Photo: E. de Rolland & D. Clouzet · Public domainIrigny has no famous person on record yet
For more famous names, Oullins-Pierre-Bénite is 3 mi away: its list has 47, led by Clément Turpin. Across Rhône, the lists cover 126 towns. The longest list of any town in Rhône belongs to Lyon, with 928. Villefranche-sur-Saône has the second-longest list in Rhône, after Lyon, with 68.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Irigny (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 Irigny as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Irigny
Of the towns around it, Oullins-Pierre-Bénite has the most on record: 47.
Oullins-Pierre-Bénite · 3 miClément Turpin & 46 more
Vénissieux · 3 miMaxime Gonalons & 32 more
Saint-Genis-Laval · 2 miÉric Abidal & 8 moreMYSaint-Fons · 3 miMarie-Josèphe Yoyotte & 4 moreARVernaison · 2 miAdrien Rougier & 3 moreCCSaint-Symphorien-d'Ozon · 3 miClaude La Colombière & 3 moreJBFeyzin · 2 miJean BarrèreJLBrignais · 3 miJean LoliveQuestions about famous people from Irigny
Who counts as from Irigny?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Irigny 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
- Maxime Gonalons: Вячеслав Евдокимов, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Éric Abidal: Mutari 16:30, 5 March 2008 (UTC), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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