Rouen - Births

Births

Rouen was the birthplace of:

• Edward IV (1442–1483), king of England
• Thomas Aubert (Born 1500's), navigator and one of the first French explorers of the New World
• Guillaume Guéroult (1507–1569), editor, translator and poet
• François de Civille (1537–1610), Calvinist's chief under Gabriel, comte de Montgomery
• Isaac Oliver (c.1560–1617), French-born English portrait miniature painter
• Guy de la Brosse (1586–1641), botanist and pharmacist
• Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (1594–1661), Protestant poet converted to Catholicism
• Samuel Bochart (1599–1667), Protestant theologian and Orientalist
• Jean Dubuc (Born 1600's), Great Grandfather of Julien Dubuque (1762–1810, French-Canadian explorer) and founder of Dubuque, Iowa, USA.
• Pierre Corneille (1606–1684), tragedian
• Guillaume Couture (1617-1701-04-04), Lay Missionary and diplomat who moved to Quebec around 1640
• Adrien Auzout (1622–1691), astronomer
• Thomas Corneille (1625–1709), dramatist, brother of Pierre Corneille
• Noel Alexandre (1630–1724), theologian and ecclesiastical historian
• Catherine Primot-Thiéry (1640- ?), Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville's mother, both Canadian explorers
• Marie Champmeslé (1642–1698), actress
• René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643–1687), cleric and explorer
• Gabriel Daniel (1649–1728), Jesuit historian
• Nicolas Lemery (1645–1715), chemist
• Jean Jouvenet (1647–1717), painter
• Nicolas Gueudeville (1652–1721), catholic translator, journalist, historian an writer, converted to Protestantism
• Jacques Basnages (1653–1723), Protestant theologian
• Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757), author, nephew of Pierre Corneille
• Pierre Antoine Motteux (1663–1718), French born English translator and dramatist
• Pierre Dangicourt (1664–1727), mathematician
• Pierre François le Courayer (1681–1776), Catholic theologian and supporter of the church of England
• François d'Agincourt (1684–1758), composer, harpsichordist and organist
• Jean II Restout (1692–1768), painter
• Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711–1780), novelist, author of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast
• Jacques-François Blondel (1705–1774), architect, urbanist
• Marie-Madeleine Hachard (1708–1760), nun at Couvent des Ursulines, founder of a sister monastery in New-Orleans
• Jacques Duphly (1715–1789), harpsichordist and composer
• Pierre Levieux (1702–1796), capitaine du navire
• François-Adrien Boïeldieu (1775–1834), composer, mainly of operas
• Pierre Louis Dulong (1785–1838), physicist and chemist
• Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), painter, painted The Raft of the Medusa
• Armand Carrel (1800–1836), writer
• Pierre Adolphe Chéruel (1809–1891), historian
• Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), novelist, who wrote Madame Bovary
• Eugène Ketterer (1831–1870), composer and pianist
• Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941), novelist, creator of the character Arsène Lupin
• Charles Nicolle (1866–1936), bacteriologist who earned the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine
• Georges Guillain (1876–1961), neurologist
• Robert Antoine Pinchon (1886–1943), Post-Impressionist painter of the Rouen School, (l'École de Rouen)
• Marcel Dupré (1886–1971), organist and composer
• Philippe Étancelin (1896–1981), Grand Prix motor racing
• Roger Apéry (1916–1994), mathematician
• Jacques Rivette (born 1928), film director
• Anny Duperey (born 1947), actress and novelist
• François Hollande (born 1953), 24th President of the French Republic
• Élise Lucet (born 1963), journalist
• Stéphan Caron (born 1966), freestyle swimmer
• Karin Viard (born 1966), actress
• Vincent Delerm (born 1976), singer-songwriter, pianist
• David Trezeguet (born 1977), football striker
• Nathalie Péchalat (born 1983), ice dancer.
• Frederic Cissokho, footballer
• Dominique Lokoli, footballer
• Ian Mahinmi basketball, player
• Christophe Mendy, boxer
• Darnel Situ, footballer
• Moussa Sylla (basketball player), basketball player