List of Famous people with last name Vidocq

Eugène François Vidocq

First Name Eugène
Died on May 11, 1857

Eugène-François Vidocq was a French criminal turned criminalist, whose life story inspired several writers, including Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, and Honoré de Balzac. The former criminal became the founder and first director of the crime-detection Sûreté nationale as well as the head of the first known private detective agency. Vidocq is considered to be the father of modern criminology and of the French police department. He is also regarded as the first private detective.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.01582407951355s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.010847091674805s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.01081109046936s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0061280727386475s
router_page: 1x 0.0043060779571533s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.00347900390625s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.0026719570159912s
t_/blocks/person-card: 1x 0.0026240348815918s
headline: 2x 0.0019888877868652s
qids: 2x 0.00099587440490723s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.0003969669342041s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.0003819465637207s
head-facts: 1x 0.00035214424133301s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 1.6927719116211E-5s
related: 1x 2.8610229492188E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-08-09 14:08:08)  -----