Photo: Anonymous Unknown author · CC BY-SA 4.0Rouillé has yet to put a famous person on the list
The neighbour with the longest list is Saint-Maixent-l'École, 12 mi away: 13, led by Jean Cavaillès. The longest list in Vienne is Poitiers’, with 238 names. After Poitiers, the next longest list in Vienne is Châtellerault’s, with 65. 84 towns in Vienne have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Rouillé (by its INSEE code) and whose French Wikipedia article agrees, and their English article too when they have one. Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Rouillé as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Rouillé
Saint-Maixent-l'École leads the towns around it, with 13 names.
Questions about famous people from Rouillé
Who counts as from Rouillé?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Rouillé 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)
- Jean Cavaillès: Jean Cavaillès, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marie Alexandre Émile Hippolyte Gallet: photographe Boyer, 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.