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

NameBirthdayNationalityBio
Alex LangeMarch 3, 2001South AfricanAlex Lange is a French-South African model, who is quite popular on Instagram
Sophie MarceauNovember 17, 1966FrenchSophie Marceau is a French actress, screenwriter, director and author
Emma WatsonApril 15, 1990BritishEmma Watson is a British actress and model, best-known for her role as ‘Hermione Granger’ in the Harry Potter series
Paul GauguinJune 7, 1848FrenchPaul Gauguin was a leading French Post Impressionist painter known for his use of bold colours and synthetist style
Catherine DeneuveOctober 22, 1943FrenchCatherine Deneuve is one of the most respected French actresses
Marquis de SadeJune 2, 1740FrenchMarquis de Sade was a French nobleman and an erotic novel writer
Jean-Paul SartreJune 21, 1905FrenchJean-Paul Sartre was a great existentialist philosopher of the 20th century
Olivier MartinezJanuary 12, 1966FrenchOlivier Martinez is a French actor known for appearing in ‘Un, deux, trois, soleil.’
Jacques ChiracNovember 29, 1932FrenchJacques Chirac is the former President & Prime Minister of France
Jacques LacanApril 13, 1901FrenchJacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and a psychiatrist, considered to be the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud
Léon Foucault

Léon Foucault

Leon Foucault was a famous French scientist who explained rotation of earth about its own axis using a pendulum

FrenchSeptember 18, 1819162 views

Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor who is known for his distinguished works of art and sculpture

FrenchNovember 12, 1840204 views

Pierre Omidyar

Pierre Omidyar is a famous entrepreneur known for his flourishing business establishment, ‘eBay’

AmericanJune 21, 1967198 views

Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche is an Academy Award winning French actress

FrenchMarch 9, 1964137 views

Camille Saint-Saëns

Camille Saint-Saens was the French composer and organist who wrote the opera ‘Samson et Dalila’

FrenchOctober 9, 1835179 views

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David was an eminent French painter belonging to the Neo-classical school

FrenchAugust 30, 1748127 views

Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Chevalier was a French actor and singer best known for the song ‘Thank Heaven for Little Girls’

FrenchSeptember 12, 1888110 views

Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger was a French musician counted among the best teachers of musical composition of the 20th century

FrenchSeptember 16, 1887149 views

George Sand

George Sand was a French novelist

FrenchJuly 1, 180498 views

Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski is a film director and producer, considered as one of the few “truly international filmmakers”

FrenchAugust 18, 1933247 views