List of personalities of the city of Nice
The following list contains the personalities born and temporarily living in Nice , listed chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Nice
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To 1900
- Charles André van Loo (1705–1765), painter
- Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), British natural scientist
- Joseph Antoine Risso (1777–1845), naturalist
- Adolphe Jérôme Blanqui (1798–1854), political economist
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882), Italian guerrilla fighter
- Rosa Vercellana (1833–1885), wife of the Italian King Victor Emanuel II.
- Alfred Binet (1857–1911), psychologist and founder of psychometrics
- Albert Calmette (1863–1933), doctor, bacteriologist and immunologist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Mader (1866–1945), German writer
- Yevgeny Oskarowitsch Paton (1870–1953), Ukrainian scientist
- Henri Evenepoel (1872–1899), painter, etcher and lithographer
- Paul Montel (1876–1975), mathematician
- Albert Rivaud (1876–1955), classical philologist, philosopher and politician
- Billy Mitchell (1879–1936), American general
- Félix Fourdrain (1880–1923), composer, organist and music teacher
- César Stiattesi (1881–1934), Argentine composer, conductor and music teacher
- Jacques Ochs (1883–1971), Belgian caricaturist and Olympic champion in epee fencing
- Henri Rolland (1887–1970), genealogist and classical archaeologist
- Henri Lentulo (1889–1981), doctor
- Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee (1894–1982), German-Baltic psychoanalyst, wife of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Pierre La Mure (1899–1976), writer
- Maurice Jaubert (1900–1940), composer
1901 to 1950
- Suzy Vernon (1901–1997), actress
- Wolfgang von Welck (1901–1973), German ambassador
- Louis Debeugny (1904–1979), racing car driver
- Eugène Bozza (1905–1991), composer
- René Dreyfus (1905–1993), racing car driver
- Edmond T. Gréville (1906–1966), film director and screenwriter
- Séra Martin (1906–1993), athlete
- Michel Navratil (1908-2001), philosopher
- Lou Brero (1909–1957), American racing car driver
- Jacques Péron (* 1912), racing car driver
- Pierre Boncompagni (1913–1953), racing car driver
- Maurice Gendron (1920–1990), cellist
- Alfred A. Tomatis (1920-2001), doctor
- Jean Behra (1921–1959), racing driver
- Georg Alexander Duke of Mecklenburg (1921–1996), nobleman
- Albert Messiah (1921–2013), theoretical physicist
- José Behra (1924–1997), racing car driver
- Michel Delgiudice (1924–2006), composer and conductor
- Raymond Pellegrin (1925-2007), actor
- Georges Lautner (1926–2013), film and television director
- Maurice Ronet (1927–1983), actor and film director
- Simone Veil (1927–2017), politician
- Yves Klein (1928–1962), painter, sculptor and performance artist
- José Reyes (1928–1979), flamenco singer
- René Saorgin (1928–2015), organist
- Gérard Gustin (1930–1994), jazz and entertainment musician
- Jacques Miller (* 1931), Australian scientist
- Max Gallo (1932–2017), writer, historian and politician
- Francis Lai (1932–2018), composer, accordionist and Oscar winner
- Asaf Jah VIII. (* 1933), grandson of the last incumbent Nizam
- Jean-Pierre Mocky (1933–2019), film director and actor
- Nadine Trintignant (* 1934), screenwriter, film director, film producer and author
- Christian Wolff (* 1934), American composer
- Mylène Demongeot (born 1935), actress
- Masumi Okada (1935-2006), Japanese actor
- Robert Malaval (1937–1980), painter, draftsman, sculptor and relief artist
- Barney Wilen (1937–1996), composer and saxophonist
- Henri-Claude Fantapié (* 1938), conductor
- Michèle Mercier (1939), actress
- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (* 1940), writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature
- Joanna Miles (born 1940), American actress
- Jacqueline Sassard (born 1940), actress
- Jacques Toubon (* 1941), politician
- Bernard Barsi (* 1942), Archbishop of Monaco
- Edmond Baudoin (* 1942), caricaturist and comic artist
- Jean Meyer Barth (* 1942), historian and university professor
- Ernest Pignon-Ernest (* 1942), artist
- Bernard Zitzermann (1942–2018), cameraman
- André Ceccarelli (* 1946), jazz and rock drummer
- Dominique Baratelli (born 1947), football player
- Mico Nissim (* 1947), jazz pianist and composer
- Pierre Coullet (* 1949), physicist
- Henri Broch (* 1950), professor of theoretical biophysics
1951 to 1980
- Bernard Monot (* 1952), politician
- François Corteggiani (* 1953), comic book author and illustrator
- Christian Estrosi (* 1955), motorcycle racer and politician; Mayor of Nice
- Jean-François Delcamp (* 1956), composer, guitarist and editor of classical guitar literature
- Jean-Louis Balsa (* 1957), Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Viviers
- Philippe Bianconi (* 1960), pianist
- Didier van Cauwelaert (* 1960), writer
- Éric Fottorino (* 1960), journalist, publicist and writer
- Michèle Laroque (* 1960), actress, screenwriter and director
- Philippe Auguin (* 1961), conductor
- Franck Biancheri (1961–2012), political activist
- Jean-Pierre Dick (* 1965), ocean sailor
- Anne Meygret (* 1965), fencer
- Alain Raoust (* 1966), film director
- Valérie Zenatti (* 1970), French-Israeli writer
- Stephan Cohen (* 1971), pool player
- Joann Sfar (* 1971), comic artist
- Pierre Bertrand (* 1972), jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, arranger and big band leader
- Viviane Parra (* 1972), Portuguese pop and fado singer
- Surya Bonaly (* 1973), figure skater
- Anthony Pistolesi (* 1973), handball player
- David Casteu (* 1974), enduro racer
- Jean-Noël Ferrari (* 1974), fencer
- Laurent Busselier (* 1976), handball player
- Sophie Sandolo (* 1976), professional golfer
- Nicolas Vouilloz (* 1976), mountain biker and rally driver
- Rose (* 1978), singer
- Damien Grégorini (* 1979), soccer goalkeeper
- William Phillips (* 1979), French-American basketball player
- Fabien Barel (* 1980), mountain bike rider
- Vincent Peirani (* 1980), accordionist
From 1981
- Yacine Abdessadki (* 1981), football player
- Mathieu Béda (* 1981), football player
- Lise Darly (* 1981), singer
- Tony Paeleman (* 1981), keyboardist
- Camille Pin (* 1981), tennis player
- Nicolas Plestan (* 1981), football player
- Jenifer Bartoli (* 1982), pop singer
- Johan Audel (* 1983), football player
- Gilles Simon (* 1984), tennis player
- Morgan Amalfitano (born 1985), football player
- Hugo Lloris (* 1986), soccer goalkeeper
- Thierry Audel (* 1987), football player
- Christel Robin (* 1987), triathlete
- Xavier Barachet (* 1988), handball player
- Malaury Martin (* 1988), soccer player
- Nastasia Noens (* 1988), ski racer
- Jules Bianchi (1989–2015), racing driver
- Camille Muffat (1989-2015), swimmer
- Margot Bailet (* 1990), ski racer
- Alizé Cornet (* 1990), tennis player
- Mathieu Faivre (* 1992), ski racer
- Rouguy Diallo (* 1995), triple jumper
- Matthieu Bailet (* 1996), ski racer
- Elliot Benchetrit (* 1998), tennis player
- Sarah Richard-Mingas (* 1998), track and field athlete
- Malang Sarr (* 1999), soccer player
- Fabio Quartararo (* 1999), motorcycle racer
People related to the city
- 1840: Death of the Italian violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini in Nice
- 1868: Death of the Bavarian King Ludwig I in Nice
- 1865: Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Romanow dies
- 1907: Death of the German opera singer Sophie Crüwell in Nice
- 1932: French lithographer and graphic artist Jules Chéret dies in Nice
- 1935: Death of the German sex researcher Magnus Hirschfeld in Nice
- 1954: French painter Henri Matisse dies in Nice
- 1976: Death of the former Sultan of Morocco Mohammed Ibn Afra
- 1977: French philosopher Eric Weil dies in Nice
- 1989: Death of the English writer Bruce Chatwin in Nice