#1Chloé Valentini
born 1995French handball player
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Articles in 15 languages make the French handball player Chloé Valentini the best known. Close behind are Jean-Claude Bouquet and Emmanuel Guigon. From Jean-Claude Bouquet in 1819 to Chloé Valentini in 1995, the births cover 176 years. For every 10,000 residents the town has 14.4, while at least half the towns in Doubs list nobody born there.
No decade has more births than the 1950s, at 3.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
First, Chloé Valentini (15 languages), then Jean-Claude Bouquet (8) and Emmanuel Guigon (5).
#1French handball player
#2French mathematician (1819–1885)
French museum director
Writers and artists are the most numerous, 3 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Still to come: 7 more, from 1906 to 1953.

Writer, filmmaker and playwright (1923-1993)

No one matches both filters.
Around it, Villers-le-Lac has the most people on record, 3 of them.
Chloé Valentini (French handball player) is the best known by our measure: 15 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Jean-Claude Bouquet and Emmanuel Guigon.
10 people born in Morteau have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 13 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: 3 of the 10. That is 30% of the town’s list, against 25% across French towns.
Jean-Claude Bouquet, born in 1819. The youngest on the list was born in 1995.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Morteau 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.
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a hospital, a neighbourhood or a wider area, another commune, or missing, or their articles may not name a birthplace. We only list people the sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations, how many Wikipedia and sister-site articles cover each person) and French and English Wikipedia (each person’s articles confirm the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are matched to the commune by INSEE code and its history of mergers (INSEE COG 2026). Ranked by the number of articles. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across French towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the license below (our copy, resized).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.