Famous people born near Bretten
Within 11 mi, Belfort lists the most: 145, with Tahar Rahim first. No entry yet names Bretten as a birthplace. Famous people are on record for 118 of the towns in Haut-Rhin. Mulhouse’s 304 names make the longest list in Haut-Rhin.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Bretten (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 Bretten yet.
Famous people born near Bretten
Around it, Belfort has the most people on record, 145 of them.
Altkirch · 10 miHugo Hofstetter & 25 more
Thann · 7 miPatrick Strzoda & 22 more
Masevaux-Niederbruck · 6 miJacques-Louis Battmann & 3 more
Cernay · 9 miMaurice Gastiger & 3 moreCNWittelsheim · 11 miCasimir Nowotarski & 3 more
Lutterbach · 11 miJean-Julien Weber & 2 more
Valdoie · 11 miAndré Maschinot & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Bretten
Who counts as from Bretten?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Bretten 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)
- Hugo Hofstetter: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick Strzoda: Markov, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques-Louis Battmann: Hermann Raunheim, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maurice Gastiger: Le Miroir des sports, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Julien Weber: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- André Maschinot: Philippe Maschinot, 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.