Born in Metz

Metz

City in Grand Est, France

Metz as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. French poet (1844–1896), Cameroonian and French footballer, French composer): Paul Verlaine, Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik, Ambroise Thomas and some more.

Celebrities from Metz

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Celebrities from Metz

Paul Verlaine

French poet (1844–1896)

*March 30th, 1844 †January 8th, 1896, Paris

Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik

Cameroonian and French footballer

*July 3rd, 1989

Ambroise Thomas

French composer

*August 5th, 1811 †February 12th, 1896, rue du Conservatoire

Hugo Becker

French actor

*May 13th, 1986

Frieda Lawrence

German writer

*August 11th, 1879 †August 11th, 1956, Taos

Mike MacDonald

Canadian actor and comedian

*June 21st, 1954 †March 17th, 2018, Ottawa

Philippe Contamine

French historian (1932-2022)

*May 7th, 1932 †January 26th, 2022, 14th arrondissement of Paris

Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier

French balloonist

*March 30th, 1754 †June 15th, 1785, Wimereux

Paul Duchesnay

French ice dancer

*July 31st, 1961

Raymond Schwartz

French banker and Esperanto author

*April 8th, 1894 †May 14th, 1973, Paris

Julia Cagé

French economist

*February 17th, 1984

Francis Heaulme

French murderer

*February 25th, 1959

Grégory Leca

French footballer

*August 22nd, 1980

Stanislas Marie Georges Jude Lalanne

French Roman Catholic bishop

*August 3rd, 1948

Volker Hassemer

Former German politician (CDU)

*January 20th, 1944

Bouabdellah Tahri

French athlete

*December 20th, 1978

Jacques Charrier

French actor

*November 6th, 1936

Régis Wargnier

French film director

*April 18th, 1948

Charles Ancillon

French jurist/diplomat

*July 28th, 1659 †July 5th, 1715, Berlin

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Helmut Sinn

German aviator

*September 3rd, 1916 †February 14th, 2018, Frankfurt

Lou Albert-Lasard

French-German painter (1885-1969)

*November 10th, 1885 †July 21st, 1969, Paris

Maurice Bayen

French physicist (1902–1974)

*December 4th, 1902 †April 20th, 1974, 13th arrondissement of Paris

Gustave Kahn

French Symbolist poet and art critic

*December 21st, 1859 †September 5th, 1936, Paris

Jean-Charles Chenu

French naturalist

*August 30th, 1808 †November 12th, 1879, Paris

Toni Pfülf

German politician (1877-1933)

*December 14th, 1877 †June 8th, 1933, Munich

Jean-Victor Poncelet

French engineer and mathematician (1788-1867)

*July 1st, 1788 †December 22nd, 1867, Paris

Louis Forest

French journalist, dramatist, essayist and politician (1872-1933)

*March 4th, 1872 †June 30th, 1933, Paris

Victor Jaclard

French socialist

*December 18th, 1840 †April 14th, 1903, Paris

Jean-Michel Jacques

French politician

*February 29th, 1968

Nathalie Griesbeck

French politician

*May 24th, 1956

Jonathan Lobert

French yacht racer

*April 30th, 1985

Tiana Lemnitz

Singer

*October 26th, 1897 †February 5th, 1994, Berlin

Julien Gorius

Footballer

*March 17th, 1985

Mody Traoré

French footballer

*July 14th, 1980

Alexandre Varga

French actor

*March 17th, 1977

Monique Berlioux

French swimmer

*December 22nd, 1923 †August 27th, 2015, Azay-le-Brûlé

Isabelle Corey

French actress and model

*May 29th, 1939 †February 6th, 2011, Crozon

Suzanne Giraud

Composer

*July 31st, 1958

Jean-Jacques Aillagon

French politician (Union for a Popular Movement)

*October 2nd, 1946

Bernard-Marie Koltès

French writer

*April 9th, 1948 †April 15th, 1989, Paris

Émile Léonard Mathieu

French mathematician (1835-1890)

*May 15th, 1835 †October 19th, 1890, Nancy

Christopher Fratin

French sculptor

*January 1st, 1801 †August 17th, 1864, Le Raincy

Ugo Humbert

French tennis player

*June 26th, 1998

Jonathan Zydko

French footballer

*January 12th, 1984

Jonathan Jäger

French footballer

*May 23rd, 1978

Julien Humbert

French footballer

*June 23rd, 1984

Gaël Touya

Fencer

*October 23rd, 1973

Thierry Pauk

French association football player

*January 26th, 1966

Nathan Wachtel

French historian, anthropologist and professor

*April 8th, 1935

Thierry Lentz

French historian

*July 8th, 1959

Thierry Heckendorn

French actor

*November 6th, 1952

Jean-Luc Marx

French official

*September 14th, 1954

Pierre Stolze

French writer

*April 12th, 1952

Jonathan Joubert

Luxembougian-French footballer

*September 12th, 1979

Morgan Parra

French rugby union footballer

*November 15th, 1988

Matthieu Udol

French association football player

*March 20th, 1996

Louis Corte

French disc jockey

*November 30th, 1972

Thierry Antinori

French manager

*July 26th, 1961

Mathieu Manset

French footballer

*August 5th, 1989

Yannick Schroeder

French racing driver

*August 10th, 1979

Étienne Ory

French basketball player

*September 30th, 1996

Joachim Schultz-Tornau

German politician

*March 4th, 1943

Cyrille Pouget

French footballer

*December 6th, 1972

Jean-Luc Thiébaut

French handball player

*December 29th, 1960

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Marthe Cohn

Spy for France during the Second World War

*April 13th, 1920

Hans Pizka

Austrian hornist

*March 17th, 1942

Cédric Anton

French football player

*February 20th, 1988

Mégane Vallet

French handball player

*February 2nd, 1989

Olivier Delaître

French tennis player (1967-)

*June 1st, 1967

Catherine Marsal

French racing cyclist

*January 20th, 1971

Fritz von Twardowski

German diplomat and screenwriter (1890-1970)

*July 9th, 1890 †September 21st, 1970, Vienna

Gabriel Pierné

French composer, conductor, and organist

*August 16th, 1863 †July 17th, 1937, Ploujean

Jules Lagneau

French philosopher and academic

*August 8th, 1851 †April 22nd, 1894, 14th arrondissement of Paris

Nicolas-François Gillet

French sculptor (1709-1791)

*March 31st, 1712 †February 7th, 1791, Poissy

Heinz Harmel

German general (1906-2000)

*June 29th, 1906 †September 2nd, 2000, Krefeld

Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle

French historian and journalist (1766-1855)

*September 3rd, 1766 †March 26th, 1855, Mâcon

Laurent Charles Maréchal

French stained-glass painter (1801-1887)

*January 27th, 1801 †January 17th, 1887, Bar-le-Duc

Rudolf Schmundt

German general

*August 13th, 1896 †October 1st, 1944, Kętrzyn

Jean Bernanos

French privateer (1648-1695)

*March 6th, 1648 †July 13th, 1695, Saint-Domingue

Anni Steuer

Olympic hurler

*February 12th, 1913 †November 30th, 1995, Mülheim an der Ruhr

Antoine Louis

French surgeon and physiologist (1723-1792)

*February 13th, 1723 †May 20th, 1792, Paris

Jean Burger

French resistance member (1907-1945)

*February 16th, 1907 †April 3rd, 1945, Nordhausen

Eduard Krüger

German equestrian

*March 24th, 1893 †November 5th, 1963, Munich

Ilse Heller-Lazard

Swiss-german painter (1884-1934)

*August 3rd, 1884 †January 10th, 1934, Paris

Marie-Eugénie de Jésus

Catholic Saint and Founder of religious order (1817-1898)

*August 25th, 1817 †March 10th, 1898, Auteuil

Claude Santelli

French film director (1923-2001)

*June 17th, 1923 †December 14th, 2001, Garches

François Étienne de Kellermann

French cavalry general (1770-1835)

*August 4th, 1770 †June 2nd, 1835, Paris

Lotte Knabe

German historian and archivist

*January 30th, 1907 †October 17th, 1991, Zehlendorf

Louis Le Prince

French artist and cinematographer, pioneer of cinema

*August 28th, 1841 †November 30th, 1889, Dijon

Paul Ferry

Pastor (1591–1669)

*February 24th, 1591 †December 28th, 1669, Metz

Micheline Boudet

French actress

*April 28th, 1926 †July 5th, 2022, Serville

David Ancillon

French Huguenot theologian

*March 18th, 1617 †September 3rd, 1692, Berlin

Nicolas Adolphe Bellevoye

French entomologist and artist (1830-1908)

*April 9th, 1830 †November 29th, 1908, Reims

Jean Baptiste Noël Bouchotte

French politician (1754-1840)

*December 25th, 1754 †June 8th, 1840, Le Ban-Saint-Martin

Albert Bettannier

French painter (1851-1932)

*August 12th, 1851 †November 17th, 1932, 10th arrondissement of Paris

Monique Messine

French actress (1940-2003)

*April 2nd, 1940 †July 11th, 2003, Guyancourt

Gabriel Auguste Daubrée

French mineralogist and geologist

*June 25th, 1814 †May 29th, 1896, Paris

Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle

French general

*May 10th, 1775 †July 6th, 1809, Deutsch-Wagram

Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg

Prussian politician (1643-1712)

*February 6th, 1643 †July 4th, 1712, Frankfurt

Jules-Dominique Antoine

French politician (1845-1917)

*January 26th, 1845 †January 1st, 1917, Nancy

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