No one born in Linthal has made the famous people list yet
Alfred Kastler heads the list in Guebwiller, 5 mi away, which has 28 names. Across Haut-Rhin, 118 towns list someone born there. 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.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Linthal (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 Linthal yet.
Famous people born near Linthal
The best known from each town within 12 mi of Linthal, with how many people each has.
Guebwiller · 5 miAlfred Kastler & 27 more
Thann · 10 miPatrick Strzoda & 22 moreDWMunster · 6 miDaniel Walther & 9 more
Soultz-Haut-Rhin · 7 miBernard Genghini & 7 more
Cernay · 10 miMaurice Gastiger & 3 moreMKBuhl · 3 miMaurice Koechlin & 1 moreCLBollwiller · 9 miCharles Henry Lea & 1 more
Issenheim · 7 miGeorges SpetzQuestions about famous people from Linthal
Who counts as from Linthal?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Linthal 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 Kastler: Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick Strzoda: Markov, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bernard Genghini: Panini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maurice Gastiger: Le Miroir des sports, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Georges Spetz: inconnu (Numistral, libre de droits), 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.