#1Mickaël Gelabale
born 1983French basketball player (born 1983)
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Most widely known is Mickaël Gelabale, the French basketball player, with articles in 21 languages. Charlus Bertimon is second and Léone Bertimon third. The list comes to 6.9 for every 10,000 residents, against 3.3 in the typical town in Guadeloupe. Births span 1950 to 1983, from Léone Bertimon to Mickaël Gelabale.

Two of the three are athletes.
#1French basketball player (born 1983)
French athletics competitor
The 1950s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 4 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
1 more, best known first.
4 towns around it have someone on record.
Mickaël Gelabale (French basketball player (born 1983)) is the best known by our measure: 21 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Charlus Bertimon and Léone Bertimon.
4 people born in Pointe-Noire have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 5 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: 3 of the 4. That is 75% of the town’s list, against 19% across French towns.
Léone Bertimon, born in 1950. The youngest on the list was born in 1983.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Pointe-Noire 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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