Photo: Serge Ottaviani · CC BY-SA 3.0No famous person yet from Maing
Antoine Watteau tops the 202 names on record in Valenciennes, 3 mi away. No town in Nord lists more than Lille, with 717. After Lille, the next longest list in Nord is Roubaix’s, with 241. Across Nord, the lists cover 279 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Maing (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 Maing yet.
Famous people born near Maing
The most names next door are in Valenciennes: 202.
Valenciennes · 3 miAntoine Watteau & 201 more
Denain · 4 miFabien Gilot & 28 more
Anzin · 5 miLouis Thiétard & 15 more
Trith-Saint-Léger · 2 miDaniel Leclercq & 6 moreJDAulnoy-lez-Valenciennes · 2 miJean Dauby & 2 moreRDThiant · 2 miRoger Devemy & 1 moreLGHérin · 3 miLéon Guéry & 1 moreRHMarly · 4 miRoger Haudegand & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Maing
Who counts as from Maing?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Maing 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?
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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)
- Antoine Watteau: Rosalba Carriera, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fabien Gilot: Jnestorius, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis Thiétard: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Leclercq: Mickael Denet, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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.