Houda Benyamina
born 1980French actor, film director and screenwriter
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Houda Benyamina is the best known, with articles in 20 languages. Behind the leader come Daniel Bibi Biziwu and Émile Bayard. Births since 1970 account for 2 of the names. Per head, the list is long: 1.6 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Essonne has 0.3.

Births peak in the 1980s, with 1 people born in that decade.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
First, Houda Benyamina (20 languages), then Daniel Bibi Biziwu (4) and Émile Bayard (3).
French actor, film director and screenwriter
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#3French art historian and photographer (1868–1937)
1 of them work in Film, TV & Stage, the biggest field.
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2 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
The longest list nearby is Juvisy-sur-Orge’s, with 31.
Juvisy-sur-Orge · 1 miEmmanuelle Charpentier & 30 moreGLSavigny-sur-Orge · 1 miGilles Lellouche & 26 more
Ris-Orangis · 2 miSébastien Haller & 19 more
Athis-Mons · 3 miÉdouard Duplan & 16 more
Draveil · 2 miFrédéric Vasseur & 6 moreJBMorsang-sur-Orge · 1 miJean-Paul Le Bris
Villemoisson-sur-Orge · 2 miDominique JolyAVÉpinay-sur-Orge · 2 miAlexandre VibertHouda Benyamina (French actor, film director and screenwriter) is the best known by our measure: 20 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Daniel Bibi Biziwu and Émile Bayard.
5 people born in Viry-Châtillon have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 11 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, performers: 1 of the 5. That is 20% of the town’s list, against 8% across French towns.
Émile Bayard, born in 1868. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Viry-Châtillon 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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