No one from Vassel is on the famous people list yet
Go 4 mi to Pont-du-Château and the list grows to 5, with Alain Rey at the top. No town in Puy-de-Dôme lists more than Clermont-Ferrand, with 356. After Clermont-Ferrand, the next longest list in Puy-de-Dôme is Riom’s, with 68. In Puy-de-Dôme, 127 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Vassel (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 Vassel yet.
Famous people born near Vassel
Pont-du-Château has the longest list next door: 5.
Questions about famous people from Vassel
Who counts as from Vassel?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Vassel 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 (7)
- Alain Rey: Lionel Allorge, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gabriel-Taurin Dufresse: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Prosper Marilhat: Théodore Chassériau, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Georges Bataille: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Baptiste Lamy: Nolege, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Molimard: Henri Masson at Esperanto Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Georges Couthon: François Bonneville, Public domain, 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.