Photo: CHABERT Louis · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Chaponost is on the famous people list yet
Oullins-Pierre-Bénite, 3 mi off, can claim 47 famous people, the best known Clément Turpin. The Rhône lists hold names for 126 towns. The longest list in Rhône is Lyon’s, with 928 names. After Lyon, the next longest list in Rhône is Villefranche-sur-Saône’s, with 68.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Chaponost (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 Chaponost yet.
Famous people born near Chaponost
Of the towns nearby, Oullins-Pierre-Bénite lists the most people: 47.
Oullins-Pierre-Bénite · 3 miClément Turpin & 46 more
Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon · 3 miAlexis Carrel & 26 moreWTassin-la-Demi-Lune · 4 miWoodkid & 16 more
Saint-Genis-Laval · 3 miÉric Abidal & 8 moreABLa Mulatière · 3 miAlain Bublex & 3 moreMTFrancheville · 2 miMaurice Thuilière & 1 moreJLBrignais · 3 miJean LoliveFVCraponne · 3 miFrançois Joseph Thorillon du Bourg de VacherollesQuestions about famous people from Chaponost
Who counts as from Chaponost?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Chaponost 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 (3)
- Clément Turpin: Светлана Бекетова, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexis Carrel: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Éric Abidal: Mutari 16:30, 5 March 2008 (UTC), 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.