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==Personalities== * Painter [[Abigail May Alcott Nieriker]] lived here until her death. *[[Émilie Ambre]], the French opera singer, lived on an estate in Meudon bought for her by her then-lover [[William III of the Netherlands]] in 1877 * Artists [[Jean Arp]] and [[Sophie Taeuber-Arp]] were resident here from 1929 to 1940. Their neighbours were the artist and architect [[Theo van Doesburg]] and his wife Nelly. * [[Édouard-Gérard Balbiani]] (1823–1899), embryologist, died in Meudon * The 20th-century French lawyer and Islamologist [[Georges-Henri Bousquet]] (1900–1978) was born in Meudon. * [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]] lived here until his death, and is buried in Cimetière Longs Réages, Bas Meudon. * [[Gregoire Defrel]], footballer * [[Madame de Pompadour]] lived in the [[Château de Bellevue]], built for her by [[Louis XV]] in 1750; it was demolished in 1823. * [[Lorenzo Callegari]], footballer * [[Souleymane Doukara]], footballer * [[Marcel Dupré]], perhaps the most famous French organist of the 20th century, lived and worked in Meudon. He transformed his home into a small concert hall; the current owners of the home still hold public concerts there.<ref>[http://www.marceldupre.org/index.html l'Association pour la Sauvegarde de l'Orgue de Marcel Dupré] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110403052200/http://www.marceldupre.org/index.html |date=3 April 2011 }}</ref> * [[Nicolas Isimat-Mirin]], footballer * The painter [[Gwen John]] lived in Meudon from 1911 until just before her death in 1939. * Argeline Buise the model for Gwen Johns' painting The Pilgrim (1920) was a resident of Meudon. Gwen painted her "again and again"<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-ZahMymu9w | title=At home: Artists in Conversation | Celia Paul on Gwen John | website=[[YouTube]] | date=12 January 2023 }}</ref> * [[Lionel Jospin]], former France prime minister, was born here. * [[André Kertész]], photographer legend, took a famous photo of the train [[Meudon Viaduct|viaduct in Meudon]]. * Charle-Michel Marle, mathematician, born in 1934, has lived in Meudon since 1970. * [[Jean-Luc Marion]] was born in 1946. * The artist [[Jean Metzinger]] lived and worked in Meudon from around 1911, during some of the crucial years of [[Cubism]]. * [[George Simeon Papadopoulos]], OBE, Professor of History, Dep. Director of Education Department of OECD (1925–2012) * [[Clémence Poésy]], French actress attended the bilingual alternative school [https://ecolelasource.org/ La Source], Meudon, and is best known for her portrayal of Fleur Delacour in the ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' movie. * The town has a monument to [[Rabelais]] who died here as [[Canon (priest)|canon]] of Meudon, where he held the benefice from 1551 to 1552. * [[Jean Robiquet]], art historian and curator was born in Meudon 6 July 1874. * Sculptor [[Auguste Rodin]]'s villa "des Brillants", now a museum of his art, is located here, as is his grave. * [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] grew up at his maternal grandfather's house in Meudon, as recounted in his memoir [[The Words (book)|''The Words'']] * [[Adama Soumare]], footballer * Grand Duke [[Boris Vladimirovich of Russia]] lived here in exile in Château Sans-Souci (in Bellevue), from 1920. * [[Richard Wagner]] was a resident (No. 27 Av. du Château), and here composed ''[[The Flying Dutchman (opera)|The Flying Dutchman]]''.
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