#1Didier Digard
born 1986French football manager (born 1986)
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At the top of the list is the French football manager Didier Digard, covered in 21 languages. Close behind are Charles Marie Benjamin Rouget and Albert Forcinal. Didier Digard, the best known, was born in 1986. The list is still growing: 4 were born since 1970.
Count by decade and the 1940s come out on top, with 3 births.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Didier Digard has articles in 21 languages, Charles Marie Benjamin Rouget in 4 and Albert Forcinal in 4.
#1French football manager (born 1986)
#2French physiologist (1824–1904)
#3French politician (1887–1976)
Set against the usual town, performers come out 3 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Another 9, 3 of them performers.

French soldier, politician and officer (1770-1846)

No one matches both filters.
The most names next door are in Chaumont-en-Vexin: 9.
Didier Digard (French football manager (born 1986)) is the best known by our measure: 21 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Charles Marie Benjamin Rouget and Albert Forcinal.
12 people born in Gisors have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 20 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: 3 of the 12. That is 25% of the town’s list, against 8% across French towns.
Marie Pierre Isidore de Blanmont, born in 1770. The youngest on the list was born in 1986.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Gisors 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.