Famous People From Paris - Celebrities Born In Paris - page 2
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 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | June 21, 1905 | French | Jean-Paul Sartre was a great existentialist philosopher of the 20th century |
| Marquis de Sade | June 2, 1740 | French | Marquis de Sade was a French nobleman and an erotic novel writer |
| 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 |
Léon Foucault
Leon Foucault was a famous French scientist who explained rotation of earth about its own axis using a pendulum
Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor who is known for his distinguished works of art and sculpture
Pierre Omidyar
Pierre Omidyar is a famous entrepreneur known for his flourishing business establishment, ‘eBay’
Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche is an Academy Award winning French actress
Camille Saint-Saëns
Camille Saint-Saens was the French composer and organist who wrote the opera ‘Samson et Dalila’
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was an eminent French painter belonging to the Neo-classical school
Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Chevalier was a French actor and singer best known for the song ‘Thank Heaven for Little Girls’
Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger was a French musician counted among the best teachers of musical composition of the 20th century
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski is a film director and producer, considered as one of the few “truly international filmmakers”