BB#1
Sports
Bernard Bureau
born 1959French association football player
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Lagny, Oise
3 famous people were born in Lagny
Bernard Bureau, the French association football player, is the most widely known, written about in 3 languages. Second and third on the list are Solenne Piret and Fabrice Leglaive. Fewer than a quarter of the 132 towns in Oise with famous people list more. The neighbour with the longest list is Noyon, 5 mi away: 19, led by Jean Calvin.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Bernard Bureau
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1959
Bernard Bureau
Youngest
1992
Solenne Piret
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Lagny
Two of the three are athletes.
SP#2
Notable
Solenne Piret
born 1992French para-climber
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
FL#3
Sports
Fabrice Leglaive
born 1986French ice hockey player (born 1986)
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for
What Lagny is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 2.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Noyon: 19.
Questions about famous people from Lagny
Who is the most famous person from Lagny?
Bernard Bureau (French association football player) is the best known by our measure: 3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Solenne Piret and Fabrice Leglaive.
How many famous people were born in Lagny?
3 people born in Lagny have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one).
What is Lagny known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 19% across French towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lagny?
Bernard Bureau, born in 1959. The youngest on the list was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Lagny?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Lagny 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)
- Jean Calvin: Anonymous ( France ) Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Charles Peltier: Unknown XIX century artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Armand de Monchy d'Hocquincourt: Comte Héritier, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Guillaume Samica: Krzysio.szubzda.1, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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.