No one born in Saint-Arnoult has made the famous people list yet
Go 12 mi to Le Havre and the list grows to 133, with Raymond Queneau at the top. In Calvados, 122 towns have someone on the list. No town in Calvados lists more than 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 Saint-Arnoult (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 Saint-Arnoult yet.
Famous people born near Saint-Arnoult
Close by, the fullest list is Le Havre’s, at 133 names.
Le Havre · 12 miRaymond Queneau & 132 more
Sainte-Adresse · 12 miVincent Collet & 39 more
Honfleur · 8 miErik Satie & 35 more
Deauville · 1 miHélène Chanel & 15 moreMPTrouville-sur-Mer · 2 miMonique Pelletier & 14 moreMBPont-l'Évêque · 6 miMaurice Bucaille & 8 more
La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur · 9 miFrédéric Le Play & 2 moreJDCabourg · 10 miJean-François Dubos & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Saint-Arnoult
Who counts as from Saint-Arnoult?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Saint-Arnoult 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 (5)
- Raymond Queneau: Jean-Max Albert, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Vincent Collet: Photo Claude TRUONG-NGOC, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Erik Satie: Sonia y natalia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hélène Chanel: Aldo Grimaldi / Claudio Ragona, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frédéric Le Play: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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