Photo: Alan Mattingly · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Saint-Hippolyte is on the famous people list yet
Go 5 mi to Rivesaltes and the list grows to 12, with Joseph Joffre at the top. The longest list of any town in Pyrénées-Orientales belongs to Perpignan, with 297. Céret has the second-longest list in Pyrénées-Orientales, after Perpignan, with 28. Across Pyrénées-Orientales, 81 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Saint-Hippolyte (by its INSEE code) and whose French Wikipedia article agrees, and their English article too when they have one. Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Saint-Hippolyte as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Saint-Hippolyte
Around it, Rivesaltes has the most people on record, 12 of them.
Rivesaltes · 5 miJoseph Joffre & 11 moreFRPia · 4 miFrançois Reste de Roca & 4 moreACSalses-le-Château · 4 miArthur Conte & 3 more
Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque · 2 miFernand Siré & 2 moreAEClaira · 2 miAlain Esclopé & 1 moreMAVillelongue-de-la-Salanque · 4 miMichel Azama & 1 moreJOEspira-de-l'Agly · 7 miJoan Cayrol i Obiols & 1 moreJGTorreilles · 3 miJoseph GuiterQuestions about famous people from Saint-Hippolyte
Who counts as from Saint-Hippolyte?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Saint-Hippolyte 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)
- Joseph Joffre: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Fernand Siré: Fabricio Cardenas, 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.