AJ#1
Film, TV & Stage
Agnès Jaoui
born 1964French actress, film director, screenwriter and singer
40 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Antony, Hauts-de-Seine
Of the 47 famous people born in Antony, an unusual share are musicians
Agnès Jaoui is the best known, with articles in 40 languages. Behind the leader come Laurent Lafforgue and Jean-Philippe Daurelle. Most were born between 1914 and 1969: 37 of them. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 7.3, close to the 9.8 of the typical Hauts-de-Seine town.
Born here
47
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Agnès Jaoui
40 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1782
Claude Caprais Rigodit
Youngest
2006
Joachim Kayi Sanda
Most common field
Writing & Arts
16 people
What stands out about Antony’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Antony is known for
Compared with the usual town, musicians are the most over-represented field, at 3.4 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Antony’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1960s, at 25.
Writing & ArtsFilm, TV & StagePolitics & LawMusicSportsScience & MedicineNotableMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Antony
Agnès Jaoui leads with articles in 40 languages, ahead of Laurent Lafforgue (37) and Jean-Philippe Daurelle (15).
#2Science & Medicine
Laurent Lafforgue
born 1966French mathematician
37 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JD#3
Everyone
Everyone else born in Antony
44 more, from 1782 to 2006.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Fontenay-aux-Roses has the most on record, with 52.
Fontenay-aux-Roses · 3 miPierre Bonnard & 51 more
Châtenay-Malabry · 2 miAllan Saint-Maximin & 46 more
Bourg-la-Reine · 2 miÉvariste Galois & 45 more
Sceaux · 2 miAlain Delon & 20 more
L'Haÿ-les-Roses · 3 miClémence Poésy & 15 more
Massy · 2 miAnthony Martial & 9 more
Verrières-le-Buisson · 2 miMapie de Toulouse-Lautrec & 4 more
Wissous · 1 miGaston Henry-Haye & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Antony
Who is the most famous person from Antony?
Agnès Jaoui (French actress, film director, screenwriter and singer) is the best known by our measure: 40 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Laurent Lafforgue and Jean-Philippe Daurelle.
How many famous people were born in Antony?
47 people born in Antony have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 70 people here; the rest aren’t listed because an article names somewhere else or no town, or a check couldn’t be completed.
What is Antony known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 16 of the 47. That is 34% of the town’s list, against 25% across French towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Antony?
Claude Caprais Rigodit, born in 1782. The youngest on the list was born in 2006.
Who counts as from Antony?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Antony 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 (32)
- Laurent Lafforgue: Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen: Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pap Ndiaye: LurKin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Auguste Champetier de Ribes: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Laurence des Cars: @TheNexusInstitute, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Régis Brouard: Antoine Kornprobst, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Philippe Duron: Philippe Duron, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stéphane Sirkis: Inconnu, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Norbert Moutier: Cmoutier13, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jules-Édouard Moustic: Gloumouth1, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Yael Mellul: Yael Mellul, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Claude Perrot: Statistiki~frwiki, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Olivier Meyrou: Brigitte Dummer, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alain Durel: Atchafalaya, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christophe Mali: Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- François Lenglet: Ecole polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Grégory Panaccione: Selbymay, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hugues Leclère: Huguesleclere, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Thouvenel: Roche85, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Lécuyer: Xavier Caupenne, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick Andrivet: Candrivet, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre-Antoine Chardel: Pierre-Antoine Chardel, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Taï-Marc Le Thanh: ActuaLitté, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Liam Baty: Mehrmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre Bonnard: Pierre Bonnard, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Allan Saint-Maximin: Ruben Lamers, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Évariste Galois: Alfred Galois, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alain Delon: Reporters Associati & Archivi\Mondadori, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Clémence Poésy: Myles Kalus Anak Jihem, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anthony Martial: Дмитрий Голубович, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mapie de Toulouse-Lautrec: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gaston Henry-Haye: Agence de presse Mondial Photo-Presse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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