48.8796° N, 2.3314° E

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

Click any row to filter the list of people below.

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
All784
Sort By

Showing 5 of 784 notable people

0032 ACTOR

Vincent Lacoste

Born 1993

Preview
0203 ATHLETIC

Alexia Sedykh

Born 1993

Preview
0659 BASKET

Vafessa Fofana

Born 1992

Preview
0674 KARATE

Marvin Garin

Born 1993

Preview
0690 ATHLETIC

Jean-Pierre Bertrand (athlétisme)

Born 1992

Preview