Cagny has yet to put a famous person on the list
Go 5 mi to Fleury-sur-Orne and the list grows to 3, with Nicole Oresme at the top. The Calvados lists hold names for 122 towns. The longest list of any town in Calvados belongs to Caen, with 366. Lisieux has the second-longest list in Calvados, after Caen, with 57.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Cagny (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 Cagny yet.
Famous people born near Cagny
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Cagny
Who counts as from Cagny?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Cagny 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 (3)
- Nicole Oresme: Nicole Oresme / Aristotle, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Tournières: Pierre Étienne Lesueur, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- François Fayt: Lutz Edelhoff, 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.