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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 1880s Clear ×
Georges Bernanos
1888 - 1948
Nadia Boulanger
1887 - 1979
Maurice Utrillo
1883 - 1955
Abel Gance
1889 - 1981
Pierre Renoir
1885 - 1952
Robert Esnault-Pelterie
1881 - 1957
Gaston Gallimard
1881 - 1975
Paul Rosenberg (art dealer)
1881 - 1959
Léon Noël
1888 - 1987
Lucien Lelong
1889 - 1958
Henri Pélissier
1889 - 1935
Paul Géraldy
1885 - 1983
Jeanne Fusier-Gir
1885 - 1973
Henri Massis
1886 - 1970
André Utter
1886 - 1948
Pierre Taittinger
1887 - 1965
Irène Bordoni
1885 - 1953
Jean Durand
1882 - 1946
Yvonne de Bray
1887 - 1954
Alfred Janniot
1889 - 1969
Pierre Palau
1883 - 1966
Camille Arambourg
1885 - 1969
Odette Talazac
1883 - 1948
Henri Gougerot
1881 - 1955
Maurice Goguel
1880 - 1955
Jacques Bousquet
1883 - 1939
Claude Roger-Marx
1888 - 1977
Armand Dufaux
1883 - 1941
Geneviève Lantelme
1883 - 1911
Paul Colas
1880 - 1956
Germaine Reuver
1885 - 1953
Louis Blanche
1882 - 1960
Lucienne Bisson
1880 - 1939
Edmond Van Daële
1884 - 1960
Marcel Boll
1886 - 1971
Berthe Noufflard
1886 - 1971
Maurice Delannoy
1885 - 1972
Étienne Weill-Raynal
1887 - 1982
Suzanne Buisson
1883 - 1944
Ernest Friderich
1886 - 1954
Hélène Dieudonné
1884 - 1980
Germaine Martinelli
1887 - 1964
Made Siamé
1885 - 1974
Marcel Vandal
1882 - 1965
Marcel Willard
1889 - 1956
Jean Troisier
1881 - 1945
Gustave Pimienta
1888 - 1982
Edmée Favart
1886 - 1941
Ferdinand Vasserot
1881 - 1963
Gérard de Courcelles
1889 - 1927
José Delaquerrière
1886 - 1978
André Arnyvelde
1881 - 1942
Maurice Dommanget
1888 - 1976
Pierre Idrac
1885 - 1935
Marie Calvès
1883 - 1957
René Maupré
1888 - 1976
Henri Pacon
1882 - 1946
Yvonne Diéterle
1882 - 1974
José Moselli
1882 - 1941
Georges Capon
1880 - 1980
René Baer
1887 - 1962
Jacques Antoine Bernard
1880 - 1952
Paul Derval
1880 - 1966
Edmée Delebecque
1880 - 1951
Jules Piel
1882 - 1978
René Lhopital
1885 - 1960
Jean Villemot
1880 - 1958
Henri Bonnamaux
1880 - 1935
Georges Flateau
1881 - 1953
Marie-Thérèse Piérat
1883 - 1934
Louis Rustin
1880 - 1954
Maurice Joron
1883 - 1937
Pierre Mortier
1882 - 1946
André Foy
1886 - 1953
Émile Mazaud
1884 - 1970
Jean Alley
1885 - 1974
Georges Hillaireau
1884 - 1954
Henri Édouard Navarre
1885 - 1971
Suzanne Talba
Born 1881
André d'Hormon
1881 - 1965
Paul Julien Granier de Cassagnac
1880 - 1966
Germaine Malaterre-Sellier
1889 - 1967
Géo Charley
1888 - 1954
Louis Nazzi
1884 - 1913
Marcel Manchez
1880 - 1932
Émile Hennequin (policier)
1887 - 1977
Joseph Basset
1889 - 1959
Émile Terroine
1882 - 1974
Maurice Duplay (1880-1978)
1880 - 1978
René Lisbonne
1881 - 1943
Albert Féquant
1886 - 1915
René Dantigny
1889 - 1914
Carmen Vildez
1884 - 1977
André Meynot
1880 - 1968
Martial Massiani
1887 - 1968
Raymond Ceillier
1884 - 1955
Lucien Pichon
1883 - 1958