List of personalities of the city of Saint-Denis
This is a list of personalities from the city of Saint-Denis . The list does not claim to be complete.
sons and daughters of the town
- Michel Gaudin (1756–1841), nobleman and finance minister of France under Napoleon Bonaparte
- Charles Dezobry (1798–1871), historian and archaeologist
- Max Barascudts (1869–1927), German painter, graphic artist and book illustrator
- Jeanne Paquin (1869–1936), fashion designer
- Victor-Oscar Guétin (1872–1916), painter
- Albert Pauphilet (1884–1948), Romanist and Medievalist
- Paul Éluard (pseudonym for Eugène Grindel) (1895–1952), surrealist poet
- Maurice Ville (1901–1982), racing cyclist
- Henri Decaë (1915–1987), cameraman
- Anne Vernon (born 1924), actress
- Pierre Michelot (1928–2005), jazz musician
- Didier Daeninckx (* 1949), crime writer
- Christian Rossi (* 1954), comic artist
- Claude Barthélemy (* 1956), guitarist, composer, arranger and big band leader
- Didier Sénac (* 1958), former soccer player and current coach
- Angelo Debarre (* 1962), Sinto, guitarist and jazz musician
- Daniel Goldberg (* 1965), politician
- Fabrice Tiozzo (* 1969), former boxer
- Sandra Dimbour (* 1970), badminton player
- Bernard Latchimy (* 1971), handball player
- Christelle Mol (* 1972), badminton player
- Tabatha Cash (* 1973), former porn actress
- Audrey Mestre-Ferreras (1974-2002), freediver
- Myriam Lamare (* 1975), boxer
- Moussa Koita (* 1982), French-Senegalese football player
- Paule Baudouin (* 1984), handball player
- Ali Mathlouthi (* 1987), French-Tunisian football player
- Sabrina Ouazani (* 1988), actress
- Marc Seylan (* 1992), basketball player
- Jean-Christophe Bahebeck (* 1993), French football player of Cameroon descent
- Nakibou Aboubakari (* 1993), Comorian football player
- Isaac Mbenza (* 1996), Belgian football player
Persons connected with Saint-Denis
- Fulrad (710–784), Abbot of Saint-Denis
- Nicolas Leblanc (1742–1806), doctor, chemist and manufacturer, committed suicide in the Saint-Deniser poor house
- François Coignet (1814–1888), construction technician, is considered a pioneer of experimental concrete construction, entrepreneur from Saint-Denis
- Pierre Degeyter (1848–1932), Belgian-French socialist, later communist, and songwriter, died in Saint-Denis
- Jacques Doriot (1898–1945), politician, former mayor of Saint-Denis
- Aloizy Ehrlich (1914–1992), table tennis player of Polish descent, died in Saint-Denis
- Yvonne Loriod (1924-2010), pianist, died in Saint-Denis
- Olivier de Berranger (1938-2017), Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint-Denis (1996-2009)
- Henri Weber (1944–2020), Parti socialiste politician, Deputy Mayor of Saint-Denis from 1988 to 1995
- Mumia Abu-Jamal (* 1954), American journalist, political activist who was sentenced to death in Philadelphia in 1982 for the murder of a police officer and for illegally possessing firearms, an honorary citizen of Saint-Denis since 2006