List of Famous people born in Paris, France

Maurice Yvain was a French composer, noted for his operettas of the 1920s and 1930s, some of which were written for Mistinguett, at one time the best-paid female entertainer in the world. In the 1930s and 1940s he became a major success in the United States and several of his pieces appeared in the famous Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. He also composed music for several films of notable directors such as Anatole Litvak, Julien Duvivier and Henri-Georges Clouzot and his music blended with the then "spirit of Paris".

Georges Urbain was a French chemist, a professor of the Sorbonne, a member of the Institut de France, and director of the Institute of Chemistry in Paris. Much of his work focused on the rare earths, isolating and separating elements such as europium and gadolinium, and studying their spectra, their magnetic properties and their atomic masses. He discovered the element lutetium. He also studied the efflorescence of saline hydrates.

Jean-François Brémond, a pupil of Ingres and Couder, was born in Paris in 1807. He produced portraits as well as historical pictures. His death occurred in Paris in 1868. Among his paintings are:

• Portrait of his Daughter.
• St. Francis of Assisi.
• St. Catharine of Alexandria.
• The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem.
• Bogwali the Great of 69th.
• Susannah in the Bath.