Heiwiller has yet to put a famous person on the list
Alfred Dreyfus heads the list in Mulhouse, 9 mi away, which has 304 names. The longest list of any town in Haut-Rhin belongs to Mulhouse, with 304. After Mulhouse, the next longest list in Haut-Rhin is Colmar’s, with 194. 118 towns in Haut-Rhin have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Heiwiller (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 Heiwiller yet.
Famous people born near Heiwiller
Around it, Mulhouse has the most people on record, 304 of them.
Mulhouse · 9 miAlfred Dreyfus & 303 more
Altkirch · 4 miHugo Hofstetter & 25 moreFSSierentz · 7 miFrédéric Striby & 4 moreHERiedisheim · 9 miHenri Eberhardt & 2 more
Lutterbach · 10 miJean-Julien Weber & 2 more
Morschwiller-le-Bas · 8 miJulien Koszul & 1 morePGBlotzheim · 8 miPaul Gégauff & 1 more
Brunstatt-Didenheim · 7 miMarie-Augustin ZwillerQuestions about famous people from Heiwiller
Who counts as from Heiwiller?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Heiwiller 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 (5)
- Alfred Dreyfus: Aron Gerschel, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hugo Hofstetter: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Julien Weber: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Julien Koszul: Alphonse Colas, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marie-Augustin Zwiller: Unknown author Unknown author, 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.