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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

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1900s with 106 notable births.

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
  • Other
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Showing 82 of 784 notable people

0011 ACTOR

Jean-Pierre Melville

1917 - 1973

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0020 ACTOR

Gisèle Casadesus

1914 - 2017

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0026 ACTOR

Suzy Delair

1917 - 2020

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0029 PHOTOGRAPHER

Willy Ronis

1910 - 2009

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0036 PAINTER

Alfred Manessier

1911 - 1993

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0042 WRITER

Jacques Laurent

1919 - 2000

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0050 ACTOR

Ginette Leclerc

1912 - 1992

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0077 ACTOR

Jean Martinelli

1910 - 1983

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0083 ACTOR

Mila Parély

1917 - 2012

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0145 COSTUME DESIGNER

Paulette Coquatrix

1916 - 2018

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0157 ACTOR

Christian Casadesus

1912 - 2014

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0172 CHANSONNIER

Jacques Grello

1915 - 1978

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0180 FILM

Marcel Blistène

1911 - 1991

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0193 WRITER

Jean Queval

1913 - 1990

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0209 HISTORIAN

Jean Touchard

1918 - 1971

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0210 ACTOR

Raymond Leboursier

1917 - 1987

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0213 WEIGHTLIFTER

René Duverger

1911 - 1983

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0218 CHANSONNIER

Robert Rocca

1912 - 1994

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0220 ACTOR

Denise Bosc

1916 - 2002

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0248 PAINTER

Jacques Germain

1915 - 2001

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0251 COMPOSER

René Cloërec

1911 - 1995

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0254 FENCER

Maurice Huet

1918 - 1991

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0263 FILM

Jean Marion

1912 - 1967

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0269 ACTOR

Jean-Jacques Vital

1913 - 1977

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0281 ACTOR

Jean Forest (acteur)

1912 - 1980

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0288 PUBLISHER

Claude Gallimard

1914 - 1991

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0323 PIANIST

Reine Gianoli

1915 - 1979

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0334 VIOLIN

Alfred Loewenguth

1911 - 1983

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0344 ACTOR

Raymond Galle

1913 - 2003

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0346 PAINTER

Amandine Doré

1912 - 2011

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0363 SPORT

Paul Texier

Born 1911

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0365 ART HISTORIAN

Michel Faré

1913 - 1985

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0368 FOOTBALL

Lucien Troupel

1919 - 1993

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0370 ACTOR

Jean Lanier

1913 - 1999

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0374 PHILOSOPHE

Georges Snyders

1917 - 2011

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0376 MILITAR

Roger Wybot

1912 - 1997

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0386 ACTOR

Janine Guyon

1919 - 2015

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0389 ACTOR

Jean Dasque

1919 - 2013

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0392 DRIVER

René Le Bègue

1914 - 1946

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0400 ARCHIVIST

Henri Tribout de Morembert

1912 - 1996

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0402 ACTOR

Françoise Morhange

1915 - 1984

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0404 FILM

Henri Aisner

1911 - 1991

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0418 POLITICIAN

Mounette Dutilleul

1910 - 1996

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0425 SKIPPER

Jacques Lebrun

1910 - 1996

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0432 LAWYER

Janine Alexandre-Debray

1910 - 2000

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0434 SCULPTOR

Maurice Gambier d'Hurigny

1912 - 2000

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0451 ACTOR

Daniel Clérice

1912 - 1990

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0456 SKATER

Jacqueline Vaudecrane

1913 - 2018

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0463 ACTOR

Alain Nobis

1918 - 1982

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0472 HOCKEY

Diran Manoukian

1919 - 2020

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0486 PAINTER

Guillemette Morand

1913 - 1989

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0511 HISTORIAN

Robert Brécy

1912 - 1996

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0512 PAINTER

Claude Le Baube

1919 - 2007

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0522 SCULPTOR

Raymond Joly

1911 - 2006

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0534 PHOTOGRAPHER

Jean Lattès

1917 - 1996

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0537 FIGHTER

Yvette Farnoux

1919 - 2015

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0545 BUSINESS

Jean Panzani

1911 - 2003

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0552 PUBLISHER

Maurice Dumoncel

1919 - 2013

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0565 VOILE

Michel Etevenon

1914 - 2001

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0569 WRITER

Jean Sareil

1916 - 1988

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0571 WRITER

Hélène Simart

1918 - 1984

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0579 COMPOSER

Robert Chauvigny

1916 - 1963

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0582 MODEL

Lucienne Nahmias

1911 - 1949

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0583 PAINTER

Gérard Locardi

1915 - 1998

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0597 SKYDIVER

Anne-Marie Imbrecq

1911 - 2015

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0599 WORLD WAR

Gilbert Lesage

1910 - 1989

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0604 CURATOR

Jeannine Auboyer

1912 - 1990

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0610 CINEMA

Pierre Levent

1910 - 1987

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0617 HISTORIAN

Paul Adrian

1919 - 2013

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0618 ARTIST

François Ganeau

1912 - 1983

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0640 ARCHITECT

Michel Weill

1914 - 2001

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0660 MILITAR

Jean Volvey

1910 - 1994

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0664 JOURNALIST

Alfred Smoular

1911 - 1994

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0675 PUBLISHER

Madeleine Aubier-Gabail

1916 - 2004

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0688 JOURNALIST

Jean Eskenazi

1913 - 1986

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0695 JOURNALIST

Pierre Norgeu

1910 - 1961

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0709 FILM

Pierre Franchi

1911 - 1983

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0724 ACTOR

Jean Francel

1912 - 1982

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0745 RÉSISTANT

Pierre Bernhard

1910 - 1976

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0750 SECRÉTAIRE

Jean Forgeot

1915 - 2000

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0755 PAINTER

Roger Weiss

1910 - 1994

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0783 SWIMMER

Yvonne Jeanne

Born 1910

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