No one from Combray is on the famous people list yet
Guillaume le Conquérant heads the list in Falaise, 12 mi away, which has 32 names. The longest list of any town in Calvados belongs to Caen, with 366. After Caen, the next longest list in Calvados is Lisieux’s, with 57. 122 towns across Calvados can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Combray (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 Combray yet.
Famous people born near Combray
6 towns around it have someone on record.
Falaise · 12 miGuillaume le Conquérant & 31 moreJDCondé-en-Normandie · 8 miJules Dumont d’Urville & 11 more
Les Monts d'Aunay · 10 miAnaïs Bescond & 6 morePHThury-Harcourt-le-Hom · 4 miPaul Héroult & 4 moreJLAthis-Val de Rouvre · 10 miJean-François Leroy & 3 more
Saint-Martin-de-May · 11 miArlette Ben Hamo & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Combray
Who counts as from Combray?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Combray 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)
- Guillaume le Conquérant: Myrabella, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Anaïs Bescond: Miceman, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arlette Ben Hamo: Basket magazine, 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.