#1Florian Le Roy
1901–1959French journalist
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Articles in 5 languages make the French journalist Florian Le Roy the best known. Behind the leader come Joseph Édouard de La Motte-Rouge and Jean-Pierre Clech. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 7.5, close to the 5.6 of the typical Côtes-d'Armor town. Florian Le Roy was born in 1901.
Writers and artists take two of the three places.
#1French journalist
#2French soldier, politician and officer (1804-1883)
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Share of Pléneuf-Val-André’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Close by, Saint-Brieuc counts 172 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Florian Le Roy (French journalist) is the best known by our measure: 5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Joseph Édouard de La Motte-Rouge and Jean-Pierre Clech.
3 people born in Pléneuf-Val-André have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one).
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 25% across French towns.
Joseph Édouard de La Motte-Rouge, born in 1804. The youngest on the list was born in 1948.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Pléneuf-Val-André 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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