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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

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1960s with 62 notable births.

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.

1650170017501800185019001950
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0039 ACTOR

Francis Perrin (actor)

Born 1947

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0053 DESIGNER

agnès b.

Born 1941

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0089 ACTOR

Areski Belkacem

Born 1940

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0127 HISTORIAN

Bernard Lepetit

1948 - 1996

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0132 CHEMIST

Didier Astruc

Born 1946

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0148 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Thérèse Delpech

1948 - 2012

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0158 ACTOR

Katia Tchenko

Born 1947

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0187 PHYSICIAN

Marie-Claude Bomsel

Born 1946

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0201 POLITICIAN

Richard Le Hir

1947 - 2018

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0225 POLITICIAN

Jean-Jacques Jégou

Born 1945

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0237 SKIPPER

Bruno Troublé

Born 1945

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0294 SCREENWRITER

Marc Villard

Born 1947

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0313 SINGER

Emmanuel Booz

Born 1943

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0325 ARCHITECT

Pierre-André Lablaude

1947 - 2018

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0372 CHOREOGRAPHER

Odile Duboc

1941 - 2010

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0373 ART DIRECTOR

Alain Lachartre

Born 1946

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0388 HISTORIAN

Michel Antochiw Kolpa

1940 - 2014

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0424 ATHLETIC

Jean-Pierre Perrinelle

1949 - 2014

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0448 WRITER

Bernard-Marie Garreau

Born 1949

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0451 POLITICIAN

Alain Schmitz

Born 1948

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0505 WRITER

Marie Brantôme

1940 - 2018

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0522 CIVIL SERVANT

Régis Guyot

Born 1949

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0526 WRITER

Françoise Clédat

Born 1942

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0540 FONCTIONNAIRE

Catherine Delmas-Comolli

Born 1948

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0565 RACER

Jean Auréal

1941 - 1985

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0581 BUSINESS

Philippe Tillous-Borde

Born 1946

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0662 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Francoise Hivernel

Born 1943

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0692 FONCTIONNAIRE

François Erlenbach

Born 1946

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