#1Maurice Gastiger
1896–1966French association football player (1896-1966)
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Articles in 8 languages make the French association football player Maurice Gastiger the best known. Second and third on the list are Henry Kuss and Daniel Kutermak. Maurice Gastiger, the best known, was born in 1896. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 3.3, close to the 2.4 of the typical Haut-Rhin town.
Two of the three are athletes.
#1French association football player (1896-1966)
#2French mining engineer (1852–1914)
French association football player
More were born in the 1890s than in any other decade: 1.
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The most names next door are in Thann: 23.
Thann · 3 miPatrick Strzoda & 22 more
Soultz-Haut-Rhin · 6 miBernard Genghini & 7 moreCNWittelsheim · 3 miCasimir Nowotarski & 3 more
Wittenheim · 7 miCléopâtre Darleux & 3 more
Lutterbach · 6 miJean-Julien Weber & 2 moreAAPfastatt · 6 miAlphonse Anger & 2 moreCLBollwiller · 5 miCharles Henry Lea & 1 more
Morschwiller-le-Bas · 7 miJulien Koszul & 1 moreMaurice Gastiger (French association football player (1896-1966)) is the best known by our measure: 8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Henry Kuss and Daniel Kutermak.
4 people born in Cernay 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, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 19% across French towns.
Jean-Paul Heuchel, born in 1799. The youngest on the list was born in 1959.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Cernay 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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