Essay has no famous person on record yet
Go 10 mi to Alençon and the list grows to 128, with Thérèse de Lisieux at the top. In Orne, 102 towns have someone on the list. No town in Orne lists more than Alençon, with 128. Argentan has the second-longest list in Orne, after Alençon, with 55.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Essay (by its INSEE code) and whose French Wikipedia article agrees, and their English article too when they have one. Wikidata places 4 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Essay as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Essay
Around it, Alençon has the most people on record, 128 of them.
Questions about famous people from Essay
Who counts as from Essay?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Essay 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 (2)
- Thérèse de Lisieux: Céline Martin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gaultier-Garguille: John Collins, 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.