List of Famous people born in Paris, France

Prince Jean d’Orléans

First Name Prince
Last Name D’Orléans
Born on September 4, 1874
Died on August 25, 1940 (aged 65)

Prince Jean of Orléans, Duke of Guise, was the third son and youngest child of Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (1840–1910), grandson of Prince Ferdinand Philippe and great-grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French. His mother was Françoise of Orléans, daughter of François, Prince of Joinville, and Princess Francisca of Brazil.

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Richard Lioger

First Name Richard
Last Name Lioger
Born on September 18, 1957 (age 68)

Richard Lioger is a French politician representing La République En Marche! He was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Moselle.

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Berthe Weill

Esther Berthe Weill
First Name Berthe
Born on November 20, 1865
Died on April 17, 1951 (aged 85)

Berthe Weill was a French art dealer who played a vital role in the creation of the market for twentieth-century art with the manifestation of the Parisian Avant-Garde. Although she is much less known than her well-established competitors like Ambroise Vollard, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Paul Rosenberg, she may be credited with producing the first sales in Paris for Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse and with providing Amedeo Modigliani with the only solo exhibition in his lifetime.

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Jean-Claude Thomas

Jean-Claude Marius Thomas
First Name Jean-Claude
Born on March 16, 1950
Died on November 12, 2018 (aged 68)

Jean-Claude Thomas was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Marne department, and was a member of the Gauche démocrate et républicaine.

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Lord Kossity

First Name Lord
Last Name Kossity
Born on January 1, 1973 (age 53)

Thierry Moutoussamy, better known as Lord Kossity, is a French musician. His family is originally from Martinique but he was born in Paris, France and moved back to the French Antilles with his family when he was 11 years old. He began his career in the 1990s with the group Contrast, with his cousin, Dr G-Kill. He started incorporating ragga music with the zouk style later in the 1990s, and has since recorded a number of albums and collaborated with Suprême N.T.M., Vybz Kartel, Shaggy, Bounty Killer, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube and Elephant Man.

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Serge Doubrovsky

Julien Serge Doubrovsky
First Name Serge
Last Name Doubrovsky
Born on May 22, 1928
Died on March 23, 2017 (aged 88)

Julien Serge Doubrovsky was a French writer and 1989 Prix Médicis winner for Le Livre brisé. He is also a critical theorist, and the inventor of "autofiction".

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André Valmy

André Antoine Marius Dugenet
First Name André
Last Name Valmy
Born on October 8, 1919
Died on November 18, 2015 (aged 96)

André Valmy was a French film actor. He was born André Antoine Marius Dugenet in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He appeared in 66 films between 1940 and 2001. He is also known in France to be the dubbed voice of Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw and George Kennedy.

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Jeanne Boitel

Jeanne Marie Andrée Boitel
First Name Jeanne
Last Name Boitel
Born on January 4, 1904
Died on August 7, 1987 (aged 83)

Jeanne Boitel was a French film actress. She played a role in the Resistance during World War II, using the surname of Mozart. She met Jacques Jaujard during her resistance activities in the war, and married him.

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Maurice Failevic

First Name Maurice
Last Name Failevic
Born on August 14, 1933
Died on December 27, 2016 (aged 83)

Maurice Failevic was a French film director. A communist, he directed more than 50 films about class struggles, depicting the lives of members of the French working class, from peasants during the French Revolution to the unemployed, factory workers and banlieue dwellers in the 20th century. He directed films for cinema and television as well as documentaries.

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Jean-Louis Chrétien

First Name Jean-Louis
Last Name Chrétien
Born on July 24, 1952
Died on June 28, 2019 (aged 66)

Jean-Louis Chrétien was a French philosopher in the tradition of phenomenology, as well as a poet and religious thinker. Author of over thirty books, he was the 2012 winner of the Cardinal Lustiger Prize for his life’s work in philosophy. At his death, he was professor emeritus of philosophy at the Sorbonne.

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