Préfontaines has no famous person on record yet
Anne-Louis Girodet tops the 46 names on record in Montargis, 8 mi away. In all of Loiret, the famous people on record come from 100 towns. The longest list of any town in Loiret belongs to Orléans, with 368.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Préfontaines (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 Préfontaines yet.
Famous people born near Préfontaines
Around it, Montargis has the most people on record, 46 of them.
Montargis · 8 miAnne-Louis Girodet & 45 moreGKNemours · 11 miGeoffrey Kondogbia & 19 more
Château-Landon · 3 miArthur Chaussy & 2 more
Ferrières-en-Gâtinais · 5 miRené-Georges Gastellier & 1 moreJJChâlette-sur-Loing · 7 miJean Joubert & 1 more
Amilly · 10 miPauletta Foppa & 1 moreFBSaint-Pierre-lès-Nemours · 11 miFabrice Bry & 1 moreCBCorquilleroy · 5 miClaude BillardQuestions about famous people from Préfontaines
Who counts as from Préfontaines?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Préfontaines 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)
- Anne-Louis Girodet: Anne-Louis Girodet, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Chaussy: Studio Harcourt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- René-Georges Gastellier: Jacques Marie Noël Frémy / After Lucile Foullon-Vachot, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pauletta Foppa: Dacoucou, 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.