No one born in Vivès has made the famous people list yet
Céret, 3 mi off, can claim 28 famous people, the best known Martin Fourcade. No town in Pyrénées-Orientales lists more than Perpignan, with 297. 81 towns in Pyrénées-Orientales have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Vivès (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 Vivès yet.
Famous people born near Vivès
The most names next door are in Céret: 28.
Thuir · 7 miJean-Pierre Romeu & 8 moreFJArles-sur-Tech · 8 miFrancis Jordane & 5 more
Bages · 9 miJean-Pierre Serre & 3 more
Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda · 6 miPierre Restany & 1 moreJLPonteilla · 7 miJoseph de Lacroix & 1 moreJCLe Boulou · 4 miJoseph Chambon
Canohès · 9 miRichard MilianQuestions about famous people from Vivès
Who counts as from Vivès?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Vivès 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-Pierre Romeu: Panini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Pierre Serre: Jean-Pierre_Serre.jpg : Renate Schmid derivative work: César, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre Restany: Erling Mandelmann, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Milian: Lepetitlord, 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.