No one from Leval is on the famous people list yet
A short trip away, Belfort (9 mi) counts 145 famous people, Tahar Rahim among them. No town in Territoire de Belfort lists more than Belfort, with 145. Beaucourt has the second-longest list in Territoire de Belfort, after Belfort, with 5. 27 towns in Territoire de Belfort have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Leval (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 Leval yet.
Famous people born near Leval
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Thann · 8 miPatrick Strzoda & 22 more
Masevaux-Niederbruck · 3 miJacques-Louis Battmann & 3 more
Cernay · 10 miMaurice Gastiger & 3 more
Valdoie · 8 miAndré Maschinot & 2 morePPEssert · 10 miPierre Joseph Petit & 1 more
Bavilliers · 10 miJean-Michel Villaumé & 1 more
Offemont · 7 miJean-Marie LangQuestions about famous people from Leval
Who counts as from Leval?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Leval 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 (6)
- Patrick Strzoda: Markov, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques-Louis Battmann: Hermann Raunheim, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maurice Gastiger: Le Miroir des sports, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- André Maschinot: Philippe Maschinot, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Michel Villaumé: Benjetpascal, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Marie Lang: Photo Claude TRUONG-NGOC, 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.