47.3928° N, 0.6884° E
TOURS
Most Famous People Born in Tours, France
- Notable people
- 523
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1912
- Most distinctive
- Prelate 11.2×
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Tours during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1960s with 48 notable births.
What Tours Is Known For
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Politician is Tours's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (60).
Tours over-indexes on prelate — 11.2× the global rate.
Tours under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Tours's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Writing
- Politics & Law
- Art & Design
- Science
- Film & TV
- Other
Honoré de Balzac
1799 - 1850
James Naismith
1861 - 1939
Zaz (singer)
Born 1980
Jean Fouquet
1420 - 1480
Louise de La Vallière
1644 - 1710
Jacques Villeret
1951 - 2005
Yves Bonnefoy
1923 - 2016
François Clouet
1510 - 1572
Paul Nizan
1905 - 1940
Georges Courteline
1858 - 1929
Robbie Ross
1869 - 1918
Gabriel Lamé
1795 - 1870
Jean II Le Maingre
1366 - 1421
Mélanie Bernier
Born 1985
Marie of the Incarnation (Ursuline)
1599 - 1672
Abraham Bosse
1604 - 1676
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
1940 - 2007
Berengar of Tours
998 - 1088
Armand Trousseau
1801 - 1867
Félix Dujardin
1801 - 1860
Yolande of Valois
1434 - 1478
Victor Laloux
1850 - 1937
René Laurentin
1917 - 2017
Paul Guers
1927 - 2016
Ben l'Oncle Soul
Born 1984
Nâdiya
Born 1973
Claude Vignon
1593 - 1670
Charles, Duke of Berry (1446–1472)
1446 - 1472
Philippe Néricault Destouches
1680 - 1754
Laurent Mauvignier
Born 1967
Bernardus Silvestris
1085 - 1160
Marie of the Incarnation (Carmelite)
1566 - 1618
Dominique Bussereau
Born 1952
Jean Bourdichon
1457 - 1521
Luz (cartoonist)
Born 1972
Sinclair (singer)
Born 1970
Francis de Miomandre
1880 - 1959
Jérémy Roy (cyclist)
Born 1983
Yohan Tavares
Born 1988
Guillaume Rouillé
1518 - 1589
Abdou Diallo
Born 1996
Philippe Musard
1792 - 1859
Fulk II, Count of Anjou
Died 960
Jean Baptiste Meusnier
1754 - 1793
Michel Pêcheux
1938 - 1983
Alfred Agache (architect)
1875 - 1959
Luc Delahaye
Born 1962
Régis de Trobriand
1816 - 1897
Wilfried Dalmat
Born 1982
Guillaume Briçonnet (cardinal)
1445 - 1514
Élisabeth Sonrel
1874 - 1953
Magdalena of France
1443 - 1495
Stéphane Audeguy
Born 1964
François-Léon Sicard
1862 - 1934
Christian de la Mazière
1922 - 2006
Pascal Hervé
Born 1964
A. D. G.
1947 - 2004
Cyril Lemoine
Born 1983
Louis Dutens
1730 - 1812
Jean-Louis Bruguière
Born 1943
Ernest Goüin
1815 - 1885
Paul Viollet
1840 - 1914
René Rapin
1621 - 1687
Sofiane Diop
Born 2000
Julien Le Roy
1686 - 1759
Blanche Montel
1902 - 1998
Jean-François Hernández
Born 1969
Raphaël Lakafia
Born 1988
François Pallu
1626 - 1684
André-Michel Guerry
1802 - 1866
Michel Godet
Born 1948
Josselin Ouanna
Born 1986
Pascale Casanova
1959 - 2018
Sébastien Balibar
Born 1947
René Théodore Berthon
1776 - 1859
Xavier Gravelaine
Born 1968
Adolphe Delattre
1805 - 1854
Rubin Steiner
Born 1974
Jean-Sébastien Jaurès
Born 1977
Catherine Binet
1944 - 2006
Jean Germain (politician)
1947 - 2015
Michel Lussault
Born 1960
Bernard Aucouturier
Born 1934
Maurice Couette
1858 - 1943
Jean-Christophe Maillot
Born 1960
Émile Delahaye
1843 - 1905
Franck Rabarivony
Born 1970
Henri de Turenne (writer)
1921 - 2016
Maamar Mamouni
Born 1976
Jean Bretonnière
1924 - 2001
Biga Ranx
Born 1988
Armand Samuel de Marescot
1758 - 1832
Pierre-Gilles Lakafia
Born 1987
Luc Ducalcon
Born 1984
Harry Roselmack
Born 1973
Nicolas Koretzky
Born 1972
Michèle Lesbre
Born 1939
Jonathan Nanizayamo
Born 1992
Nicolas Denys
1598 - 1688
Bruno Baronchelli
Born 1957
Albert Laponneraye
1808 - 1849
Flo Mounier
Born 1974
Philippe Briand
Born 1960
James Coignard
1925 - 2008
Antony Cordier
Born 1973
Michel-Georges Micberth
1945 - 2013
Marcel Gaumont
1880 - 1962
Jules Moinaux
1815 - 1895
Frédéric Magné
Born 1969
Aude Lancelin
Born 1973
Pascal Rabaté
Born 1961
Jacques Dupuy
1591 - 1656
Jean-Marie Dreujou
Born 1959
Charles-Henri de Blainville
1711 - 1770
Paul Beauchamp
1925 - 2001
Adelaide of Tours
820 - 866
Maurice Bailloud
1847 - 1921
Loïc Bouvard
1929 - 2017
Michaël Milon
1972 - 2002
Charles I d'Amboise
1430 - 1481
Annie Noël
1926 - 2009
Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel
1912 - 1992
Émile Vacher
1883 - 1969
Louis Parrot
1906 - 1948
Jules Lebreton
1873 - 1956
Daniel Mendaille
1885 - 1963
Mathilde Panot
Born 1989
Jacques Hardion
1686 - 1766
Jules Haime
1824 - 1856
Camille Alaphilippe
1874 - 1934
Étienne Pasquier (cellist)
1905 - 1997
Napoléon La Cécilia
1835 - 1878
Alfred-Henri-Amand Mame
1811 - 1893
Dominique Laporte
1949 - 1984
Pacôme Rupin
Born 1985
Jean-Marc Lelong
1949 - 2004
Étienne de Poncher
1446 - 1524
Frédéric Dambier
Born 1977
Ursin Durand
1682 - 1771
Juste de Juste
1505 - 1559
Jean-Pierre Bois
Born 1945
René Baudichon
1878 - 1963
Pierre d'Amboise
1408 - 1473
Olivier de Germay
Born 1960
Martial Bourdin
1868 - 1894
Laurent Itti
Born 1970
Joseph Rivière
1912 - 1961
Renaud de Beaune
1527 - 1606
François Châtelet (mathematician)
1912 - 1987
Arnaud Merlin
Born 1963
Maxime Sauvé
Born 1990
Joseph Dutens
1765 - 1848
Robert Briçonnet
1450 - 1497
Catherine Poirot
Born 1963
Johan Liébus
Born 1978
Achille d'Étampes de Valençay
1593 - 1646
Philippe Mauduit
Born 1968
Brutus de Villeroi
1794 - 1874
Maxime Brillault
Born 1983
Hélène Robert (actress)
1910 - 1981
Gilles Martin
Born 1956
John of Tours
Died 1122
Vincent Cochetel
Born 1961
Pierre Pasquier (violist)
1902 - 1986
Pauline Biscarat
Born 1989
Béatrice Pavy-Morançais
Born 1958
Nicolas Heurteloup
1750 - 1812
Marie-Laure Augry
Born 1947
Jean-Claude Narcy
Born 1938
Gaëlle Gebet
Born 1984
Tuluhan Tekelioğlu
Born 1970
Charles Champoiseau
1830 - 1909
Catherine Nay
Born 1944
Alexandre Goüin
1792 - 1872
Jules François Mabille
1831 - 1904
Bernard Vernier-Palliez
1918 - 1999
Auguste Boissonneau
1802 - 1883
Jean-Louis Bailly
Born 1953
Vincent Houdry
1631 - 1729
Yves Ker Ambrun
1954 - 2017
François-Benjamin Chaussemiche
1864 - 1945
Jean-Pierre Robert
Born 1956
Octave Féré
1815 - 1875
Bernard Gitton
Born 1935
Agnès Michaux
Born 1968
Jean Baudrais
1749 - 1832
Nicolas Turquois
Born 1972
Gérard Blanchard
Born 1953
Jules-Antoine Taschereau
1801 - 1874
Ludovic Roy
Born 1977
Jean-Luc Moreau (universitaire)
Born 1937
Arnaud Viviant
Born 1963
Éric Despezelle
Born 1974
Xavier de Lesquen
Born 1962
Claire Diterzi
Born 1971
Hugues Cosnier
1573 - 1629
Charlotte Lozé
Born 1988
Gabriel Taschereau de Baudry
1673 - 1755
Bernard Deyriès
Born 1947
Christophe Bordeau
Born 1968
Claude Servan-Schreiber
Born 1937
Catherine Davenier
Born 1953
Delphine Bardin
Born 1974
Pascal Jan
Born 1967
Louis Muraton
1850 - 1919
Frédéric Leclerc
1810 - 1891
Olivier Faron
Born 1959
Jean-Paul Ribes
Born 1939
François de Paule Bretonneau
1660 - 1741
Bruno Joubert
Born 1950
Jean-Joseph-Louis Graslin
1727 - 1790
Alfred-Louis de Prémare
1930 - 2006
Serge Babary
Born 1946
Laure Surville
1800 - 1871
Champion Métadier
Born 1947
Jean-Charles Fitoussi
Born 1970
Pierre-Étienne Lemaire
Born 1991
Aurélia Poirier
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David Prudhomme
Born 1969
Jonathan Bourhis
1990 - 2009
Paul Bonnefond
Born 1988
Chantal Darget
1934 - 1988
Jean-François Marquet
1938 - 2017
Jérôme Revon
Born 1962
Max Bird
Born 1990
Killian Durechou
Born 1992
Robert Luzarche
1845 - 1871
Emile B. De Sauzé
1878 - 1964
Jean-Claude Chevalier
1925 - 2018
Charles Gir
1883 - 1941
Claude Cottereau (1499-1550)
1499 - 1550
Noël Aubin
1754 - 1835
Jacques D'Hondt
1920 - 2012
Henry Normand (entomologiste)
1868 - 1959
Séverine Sigrist
Born 1973
Robert Salais
Born 1941
Georgia Caldera
Born 1982
Jean-Jacques Filleul
Born 1943
Patrick Norguet
Born 1969
John David Digues La Touche
1861 - 1935
Isabelle Stoehr
Born 1979
Guy Paquinet
1903 - 1981
Jean-Luc Steinmetz
Born 1940
Thomas-Jacques Taschereau
1680 - 1749
André Rolland de Renéville
1903 - 1962
William Firmatus
1026 - 1103
Aude Lechrist
Born 1980
Bernard Jouanneau
1941 - 2017
André Bourin
1918 - 2016
French Kiwi Juice
Born 1991
Pierre Berloquin
Born 1939
Guy-Marie Oury
1929 - 2000
Michel Nau
1633 - 1683
Frédéric Volovitch
Born 1974
Rachel Khan
Born 1976
Pascal Guimier
Born 1960
Philip Berruyer
Died 1260
Catherine Bernstein
Born 1964
Alfred Tonnellé
1831 - 1858
Ophélie Véron
Born 1986
Louis Rimbault
1877 - 1949
Jean Vimenet
1914 - 1999
Julien Bonetat
Born 1971
Nob (auteur)
Born 1973
Romain Ruffenach
Born 1994
Jean-Marie Querville
1903 - 1967
Thomas Sourice
Born 1984
Guillaume Gontard
Born 1971
Jérôme Touzalin
Born 1941
Dominique Bertail
Born 1972
Élodie Durand
Born 1976
Gérard Cordier
1924 - 2014
François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles
Born 1953
Hervé Boullanger
Born 1965
Alberto Velasco
1963 - 1995
Jean-Daniel Flaysakier
Born 1951
Jean-Gabriel Goulinat
1883 - 1972
Anne-Gaëlle Riccio
Born 1978
Stéphanie des Horts
Born 1965
Rachel le Bozec
Born 1975
Henri Jacques Goüin-Moisant
1758 - 1823
Denis Briçonnet
1479 - 1535
Paul Choisnard
1867 - 1930
Laurent Petitguillaume
Born 1960
René Fournier
Born 1921
Henri Le Marois
Born 1936
Alphonse Muraton
1824 - 1911
Pierre Vidal (illustrateur)
1849 - 1913
Nathalie Saint-Cricq
Born 1960
Ingrid Brochard
Born 1976
Antoine Réjasse
Born 1972
Thom Gicquel
Born 1999
François Poncher
1480 - 1532
Christian Biegalski
1949 - 2007
Jean-Yves Chamard
Born 1942
Jacques Duthoo
1910 - 1960
Brice Guidon
Born 1985
Jacques Gélu
1376 - 1432
Martin Fraudreau
Born 1948
Jonathan Hoyaux
Born 1988