Ambléon has no famous person on record yet
Go 4 mi to Belley and the list grows to 33, with Sandrine Bailly at the top. Famous people are on record for 131 of the towns in Ain. No town in Ain lists more than Bourg-en-Bresse, with 133.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Ambléon (by its INSEE code) and whose French Wikipedia article agrees, and their English article too when they have one. Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Ambléon yet.
Famous people born near Ambléon
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Belley · 4 miSandrine Bailly & 32 more
Dolomieu · 11 miÉlie Cartan & 3 more
Morestel · 8 miVictor Giraud & 2 moreCPYenne · 9 miCharles-Bernard Pellegrini & 1 moreLRMontalieu-Vercieu · 11 miLouis Rivet & 1 more
Culoz-Béon · 11 miLéon Serpollet & 1 moreJRLes Avenières Veyrins-Thuellin · 8 miJoseph de RevolMMSaint-Genix-les-Villages · 11 miMaurice MichaudQuestions about famous people from Ambléon
Who counts as from Ambléon?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Ambléon itself, matched by its INSEE code (a commune merged into it counts when the dates allow), whose French Wikipedia article agrees, and their English article too when they have one. A hospital or neighbourhood recorded without its commune isn’t matched. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a hospital, a neighbourhood or a wider area, another commune, or missing, or their articles may not name a birthplace. We only list people the sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations, how many Wikipedia and sister-site articles cover each person) and French and English Wikipedia (each person’s articles confirm the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are matched to the commune by INSEE code and its history of mergers (INSEE COG 2026). Ranked by the number of articles. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across French towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the license below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (4)
- Sandrine Bailly: Götz A. Primke from Muenchen, Germany Cropped by Fschoenm, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Élie Cartan: Studio Harcourt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Victor Giraud: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Léon Serpollet: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.