Famous People From Paris - Celebrities Born In Paris

Paris has some well-known famous people who were born here and most of us didn't know it!

Emma Watson, Voltaire, Roman Polanski, Marion Cotillard & Claude Monet are some of the celebrities who hail from Paris.

The Most Famous People From Paris
Name	Birthday	Nationality	Bio
Alex Lange	March 3, 2001	South African	Alex Lange is a French-South African model, who is quite popular on Instagram
Sophie Marceau	November 17, 1966	French	Sophie Marceau is a French actress, screenwriter, director and author
Emma Watson	April 15, 1990	British	Emma Watson is a British actress and model, best-known for her role as ‘Hermione Granger’ in the Harry Potter series
Paul Gauguin	June 7, 1848	French	Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post Impressionist painter known for his use of bold colours and synthetist style
Catherine Deneuve	October 22, 1943	French	Catherine Deneuve is one of the most respected French actresses
Marquis de Sade	June 2, 1740	French	Marquis de Sade was a French nobleman and an erotic novel writer
Jean-Paul Sartre	June 21, 1905	French	Jean-Paul Sartre was a great existentialist philosopher of the 20th century
Olivier Martinez	January 12, 1966	French	Olivier Martinez is a French actor known for appearing in ‘Un, deux, trois, soleil.’
Jacques Chirac	November 29, 1932	French	Jacques Chirac is the former President & Prime Minister of France
Jacques Lacan	April 13, 1901	French	Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and a psychiatrist, considered to be the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud

Catherine Deneuve is one of the most respected French actresses

Sophie Marceau is a French actress, screenwriter, director and author

Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and a psychiatrist, considered to be the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud

Jean Renoir was a French Film director, producer and actor

Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentinean physician and biochemist who won the Noble Prize for Chemistry in 1970

Léon Blum was a French socialist leader and politician, who served as Prime Minister of France thrice in his career

Anatole France was a Nobel Prize winning writer and critic of French origin

Paul Signac was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who played a major role in the development of the Pointillist style

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French political thinker famous for his works on sociology and political science

He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.