Photo: Oziris · CC BY 4.0No one born in Éguilles has made the famous people list yet
Go 5 mi to Aix-en-Provence and the list grows to 301, with Paul Cézanne at the top. The longest list of any town in Bouches-du-Rhône belongs to Marseille, with 707. 76 towns across Bouches-du-Rhône can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Éguilles (by its INSEE code) and whose French Wikipedia article agrees, and their English article too when they have one. Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Éguilles as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Éguilles
The fullest list close by belongs to Aix-en-Provence, with 301.
Questions about famous people from Éguilles
Who counts as from Éguilles?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Éguilles 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)
- Paul Cézanne: Unknown; Cézanne was born in 1839 and died in 1906, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Léon Dury: Sandrine Chabre, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis-Félix Chabaud: Petit Pierre Lanith (1831-1909), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre André de Suffren: Pompeo Batoni, 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.