List of people from Marseille

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This is a list of people from the French city of Marseille.

Born in Marseille[]

NOTE: People in italics do not have an article in the English language Wikipedia; links are to the relevant article in French Wikipedia.

Actors and singers[]

  • Béatrice Altariba (18 June 1939) - actress
  • Andrex (André Jaubert) (23 January 1907; d. Marseille, 10 July 1989) - singer
  • Jacques Angelvin (5 August 1914; d. Cannes, 10 November 1978) - actor, TV host
  • Edmond Ardisson (30 November 1904; d. Marseille, 30 November 1983) - actor
  • Henri Arius (19 September 1897d. Marseille, 8 May 1962) - actor
  • Ariane Ascaride (10 October 1954) - actress
  • Junie Astor (21 December 1911; d. Sainte-Magnance, 22 August 1967) - actress
  • Marguerite Baux ((fl. 1870s–1880s) - opera singer
  • Charles Blavette (24 June 1906; d. Suresnes, 21 November 1967) - actor
  • Patrick Bosso (12 October 1962) - actor
  • Bréols (12 August 1905; d. Allauch, 20 December 1988) - actor, singer
  • Pierrette Bruno (22 August 1928) - actress
  • Lucien Callamand (1 April 1888; d. Nice, 3 December 1968) - actor
  • Sonia Carrere (31 March 1982) - pornographic actress
  • Jean Castan (23 August 1917; d. La Penne-sur-Huveaune, 11 November 1990) - actor
  • Philippe Caubère (21 September 1950) - actor
  • Fernand Charpin (30 May 1887; d. Marseille, 7 November 1944) - actor
  • Marcel Charvey (22 February 1916; d. Puteaux, 21 August 1995) - actor
  • Andrée Clément (7 August 1918; d. Paris, 31 May 1954) - actress
  • Jo Corbeau (Georges Ohanessian) (1 December 1946) - reggae singer
  • Henri Crémieux (19 July 1896; d. Cassis, 10 May 1980) - actor
  • Dazincourt (Joseph Albouis) (11 December 1747; d. Paris, 28 March 1809) - actor
  • Édouard Delmont (5 December 1883; d. Cannes, 22 November 1955) - actor
  • Doumel (Louis Alfred Doumet) (2 December 1889; d. Reillanne, 23 May 1954) - actor
  • Louis Ducreux (22 September 1911; d. Neuilly, 19 December 1992) - actor, director
  • Dugazon (Jean-Henry Gourgaud) (15 November 1746; d. Sandillon, 11 October 1809) - actor
  • Fernandel (Fernand Contandin) (7 May 1903; d. Paris, 26 February 1971) - actor, singer
  • Franck Fernandel (Franck Contandin) (10 December 1935, d. Marseille, 8 June 2011) - actor, singer, radio host
  • Ginette Garcin (1928–2010) - actor
  • Louis Jourdan (19 June 1921) - actor
  • Jean Le Poulain (12 September 1924; d. Paris, 1 March 1988) - actor, director
  • Cora Madou (5 January 1891; d. Villefranche sur Mer, 26 February 1971) - singer
  • Lucie Manvel (1 May 1863; d. Paris 17e, 3 November 1943) - comedy theatre actress
  • Avy Marciano (1 November 1972) - actor, musician, composer, author, interpreter
  • Milly Mathis (8 September 1901; d. Salon de Provence, 30 March 1965) actress
  • Marcel Maupi (6 November 1881; d. Antibes, 10 January 1949) - actor
  • Clara Morgane (25 January 1981) - singer, former pornographic actress, media personality and TV host
  • Paul Ollivier (10 February 1876; d. Paris, 10 June 1948) - actor
  • Géraldine Pailhas (8 January 1971) - actress
  • Paul Préboist (21 February 1927; d. Paris, 13 March 1997) - actor
  • Joseph Pujol (1 June 1865; d. Toulon, 8 August 1945) - strolling comedian, professional farter
  • Jean-Pierre Rambal (13 September 1931; d. Paris, 18 July 2001) - actor
  • Marcelle Ranson-Hervé (10 October 1929) - actress
  • Rellys (Henri Bourelly) (15 December 1905; d. Marseille, 20 July 1991) - actor
  • Ishay Ribo (born 3 February 1989), Israeli singer-songwriter
  • Jean Roucas (1 February 1952) - humourist
  • Catherine Rouvel (31 August 1939) - actress
  • Daniel Russo (13 May 1948) - actor, double
  • Gabriel Signoret (15 November 1878; d. Paris, 16 March 1937) - actor
  • Simone Simon (23 April 1911; d. Paris, 23 February 2005) - actress

Architects[]

Dancers[]

  • Marie Allard (14 August 1742; d. Paris, 14 June 1802) - dancer
  • Georges Appaix (1953) - dancer, choreographer
  • Gaby Deslys (4 November 1881; d. Paris, 11 February 1920) - dancer, singer
  • Maurice Béjart (1 January 1927; d. Lausanne, 22 November 2007) - dancer, choreographer
  • Mathieu Ganio (1984) - dancer
  • Daniel Larrieu (1927) - dancer
  • Lucien Petipa (22 December 1815; d. Versailles, 7 July 1898) - dancer
  • Marius Petipa (11 March 1818; d. Hourzouf (Crimea), 14 July 1910) - dancer, ballet master

Designers and poster artists[]

Honoré Daumier: Sunday at the Museum
  • Georges Arditi (1914; d. 15 January 2012) - painter
  • Jo Berto (Joseph Bertocchio) (22 November 1907; d. Marseille, 25 June 1978) - lithographic artist
  • Honoré Daumier (26 February 1808; d. Valmondois, 11 February 1879) - caricaturist, sculptor
  • Dubout (15 May 1905; d. Saint-Aunès, 27 June 1976) - humorous designer
  • Gérard Lauzier (30 November 1932) - comic strip artist, film director
  • Lisa Mandel (23 April 1977) - comic strip designer
  • Tibet (31 October 1931; d. Roquebrune-sur-Argens, 3 January 2010) - comic strip designer
  • Jean-Emmanuel Vermot-Desroches (1974) - comic strips

Directors[]

  • René Allio (8 March 1924; d. Paris, 27 March 1995) - painter, then scenario writer, film and theatre director
  • André Benedetto (14 July 1934; d. Avignon, 13 July 2009) - author and theatre director, founder of « off » at Festival d'Avignon
  • Paul Carpita (12 November 1922; d. Marseille, 23 October 2009) - scenario writer
  • Philippe Dajoux (23 March 1968) - director
  • Robert Guédiguian (3 December 1953) - director, actor, screenwriter and producer

Doctors[]

Editors[]

Engravers[]

Explorers[]

Historians[]

Industrialists and business people[]

Journalists[]

Lawyers and judges[]

Mafia[]

Military people[]

Musicians[]

  • Akhenaton (Philippe Fragione) (17 September 1968) - rapper
  • Shurik'n (Geoffroy Mussard) (11 March 1966) - rapper
  • Georges Arvanitas (13 June 1931; d. 25 July 2005) - pianist
  • Roberto Benzi (12 December 1937) - orchestra conductor
  • Erick Benzi (1 March 1959) - author, composer, director
  • Ralph Bernet (1927) - lyric writer
  • Georges Boeuf (1937) - composer
  • Charles Burles (21 June 1936) - tenor
  • Léo Chauliac (6 February 1913; d. 27 October 1977) - pianist, composer, orchestra conductor
  • Stanislas Champein (19 November 1753; d. Paris, 19 September 1830) - composer
  • Georges Chelon (4 January 1943) - author, composer, interpreter
  • Régine Crespin (23 February 1927; d. Paris, 5 July 2007) - opera singer
  • Domenico Della-Maria (14 June 1769; d. Paris, 9 March 1800) - opera composer
  • Patrick Fiori (23 September 1969) - singer
  • Mireille Flour (29 April 1906 – 1984) - classical harpist
  • Zino Francescatti (9 August 1902; d. La Ciotat, 17 September 1991) - violinist
  • Cedric Gervais (1979) - DJ and producer of house music
  • Hubert Giraud (1920; d. 2016) - lyric writer
  • André Jaume (7 October 1940) - saxophonist, clarinettist
  • Maxence Larrieu (27 October 1934) - classical flautist
  • Le Rat Luciano (Christophe Carmona) (21 April 1976) - rapper
  • Jean Lumière (20 August 1895; d. Paris, 2 April 1979) - singer
  • Paul Mauriat (|4 March 1925; d. Perpignan, 3 November 2006) - orchestra conductor
  • Clara Morgane (1 January 1981) - porn actress
  • Lucien Muratore (29 August 1876; d. Paris, 16 July 1954) - tenor, film actor
  • André Pascal (1932; d. 2001) - songwriter
  • Mireille Ponsard (1908; d. Paris, 5 February 1999) - singer, actress
  • Franck Pourcel (14 August 1913; d. Neuilly sur Seine, 12 November 2000) - violinist, orchestra conductor
  • Jean-Pierre Rampal (7 January 1922; d. Paris, 20 May 2000) - flautist
  • Jean Marie Rebischung (30 March 1962) - composer
  • Ernest Reyer (1 December 1823; d. Lavandou, 15 January 1909) - composer
  • Jean-Michel Sanchez (28 June 1969) - organist, musicologist
  • Vincent Scotto (21 April 1876; d. Paris, 15 November 1952) - composer
  • SCH (real name Julien Schwarzer) (6 April 1993) - rapper
  • Cyril Tarquiny (24 May 1974) - guitarist
  • Henri Tomasi (17 August 1901; d. Paris, 13 January 1971) - orchestra conductor
  • Jannick Top (4 October 1947) - composer
  • Cora Vaucaire (22 July 1918; d. Paris, 17 September 2011) - singer
  • Raymond Vincy (23 February 1904; d. Neuilly-sur-seine, 26 May 1968) - lyric writer

Painters[]

Police officers[]

Politicians[]

Religious personalities[]

See also Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Marseille.

  • Pierre Barthélemy (Peter Bartholomew) (d. Palestine, 20 April 1099) - soldier, mystic
  • Louis-Toussaint Dassy (1 November 1808; d. Marseille, 23 August 1888) - abbot, founder of the institute for young blind
  • Jean-Baptiste Fouque (12 September 1851; d. Marseille, 5 December 1926) - priest
  • Folquet de Marselha (1155; d. Toulouse, 25 December 1231) - Bishop of Toulouse
  • Jean-Pierre Ricard (25 September 1944) - Cardinal

Résistants[]

Memorial to Eliane Plewman in Dachau concentration camp

Scientists[]

  • Elzéar Abeille de Perrin (3 January 1843; d. Marseille, 9 October 1910) - entomologist
  • Sabin Berthelot (4 April 1794; d. 10 November 1880) - naturalist, ethnologist
  • François Cauvière (13 October 1780; d.|Marseille, 2 October 1858) - surgeon
  • Henri Fabre (29 November 1882; d. Le Touvet, 30 June 1984) - engineer, aviator
  • Charles Fabry (11 June 1867; d. Paris, 11 December 1945) - physicist
  • Max Escalon de Fonton (5 February 1920) - prehistorian, archaeologist
  • Jean Baptiste Marie Jaubert (17 March 1726; d. Brignoles, 9 August 1884) - doctor and ornithologist
  • Henry de Lumley (14 August 1934) - archeologist, geologist and prehistorian
  • Frank Merle (22 November 1962) - mathematician
  • Fernand Mossé (25 May 1892 – 10 July 1956) - philologist
  • Jean-André Peyssonnel (19 June 1694; d. Saint-Bertrand de l'Isle Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe, 24 December 1759) - doctor and naturalist
  • Guillaume de Saint-Jacques de Silvabelle (28 January 1722; d. Marseille, 10 February 1801) - mathematician, astronomer
  • André Turcat (23 October 1921 – 4 January 2016) - test pilot, first pilot of Concorde at supersonic speed

Sculptors[]

Sportsmen and women[]

Writers[]

Edmond Rostand

Associated with Marseille[]

Marseille was the place of birth, death or residence of:

References[]

  1. ^ Yardley, William (6 December 2013). "Jean-Claude Beton, Who Sent Orangina Around the World, Dies at 88". New York Times. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
    - "Founder of iconic French soda Orangina dies". France 24. 4 December 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
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