Photo: Jibi44 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people from Rouans
Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny tops the 4 names on record in Couëron, 7 mi away. Across Loire-Atlantique, 109 towns list someone born there. No entry yet names Rouans as a birthplace. The longest list in Loire-Atlantique is Nantes’, with 793 names.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Rouans (by its INSEE code) and whose French Wikipedia article agrees, and their English article too when they have one. Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Rouans as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Rouans
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Port-Saint-Père · 5 miCharles Goguet de La Salmonière & 1 more
Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau · 6 miÉmile-Joseph Legal & 1 moreJCLa Montagne · 8 miJean Cremet & 1 more
Le Pellerin · 4 miJoseph FouchéRNSainte-Pazanne · 6 miRené Naud
Frossay · 6 miAlexis ManeyrolQuestions about famous people from Rouans
Who counts as from Rouans?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Rouans 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)
- Charles Goguet de La Salmonière: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Émile-Joseph Legal: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Fouché: Claude-Marie Dubufe / After René Théodore Berthon, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexis Maneyrol: Agence Meurisse, 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.