No one from Distroff is on the famous people list yet
Go 6 mi to Thionville and the list grows to 103, with Frédéric Weis at the top. No town in Moselle lists more than Metz, with 434. 162 towns across Moselle can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Distroff (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 Distroff yet.
Famous people born near Distroff
Around it, Thionville has the most people on record, 103 of them.
Thionville · 6 miFrédéric Weis & 102 moreEGYutz · 4 miElisabeth Grümmer & 4 more
Uckange · 6 miCarmelo Micciche & 2 morePGTerville · 6 miPierre Gillet & 1 moreEBFlorange · 7 miEl Hedi Belameiri & 1 more
Bousse · 5 miAntoine MorlotCDCattenom · 5 miCharles-Frédéric DurbachCTHettange-Grande · 7 miCharles Bertin Gaston Chapuis de TourvilleQuestions about famous people from Distroff
Who counts as from Distroff?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Distroff 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 (3)
- Frédéric Weis: UKBERRI.NET Uribe Kosta eta Erandioko agerkari digitala, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carmelo Micciche: Fredamas, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Antoine Morlot: Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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.