No one from Hecken is on the famous people list yet
For more famous names, Altkirch is 7 mi away: its list has 26, led by Hugo Hofstetter. 118 towns across Haut-Rhin can name a famous person born there. The longest list of any town in Haut-Rhin belongs to Mulhouse, with 304. Colmar has the second-longest list in Haut-Rhin, after Mulhouse, with 194.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Hecken (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 Hecken yet.
Famous people born near Hecken
The most names next door are in Altkirch: 26.
Altkirch · 7 miHugo Hofstetter & 25 more
Thann · 8 miPatrick Strzoda & 22 more
Masevaux-Niederbruck · 8 miJacques-Louis Battmann & 3 more
Cernay · 8 miMaurice Gastiger & 3 moreCNWittelsheim · 9 miCasimir Nowotarski & 3 more
Lutterbach · 9 miJean-Julien Weber & 2 moreAAPfastatt · 10 miAlphonse Anger & 2 more
Morschwiller-le-Bas · 8 miJulien Koszul & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Hecken
Who counts as from Hecken?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Hecken 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
- Julien Koszul: Alphonse Colas, 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.