- Albert Kahn
Albert Kahn, born at Marmoutier, Bas-Rhin, France on March 3 1860, died at Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris on March 14 1940, was a banker and French philanthropist. He was born into a Jewish family, one of 5 children of his parents, Louis and Babette Kahn. In 1879 he became a bank clerk in Paris but studied for a degree in the evenings. His tutor was Henri Bergson who remained his friend all his life.
- Corinne Lepage
Corinne Dominique Marguerite Lepage, also known as Corinne Lepage, is a French politician. She is the founder and President since 1996 of the Citizenship, Action, Participation for the XXIst Century Party (CAP 21.) She is also the founding member of the CRII-VIE, the Association for the Study of the Impact of Genetic Techniques upon the Living. Lepage was born May 11, 1951 in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the "départment" of Hauts-de-Seine, …
- Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano is a French language novelist born 30 July 1945 in Boulogne-Billancourt of a father of Italian origins and a Belgian mother, Louisa Colpijn (actress). He is a winner of the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1972 and the Prix Goncourt in 1978. A number of his novels have been adapted for film, "Lacombe Lucien" by Louis Malle probably being the most famous.
- Arnaud Lagardère
Arnaud Lagardère is the current CEO of Lagardère Group. He succeeded his father Jean-Luc Lagardère at this position. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt.
- Daniel Buren
Daniel Buren is a French conceptual artist. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. In 1986 he created a 3,000 m² sculpture in the great courtyard of the Palais Royal, in Paris: "Les Deux Plateaux", more commonly referred to as the "Colonnes de Buren" ("Buren's Columns"). This provoked an intense debate over the integration of contemporary art and historic buildings. Sometimes classified as an abstract minimalist he is known best for using regular, …
- Georges Gorse
Georges Gorse, French politician and diplomat, (born February 15, 1915 in Cahors, died 17 March 2002). After qualifying in 1939 he became professor at the University of Cairo. During World War II he joined Charles de Gaulle and the Free French as Director of Information, served on the Provisional Consultative Assembly and marched up the Champs-Élysées 1945. After the war he was elected to represent the Vendee in the French National Assembly from 1946-1951, …
- Cécilia Sarkozy
Cécilia Sarkozy (born as Cecilia María Sara Isabel Ciganer, later Ciganer-Albéniz, born November 12, 1957 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is the wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
- Guillaume Canet
Guillaume Canet is a French actor and film director. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt. He married German actress Diane Kruger on September 1, 2001. They have since filed for divorce. He won the César Award for Best Director in 2007 for his film "Ne le dis à personne" (Tell no one) based upon the novel by Harlan Coben, starring François Cluzet as the leading part. February 25th, 2007
- Louis Renault
Louis Renault (February 15, 1877, Paris, France - October 24, 1944) was a French industrialist and one of the foremost pioneers of the automobile industry. The youngest of five children born into a Paris bougeois family, Renault was fascinated by engineering and mechanics from a very early age, and spent many hours in the Serpollet steam car workshop or tinkering with old Panhard engines in the tool shed of the family's second home in Billancourt.
- Zazie
Zazie (born Isabelle de Truchis de Varennes on 18 April 1964 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French singer and songwriter. She also co-produces her own albums with other producers. Zazie's father was an architect and her mother, a music teacher. Her songs range from upbeat rock or pop songs to languid down tempo tunes. Zazie debuted in 1992 with the album "Je Tu Ils" and the single "Sucré salé". In 1995, she released her second album "Zen", …
- Anna Gavalda
Anna Gavalda (born December 9, 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French journalist and award-winning novelist. Referred to by "Voici" magazine as "a distant descendant of Dorothy Parker", Anna Gavalda was born in an upper-class suburb of Paris.
- Vincent Lindon
Vincent Lindon (born July 15, 1959) is a French actor. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a lover of Princess Caroline of Monaco from 1990 to 1995.
- Catherine Spaak
Catherine Spaak (born 3 April 1945) is a French actress. Born at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine (Ile-de-France) she is the daughter of writer and scenarist Charles Spaak (1903-1975) and niece of Belgian prime minister Paul-Henri Spaak. She spent most of her career in Italy. Notable appearances include "The Libertine" (1969) and Italian cult classic film "The Easy Life" (1962). She also hosted several TV shows for RAI TV, …
- Bertrand Blier
Bertrand Blier is a French screenwriter and film director. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. He is the son of Bernard Blier. Filmography, as director (unless otherwise specified): * "Combien tu m'aimes?" (2005) * "Pédale dure" (2004) * "Les Côtelettes" (2003) (dialogue) (play) (scenario) * "Les acteurs" (2000) * "Mon homme" (1996) * "Grosse fatigue" (1994) (story) * "Un, deux, trois, …
- Jacques Deray
Jacques Deray (February 19, 1929 in Lyon - August 9 2003 Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French film director.
- Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron (born July 1, 1931) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning film actress and dancer. Caron has said of herself: "I'm not a ballerina. I'm a hoofer."
- Zoxea
Zoxea (born 11th November 1974) is a French rapper from Boulogne-Billancourt, France. His real name is Jean-Jacques Kodjo and he was a fouding member of the Sages Poètes de la Rue.
- Marie Trintignant
Marie Trintignant was a French actress. She was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, being the daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant and his second wife Nadine Marquand. When her younger sister died at the age of nine, Marie Trintignant became withdrawn and virtually stopped speaking. Throughout her early life she was afflicted by severe shyness, but despite this, by her mid-teens she had decided to become an actress.
- Pascal Clément
Pascal Clément is a French politician. He has been the French Minister of Justice since 2005. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, he is a barrister by training. Clément has been a Member of the French National Assembly since 1978, representing the Loire. From 1977 to 2001, he was Mayor of Saint-Marcel-de-Felines and from 1993 to 1995 was Minister-Delegate for Parliamentary Relations. Clément succeeded Dominique Perben as Justice Minister on 2 June 2005.
- Christian-Jaque
Christian-Jaque (September 4, 1904, Paris – July 8, 1994, Boulogne-Billancourt) was a noted French filmmaker. He was married to actress Martine Carol from 1954 to 1959.
- Alain Sarde
Alain Sarde is a French film producer and actor who was born on the 28 March 1952 in Boulogne-Billancourt. One of his films, Mulholland Dr. received the Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Picture. The Pianist was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and the BAFTA Award for Best Film.
- Anicée Alvina
Anicée Alvina, also known as Anicée Schahmaneche (b. Anicée Shahmanesh or Anicee Schahmane on January 28 1953, Boulogne-Billancourt, France to a French mother and an Iranian father - d. November 10 2006, Boncourt, Eure et Loir, France from cancer) was a French singer and actress. She made her first movie appearance in "Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, …
- Booba
Elie Yaffa (born December 9, 1976 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France), better known by his stage name Booba is a half Senegalese and half French rapper from Boulogne-Billancourt, a commune in the western suburbs of Paris. He began his career as a rapper in 1994. In 1996 he co-wrote, with Ali (the co-founder of Lunatic) "Le crime paie". And from 1997 to 1998 he was incarcerated for the robbery of a taxi driver. Lunatic went on to found their own label, …
- Olivier Dassault
Olivier Dassault (born 1 June 1951 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French politician, currently serving as a deputy in the French National Assembly. He is also the son of Serge Dassault and grandchild of Marcel Dassault. He was elected 16 June 2002 as deputy for the first "circonscription" of Oise, running on the UMP ticket. His mandate ends in 2007. A child of the founding family of the Dassault Group, …
- Jérôme Pradon
Jérôme Pradon was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France on 3 June 1964. He is an actor and singer who has performed in the West End, Paris and various other places around the world.
- Emmanuel Roblès
Emmanuel Roblès (born May 4, 1914 in Oran, Algeria, died February 22, 1995 in Boulogne, Hauts-de-Seine) was an Algerian-French author. He was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1973.
- Xavier de Roux
Xavier de Roux (born on December 4, 1940 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French politician. He is member of the UMP party and has been elected on June 16, 2002 as a deputy. He has been before elected several times mayor of Chaniers.
- Julio González
Julio González was a Spanish abstract, cubist painter and sculptor. Born in Barcelona, as a young man he worked with his older brother, Joan, in his father’s metal smith workshop. Both brothers took evening classes in art at the Escuela de Bellas Artes. In the late 1890s Julio began to visit "Els Quatre Gats", a Barcelona café, where he first met Pablo Picasso. He left Spain in 1900 and moved to Paris, never to return to his homeland.
- Henri Diamant-Berger
Henri Diamant-Berger was a French screenwriter, film director and producer. Born in Paris, France to a Jewish family, he studied to be a lawyer but was drawn to the motion picture business. He began his career in the cinema in 1916 as a silent film screenwriter but within a few years was behind the camera, directing. In addition to writing screenplays, during the period of 1916 to 1919 he also published and edited a film magazine and books about the movies.
- Boun Oum
Prince Boun Oum (also Prince Boun Oum Nachampassack) (December 12 , 1912 - March 17, 1980) was the son of King Ratsadanay, and was the hereditary prince of Champassack (replaced the "king" system). He was born in Don Talad. A political conservative sympathetic to French control of Laos, he commanded a force of 15,000 that fought Japanese occupiers and the Lao Issara in the south of Laos.
- Louise L. Lambrichs
Louise L. Lambrichs is a French novelist and essayist. Lambrichs was born into a family of writers in Boulogne-Billancourt. Her father Georges Lambrichs (along with Jean Paulhan and Jérôme Lindon) was considered one of the greatest French-speaking editors of the second half of the 20th century. Her mother Gilberte Lambrichs who translated the works of Fritz Zorn and Thomas Bernhard wrote under the pseudonim of Constance Delaunay.
- Hubert Henno
Hubert Henno (born October 6 1976 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French volleyball player, who won the bronze medal with the France men's national volleyball team at the 2002 World Championships. Standing at 188 m, he plays as a libero.
- Marc Taraskoff
Marc Taraskoff (born Marc Fleischer 25 December 1955 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French drawer since the late 1970's and a stamp designer since 1996. Taraskoff has drawn lots of book covers, such as the pocket edition of "Tales of the City" at 10/18 edition. He drew portraits of personalities for "Le Monde" paper. Since 1996, he has been designing postage stamps for Metropolitan France and French overseas departments and territories.
- Felix Pollaczek
Félix Pollaczek was born on December 1 1892 in Vienna, Austria. Electrical engineer and mathematician, made researcher in number theory, analysis, mathematical physics and probability theory. He is best known for the Pollaczek-Khinchine formula. In 1977 was awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize, although his age prevented him from receiving the prize in person. He married mathematician Hilda Geiringer in 1921, and they had a child, Magda, in 1922.
- Prince Lorenz Of Belgium, Archduke Of Austria-Este
Prince Lorenz Otto Carl Amadeus Thadeus Maria Pius Andreas Marcus d'Aviano of Belgium, Duke of Modena, Archduke of Austria-Este, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, styled "His Imperial and Royal Highness Prince Lorenz of Belgium", was born on December 16, 1955 in Clinique du Belvédère, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France as the second child of Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este and of Archduchess Margaret, …
- Alice Cocéa
Alice Cocéa was a Romanian-French actress. She was born in Sinaia, Romania and died in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
- Julien Benneteau
Julien Benneteau is a professional male tennis player from France. He resides in Boulogne Billancourt, France. At the 2006 French Open, Benneteau reached the quarterfinals by defeating 2006 Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis, Radek Štěpánek and Alberto Martin. There he was defeated in straight sets (6-2, 6-2, 6-3) by fourth-seeded player Ivan Ljubičić of Croatia.
- Frank Malina
Frank Joseph Malina (October 2, 1912 in Brenham, Texas- November 9, 1981 in Boulogne Billancourt (France) was an American aeronautical engineer and painter, especially known for becoming both a pioneer in the art world and the realm of scientific engineering. His father came from Bohemia. His formal education began with a degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1934. In 1935, while a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), …
- Stéphane Bernadis
Stéphane Bernadis is an French figure skater. He won the bronze medal in pairs at the 2000 World Figure Skating Championships with partner Sarah Abitbol.
- Xavier Mazingue