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 0.010869979858398s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.0080480575561523s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.0080270767211914s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0045058727264404s
router_page: 1x 0.0022809505462646s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0018360614776611s
headline: 2x 0.0017759799957275s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.0015981197357178s
t_/blocks/person-card: 1x 0.0015571117401123s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00025510787963867s
head-facts: 1x 0.00023698806762695s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00022482872009277s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 1.4066696166992E-5s
qids: 1.5x 8.8214874267578E-6s
related: 1x 3.0994415283203E-6s
using-file-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-10-20 22:15:10)  -----