Photo: Odejea · CC BY-SA 3.0No one born in Coignières has made the famous people list yet
Ibrahim Mbaye heads the list in Trappes, 4 mi away, which has 20 names. The longest list of any town in Yvelines belongs to Versailles, with 458. After Versailles, the next longest list in Yvelines is Saint-Germain-en-Laye’s, with 172. Across Yvelines, the lists cover 88 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Coignières (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 Coignières yet.
Famous people born near Coignières
Around it, Trappes has the most people on record, 20 of them.
Montfort-l'Amaury · 5 miPierre Dupuis & 7 more
Jouars-Pontchartrain · 3 miGérard Fromanger & 4 morePGNeauphle-le-Château · 4 miPaul-Adrien Gouny & 1 more
Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis · 2 miAlain FontanelJMÉlancourt · 2 miJean-Philippe MendyÉCLes Essarts-le-Roi · 3 miÉmile CousinJRPlaisir · 5 miJoël RegnaultQuestions about famous people from Coignières
Who counts as from Coignières?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Coignières 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)
- Pierre Dupuis: Antoine Masson / After Nicolas Mignard, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gérard Fromanger: Pantalaskas, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alain Fontanel: 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.