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.
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Hector Lefuel
1810 - 1880
Hector Horeau
1801 - 1872
Jacques-Marie Huvé
1783 - 1852
Jean-Démosthène Dugourc
1749 - 1825
Nicolas-Alexandre Salins
1753 - 1838
Pierre-André Lablaude
1947 - 2018
Daniel Kahane
Born 1938
Ange-Antoine Gabriel
1735 - 1781
Louis Lenormand
1801 - 1862
Charles François Darnaudin
1741 - 1805
Firmin Perlin
1747 - 1783
Auguste Pellechet
1789 - 1874
Pierre Parat
1928 - 2019
Pierre-Louis Helin
1734 - 1791
Arsène Bical
1884 - 1925
Hippolyte Béziers-Lafosse
1814 - 1899
Richard-François Bonfin
1730 - 1814
Jean-René Billaudel
1733 - 1786
Adrien Mouton (architecte)
1741 - 1820
Léon Saxer
1886 - 1970
Claude-Philippe Cramail
1772 - 1855