No famous person born in Le Guislain is listed yet
Go 11 mi to Saint-Lô and the list grows to 60, with Urbain Le Verrier at the top. The longest list in Manche is Cherbourg-en-Cotentin’s, with 178 names. 123 towns in Manche have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Le Guislain (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 Le Guislain as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Le Guislain
Saint-Lô leads the towns around it, with 60 names.
Saint-Lô · 11 miUrbain Le Verrier & 59 moreGGCoutances · 11 miGuillaume Le Gentil & 53 more
Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny · 9 miSophie Quinton & 5 more
Torigny-les-Villes · 12 miJacques de Monaco & 5 more
Quettreville-sur-Sienne · 11 miJacques-Louis Daniel & 2 more
Percy-en-Normandie · 4 miGeorges Grente & 1 moreRBMarigny-Le-Lozon · 9 miRobert Bucaille & 1 more
Bourgvallées · 7 miFernand Le RachinelQuestions about famous people from Le Guislain
Who counts as from Le Guislain?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Le Guislain 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)
- Urbain Le Verrier: User Magnus Manske on en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sophie Quinton: Elen Nivrae, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques de Monaco: Nicolas de Largillière, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques-Louis Daniel: Xfigpower, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Georges Grente: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Fernand Le Rachinel: 0623pattom, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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.