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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.
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.
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- Music
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- Field: Writer Clear ×
Michel Tournier
1924 - 2016
Georges Bernanos
1888 - 1948
Joseph Joffo
1931 - 2018
Jacques Laurent
1919 - 2000
Serge Doubrovsky
1928 - 2017
François Nourissier
1927 - 2011
Albert Simonin
1905 - 1980
Paul Géraldy
1885 - 1983
Henri Massis
1886 - 1970
Jean Nohain
1900 - 1981
Gérard de Cortanze
Born 1948
Jean Queval
1913 - 1990
Claude Roger-Marx
1888 - 1977
André Gillois
1902 - 2004
Jean-Joseph Renaud
1873 - 1953
Judith Cladel
1873 - 1958
Claude Brulé
1925 - 2012
Lisa Bresner
1971 - 2007
Cécile de Brunhoff
1903 - 2003
Jean-Louis Brau
1930 - 1985
Jacques-Napoléon Faure-Biguet
1893 - 1954
Jean Schuster
1929 - 1995
Claude Orval
1897 - 1963
Annie de Montfort
1897 - 1944
Georges-Gustave Toudouze
1877 - 1972
Philippe Audoin
1924 - 1985
Paul Bonnecarrère
1925 - 1977
Jacques Bizet
1872 - 1922
Léopold Marchand
1891 - 1952
José Moselli
1882 - 1941
Robert Dreyfus (écrivain)
1873 - 1939
Michel Rachline
1933 - 2012
Jacques Antoine Bernard
1880 - 1952
Fabrice Delphi
1877 - 1937
Paul Gruyer
1868 - 1930
Jean Sareil
1916 - 1988
Hélène Simart
1918 - 1984
Félicie Dubois
Born 1966
André Maurel
1863 - 1943
André Savoret
1898 - 1977
Julien Priollet
1877 - 1953
Louis Nazzi
1884 - 1913
Maurice Duplay (1880-1978)
1880 - 1978
Lucienne Ercole
1894 - 1985