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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
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Showing 80 of 784 notable people

0007 WRITER

Michel Tournier

1924 - 2016

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0018 PAINTER

Bernard Buffet

1928 - 1999

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0035 FILM

Pierre Granier-Deferre

1927 - 2007

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0039 PHOTOJOURNALIST

Édouard Boubat

1923 - 1999

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0049 COMMUNIST

Guy Môquet

1924 - 1941

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0056 FILM

Yves Ciampi

1921 - 1982

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0058 ACTOR

Colette Brosset

1922 - 2007

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0062 WRITER

Serge Doubrovsky

1928 - 2017

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0063 WRITER

François Nourissier

1927 - 2011

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0067 ARTIST

Micheline Dax

1924 - 2014

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0068 ANNOUNCER

Jacqueline Joubert

1921 - 2005

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0069 FILM

Bernard Borderie

1924 - 1978

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0072 ACTOR

Jacques Seiler

1928 - 2004

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0092 ACTOR

Marthe Mercadier

Born 1928

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0111 PLAYWRIGHT

François Billetdoux

1927 - 1991

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0121 ACTOR

Dominique Blanchar

1927 - 2018

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0127 MUSIC

André Hodeir

1921 - 2011

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0132 PAINTER

Françoise Adnet

1924 - 2014

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0163 ACTOR

Claude Cerval

1921 - 1972

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0173 ACTOR

François Guérin

1927 - 2003

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0181 PSYCHOANALYST

François Perrier (psychoanalyst)

1922 - 1990

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0194 ACTOR

Mathilde Casadesus

1921 - 1965

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0199 POET

Rouben Melik

1921 - 2007

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0201 PAINTER

Jacques Soisson

1928 - 2012

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0206 ACTOR

Marie Daëms

1928 - 2016

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0208 BUSINESS

Raymond Lévy

1927 - 2018

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0233 SCULPTOR

Jacques Delahaye

1928 - 2010

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0239 WRITER

Claude Brulé

1925 - 2012

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0240 BASKET

Maurice Girardot

1921 - 2020

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0241 FILM

François Gir

1920 - 2003

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0247 ESSAYIST

Claude Bremond

Born 1929

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0257 ACTOR

Rosine Luguet

1921 - 1981

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0264 POLITICIAN

Hélène Missoffe

1927 - 2015

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0290 ACTOR

Denise Gence

1924 - 2011

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0298 SCULPTOR

Philippe Hiquily

1925 - 2013

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0326 ACTOR

Jacqueline Huet

1929 - 1986

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0337 WRITER

Jean Schuster

1929 - 1995

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0382 WRITER

Philippe Audoin

1924 - 1985

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0395 MISSING

Yann Bouëssel du Bourg

1924 - 1996

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0401 ACTOR

Jean-Claude Rémoleux

1923 - 1985

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0408 ROWER

Jean Séphériadès

1922 - 2001

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0409 WRITER

Paul Bonnecarrère

1925 - 1977

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0419 FILM

Robert Lachenay

1928 - 2005

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0421 ACTOR

Arlette Accart

1926 - 1957

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0446 CHOREOGRAPHER

Serge Perrault

1920 - 2014

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0459 ACTOR

Jacques Lalande (acteur)

1927 - 1997

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0466 THEATRE

Pierre Franck (théâtre)

1922 - 2013

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0467 COMPOSER

Georges Liferman

1922 - 2018

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0483 PHYSICIST

Charles-Noël Martin

1923 - 2005

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0492 POLITICIAN

Louis Baillot

1924 - 2007

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0495 LIBÉRAL

Colette Kessler

1928 - 2009

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0500 PIANIST

Hubert Degex

Born 1929

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0516 SONGWRITER

Hubert Ithier

1920 - 2009

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0526 PHILOSOPHER

Jean Zacklad

1929 - 1990

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0541 JOURNALIST

Morvan Duhamel

1928 - 2017

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0542 MOUNTAINEER

Marcel Schatz

1920 - 1987

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0560 LUTHIER

Bernard Millant

1929 - 2017

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0561 PAINTER

Albert Chaminade

1923 - 2010

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0578 ACTOR

Jacqueline Cantrelle

Born 1927

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0589 COMPOSER

Jacques Besse

1921 - 1999

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0596 PAINTER

Céelle

1929 - 2018

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0603 SCREENWRITER

Claude Accursi

Born 1920

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0616 ACTOR

Robert Duranton

1926 - 2005

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0621 ACTOR

Solange Certain

1928 - 2014

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0622 PHYSICIST

Georges Osorio

1926 - 2010

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0642 ARCHITECT

Jean Dimitrijevic

1926 - 2010

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0647 FILM

Xavier Ameil

Born 1923

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0648 ILLUSTRATOR

Jacques Tabary

1926 - 2011

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0650 ACTOR

Gilberte Savary

1921 - 1992

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0662 BUSINESS

Nicolas Feuillatte

1926 - 2014

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0671 FILM

Henry Jacques (réalisateur)

1920 - 1978

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0679 ACTOR

Christian Bertola

Born 1921

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0698 FILM

Youri (réalisateur)

Born 1927

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0702 HOCKEY

Jean-François Dubessay

Born 1921

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0703 PRODUCER

Jacques Solness

1925 - 2010

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0706 JOURNALIST

Jean Farran

1920 - 1998

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0710 SECRÉTAIRE

Pierre Onténiente

1921 - 2013

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0711 BUSINESS

Édouard Salustro

1929 - 2013

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0729 ACTOR

Solange Turenne

Born 1927

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0747 PAINTER

Michel Dureuil

1929 - 2011

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