No one born in Roncey has made the famous people list yet
Guillaume Le Gentil tops the 54 names on record in Coutances, 7 mi away. No town in Manche lists more than Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, with 178. After Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, the next longest list in Manche is Saint-Lô’s, with 60. The Manche lists hold names for 123 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Roncey (by its INSEE code) and whose French Wikipedia article agrees, and their English article too when they have one. Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Roncey as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Roncey
The neighbour with the most names is Coutances, at 54.
Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny · 12 miSophie Quinton & 5 more
Saint-Sauveur-Villages · 11 miCharles-François Lebrun & 4 more
Quettreville-sur-Sienne · 6 miJacques-Louis Daniel & 2 more
Percy-en-Normandie · 8 miGeorges Grente & 1 moreRBMarigny-Le-Lozon · 9 miRobert Bucaille & 1 more
Bourgvallées · 11 miFernand Le Rachinel
Bréhal · 11 miGérard FéreyQuestions about famous people from Roncey
Who counts as from Roncey?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Roncey 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)
- Sophie Quinton: Elen Nivrae, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles-François Lebrun: Robert Lefèvre, 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
- Gérard Férey: Nadir of Moscow, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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