Photo: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0No one born in Ornex has made the famous people list yet
Go 8 mi to Ambilly and the list grows to 21, with Antonin Guigonnat at the top. Across Ain, the lists cover 131 towns. 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 Ornex (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 Ornex yet.
Famous people born near Ornex
Close by, Ambilly counts 21 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Ambilly · 8 miAntonin Guigonnat & 20 moreJPDivonne-les-Bains · 6 miJacqueline Porel & 4 moreMMFerney-Voltaire · 2 miMichel Meylan & 3 more
Gex · 4 miAmédée Girod de l'Ain & 2 more
Prévessin-Moëns · 2 miÉmile Guers & 1 more
Thoiry · 6 miJacques Benoit-Gonnin & 1 more
Cessy · 3 miJean-Louis Girod de l'Ain
Veigy-Foncenex · 8 miHector IsabellaQuestions about famous people from Ornex
Who counts as from Ornex?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Ornex 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 (6)
- Antonin Guigonnat: Pavel Hrdlička (Czech Wikipedia user Packa ), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Amédée Girod de l'Ain: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Émile Guers: Atelier Boissonnas, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques Benoit-Gonnin: This illustration was made by Peter Potrowl ., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Louis Girod de l'Ain: anonymous, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hector Isabella: Utilisateur124, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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