Photo: Patafisik · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person yet from Eybens
For more famous names, Grenoble is 2 mi away: its list has 474, led by Stendhal. 165 towns in Isère have at least one famous person on record. The longest list of any town in Isère belongs to Grenoble, with 474. After Grenoble, the next longest list in Isère is La Tronche’s, with 68.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Eybens (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 Eybens yet.
Famous people born near Eybens
Close by, the fullest list is Grenoble’s, at 474 names.
Grenoble · 2 miStendhal & 473 more
La Tronche · 4 miMichel Barnier & 67 more
Saint-Martin-d'Hères · 2 miAnaïs Chevalier-Bouchet & 54 moreCÉchirolles · 2 miCalogero & 34 moreMLFontaine · 4 miMichel Lafranceschina & 3 more
Gières · 3 miCasimir Arvet-Touvet
Seyssinet-Pariset · 3 miMarcel TrillatPCJarrie · 3 miPierre ClaretQuestions about famous people from Eybens
Who counts as from Eybens?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Eybens 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)
- Stendhal: Olof Johan Södermark, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michel Barnier: Florian David Pm, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet: Pavel Hrdlička (Czech Wikipedia user Packa ), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Casimir Arvet-Touvet: not specified, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marcel Trillat: JuliosJulien, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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.