Catherine Louveau
French sociologist and scholar
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Photo: Cyrilb1881 · CC BY-SA 3.0The best known is the French sociologist and scholar Catherine Louveau, with articles in 2 languages. Auguste Bigand, the French painter, comes second, with Christophe Sirchis third. Of its neighbours, Longjumeau, 2 mi away, lists the most: 52, Jérémy Ménez first. Per head, the list is long: 11.5 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Essonne has 0.3.
The three are covered in 2, 2 and 1 languages: Catherine Louveau, Auguste Bigand and Christophe Sirchis.
French sociologist and scholar
French painter (1803-1875)
French musician
Science & Medicine leads the fields, with 1 people.
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Longjumeau has the longest list next door: 52.
Longjumeau · 2 miJérémy Ménez & 51 more
Palaiseau · 2 miSébastien Vigier & 15 more
Massy · 2 miAnthony Martial & 9 more
Verrières-le-Buisson · 3 miMapie de Toulouse-Lautrec & 4 moreCAIgny · 3 miCécile Avezou & 1 moreDBSaulx-les-Chartreux · 1 miDaniel Beaumont
Villebon-sur-Yvette · 2 miBernard StieglerAVÉpinay-sur-Orge · 3 miAlexandre VibertCatherine Louveau (French sociologist and scholar) is the best known by our measure: 2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Auguste Bigand and Christophe Sirchis.
3 people born in Champlan have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 5 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, scientists and doctors: 1 of the 3. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 7% across French towns.
Auguste Bigand, born in 1803. The youngest on the list was born in 1957.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Champlan 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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