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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Georges Lacombe (painter)
1868 - 1916
Georges Rochegrosse
1859 - 1938
Jean-Victor Schnetz
1787 - 1870
Louis Dupré (painter)
1789 - 1837
Yves Brayer
1907 - 1990
Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia
1881 - 1985
Louis Laguerre
1663 - 1721
Louis Abel-Truchet
1857 - 1918
Étienne Aubry
1745 - 1781
François-Gabriel Lépaulle
1804 - 1886
Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont
1693 - 1761
Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont
1790 - 1870
Louis Ducis
1775 - 1847
Heinrich Anton Müller
1869 - 1930
Roger Chapelet
1903 - 1995
Émile Lambinet
1815 - 1877
Félix-Hippolyte Lanoüe
1812 - 1872
Germain Van der Steen
1897 - 1985
André Suréda
1872 - 1930
Charles-Nicolas Dodin
1734 - 1803
Joël Froment
Born 1938
Emmanuel Gondouin
1883 - 1934
Jean-Paul Savignac (réalisateur)
Born 1936
Thérèse Debains
1907 - 1975
François Malbreil
Born 1953
Sauveur Legros
1754 - 1834
Bernard Gaillot
1780 - 1847
André Saglio
1869 - 1929
Claude Pelletier-Pigot
1932 - 2008
Nicolas-Marie Moriot
1788 - 1852
Alphonse Garreau
1792 - 1865
Henry Dannet
1886 - 1946
Pierre Boudet (peintre)
1915 - 2010
Pierre-Jean-Baptiste-Ernest de Buchère de Lépino
1779 - 1848