Photo: Loïc LE BAIL · CC BY 4.0No famous person born in Locoal-Mendon is listed yet
For more famous names, Auray is 6 mi away: its list has 25, led by Jeanne de Laval. Famous people are on record for 113 of the towns in Morbihan. Lorient has the most of any town in Morbihan: 164. After Lorient, the next longest list in Morbihan is Vannes’, with 138.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Locoal-Mendon (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 Locoal-Mendon as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Locoal-Mendon
Close by, Auray counts 25 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Locoal-Mendon
Who counts as from Locoal-Mendon?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Locoal-Mendon 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)
- Jeanne de Laval: Louis Boudan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- André Le Meut: Desagnat, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christian Le Squer: Christian Le Squer, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Jacob: Maurice Dulac, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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