Next door to Marcy, Villefranche-sur-Saône lists 68 famous people
No entry yet names Marcy as a birthplace. 126 of the towns in Rhône list at least one person. Lyon has the most of any town in Rhône: 928. The best known born in Villefranche-sur-Saône is Benjamin Biolay.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Marcy (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 Marcy yet.
Famous people born near Marcy
Of the towns around it, Villefranche-sur-Saône has the most on record: 68.
Villefranche-sur-Saône · 5 miBenjamin Biolay & 67 moreDDTrévoux · 5 miDaniel Dagallier & 15 moreEBAnse · 2 miEugène Bussy & 3 moreGLChasselay · 5 miGuy Lassausaie & 2 more
Val d'Oingt · 5 miJoannès Dupraz & 1 moreJMChazay-d'Azergues · 3 miJean-Loup Metton
Porte des Pierres Dorées · 4 miLouis Greppo
Limas · 4 miPierre CoquetQuestions about famous people from Marcy
Who counts as from Marcy?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Marcy 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
- Joannès Dupraz: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis Greppo: Nadar, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre Coquet: Boris Geenen, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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.