Born in Paris
Paris
Capital of France
Paris as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. French Egyptologist (1846–1916), French writer, historian, and philosopher (1694–1778), President of France from 2007 to 2012): Gaston Maspero, Voltaire, Nicolas Sarkozy and some more.
Celebrities from ParisCelebrities from Paris
70 Gaston Maspero
French Egyptologist (1846–1916)
*June 23rd, 1846 †June 30th, 1916, Palais de l'Institut de France_-001.jpg "Voltaire")
83 Voltaire
French writer, historian, and philosopher (1694–1778)
*November 21st, 1694 †May 30th, 1778, Paris_03_(cropped).jpg "Nicolas Sarkozy")
_-_Google_Art_Project_(cropped).jpg "Molière")
74 Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
*June 21st, 1905 †April 15th, 1980, 14th arrondissement of Paris
78 Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
*January 9th, 1908 †April 14th, 1986, 14th arrondissement of Paris
_-_Philippe_Binant_Archives.jpg "Yves Meyer")
77
Jules Girard
French literary theorist (1825 - 1902)
*February 24th, 1825 †March 30th, 1902, Cannes
62 Émile Zola
French journalist, playwright and poet (1840–1902)
*April 2nd, 1840 †September 29th, 1902, Paris
76 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV
*July 30th, 1947.jpg "Luc Besson")
.jpg "Juliette Binoche")
81 André Gide
French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)
*November 22nd, 1869 †February 19th, 1951, Paris
55 Rudolf Diesel
German inventor and mechanical engineer (1858–1913)
*March 18th, 1858 †September 30th, 1913, English Channel
66
Pierre Loeb
French Jewish galerist and art dealer persecuted by Nazis (1897-1964)
*September 24th, 1897 †May 4th, 1964
77 Jacques-Louis David
French painter (1748–1825)
*August 30th, 1748 †December 29th, 1825, City of Brussels.jpg "Charles Baudelaire")
56 Stéphane Mallarmé
French Symbolist poet (1842–1898)
*March 18th, 1842 †September 9th, 1898, Fontainebleau.jpg "Féodor Atkine")
75 Vilfredo Pareto
Italian economist and sociologist (1848-1923)
*July 15th, 1848 †August 19th, 1923, Céligny
.jpg "Georges Seurat")
67 Jean-Martin Charcot
French neurologist (1825–1893)
*November 29th, 1825 †August 16th, 1893, Montsauche-les-Settons
55 Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
*April 1st, 1776 †June 27th, 1831, Paris
64 Napoleon III
President and Emperor of the French (1808–1873)
*April 20th, 1808 †January 9th, 1873, Chislehurst.jpg "Cherry Jones")
.jpg "Nora Arnezeder")
.JPG "Marvin Martin")
64 François Couperin
French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist (1668–1733)
*November 10th, 1668 †September 11th, 1733, Paris
.jpg "Isabelle Carré")
65 Jean le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
*November 16th, 1717 †October 29th, 1783, Paris
30 Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
French admiral and explorer (1729–1811)
*November 12th, 1780 †August 31st, 1811, Marseille 89
Giorgio Capitani
Italian film director (1927-2017)
*December 29th, 1927 †March 25th, 2017, Viterbo
.jpg "Nikolai Kinski")
.jpg "Salome Zourabichvili")
74 Boniface de Castellane
Marshal of France (1788-1862)
*March 26th, 1788 †September 16th, 1862, 2nd arrondissement of Lyon
53 Charlotte Valandrey
French actress
*November 29th, 1968 †July 13th, 2022, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
76 Georges Méliès
French filmmaker and illusionist (1861–1938)
*December 8th, 1861 †January 21st, 1938, Paris
79 Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy
French linguist and orientalist (1758–1838)
*September 21st, 1758 †February 21st, 1838, Paris
54 André-Jacques Garnerin
Inventor of the frameless parachute
*January 31st, 1769 †August 18th, 1823, Paris
69 Eugène Scribe
French dramatist and librettist (1791-1861)
*December 24th, 1791 †February 20th, 1861, Paris
57 Marie-Guillemine Benoist
French painter (1768–1826)
*December 18th, 1768 †October 8th, 1826, Paris
74 Pierre de Coubertin
Founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian (1863-1937)
*January 1st, 1863 †September 2nd, 1937, Geneva
52 François Truffaut
French film director (1932–1984)
*February 6th, 1932 †October 21st, 1984, Neuilly-sur-Seine
_C.jpg "George Sand")
71 George Sand
French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
*July 1st, 1804 †June 8th, 1876, Nohant-Vic
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