The Most Famous

YOUTUBERS from France

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This page contains a list of the greatest French Youtubers. The pantheon dataset contains 60 Youtubers, 1 of which were born in France. This makes France the birth place of the 6th most number of Youtubers behind Ireland, and Sweden.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary French Youtubers of all time. This list of famous French Youtubers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Rémi Gaillard (b. 1975)

With an HPI of 48.91, Rémi Gaillard is the most famous French Youtuber.  His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.

Rémi Gaillard (French pronunciation: [ʁemi ɡajaʁ]; born 7 February 1975 in Montpellier, France) is a French prankster, YouTuber and animal rights activist. Well-known for his videos on YouTube, his channel is the 100th most subscribed comedy channel on YouTube with more than 7.4 million subscribers as of August 2024. After losing his job at a shoe store, Rémi began to use his free time to run pranks on the public. Gaillard gained attention in the French media after performing a series of pranks, including an appearance disguised as a Lorient football player in the 2002 Coupe de France final match, during which he took part in the winners' celebrations and was greeted by then president of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac. He plays football non-professionally, and has posted numerous trick shot videos, including one with Brazilian footballer Ronaldo. Gaillard has appeared in several sports events, TV game shows and political rallies as well as the 2011 Banksy-produced documentary, The Antics Roadshow. On November 30, 2023, Gaillard published a video on his YouTube channel titled "EPILOGUE" in which he symbolically buried various logos of social media websites of which his content was uploaded to, alluding to a possible hiatus in his content.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as French youtubers born between 1975 and 1975. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living French youtubers include Rémi Gaillard.

Living French Youtubers

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