Photo: Anonymous Unknown author · CC BY-SA 4.0No one born in Montamisé has made the famous people list yet
Go 5 mi to Poitiers and the list grows to 238, with Michel Foucault at the top. Across Vienne, 84 towns list someone born there. Poitiers’ 238 names make the longest list in Vienne. After Poitiers, the next longest list in Vienne is Châtellerault’s, with 65.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Montamisé (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 Montamisé yet.
Famous people born near Montamisé
Around it, Poitiers has the most people on record, 238 of them.
Questions about famous people from Montamisé
Who counts as from Montamisé?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Montamisé 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)
- Ernest Albert-Favre: Assemblée nationale, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- André Leclercq: Claude PIARD, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont: 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.