Photo: CHABERT Louis · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person from Mions yet, but Vénissieux next door has 33
In all of Rhône, the famous people on record come from 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. The best known born in Vénissieux is Maxime Gonalons.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Mions (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 Mions yet.
Famous people born near Mions
The neighbour with the most names is Vénissieux, at 33.
Vénissieux · 4 miMaxime Gonalons & 32 moreMYSaint-Fons · 5 miMarie-Josèphe Yoyotte & 4 moreABChaponnay · 3 miAntonio Bulifon & 3 moreCCSaint-Symphorien-d'Ozon · 5 miClaude La Colombière & 3 moreCRSaint-Priest · 2 miChristophe Rippert & 1 more
Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu · 3 miDaniel Boulud & 1 moreJPSaint-Laurent-de-Mure · 5 miJean-Baptiste Poncet & 1 moreJBFeyzin · 4 miJean BarrèreQuestions about famous people from Mions
Who counts as from Mions?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Mions 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 (2)
- Maxime Gonalons: Вячеслав Евдокимов, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Boulud: winestem, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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