No famous person born in Brion is listed yet
Nearby, Saint-Marcellin, 10 mi away, lists 16, led by François Delattre. In all of Isère, the famous people on record come from 165 towns. The longest list of any town in Isère belongs to Grenoble, with 474. La Tronche has the second-longest list in Isère, after Grenoble, with 68.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Brion (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 Brion yet.
Famous people born near Brion
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Saint-Marcellin · 10 miFrançois Delattre & 15 moreTFTullins · 7 miThierry Frémaux & 7 more
La Côte-Saint-André · 8 miPaul Genevay & 5 more
Rives · 9 miRaphaël Poirée & 4 more
Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs · 3 miRose Valland & 2 more
Moirans · 11 miJoseph Pâris Duverney & 2 moreJGSaint-Siméon-de-Bressieux · 5 miJean-Louis Gervat & 1 more
Chatte · 11 miClément Adrien Vincendon-Dumoulin & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Brion
Who counts as from Brion?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Brion 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)
- François Delattre: Clergier, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Genevay: Sergio del Grande (Mondadori Publishers) [2], Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Raphaël Poirée: Götz A. Primke from Muenchen, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rose Valland: Unknown, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Pâris Duverney: Louis Michel van Loo, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Clément Adrien Vincendon-Dumoulin: Vincendon_dumoulin.jpg : Astrocytome ] derivative work: TCY, 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.