Tocqueville has yet to put a famous person on the list
Laetitia Casta heads the list in Pont-Audemer, 6 mi away, which has 33 names. Famous people are on record for 113 of the towns in Eure. The longest list of any town in Eure belongs to Évreux, with 119.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Tocqueville (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 Tocqueville yet.
Famous people born near Tocqueville
The fullest list close by belongs to Pont-Audemer, with 33.
Pont-Audemer · 6 miLaetitia Casta & 32 more
Rives-en-Seine · 10 miRaymond Narac & 15 more
Lillebonne · 9 miAnnie Ernaux & 6 more
Arelaune-en-Seine · 8 miFrédéric Hellot & 2 moreGGGruchet-le-Valasse · 12 miGrégory Gadebois & 1 moreBCPort-Jérôme-sur-Seine · 6 miBernard CourtaultBQBourg-Achard · 10 miBruno QuestelQuestions about famous people from Tocqueville
Who counts as from Tocqueville?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Tocqueville 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)
- Laetitia Casta: Gilzetbase, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Raymond Narac: Darkness00, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Annie Ernaux: Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frédéric Hellot: Agence Rol, 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.