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Famous people · Soubise, Charente-Maritime

The 2 famous people born in Soubise, led by Eugénie Cotton

Articles in 21 languages make the French scientist and women's rights activist Eugénie Cotton the best known. The list has one more: the French politician Paul Augustin Lozeau. The neighbour with the longest list is Rochefort, 2 mi away: 50, led by David Zurutuza. Paul Augustin Lozeau (1758) and Eugénie Cotton (1881) mark the two ends of the list.

#1 best knownEugénie CottonScience & Medicine · 1881–1967
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Eugénie Cotton
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1758
Paul Augustin Lozeau
Youngest
1881
Eugénie Cotton
Most common field
Science & Medicine
1 person
The best known

Born in Soubise

Eugénie Cotton#1
Science & Medicine

Eugénie Cotton

1881–1967

French scientist and women's rights activist (1881–1967)

21 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
PL#2
Politics & Law

Paul Augustin Lozeau

1758–1798

French politician (1758-1798)

1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for

What Soubise is known for

Share of Soubise’s famous people in each field.

The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.

Next door

Famous people from the towns next door

The longest list nearby is Rochefort’s, with 50.

Questions about famous people from Soubise

Who is the most famous person from Soubise?

Eugénie Cotton (French scientist and women's rights activist (1881–1967)) is the best known by our measure: 21 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Paul Augustin Lozeau.

How many famous people were born in Soubise?

2 people born in Soubise have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one).

What is Soubise known for?

Among its famous people, scientists and doctors: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 7% across French towns.

Who is the earliest-born famous person from Soubise?

Paul Augustin Lozeau, born in 1758. The youngest on the list was born in 1881.

Who counts as from Soubise?

People whose Wikidata birthplace is Soubise 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).

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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.