#1Victorin Jasset
1862–1913French film director and writer (1862–1913)
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At the top of the list is the French film director and writer Victorin Jasset, covered in 13 languages. Jacques Stamm and Charles Jacmart follow. Only 8 of the 121 towns in Ardennes with anyone on record list more. The list comes to 29.2 for every 10,000 residents, against 9.5 in the typical town in Ardennes.
Victorin Jasset has articles in 13 languages, Jacques Stamm in 6 and Charles Jacmart in 2.
#1French film director and writer (1862–1913)
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The 1930s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 1.4 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Of the other 6, 3 are leaders.


No one matches both filters.
Around it, Givet has the most people on record, 17 of them.
Victorin Jasset (French film director and writer (1862–1913)) is the best known by our measure: 13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Jacques Stamm and Charles Jacmart.
9 people born in Fumay have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 15 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: 3 of the 9. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 24% across French towns.
Nicolas Antoine Regnard, born in 1770. The youngest on the list was born in 1949.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Fumay 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.
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