No one from Lézan is on the famous people list yet
Laurent Blanc heads the list in Alès, 8 mi away, which has 103 names. No town in Gard lists more than Nîmes, with 380. Across Gard, the lists cover 99 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Lézan (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 Lézan yet.
Famous people born near Lézan
Nearby, Alès has the most on record, with 103.
Alès · 8 miLaurent Blanc & 102 moreSPAnduze · 4 miSuzette Puech & 13 morePBSaint-Hippolyte-du-Fort · 10 miPierre Billon & 7 more
Saint-Jean-du-Gard · 10 miEugène Rubens-Alcais & 6 more
Quissac · 7 miJacques Jac & 2 moreAVSaint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès · 9 miAnthony Vosahlo & 1 more
Boisset-et-Gaujac · 3 miLouis Joseph Elisabeth Fortuné de Renaud de BoulogneQuestions about famous people from Lézan
Who counts as from Lézan?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Lézan 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)
- Laurent Blanc: Julien Manceau, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eugène Rubens-Alcais: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques Jac: Charles-François le Teillet, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis Joseph Elisabeth Fortuné de Renaud de Boulogne: Unknown author Unknown author, 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.