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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.

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Showing 52 of 715 notable people

0059 PRIEST

Michel Aupetit

Born 1951

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0060 POLITICIAN

Muriel Pénicaud

Born 1955

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0061 DRUMMER

Boris Williams

Born 1957

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0131 FILM

Laurence Ferreira Barbosa

Born 1958

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0136 ENGINEER

Jean-Marie Duthilleul

Born 1952

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0143 ACTOR

Laure Duthilleul

Born 1959

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0146 COMPOSER

Hugues Le Bars

1950 - 2014

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0147 PRIEST

Thierry Scherrer

Born 1959

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0173 JOURNALIST

Alain Frachon

Born 1950

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0196 ACTOR

Marine Jahan

Born 1959

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0200 MATHEMATICIAN

Christiane Rousseau

Born 1954

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0226 FILM

Christine Gozlan

Born 1958

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0228 POLITICIAN

Joëlle Mélin

Born 1950

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0238 POLITICIAN

Claude Bodin

Born 1952

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0239 PUBLISHER

Guy Delcourt (editor)

Born 1958

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0265 MILITAR

Jean-Pierre Bosser

Born 1959

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0266 MINISTRE

Dysmas de Lassus

Born 1956

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0273 HARPIST

Kristen Noguès

1952 - 2007

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0280 PIANIST

Denis Badault

Born 1958

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0285 PRESENTER

Philippe de Dieuleveult

1951 - 1985

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0287 MAGISTRAT

Jean-Marie Le Méné

Born 1956

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0299 ACTOR

Amaury de Crayencour

Born 1950

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0303 ARTIST

Henri Foucault

Born 1954

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0310 JOURNALIST

Alain Gillot-Pétré

1950 - 1999

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0311 ACTOR

Emmanuel Clot

1951 - 1983

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0312 JOURNALIST

Éric Roussel

Born 1951

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0316 WRITER

Béatrice Nicodème

Born 1951

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0376 POLITICIAN

Anne-Yvonne Le Dain

Born 1955

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0390 ARTIST

Jean Faucheur

Born 1956

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0393 MUSIC

Hubert Dupont (musicien)

Born 1959

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0397 MILITAR

Daniel Hervouët

Born 1952

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0402 ORNITHOLOGIST

Philippe J. Dubois

Born 1955

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0406 BANK

Philippe Dupont (banquier)

Born 1951

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0410 JOURNALIST

Philippe Colombani (journaliste)

Born 1954

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0418 NOVELIST

Jean-Pierre Naugrette

Born 1955

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0420 POLITICIAN

Corinne Imbert

Born 1958

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0425 WRITER

Nicolas de La Casinière

Born 1954

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0426 BUSINESS

Benoît Sillard

Born 1958

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0453 WRITER

Patrick Breuzé

Born 1953

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0462 POET

Joël Bastard

Born 1955

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0477 COMPOSER

Bruno Garlej

Born 1957

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0481 WRITER

Grégoire Dubreuil

1956 - 2007

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0483 PAINTER

François Malbreil

Born 1953

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0490 ARTIST

Olivier Mérijon

Born 1951

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0518 PENCILLER

Éric Godeau (dessinateur)

Born 1950

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0533 LAWYER

Dominique Antoine

Born 1959

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0552 BUSINESS

François Enaud

Born 1959

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0562 BUSINESS

Benoît Génuini

Born 1953

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0573 ART CRITIC

Sylvie Boulanger

Born 1959

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0585 SPORT

Dominique Esnault

Born 1959

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0621 JOURNALIST

Barbara Parodi Delfino

Born 1959

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0694 MAGISTRAT

Ivan Auriel

1957 - 2018

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