André-Marie Ampère leads the 928 famous people born in Lyon

André-Marie Ampère (French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)) is the best known by our measure: 120 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Karim Benzema and Jean-Baptiste Say.

928 people born in Lyon have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 1,619 people here; the rest aren’t listed because an article names somewhere else or no town, or a check couldn’t be completed.

Among its famous people, writers and artists: 291 of the 928. That is 31% of the town’s list, against 25% across French towns.

Amédée de Talaru, born in 1377. The youngest on the list was born in 2006.

People whose Wikidata birthplace is Lyon 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. In Paris, Lyon and Marseille a birth recorded only as the city stays on the city’s page; an arrondissement lists only people recorded as born in it.

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