page_title: Marseille
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Marseille / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Statue de Pythéas réalisée par Auguste Ottin (1811-1890) et placée sur la façade du palais de la Bourse à Marseille.
context_page_description: Marseille is the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in France. It is located on the Mediterranean coast near the mouth of the Rhône. Marseille is the second largest city in France, covering an area of 241 km² and had a population of 870,018 in 2016. Its metropolitan area, which extends over 3,173 km² is the third-largest in France after those of Paris and Lyon, with a population of 1,831,500 as of 2010.
  It was known to the ancient Greeks as Massalia and Romans as Massilia. Marseille is now France's largest city on the Mediterranean coast and the largest port for commerce, freight and cruise ships. The city was European Capital of Culture in 2013 and European Capital of Sport in 2017; it hosted matches at the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2016. It is home to Aix-Marseille University.
context_section_description: Marseille was the birthplace of:
  Pytheas (fl. 4th century BC), Greek merchant, geographer and explorer
  Petronius (fl. 1st century AD), Roman novelist and satirist
  Pierre Demours (1702–1795), physician
  Jean-Henri Gourgaud, aka. "Dugazon" (1746–1809), actor
  Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès (1767–1846), geographer, author and translator
  Désirée Clary (1777–1860), wife of King Carl XIV Johan of Sweden, and therefore Queen Desirée or Queen Desideria of Sweden
  Sabin Berthelot (1794–1880), naturalist and ethnologist
  Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), first president of the Third Republic
  Étienne Joseph Louis Garnier-Pages (1801–1841), politician
  Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), caricaturist and painter
  Joseph Autran (1813–1877), poet
  Candice Clot (1981), vocalist
  Charles-Joseph-Eugene de Mazenod (1782–1861), bishop of Marseille and founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
  Lucien Petipa (1815–1898), ballet dancer
  Joseph Mascarel (1816–1899), mayor of Los Angeles
  Marius Petipa (1818–1910), ballet dancer and choreographer
  Ernest Reyer (1823–1909), opera composer and music critic
  Olivier Émile Ollivier (1825–1913), statesman
  Victor Maurel (1848–1923), operatic baritone
  Joseph Pujol, aka. "Le Pétomane" (1857–1945), entertainer
  Charles Fabry (1867–1945), physicist
  Edmond Rostand (1868–1918), poet and dramatist
  Pavlos Melas (1870–1904), Greek army officer
  Louis Nattero, (1870–1915), painter
  Vincent Scotto (1876–1952), guitarist, songwriter
  Charles Camoin (1879–1965), fauvist painter
  Henri Fabre (1882–1984), aviator and inventor of the first seaplane
  Frédéric Mariotti (1883–1971), actor
  Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), composer and teacher
  Berty Albrecht (1893–1943), French Resistance, Croix de Guerre
  Antonin Artaud (1897–1948), author
  Henri Tomasi (1901–1971), composer and conductor
  Zino Francescatti (1902–1991), violinist
  Fernandel (1903–1971), actor
  Marie-Madeleine Fourcade (1909–1989), French Resistance, Commander of the Légion d'honneur
  Éliane Browne-Bartroli (Eliane Plewman, 1917–1944), French Resistance, Croix de Guerre
  César Baldaccini (1921–1998), sculptor
  Louis Jourdan (1921–2015), actor
  Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922–2000), flautist
  Alice Colonieu, (1924–2010), ceramist
  Paul Mauriat (1925–2006), orchestra leader, composer
  Maurice Béjart (1927–2007), ballet choreographer
  Régine Crespin (1927–2007), opera singer
  Ginette Garcin (1928–2010), actor
  André di Fusco (1932–2001), known as André Pascal, songwriter, composer
  Henry de Lumley (born 1934), archaeologist
  Sacha Sosno (1937–2013), sculptor
  Jean-Pierre Ricard (born 1944), cardinal, archbishop of Bordeaux
  Georges Chappe (born 1944), cyclist
  Jean-Claude Izzo (1945–2000), author
  Denis Ranque (born 1952), businessman
  Ariane Ascaride (born 1954), actress
  Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi (born 1961), world champion slalom canoer
  Eric Cantona (born 1966), Manchester United and French national team football player
  Patrick Fiori (born 1969), singer
  Marc Panther (born 1970), member of the popular Japanese rock band Globe
  Zinedine Zidane (born 1972), professional football player and former captain of the France national football team
  Romain Barnier (born 1976), freestyle swimmer
  Sébastien Grosjean (born 1978), tennis player
  Philippe Echaroux (born 1983), photographer
  Mathieu Flamini (born 1984), football player
  Rémy Di Gregorio (born 1985), cyclist
  Jessica Fox (born 1994), French-born Australian slalom canoer
caption: Pytheas
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