Next door to Les Pineaux, Luçon lists 24 famous people
No famous person on record lists Les Pineaux as their birthplace yet. The Vendée lists hold names for 102 towns. The longest list in Vendée is La Roche-sur-Yon’s, with 73 names. Fontenay-le-Comte has the second-longest list in Vendée, after La Roche-sur-Yon, with 55.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Les Pineaux (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 Les Pineaux yet.
Famous people born near Les Pineaux
The fullest list close by belongs to Luçon, with 24.
Luçon · 10 miFrançois Bégaudeau & 23 moreHRChantonnay · 8 miHenri Rochereau & 8 more
Saint-Jean-d'Hermine · 6 miHenri Boutet & 3 more
Bournezeau · 2 miAmédée de Béjarry & 2 moreJTSaint-Martin-des-Noyers · 9 miJean-Charles Thomas & 2 moreCMMareuil-sur-Lay-Dissais · 5 miChristophe de Margerie & 1 moreACRives de l'Yon · 8 miAdolphe-Auguste de Maynard de La Claye & 1 moreHBLa Chaize-le-Vicomte · 8 miHubert BarbierQuestions about famous people from Les Pineaux
Who counts as from Les Pineaux?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Les Pineaux 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 (3)
- François Bégaudeau: Librairie Mollat, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henri Boutet: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Amédée de Béjarry: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, 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.