Lavours has yet to put a famous person on the list
Hervé Renard heads the list in Aix-les-Bains, 10 mi away, which has 50 names. Across Ain, 131 towns list someone born there. No town in Ain lists more than Bourg-en-Bresse, with 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 Lavours (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 Lavours yet.
Famous people born near Lavours
The neighbour with the most names is Aix-les-Bains, at 50.
Aix-les-Bains · 10 miHervé Renard & 49 more
Belley · 5 miSandrine Bailly & 32 moreGPRumilly · 9 miGeorges Pauget & 3 more
Culoz-Béon · 3 miLéon Serpollet & 1 moreCPYenne · 8 miCharles-Bernard Pellegrini & 1 more
Entrelacs · 8 miPhilibert MollardABGrésy-sur-Aix · 10 miAntoine Philibert Albert BaillyEMVallières-sur-Fier · 10 miEmmanuel MuheimQuestions about famous people from Lavours
Who counts as from Lavours?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Lavours 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)
- Hervé Renard: Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sandrine Bailly: Götz A. Primke from Muenchen, Germany Cropped by Fschoenm, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Léon Serpollet: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Philibert Mollard: Ignoto, incisione del tempo, 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.