#1Bernez Tangi
born 1949Breton poet
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Most widely known is Bernez Tangi, the Breton poet, with articles in 5 languages. Lan Tangi, the French poet, comes second, with Joseph du Dresnay third. For every 10,000 residents there are 12.2 on the list, well above the typical Finistère town’s 5. Over 160 years of births, the list goes from Joseph du Dresnay (1791) to Lan Tangi (1951).

Writers and artists take two of the three places.
#1Breton poet
French politician
The 1940s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Set against the usual town, writers and artists come out 3 times as common.
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1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Around it, Morlaix has the most people on record, 96 of them.
Morlaix · 7 miJean Victor Marie Moreau & 95 more
Saint-Pol-de-Léon · 4 miLouis Floch & 23 moreJGCléder · 9 miJean Guillou & 4 more
Plouénan · 4 miYvonne Reungoat & 3 moreJWPlougasnou · 5 miJean-Claude Wuillemin & 3 moreFKRoscoff · 5 miFrançois Nicolas Pascal de Kerenveyer & 2 moreMBSaint-Martin-des-Champs · 7 miMarc Bécam & 2 more
Saint-Thégonnec Loc-Eguiner · 10 miJakez Kerrien & 2 moreBernez Tangi (Breton poet) is the best known by our measure: 5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Lan Tangi and Joseph du Dresnay.
4 people born in Carantec 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: 3 of the 4. That is 75% of the town’s list, against 25% across French towns.
Joseph du Dresnay, born in 1791. The youngest on the list was born in 1951.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Carantec 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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