Next door to Lirac, Avignon lists 276 famous people
No famous person on record lists Lirac as their birthplace yet. Nîmes’ 380 names make the longest list in Gard. After Nîmes, the next longest list in Gard is Alès’, with 103. The Gard lists hold names for 99 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Lirac (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 Lirac yet.
Famous people born near Lirac
Avignon leads the towns around it, with 276 names.
Avignon · 10 miMireille Mathieu & 275 moreMPOrange · 9 miMichel Petrucciani & 43 more
Bagnols-sur-Cèze · 9 miAntoine de Rivarol & 33 more
Villeneuve-lès-Avignon · 7 miWilliam Marx & 6 more
Sorgues · 9 miPaul Pons & 5 morePGRoquemaure · 4 miPaul Granet & 3 more
Laudun-l'Ardoise · 5 miFrédéric Fuzet & 3 more
Rochefort-du-Gard · 5 miAndré Savonne & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Lirac
Who counts as from Lirac?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Lirac 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 (6)
- Mireille Mathieu: Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Antoine de Rivarol: Unknown author Unknown author ( French art ), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Marx: Angelika Leuchter, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Pons: Waléry Paris, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frédéric Fuzet: Giogo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- André Savonne: AlphoneB, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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.