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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Louis de Noailles
1713 - 1793
Louis Marie de Lescure
1766 - 1793
Gonville Bromhead
1845 - 1891
Antoine VIII de Gramont
1755 - 1836
Louis-Auguste d'Affry
1713 - 1793
César Berthier
1765 - 1819
Alexandre Francois Auguste de Grasse
1765 - 1845
Jean-Pierre Bosser
Born 1959
Noël de Tissot
1914 - 1944
Joseph Bernelle
1785 - 1871
Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis
1788 - 1856
Edmé-Martin Vandermaesen
1766 - 1813
Victor Léopold Berthier
1770 - 1807
Pierre Rondot
1904 - 2000
Daniel Hervouët
Born 1952
Anne Charles Basset Montaigu
1751 - 1821
François Emmanuel Dehaies, dit de Montigny
1743 - 1819
Charles Antoine Houdar de La Motte
1773 - 1806
Ernest Auguste Barbade
1856 - 1914
Frédéric Legrand
1810 - 1870
Alexandre Leclerc
1791 - 1879
Maurice du Boisrouvray
1910 - 1941
Jean Albert comte de Pawenza Woroniez
1835 - 1895
André Hallier
1892 - 1988
Maurice Dutheil de La Rochère
1870 - 1944
Michel Darmon
1925 - 2012
Maxime de Cromot du Bourg
1756 - 1836
François Louis Antoine
1744 - 1837
Jacques Leroy (colonel)
1762 - 1842
Pierre Étienne Fabry
1760 - 1830
Émile Emmanuel Herbillon
1867 - 1930
François Baugard
1744 - 1810