Next door to Saint-Pons-la-Calm, Bagnols-sur-Cèze lists 34 famous people
No famous person on record lists Saint-Pons-la-Calm as their birthplace yet. Across Gard, 99 towns list someone born there. Nîmes has the most of any town in Gard: 380. After Nîmes, the next longest list in Gard is Alès’, with 103.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Saint-Pons-la-Calm (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 Saint-Pons-la-Calm yet.
Famous people born near Saint-Pons-la-Calm
Of the towns around it, Bagnols-sur-Cèze has the most on record: 34.
Bagnols-sur-Cèze · 5 miAntoine de Rivarol & 33 more
Uzès · 9 miFirmin Abauzit & 22 more
Pont-Saint-Esprit · 11 miGeorges Ville & 19 more
Laudun-l'Ardoise · 5 miFrédéric Fuzet & 3 morePGRoquemaure · 11 miPaul Granet & 3 more
Piolenc · 12 miJean-Louis Trintignant & 2 more
Rochefort-du-Gard · 12 miAndré Savonne & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Saint-Pons-la-Calm
Who counts as from Saint-Pons-la-Calm?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Saint-Pons-la-Calm 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)
- Antoine de Rivarol: Unknown author Unknown author ( French art ), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Firmin Abauzit: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Georges Ville: unattributed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frédéric Fuzet: Giogo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Louis Trintignant: Reporters Associati & Archivi / Mondadori, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- André Savonne: AlphoneB, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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