#1Michaël Guigou
born 1982French handball player
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The best known is the French handball player Michaël Guigou, with articles in 35 languages. Close behind are Romain Philippoteaux and Jacques Bernard d'Anselme. Fewer than a quarter of the 74 towns in Vaucluse with famous people list more. Born in 1572, Annibal de Lortigue is the first name on record, and Benjamin Garcia, born in 1993, the most recent.
Michaël Guigou, Romain Philippoteaux and Jacques Bernard d'Anselme are written about in 35, 11 and 8 languages.
#1French handball player
#2French association football player
#3French general, notable as the first commander of the Army of the Var (1740–1814)
More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Apt has 2.8× the usual share of soldiers and sailors.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The rest number 23, with 9 leaders among them.







French fashion designer for the haute couture and costume designer for opera and theatre
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Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt leads the towns around it, with 3 names.
Michaël Guigou (French handball player) is the best known by our measure: 35 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Romain Philippoteaux and Jacques Bernard d'Anselme.
26 people born in Apt have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 36 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, leaders: 9 of the 26. That is 35% of the town’s list, against 24% across French towns.
Annibal de Lortigue, born in 1572. The youngest on the list was born in 1993.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Apt 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.
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).
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