Next door to Le Loreur, Granville lists 55 famous people
No famous person’s birth in Le Loreur is on record yet. Across Manche, the lists cover 123 towns. Cherbourg-en-Cotentin’s 178 names make the longest list in Manche. After Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, the next longest list in Manche is Saint-Lô’s, with 60.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Le Loreur (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 Le Loreur yet.
Famous people born near Le Loreur
Granville leads the towns around it, with 55 names.
Granville · 7 miChristian Dior & 54 more
Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny · 9 miSophie Quinton & 5 more
Quettreville-sur-Sienne · 7 miJacques-Louis Daniel & 2 moreCLDonville-les-Bains · 7 miClaude Leteurtre & 1 more
Percy-en-Normandie · 11 miGeorges Grente & 1 more
Bréhal · 5 miGérard FéreyPTSartilly-Baie-Bocage · 8 miPaul ThoravalQuestions about famous people from Le Loreur
Who counts as from Le Loreur?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Le Loreur 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 (5)
- Christian Dior: 投稿者によるスキャン, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sophie Quinton: Elen Nivrae, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques-Louis Daniel: Xfigpower, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Georges Grente: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gérard Férey: Nadir of Moscow, 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.