Photo: Benoît Prieur · CC0No famous person born in Beynost is listed yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Décines-Charpieu, 5 mi away: 20, led by Malo Gusto. 131 towns across Ain can name a famous person born there. Bourg-en-Bresse has the most of any town in Ain: 133. After Bourg-en-Bresse, the next longest list in Ain is Belley’s, with 33.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Beynost (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 Beynost yet.
Famous people born near Beynost
Décines-Charpieu leads the towns around it, with 20 names.
Rillieux-la-Pape · 5 miLoïc Rémy & 13 more
Montluel · 3 miJoseph Crétin & 8 moreGSVaulx-en-Velin · 6 miGaël Da Silva & 6 moreCFSaint-Maurice-de-Beynost · 1 miClaudius Four & 1 moreCDDagneux · 4 miClaude-Antoine Dussort & 1 moreKMMeyzieu · 4 miKhalis Merah & 1 moreSFMiribel · 2 miSteven FrossardQuestions about famous people from Beynost
Who counts as from Beynost?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Beynost 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 (2)
- Loïc Rémy: CFCUnofficial (Chelsea Debs), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Crétin: unattributed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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