Gorbio has no famous person on record yet
Go 2 mi to Menton and the list grows to 37, with Olivier Echouafni at the top. The longest list of any town in Alpes-Maritimes belongs to Nice, with 679. After Nice, the next longest list in Alpes-Maritimes is Cannes’, with 187. 55 towns in Alpes-Maritimes have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Gorbio (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 Gorbio yet.
Famous people born near Gorbio
Around it, Menton has the most people on record, 37 of them.
Beausoleil · 3 miRenée Saint-Cyr & 3 moreGVSospel · 7 miGiulio Cesare Vachero & 3 more
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin · 2 miGilles Panizzi & 2 moreVBDrap · 7 miVirgile Barel & 2 more
Cap-d'Ail · 5 miAndré-Jacques Marie & 1 moreNLa Trinité · 8 miNekfeu
Beaulieu-sur-Mer · 8 miLouis CaneQuestions about famous people from Gorbio
Who counts as from Gorbio?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Gorbio 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)
- Renée Saint-Cyr: Studio Harcourt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gilles Panizzi: Animrallye, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- André-Jacques Marie: L'Athlétisme, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis Cane: Pantalaskas, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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.