Saze has no famous person on record yet
Go 7 mi to Avignon and the list grows to 276, with Mireille Mathieu at the top. The longest list in Gard is Nîmes’, with 380 names. Alès has the second-longest list in Gard, after Nîmes, with 103. 99 towns across Gard can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Saze (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 Saze yet.
Famous people born near Saze
The longest list nearby is Avignon’s, with 276.
Avignon · 7 miMireille Mathieu & 275 more
Villeneuve-lès-Avignon · 5 miWilliam Marx & 6 more
Rochefort-du-Gard · 2 miAndré Savonne & 1 more
Aramon · 4 miHenri Pitot & 1 moreHFBarbentane · 5 miHenri Fontaine & 1 moreJMMontfrin · 7 miJean Mouton & 1 more
Meynes · 8 miCamille Rogier & 1 more
Graveson · 8 miAnne-Marie BertrandQuestions about famous people from Saze
Who counts as from Saze?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Saze 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
- William Marx: Angelika Leuchter, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- André Savonne: AlphoneB, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henri Pitot: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Camille Rogier: Henri Sauvaire, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Anne-Marie Bertrand: Communication AMB, 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.