#1Maxime Amblard
born 1996French politician
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The best known is the French politician Maxime Amblard, with articles in 3 languages. Déborah Kpodar, the French handball player, comes second, with Jules Soulan third. Most were born since 1970: 5 of them. Per head, the list is long: 8.8 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Charente has 5.5.
Count by decade and the 1990s come out on top, with 5 births.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Maxime Amblard, Déborah Kpodar and Jules Soulan are written about in 3, 3 and 2 languages.
#1French politician
French handball player
French rugby union player
L'Isle-d'Espagnac has 3.2× the usual share of athletes.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
2 more names, born between 1990 and 1997.

No one matches both filters.
The best known from each town within 12 mi of L'Isle-d'Espagnac, with how many people each has.
Angoulême · 2 miCharles-Augustin Coulomb & 135 moreVNSoyaux · 1 miValérie Nadaud & 6 moreABGond-Pontouvre · 2 miAndré Berland & 3 more
Ruelle-sur-Touvre · 2 miAndré Chevrillon & 3 moreFGSaint-Yrieix-sur-Charente · 3 miFrancis Groux & 2 moreALChampniers · 3 miAndré Lebon & 2 more
La Couronne · 6 miJean-Edmond Laroche-Joubert & 2 more
Saint-Michel · 4 miLaura Badler & 1 moreMaxime Amblard (French politician) is the best known by our measure: 3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Déborah Kpodar and Jules Soulan.
5 people born in L'Isle-d'Espagnac have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 6 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: 3 of the 5. That is 60% of the town’s list, against 19% across French towns.
Yassin Boutemmani, born in 1990. The youngest on the list was born in 1997.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is L'Isle-d'Espagnac 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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