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VERSAILLES

Most Famous People Born in Versailles, France

Notable people
715
Peak decade
1960s
Median birth year
1868
Most distinctive
King 10.7×

The Habsburg-of-the-West residence city, and it reads exactly like one on the page: a Bourbon hothouse whose Aristocrat and King benches index at better than ten times the global baseline, flanked by the expected Architect and Militar cohorts a court town produces to furnish and defend itself. Even after the Revolution it kept generating Playwrights and Composers at a clip most suburbs never manage, a reminder that proximity to power has its own long half-life.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Versailles during each.

Notable Births by Decade

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What Versailles Is Known For

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Politician is Versailles's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (82).

Versailles over-indexes on king10.7× the global rate.

Versailles under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.

  1. Politician82
  2. Painter34
  3. Actor32
  4. Militar32
  5. Writer29
  6. Architect21
  7. Composer18
  8. Officer16
  1. King1010.7×
  2. Aristocrat1210.0×
  3. Playwright76.3×
  4. Militar323.7×
  5. Officer163.4×
  6. Architect213.3×
  7. Engineer143.1×
  8. Botanist72.4×
  1. Football150.2×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Versailles's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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Showing 26 of 715 notable people

0019 SCULPTOR

Jean-Antoine Houdon

1741 - 1828

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0042 BOTANIST

André Michaux

1746 - 1802

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0077 BOTANIST

Antoine Nicolas Duchesne

1747 - 1827

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0104 DANCER

Rosalie Duthé

1748 - 1830

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0150 PAINTER

Étienne Aubry

1745 - 1781

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0176 BOTANIST

Jacques Philippe Martin Cels

1740 - 1806

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0199 POET

Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques Masson de Pezay

1741 - 1777

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0232 MATHEMATICIAN

Jean-François Callet

1744 - 1798

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0243 ARCHITECT

Jean-Démosthène Dugourc

1749 - 1825

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0258 FILLE

Marie-Thérèse de France (1746-1748)

1746 - 1748

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0315 WRITER

François-Félix Nogaret

1740 - 1831

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0371 POLITICIAN

Laurent Lecointre

1742 - 1805

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0374 PRINCE

Louis Marie, Duke of Rambouillet

1746 - 1749

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0391 POLITICIAN

Benoît Georges de Najac

1748 - 1826

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0399 SON

Charles de Vintimille

1741 - 1814

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0439 MISTRESS

Catherine Éléonore Bénard

1740 - 1769

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0449 ENGRAVER

Jacques Bouillard

1744 - 1806

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0486 ARCHITECT

Charles François Darnaudin

1741 - 1805

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0487 ARCHITECT

Firmin Perlin

1747 - 1783

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0517 MILITAR

François Emmanuel Dehaies, dit de Montigny

1743 - 1819

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0607 SCRIBE

Simon Dessalle

1746 - 1838

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0679 MILITAR

François Louis Antoine

1744 - 1837

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0685 ARCHITECT

Adrien Mouton (architecte)

1741 - 1820

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0697 OFFICER

Georges Philippe Saboureux de Fontenay

1742 - 1806

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0703 RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE

Jean Sébastien Grandjean

1740 - 1801

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0707 MILITAR

François Baugard

1744 - 1810

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