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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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Djimi Traoré

Born 1980

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Fousseni Diawara

Born 1980

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Kévin Bru

Born 1988

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Jules Dewaquez

1899 - 1971

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Maurice Cottenet

1895 - 1972

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Aboubacar Sankhare

Born 1978

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Édouard Baumann

1895 - 1985

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Lucien Troupel

1919 - 1993

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Louis Darques

Born 1896

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Jean Pacot

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Raymond Zarpanelian

1933 - 2011

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Patrick Papin

Born 1955

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Abdoulaye Soumaré

Born 1980

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