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SAINT-OUEN
Most Famous People Born in Saint-Ouen, France
- Notable people
- 784
- Peak decade
- 1900s
- Median birth year
- 1903
- Most distinctive
- Playwright 6.6×
Less a suburb than Paris's twentieth-century backstage: the Film, Actor and Playwright benches all sit well above baseline — this is the flea-market quarter where the stars of the Gaumont and Pathé years actually lived. Jean Gabin and Jean Renoir turned these streets into the grammar of poetic realism, and the Painter line keeps an older Montmartre-adjacent bohemia in the frame.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Saint-Ouen during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Saint-Ouen Is Known For
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Actor is Saint-Ouen's biggest profession — 19% of all notables (150).
Saint-Ouen over-indexes on playwright — 6.6× the global rate.
Saint-Ouen under-produces football — only 0.1× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Saint-Ouen's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Film & TV
- Art & Design
- Writing
- Sports
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Other
- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
Georges Feydeau
1862 - 1921
Albéric Magnard
1865 - 1914
Charles Laval
1862 - 1894
Antonio de La Gándara
1861 - 1917
Lugné-Poe
1869 - 1940
Ernest Archdeacon
1863 - 1950
Louis-Lucien Klotz
1868 - 1930
Henry Krauss
1866 - 1935
Jacques Lebaudy
1868 - 1919
Léon Xanrof
1867 - 1953
Jean Veber
1864 - 1928
Adolphe Retté
1863 - 1930
Louis de Launay
1860 - 1938
Armand Deperdussin
1864 - 1924
Paul Delmet
1862 - 1904
Pierre Magnier
1869 - 1959
Théophile Laforge
1863 - 1918
André Honnorat
1868 - 1950
Léon Gandillot
1862 - 1912
Édouard Surcouf
1862 - 1938
Polin
1863 - 1927
Jeanne Brindeau
1860 - 1946
Alfred Cottin
1863 - 1923
Marie van Goethem
1865 - 1900
Georges Ancey
1860 - 1917
Louis Convers
1860 - 1915
Frédéric Sy
Born 1861
Jules Cottin
1868 - 1922
Raoul André Ulmann
1867 - 1932
Colette Dumas
1860 - 1907
Emmanuel Chaptal
1861 - 1943
André Level
1863 - 1947
Marthe de Florian
1864 - 1939
Paul Gruyer
1868 - 1930
Léopold Stevens
1866 - 1935
Paul Baignères
1869 - 1945
Ernest-Pascal Blanchard
1861 - 1945
Eugénie Guillou
Born 1861
Adrien Le Gallo
1865 - 1936
André Maurel
1863 - 1943
Achille Delmaet
1860 - 1914
Jules Jouant
1863 - 1921
Henry Samary
1865 - 1902
Alphonse Emmanuel de Moncel de Perrin
1866 - 1930
Paul Lagrave
1864 - 1933
Richard Paraire
1869 - 1935
Louis Trézel
1868 - 1912