Jérôme Fernandez
born 1977French handball player
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Jérôme Fernandez, the French handball player, is the most widely known, written about in 29 languages. Second and third on the list are Bernard Darniche and Frédéric Da Rocha. 6 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. Half or more of the towns in Gironde have no one on record, but this one has 4.5 for every 10,000 residents.
Cenon has 4× the usual share of performers.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The 1970s top the chart, with 5 births in the decade.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Jérôme Fernandez has articles in 29 languages, Bernard Darniche in 18 and Frédéric Da Rocha in 14.
French handball player
#2Rally driver, two-time winner of the French and European Rally Championships in the 1970s
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Close by, the fullest list is Bordeaux’s, at 1,067 names.
Jérôme Fernandez (French handball player) is the best known by our measure: 29 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Bernard Darniche and Frédéric Da Rocha.
12 people born in Cenon have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 17 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, athletes: 5 of the 12. That is 42% of the town’s list, against 19% across French towns.
Charles Cazalet, born in 1858. The youngest on the list was born in 1996.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Cenon 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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