Paris ranks 2nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind New York City. Memorable people born in Paris include Voltaire, Claude Monet, and Molière. Memorable people who died in Paris include Frédéric Chopin, Voltaire, and Blaise Pascal. Paris has been the birth place of many politicians and writers and the death place of many writers and politicians. Paris is located in France.
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,175,601 residents as of 2018, in an area of more than 105 square kilometres. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, science and arts. The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated official 2017 population of 12,174,880, or about 18 percent of the population of France. The Paris Region had a GDP of €709 billion in 2017. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore, and ahead of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo and Geneva. Another source ranked Paris as most expensive, on a par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 1 and 2002, Paris was the birth place of 1,089 globally memorable people, including Voltaire, Claude Monet, and Molière. Additionaly, 1,708 globally memorable people have passed away in Paris including Frédéric Chopin, Voltaire, and Blaise Pascal. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Paris than were born there.
1694 - 1778
HPI: 90.89
Rank: 1
1840 - 1926
HPI: 89.34
Rank: 2
1622 - 1673
HPI: 88.77
Rank: 3
1905 - 1980
HPI: 88.19
Rank: 4
1848 - 1903
HPI: 86.84
Rank: 5
1840 - 1902
HPI: 86.69
Rank: 6
1808 - 1873
HPI: 86.45
Rank: 7
1915 - 1963
HPI: 86.20
Rank: 8
1743 - 1794
HPI: 86.09
Rank: 9
1871 - 1922
HPI: 85.90
Rank: 10
1908 - 1986
HPI: 85.69
Rank: 11
1821 - 1867
HPI: 85.52
Rank: 12
1630 - 1676
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 243
1920 - 2011
HPI: 68.40
Rank: 331
1924 - 2020
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 359
1855 - 1941
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 386
1903 - 1999
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 398
1565 - 1645
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 404
1612 - 1669
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 480
1813 - 1888
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 525
1938 - 2020
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 528
1768 - 1826
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 530
1642 - 1701
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 563
1628 - 1677
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 564
1810 - 1849
HPI: 91.60
Rank: 1
1694 - 1778
HPI: 90.89
Rank: 2
1623 - 1662
HPI: 90.70
Rank: 3
1689 - 1755
HPI: 89.08
Rank: 4
1622 - 1673
HPI: 88.77
Rank: 5
1799 - 1850
HPI: 88.70
Rank: 6
1553 - 1610
HPI: 86.09
Rank: 7
1783 - 1842
HPI: 86.08
Rank: 8
1858 - 1917
HPI: 85.97
Rank: 9
1871 - 1922
HPI: 85.90
Rank: 10
1713 - 1784
HPI: 85.69
Rank: 11
1908 - 1986
HPI: 85.69
Rank: 12
1553 - 1615
HPI: 79.98
Rank: 82
1630 - 1676
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 429
1824 - 1847
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 512
1594 - 1665
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 633
1940 - 2020
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 717
1935 - 2020
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 728
1899 - 1984
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 740
1903 - 1999
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 741
1565 - 1645
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 761
1741 - 1820
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 817
1793 - 1871
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 828
1876 - 1940
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 840
Most individuals born in present day Paris were politicians (146), writers (144), actors (137), painters (66), and film directors (66), while most who died were writers (287), politicians (284), painters (138), composers (102), and actors (84).
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Paris, including Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, and Jeanne Moreau. Whereas, throughout history, politicians have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Paris, including Napoleon III, Cardinal Richelieu, and Charles VII of France.
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Paris since 1700.