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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
Journalist29
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Showing 29 of 784 notable people

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Dominique Baudis

1947 - 2014

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Pierre Lazareff

1907 - 1972

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Pierre Brisson

1896 - 1964

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Madeleine Jacob

1896 - 1985

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Rachid Santaki

Born 1973

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Robert Namias

Born 1944

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Suzanne Feingold

1904 - 1977

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Danièle Heymann

1933 - 2019

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François Baudot

1950 - 2010

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Lionel Rotcage

1948 - 2006

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Alain Jérôme

Born 1936

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Robert Parienté

1930 - 2006

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Philippe Chaffanjon

1958 - 2013

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Marie Portolano

Born 1985

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Morvan Duhamel

1928 - 2017

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Jean-Claude Zylberstein

Born 1938

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Benjamin Cuq

Born 1974

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Loys Van Lee

1906 - 1982

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Paul Julien Granier de Cassagnac

1880 - 1966

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Jean-Maurice Hermann

1905 - 1988

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Alfred Smoular

1911 - 1994

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Jean Eskenazi

1913 - 1986

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Pierre Norgeu

1910 - 1961

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Jean Farran

1920 - 1998

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Jean-Pierre Delacroix

1948 - 2019

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Vittorio de Filippis

Born 1959

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Jean Pain (résistant)

1891 - 1943

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André Meynot

1880 - 1968

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Martial Massiani

1887 - 1968

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