No famous person from Poisat yet, but Grenoble next door has 474
Across Isère, the lists cover 165 towns. The longest list in Isère is Grenoble’s, with 474 names. La Tronche has the second-longest list in Isère, after Grenoble, with 68. The best known born in Grenoble is Stendhal.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Poisat (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 Poisat yet.
Famous people born near Poisat
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Grenoble · 2 miStendhal & 473 more
La Tronche · 3 miMichel Barnier & 67 more
Saint-Martin-d'Hères · 1 miAnaïs Chevalier-Bouchet & 54 moreCÉchirolles · 2 miCalogero & 34 more
Meylan · 4 miGabriel de Mortillet & 1 more
Gières · 2 miCasimir Arvet-Touvet
Seyssinet-Pariset · 4 miMarcel TrillatPCJarrie · 4 miPierre ClaretQuestions about famous people from Poisat
Who counts as from Poisat?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Poisat 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)
- 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
- Gabriel de Mortillet: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Casimir Arvet-Touvet: not specified, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marcel Trillat: JuliosJulien, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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