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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 13 of 784 notable people

0012 SPORT

Laurent Fignon

1960 - 2010

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0019 ACTOR

Mathilda May

Born 1965

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0142 ACTOR

Sophie Mounicot

Born 1960

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0146 ACTOR

Virginie Lemoine

Born 1961

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0166 FILM

Alain Goldman

Born 1961

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0214 ACTOR

Adama Niane (acteur)

Born 1966

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0441 SINGER

Vincent Baguian

Born 1962

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0508 POLITICIAN

William Delannoy

Born 1965

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0510 DIPLOMAT

Didier Le Bret

Born 1963

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0559 MAGISTRAT

Patrick Keil

1963 - 2019

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0572 WRITER

Félicie Dubois

Born 1966

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0717 ATHLETIC

Alain René-Corail

Born 1962

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0718 BUSINESS

Yazid Chir

Born 1964

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