Jean-Jacques Marx
born 1957French association football player
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Most widely known is Jean-Jacques Marx, the French association football player, with articles in 3 languages. Close behind are André Marcel Burg and Antoine Hertrich. For every 10,000 residents there are 6.9 on the list, well above the typical Bas-Rhin town’s 2.5. Athletes make up the largest group, 2 of them.

Athletes take two of the three places.
French association football player
French association football player (1929-1982)
The 1950s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The field with the most names is Sports: 2.
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1 more, best known first.

No one matches both filters.
The neighbour with the most names is Erstein, at 7.
Eckbolsheim · 6 miCharly Grosskost & 1 moreCBLipsheim · 1 miCharles BonnLSEschau · 1 miLucien SchaefferÉKPlobsheim · 2 miÉdouard KappLHHoltzheim · 5 miLéon HeitzJean-Jacques Marx (French association football player) is the best known by our measure: 3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come André Marcel Burg and Antoine Hertrich.
4 people born in Fegersheim have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 8 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, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 19% across French towns.
Lazar Meyer, born in 1847. The youngest on the list was born in 1957.
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