Laurent D'Jaffo
born 1970Beninese and French association football player
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Laurent D'Jaffo is the best known, with articles in 10 languages. As early as 1755, Raymond Lavenue was born here, one of 2 born before the Revolution. The largest group, 3, was born between 1914 and 1969. Only 13 of the 155 towns in Gironde with anyone on record list more.

Count by decade and the 1970s come out on top, with 1 births.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Scientists and doctors take two of the three places.
Beninese and French association football player
French provençalist (1825-1877)
French engineer
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 1.6 times.
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Another 5, the earliest born in 1755.

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Close by, Langon counts 10 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Laurent D'Jaffo (Beninese and French association football player) is the best known by our measure: 10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Louis Bayle and Michel Germaneau.
8 people born in Bazas 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, leaders: 3 of the 8. That is 38% of the town’s list, against 24% across French towns.
Raymond Lavenue, born in 1755. The youngest on the list was born in 1970.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Bazas 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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