Zarafa

female, deceased (1845)
Alexandria, sudan, nile, khartoum, King of France, menagerie…Marseilles
Zarafa (?1824-12 January 1845) was a giraffe in a menagerie in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris for 18 years in the early 1800s. She was one of the...
Philippe Saisse

Philippe Saisse

male
French, Marseilles, Smooth jazz pianist, Splendido Hotel, Sunday Night, NBC
Philippe Saisse is a smooth jazz and New Age music keyboardist. He is also a producer and doubles on bass. He was born in Marseilles and raised in...
Karel Zeman

Karel Zeman

male
Bata Shoes, tatra, Zlín, Ostroměř, Cesta do pravěku, Ferda Mravenec…Marseilles
Karel Zeman (November 3, 1910, Ostroměř near Nová Paka, then Austria-Hungary - April 5, 1989, Prague, then Czechoslovakia) was a Czech animator and...
Victor Maurel

Victor Maurel

male, deceased (1923)
French operatic baritone, Opera Singer, baritone, opera, falstaff, otello…Marseilles
Victor Maurel (June 17, 1848 in Marseilles-October 22, 1923 in New York City) was a French baritone. Educated in music at the Paris Conservatory,...
Necdet Kent

Necdet Kent

male, deceased (2002)
turkish identification papers, saved jewish people, anti-nazi, Righteous Among the Nations, gestapo, Jewish person…Marseilles
Necdet Kent (1911-2002) was a Turkish diplomat who risked his life to save Jews during World War II. He was posted as Consul General to Marseilles...
Charles Camoin

Charles Camoin

male, deceased (1965)
painter, French, Fauvism, Marseilles, Centre Georges Pompidou, Prix du President de la Rupublique
Charles Camoin was born in Marseilles, France in 1879. He met Henri Matisse in Gustave Moreau's class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Matisse...
Donald Caskie

Donald Caskie

male, deceased (1983)
crofter, Dunoon Grammar School, church of scotland, Scottish clergy, university of edinburgh, bayonne…Marseilles
The Rev Dr Donald Caskie (1902 - 1983) was a minister in the Church of Scotland, best known for his exploits in France during World War II, during...
Eliane Plewman

Eliane Plewman

female, deceased (1944)
Eliane Browne-Bartroli, spy, French, British, 13th, spanish…Marseilles
Eliane Plewman (1917-September 131944) was a French SOE agent and member of French resistance. Plewman was born Eliane Browne-Bartroli in...
Childebert I

Childebert I

male, deceased (558)
merovingian dynasty, Catholic, English Channel, Marseilles, Ostrogoths, Frankish
Childebert I (Rheims, c.496 - 13 December 558) was the Frankish king of Paris, a Merovingian dynast, one of the four sons of Clovis I who shared...
Violet Dickson

Violet Dickson

female, deceased (1991)
Botanist, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, World War I, Member of the Order of the British Empire, bahrain, Orientalist…Marseilles
Violet Penelope Lucas-Calcraft was born in Gautby, Lincolnshire, England. Her father was Neville Lucas-Calcraft, a land agent. The 1900 census...