page_title: Rouen
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Rouen / Notable people
context_page_description: Rouen is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the capital of the region of Normandy. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population of the metropolitan area is now 655,013. Rouen was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy during the Middle Ages. It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th to the 15th centuries. People from Rouen are known as Rouennais.
context_section_description: Rouen was the birthplace of:
  Edward IV (1442–1483), King of England
  Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk (1444-c1503), sister of Edward IV, married John de la Pole, Plantagenet.
  Thomas Aubert (b. 1500s), explorer
  Guillaume Guéroult (1507–1569), poet
  François de Civille (1537–1610), military commander
  Isaac Oliver (1556–1617), French-born English painter
  Guy de la Brosse (1586–1641), botanist and pharmacist
  Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (1594–1661), poet
  François Raguenet (1660–1722), historian, biographer and musicologist
  Jean-Laurent Le Cerf de La Viéville (1674–1707), musicographer
  Louise Levesque (1703–1745), playwright, poet
  Alphonse Maille (1813–1865) botanist
  Samuel Bochart (1599–1667), Protestant theologian
  Pierre Corneille (1606–1684), tragedian
  Guillaume Couture (1617–1701), lay missionary and diplomat
  Adrien Auzout (1622–1691), astronomer
  Thomas Corneille (1625–1709), dramatist, brother of Pierre Corneille
  Noel Alexandre (1630–1724), theologian and ecclesiastical historian
  Marie Champmeslé (1642–1698), actress
  René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643–1687), explorer
  Gabriel Daniel (1649–1728), Jesuit historian
  Nicolas Lemery (1645–1715), chemist
  Anne Mauduit de Fatouville (17th–1715), playwright
  Jean Jouvenet (1647–1717), painter
  Nicolas Gueudeville (1652–1721), Catholic writer
  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 dramatist
  Pierre Dangicourt (1664–1727), mathematician
  François Blouet de Camilly (1664–1723), Catholic Archbishop
  Pierre François le Courayer (1681–1776), theologian
  François d'Agincourt (1684–1758), composer
  Jean II Restout (1692–1768), painter
  Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711–1780), novelist
  Jacques-François Blondel (1705–1774), architect
  Marie-Madeleine Hachard (1708–1760), nun and abbess
  Jacques Duphly (1715–1789), composer
  Pierre-Antoine Guéroult (1749–1816), scholar
  François-Adrien Boïeldieu (1775–1834), composer
  Pierre Louis Dulong (1785–1838), physicist and chemist
  Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), painter
  Armand Carrel (1800–1836), writer
  Pierre Adolphe Chéruel (1809–1891), historian
  Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), novelist
  Joseph-Henri Altès (1826–1895), flautist and pedagog
  Eugène Ketterer (1831–1870), composer
  Eugène Caron (1834–1903), opera singer
  Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941), novelist
  Charles Nicolle (1866–1936), bacteriologist
  Léon de Saint-Réquier (1872–1964), organist and composer
  Georges Guillain (1876–1961), neurologist
  Robert Antoine Pinchon (1886–1943), painter
  Marcel Dupré (1886–1971), composer
  Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), artist
  Philippe Étancelin (1896–1981), race car driver
  Armand Salacrou (1899–1989), dramatist
  Roger Apéry (1916–1994), mathematician
  Jacques Rivette (1928–2016), film director
  Jean-Yves Lechevallier  (b. 1946), sculptor
  Anny Duperey (b. 1947), actress and novelist
  Dominique Lokoli (b. 1952), footballer
  François Hollande (b. 1954), 24th President of the French Republic
  Hubert Wulfranc (born 1956), Member of Parliament
  Élise Lucet (b. 1963), journalist
  Stéphan Caron (b. 1966), swimmer
  Karin Viard (b. 1966), actress
  Céline Minard (b.1969), writer
  Christophe Mendy (b. 1971), boxer
  David Trezeguet (b. 1977), footballer
  Nathalie Péchalat (b. 1983), ice dancer
  Ian Mahinmi (b. 1986), basketball player
  Mourad Badra (b.1987), footballer
  Fayçal Fajr (b. 1988), footballer
  Amaury Vassili (b. 1989), singer
  Alexis Gougeard (b. 1993), cyclist
  Pierre Gasly (b. 1996), Formula One driver
  Petit Biscuit (b.1999), music producer
caption: Robert Antoine Pinchon, 1905–06, La foire Saint-Romain sur la place Saint-Vivien, Rouen, oil on canvas, 49 x 59.4 cm
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