Famous people near Guipel: 4 in Combourg
No famous person on record lists Guipel as their birthplace yet. The longest list of any town in Ille-et-Vilaine belongs to Rennes, with 542. Saint-Malo has the second-longest list in Ille-et-Vilaine, after Rennes, with 182. In Ille-et-Vilaine, 105 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Guipel (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 Guipel yet.
Famous people born near Guipel
Close by, Combourg counts 4 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Guipel
Who counts as from Guipel?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Guipel 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 (4)
- Eugène Durand: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alfred Bazillon: Richard A., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Léontine Dolivet: Anonymous Unknown author , no author disclosure, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gérard Rué: Eric HOUDAS, 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.