48.8047° N, 2.1336° E
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.
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 king — 10.7× the global rate.
Versailles under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.
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.
- Politics & Law
- Writing
- Art & Design
- Sports
- Science
- Music
- Other
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François Baucher
1796 - 1873
Nicholas Marcellus Hentz
1797 - 1856
Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont
1790 - 1870
Amédée de Beauplan
1790 - 1853
François-Louis Crosnier
1792 - 1867
Émile Marco de Saint-Hilaire
1796 - 1887
Emmanuel Lepeintre
1790 - 1847
Philippe-Alexis Béancourt
1792 - 1862
Jean-Baptiste Muret
1795 - 1866
Joseph Adrien Le Roi
1797 - 1873
Alexandre Leclerc
1791 - 1879
Hippolyte de Fontmichel
1799 - 1874
Alphonse Garreau
1792 - 1865