Famous people born near Létra
Of its neighbours, Villefranche-sur-Saône, 10 mi away, lists the most: 68, Benjamin Biolay first. No famous person on record lists Létra as their birthplace yet. Lyon’s 928 names make the longest list in Rhône. In Rhône, 126 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Létra (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 Létra as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Létra
Of the towns nearby, Villefranche-sur-Saône lists the most people: 68.
Villefranche-sur-Saône · 10 miBenjamin Biolay & 67 moreCTTarare · 6 miCorentin Tolisso & 29 more
L'Arbresle · 10 miRémi Garde & 12 more
Gleizé · 9 miRudy Molard & 8 moreJVAmplepuis · 9 miJean-Baptiste Vietty & 8 moreEBAnse · 9 miEugène Bussy & 3 moreTCArnas · 9 miTimothé Cognat & 2 more
Val d'Oingt · 4 miJoannès Dupraz & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Létra
Who counts as from Létra?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Létra 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)
- Benjamin Biolay: Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rémi Garde: cropped by Shory (extracted from Jejecam 's image), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rudy Molard: FGphotographic, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joannès Dupraz: Unknown author Unknown author, 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.