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.
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 playwright — 6.6× the global rate.
Saint-Ouen under-produces football — only 0.1× the global rate.
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.
- Film & TV
- Art & Design
- Writing
- Sports
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Other
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Jacques Gondouin
1737 - 1818
Georges Hoentschel
1855 - 1915
Yves Bayard
1935 - 2008
Adolphe Dervaux
1871 - 1945
André Jacob (architecte)
1891 - 1944
Henri Pacon
1882 - 1946
Jean Niermans
1897 - 1989
Georges Gromort
1870 - 1961
Louis Faure-Dujarric
1875 - 1943
Georges Hennequin (fils)
1893 - 1969
Michel Weill
1914 - 2001
Jean Dimitrijevic
1926 - 2010
Paul Lagrave
1864 - 1933
Émile Thion
1879 - 1967
Maurice Humbert
1878 - 1918
Henri Rebersat
1870 - 1932