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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Florence Devouard
Born 1968
Jean-Marie Duthilleul
Born 1952
Édouard de Villiers du Terrage
1780 - 1855
Louis Kahn (admiral)
1895 - 1967
Adolphe Bazaine-Vasseur
1809 - 1893
Jean-Nicolas Trouille
1750 - 1825
Gratien Le Père
1769 - 1826
François Philippe Voisin
1821 - 1918
Gustave Ernest Polonceau
1832 - 1900
Adrien Raffeneau-Delile
1773 - 1843
Edmond Ploix
1830 - 1879
Jean Baptiste Simon Fèvre
1775 - 1850
Louis Benoît Fouques-Duparc
1772 - 1838
Jean-Baptiste Jomard
1780 - 1868