Next door to Caurel, Reims lists 422 famous people
No famous person’s birth in Caurel is on record yet. The longest list of any town in Marne belongs to Reims, with 422. Châlons-en-Champagne has the second-longest list in Marne, after Reims, with 115. 114 towns across Marne can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Caurel (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 Caurel as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Caurel
6 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Caurel
Who counts as from Caurel?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Caurel 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)
- Jean Baudrillard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ayaleila, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Claude Mairesse: Hache, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lou-Ann Joly: Gérald Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Georges François Léopold Menu: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Suzanne Tourte: Famille Tourte, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jules Martelet: Unknown author Unknown author, 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.