#1Jean-Louis Hamon
1821–1874French painter (1821-1874)
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Articles in 10 languages make the French painter Jean-Louis Hamon the best known. Close behind are Alain Le Guen and Dr Nozman. For every 10,000 residents there are 8.6 on the list, well above the typical Côtes-d'Armor town’s 5.6. More are writers and artists than anything else, 2 in all.
Jean-Louis Hamon has articles in 10 languages, Alain Le Guen in 2 and Dr Nozman in 2.
#1French painter (1821-1874)
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The 1920s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Writers and artists are the most numerous, 2 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Paimpol has the longest list next door: 31.
Paimpol · 9 miÉtienne Didot & 30 more
Binic-Étables-sur-Mer · 6 miThéodore Guérin & 4 moreABChâtelaudren-Plouagat · 10 miAugustin Beauverger & 4 more
Ploubazlanec · 10 miFrançois Flohic & 3 more
Saint-Quay-Portrieux · 4 miMarie-Thérèse Auffray & 2 moreYCPordic · 9 miYvon Cloarec & 2 moreYGPlouézec · 5 miYves GuillouFAPlélo · 9 miFrançois AuffrayJean-Louis Hamon (French painter (1821-1874)) is the best known by our measure: 10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Alain Le Guen and Dr Nozman.
4 people born in Plouha 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, writers and artists: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 25% across French towns.
Jean-Louis Hamon, born in 1821. The youngest on the list was born in 1990.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Plouha 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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