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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Jules de Polignac
1780 - 1847
Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas
1701 - 1781
Charles, Prince of Soubise
1715 - 1787
Muriel Pénicaud
Born 1955
Louis Legendre
1752 - 1797
Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul
1789 - 1865
Arnaud II de La Porte
1737 - 1792
André François Miot de Mélito
1762 - 1841
Charles de Varigny
1829 - 1899
Jacques Bardoux
1874 - 1959
Richard Le Hir
1947 - 2018
Édouard de Fitz-James (1776-1838)
1776 - 1838
Jean-Jacques Jégou
Born 1945
Joëlle Mélin
Born 1950
Claude Bodin
Born 1952
Fabien Gouttefarde
Born 1978
François-Louis Crosnier
1792 - 1867
Eugène de Goulard
1808 - 1874
Paul de Jouvencel
1817 - 1897
Henri Gaspard de Schaller
1828 - 1900
Anne Brugnera
Born 1970
Armand Joseph de Béthune
1738 - 1800
Fernand Tardy
1919 - 2017
Jules Godin
1844 - 1925
Lucile Schmid
Born 1962
Albert Gauthier de Clagny
1853 - 1927
Alphonse Théraulaz
1840 - 1921
Marcel Gitton
1903 - 1941
Paul Étienne de Villiers du Terrage
1774 - 1858
Claude du Granrut
Born 1929
Rémi Féraud
Born 1971
Bertrand de Mun
1870 - 1963
Jules Steeg
1836 - 1898
Laurent Lecointre
1742 - 1805
André Mignot
1915 - 1977
Anne-Yvonne Le Dain
Born 1955
Philippe Touchard
1810 - 1879
Benoît Georges de Najac
1748 - 1826
Robert Delorozoy
1922 - 2015
Henri-Louis de Chastellux
1786 - 1863
Corinne Imbert
Born 1958
François Reille-Soult
1891 - 1971
Marcel Servin
1918 - 1968
Alain Schmitz
Born 1948
Vincent Labeyrie
1924 - 2008
Jean-Héracle de Polignac
1914 - 1999
Aimée Batier
1908 - 1980
Joseph François Laignelot
1752 - 1829
Melchior de Polignac (1781-1855)
1781 - 1855
Pierre Vaillandet
1888 - 1971
Pierre Bizot de Fonteny
1825 - 1908
Georges de La Rochethulon
1868 - 1941
Anatole Bartholoni
1822 - 1902
Maximilien Gérard de Rayneval
1778 - 1836
Paul Chevrey-Rameau
1836 - 1914
René de Pierre de Bernis
1780 - 1838
Albert Joly
1844 - 1880
Olivier Le Clerc de Juigné
1776 - 1831
Paul Gruet
1882 - 1939
Geoffroy de Montalembert (1850-1926)
1850 - 1926
Ferdinand de Jouvencel
1804 - 1873
Louis-Édouard Fouler de Relingue
1813 - 1874
Charles-Casimir de Saulx
1769 - 1820
Hippolyte Baudel Durand
1805 - 1861
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Froc de la Boulaye
1763 - 1847
Claude-Émile Gaudin
1768 - 1822
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Georgette du Buisson de La B
1781 - 1856
Georges Jean Victor Haussmann
1847 - 1902
Maurice Guesnier
1856 - 1927
Paul Brasseau
1879 - 1956
Louis Legrand (homme politique)
1838 - 1926
Ovide de Rémilly
1800 - 1875
Louis Charles Théodore Lemasson
1789 - 1858
Théodore Thiérion
1783 - 1872
Armand Pierre Landrin
1803 - 1859
Eugène Loyer
1807 - 1880
Antoine Mangin d'Oins
1789 - 1844
Hélie-Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord
1754 - 1829
Charles Henri Armand Julien
1764 - 1836
Louis-Hector-Amédée Angot
1739 - 1805
Joseph François Juhel
Born 1755
Louis Xavier de Luzines
1768 - 1827