Photo: Louis-Julien de la Bouëre · CC BY-SA 3.0No famous person from Plouarzel yet, but Brest next door has 389
Across Finistère, 165 towns list someone born there. Brest’s 389 names make the longest list in Finistère. After Brest, the next longest list in Finistère is Quimper’s, with 158. The best known born in Brest is Gonzalo Higuaín.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Plouarzel (by its INSEE code) and whose French Wikipedia article agrees, and their English article too when they have one. Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Plouarzel as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Plouarzel
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Brest · 12 miGonzalo Higuaín & 388 more
Saint-Renan · 5 miBenoît Hamon & 9 moreAAPloudalmézeau · 8 miAlphonse Arzel & 4 more
Le Conquet · 6 miAristide Vallon & 1 moreJAMilizac-Guipronvel · 8 miJoseph Abasq & 1 moreJPGuilers · 8 miJean Potin & 1 more
Bourg-Blanc · 12 miLaurent Ségalen & 1 moreERLocmaria-Plouzané · 6 miErnest RannouQuestions about famous people from Plouarzel
Who counts as from Plouarzel?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Plouarzel 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)
- Gonzalo Higuaín: Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Benoît Hamon: Marion Germa, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aristide Vallon: Alfred Bernier, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Laurent Ségalen: Garitan, 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.