1807 - 1878
Alain Absire
Born 1950
Auguste Vaucorbeil
1821 - 1884
Vincent Dieutre
Born 1960
François Sarhan
Born 1972
Marcel Lanquetuit
1894 - 1985
Émile Masqueray
1843 - 1894
Antoine Ponroy
Born 1986
Nicolas Saint-Ruf
Born 1992
Darnel Situ
Born 1992
Cathia Caro
Born 1943
Antoine Sénard
1800 - 1885
Albert Lambert
1865 - 1941
Henri Gadeau de Kerville
1858 - 1940
Émile Perrin
1814 - 1885
Thomas Jolly
Born 1982
Sylvie Hoarau
Born 1970
Pierre Brumoy
1688 - 1742
Isaac-Joseph Berruyer
1681 - 1758
Théodore-Éloi Lebreton
1803 - 1883
Manon Arcangioli
Born 1994
Christophe Horlaville
Born 1969
Eugène Ketterer
1831 - 1870
Philippe Bouvatier
Born 1964
Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine
1751 - 1824
Rilès
Born 1996
Omar Belbey
Born 1973
Jean-Laurent Le Cerf de La Viéville
1674 - 1707
Noël Le Mire
1724 - 1801
Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville
1856 - 1901
Marie-Charlotte Hippolyte de Boufflers
1725 - 1800
Jean Bourdon
1601 - 1668
Jean-Yves Chemin
Born 1959
Ernest Chesneau
1833 - 1890
Robert Hubert
1640 - 1666
Loïc Lampérier
Born 1989
Robert Moor
1889 - 1972
Baro Ferret
1908 - 1978
Charles Dambray
1760 - 1829
Louis François Cauchy
1760 - 1848
Silvain Vanot
Born 1963
Henri Basnage de Beauval
1657 - 1710
Aurélien Tchouaméni
Born 2000
René Gutman
Born 1950
Jules-Romain Tardieu
1805 - 1868
Daniel Hallé
1614 - 1675
Sebastian Ylönen
Born 1991
Johnny Ecker
Born 1973
Luc Tardif
Born 1984
Pierre Bourguignon
1942 - 2019
Jacqueline Guerroudj
1919 - 2015
Augustin de Beaulieu
1589 - 1637
Henri Le Rond
1864 - 1949
Jacques Kerchache
1942 - 2001
Nicolas Filleul de La Chesnaye
1530 - 1575
Antoine Buron
Born 1983
Laurence Elloy
Born 1959
Gérard Filoche
Born 1945
Pierre-Michel Le Conte
1921 - 2000
Lucien Génin
1894 - 1953
Jean Raynal
1933 - 1979
Damien Raux
Born 1984
Théodore Muret
1808 - 1866
Émilie Cozette
Born 1981
Guillaume Franc
1505 - 1570
Alphonse de Cailleux
1788 - 1876
René Hérault
1691 - 1740
Danny Pinheiro Rodrigues
Born 1985
Jules Adeline
1845 - 1909
Ydrissa M'Barke
Born 1983
François de Sagon
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Barthélémy-François Chardigny
1757 - 1813
Alphonse Du Breuil
1811 - 1890
Jean-François Du Bellay du Resnel
1692 - 1761
Marie-Madeleine Hachard
1704 - 1760
Claude Brumachon
Born 1959
Charles Boulanger de Boisfremont
1773 - 1838
Harouna Abou Demba
Born 1991
Monsieur Poulpe
Born 1981
Léon Feer
1830 - 1902
Pierre Thomas (scholar)
1634 - 1698
Louise Levesque
1703 - 1745
Nicolas Gueudeville
1652 - 1721
Antoine Lefebvre de Vatimesnil
1789 - 1860
Anne de La Roche-Guilhem
1644 - 1710
Henri de Genouillac
1881 - 1940
François Fernandez
Born 1960
Pierre-Ange Vieillard
1778 - 1862
Fernando Lahille
1861 - 1940
Jules Tinel
1879 - 1952
Jacques Échard
1644 - 1724
Geneviève Bianquis
1886 - 1972
Louis Grégoire Deschamps Destournelles
1744 - 1795
Nicolas Mary
1610 - 1652
Jules de Blosseville
1802 - 1833
Arnaud Donckele
Born 1977
Nadine Denize
Born 1943
Jean-Henri Maubert de Gouvest
1721 - 1767
Alfred Trassy-Paillogues
Born 1950
Édouard Frère
1797 - 1874
Gaston Lelarge
1861 - 1934
Anne Mauduit de Fatouville
Died 1715
Guillaume-André-Réné Baston
1741 - 1825
Alain Le Boulluec
Born 1941
Bernard Lefebvre
1906 - 1992
François de Civille
1537 - 1610
Louis-Marie de Bazelaire
1893 - 1981
Maurice Nicolle
1862 - 1932
Robert de Nesle
1906 - 1978
Laurent Duhamel
Born 1968
Salah Bakour
Born 1982
Ingrid Thobois
Born 1980
François Blouet de Camilly
1664 - 1723
Sira Sylla
Born 1980
Antoine Yart
1710 - 1791
Pierre-Robert Le Cornier de Cideville
1693 - 1776
Loïc Barrière
Born 1967
Bernard Mandeville (peintre)
1921 - 2000
Antoine Matthieu Le Carpentier
1709 - 1773
Paul Lafond
1847 - 1918
Sabine Pigalle
Born 1963
Eugène Noël
1816 - 1899
Benjamin Gaillon
1782 - 1839
Jean-Baptiste Tierce
1737 - 1794
Étienne de Rouen
Died 1169
Robert-Martin Lesuire
1737 - 1815
Jules Reiset
1818 - 1896
Pierre Martin de La Martinière
1634 - 1690
Théodore Anne
1797 - 1869
Nicolas Letourneux
1640 - 1686
Eugène Cauchois
1850 - 1911