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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Djimi Traoré
Born 1980
Fousseni Diawara
Born 1980
Kévin Bru
Born 1988
Jules Dewaquez
1899 - 1971
Maurice Cottenet
1895 - 1972
Aboubacar Sankhare
Born 1978
Édouard Baumann
1895 - 1985
Lucien Troupel
1919 - 1993
Louis Darques
Born 1896
Jean Pacot
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Raymond Zarpanelian
1933 - 2011
Patrick Papin
Born 1955
Abdoulaye Soumaré
Born 1980