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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.

Through the Decades

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 playwright6.6× the global rate.

Saint-Ouen under-produces football — only 0.1× the global rate.

  1. Actor150
  2. Painter72
  3. Writer44
  4. Film42
  5. Politician34
  6. Journalist29
  7. Composer19
  8. Singer17
  1. Playwright86.6×
  2. Film424.4×
  3. Actor1503.6×
  4. Painter723.5×
  5. Sculptor173.3×
  6. Photographer92.4×
  7. Journalist292.4×
  8. Architect162.3×
  1. Football130.1×
  2. Politician340.4×

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.

1650170017501800185019001950
  • Film & TV
  • Art & Design
  • Writing
  • Sports
  • Music
  • Politics & Law
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Showing 104 of 784 notable people

0004 FILM

Jean Renoir

1894 - 1979

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0014 INDUSTRIALIST

Marcel Dassault

1892 - 1986

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0031 ACTOR

Françoise Rosay

1891 - 1974

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0071 DESIGNER

Jean-Michel Frank

1895 - 1941

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0074 HARPIST

Lily Laskine

1893 - 1988

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0079 PAINTER

Gen Paul

1895 - 1975

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0095 FILM

Henri Diamant-Berger

1895 - 1972

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0097 OPERA

Pierre Bernac

1899 - 1979

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0110 SPORT

Francis Pélissier

1894 - 1959

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0112 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Georges Henri Rivière

1897 - 1985

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0126 ACTOR

Maurice Lehmann

1895 - 1974

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0128 ACTOR

Marcelle Chantal

1898 - 1960

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0129 COMPOSER

Marius Casadesus

1892 - 1981

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0138 FOOTBALL

Jules Dewaquez

1899 - 1971

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0141 ACTOR

René Blancard

1897 - 1965

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0152 ACTOR

Gaston Glass

1899 - 1965

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0159 DRIVER

Albert Divo

1895 - 1966

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0170 PAINTER

Roger Chastel

1897 - 1981

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0174 SPORT

Romain Bellenger

1894 - 1981

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0190 COMPOSER

Jean Lenoir (composer)

1891 - 1976

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0195 AVIATEUR

Marcel Doret

1896 - 1955

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0200 FILM

André-Paul Antoine

1892 - 1982

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0211 PAINTER

Yvonne Jean-Haffen

1895 - 1993

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0222 ACTOR

Paula Maxa

1898 - 1970

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0237 JOURNALIST

Pierre Brisson

1896 - 1964

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0243 PHYSICIAN

André Migot

1892 - 1967

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0246 FOOTBALL

Maurice Cottenet

1895 - 1972

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0250 ACTOR

Francine Mussey

1897 - 1933

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0252 ACTOR

Raoul Marco

1892 - 1971

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0265 ACTOR

Yolande Laffon

1895 - 1992

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0284 CURLER

Pierre Canivet

1890 - 1982

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0287 ACTOR

René Rocher

1890 - 1970

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0289 ACTOR

Louise Chevalier (actrice)

1897 - 1986

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0291 CONDUCTOR

Maurice Franck

1897 - 1983

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0305 JOURNALIST

Madeleine Jacob

1896 - 1985

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0307 POLO

Georges Rigal

1890 - 1974

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0314 ACTOR

Jean-Max

1894 - 1970

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0317 ACTOR

Marie-Louise Iribe

1894 - 1934

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0330 WRITER

Jacques-Napoléon Faure-Biguet

1893 - 1954

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0336 ACTOR

André Gabriello

1896 - 1975

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0339 WRITER

Claude Orval

1897 - 1963

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0343 COMPOSER

Georges Arnoux

1891 - 1971

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0345 FOOTBALL

Édouard Baumann

1895 - 1985

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0348 WRITER

Annie de Montfort

1897 - 1944

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0353 PAINTER

André Dignimont

1891 - 1965

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0354 SINGER

Saint-Granier

1890 - 1976

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0360 PIANIST

Yvonne Gouverné

1890 - 1982

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0372 WEIGHTLIFTER

Fernand Arnout

1899 - 1974

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0381 COMPOSER

André Sablon

1896 - 1947

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0388 FOOTBALL

Louis Darques

Born 1896

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0393 ACTOR

Ginette Maddie

1898 - 1980

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0411 ARCHITECT

André Jacob (architecte)

1891 - 1944

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0412 LAWYER

Jean-Paul Palewski

1898 - 1976

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0438 PAINTER

Claude Rémusat

1896 - 1982

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0439 WRITER

Léopold Marchand

1891 - 1952

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0444 ARCHITECT

Jean Niermans

1897 - 1989

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0447 LAWYER

René Malliavin

1896 - 1970

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0461 PHYSICIAN

Henri Dubois-Roquebert

1891 - 1971

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0490 PAINTER

Georges-Armand Masson

1892 - 1977

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0496 POLITICIAN

Éliane Brault

1895 - 1982

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0497 ACTOR

Clara Tambour

1891 - 1982

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0506 SINGER

Davia

1898 - 1996

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0519 ACTOR

Marguerite Ducouret

1893 - 1971

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0530 PAINTER

Robert Fontené

1892 - 1980

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0556 COMPOSER

Suzanne Demarquez

1891 - 1965

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0557 ACTOR

Florence Brière

1895 - 1985

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0566 POLITICIAN

Raymond Bousquet

1899 - 1982

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0570 LINGUIST

Henry van Etten

1893 - 1968

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0577 PAINTER

Jean Chapin

1896 - 1994

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0581 ACTOR

Suzanne Nivette

1894 - 1995

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0586 SALONNIÈRE

Marcelle Dujarric de la Rivière

1899 - 1982

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0594 PAINTER

Daniel Girard

1890 - 1970

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0598 PHOTOGRAPHER

Yvonne Chevalier

1899 - 1982

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0605 PHYSICIAN

René Barthe

1894 - 1957

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0628 ACTOR

Paul Asselin

1893 - 1938

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0629 PHYSICIAN

Henri Galliard

1891 - 1979

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0630 COLLECTOR

Georges Sirot

1898 - 1977

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0635 ARCHITECT

Georges Hennequin (fils)

1893 - 1969

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0649 WRITER

André Savoret

1898 - 1977

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0667 ÉPOUSE

Jeanne Henri-Robert

1893 - 1983

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0668 CARICATURIST

Raoul Guérin

1890 - 1984

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0669 ACTOR

Pierre Pradier (acteur)

1891 - 1936

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0678 ACTOR

Mademoiselle Valpreux

1892 - 1926

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0681 SPORT

Léon Deloy

1894 - 1969

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0684 POLITICIAN

Henri Provost de la Fardinière

1897 - 1937

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0689 PAINTER

Pierre Farrey

Born 1896

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0692 ART HISTORIAN

Jacques Helft

1891 - 1980

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0694 ACTOR

Parisys

1892 - 1986

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0697 SPORT

Charles Mantelet

1894 - 1955

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0719 PRIEST

Jean Wolff

1899 - 1983

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0723 NAVY

Robert Fatou

1895 - 1981

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0728 SKATER

Simone Sabouret

Born 1893

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0732 AVIATEUR

Robert Bajac

1897 - 1935

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0735 LAWYER

Maurice Paz

1896 - 1985

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0737 LAWYER

Marc de Molènes

1896 - 1934

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0742 PAINTER

Henri-Martin Lamotte

1899 - 1967

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0743 POLITICIAN

Adrien Rophé

1898 - 1987

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0746 JOURNALIST

Jean Pain (résistant)

1891 - 1943

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0752 POLITICIAN

Edmond Pezé

1897 - 1982

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0761 POLITICIAN

Louis Béors

1899 - 1971

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0764 FENCER

Lionel Lifschitz

1898 - 1977

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0774 POLITICIAN

Victor Cat

Born 1892

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0775 WRITER

Lucienne Ercole

1894 - 1985

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0784 MISSING

Yvonne Allendy

1890 - 1935

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