Marnans has yet to put a famous person on the list
For more famous names, Saint-Marcellin is 10 mi away: its list has 16, led by François Delattre. Across Isère, the lists cover 165 towns. 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 Marnans (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 Marnans yet.
Famous people born near Marnans
Close by, Saint-Marcellin counts 16 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Saint-Marcellin · 10 miFrançois Delattre & 15 more
La Côte-Saint-André · 7 miPaul Genevay & 5 more
Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs · 6 miRose Valland & 2 moreJGSaint-Siméon-de-Bressieux · 3 miJean-Louis Gervat & 1 more
Chatte · 11 miClément Adrien Vincendon-Dumoulin & 1 moreGDVinay · 10 miGeorges DorlyBCBeaurepaire · 10 miBruno ChenuQuestions about famous people from Marnans
Who counts as from Marnans?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Marnans 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)
- François Delattre: Clergier, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Genevay: Sergio del Grande (Mondadori Publishers) [2], Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rose Valland: Unknown, 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.