#1Léon Boëllmann
1862–1897French organist and composer
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At the top of the list is the French organist and composer Léon Boëllmann, covered in 21 languages. Charles François de Virot de Sombreuil, the French general, comes second, with Léon Maier third. Per head, the list is long: 6.8 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Haut-Rhin has 2.4. The list reaches back to Charles François de Virot de Sombreuil, born in 1723, one of 2 born before the Revolution.
No decade has more births than the 1860s, at 1.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Léon Boëllmann leads with articles in 21 languages, ahead of Charles François de Virot de Sombreuil (7) and Léon Maier (2).
#1French organist and composer
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Share of Ensisheim’s famous people in each field.
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Still to come: 2 more, from 1748 to 1858.
No one matches both filters.
The longest list nearby is Soultz-Haut-Rhin’s, with 8.
Léon Boëllmann (French organist and composer) is the best known by our measure: 21 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Charles François de Virot de Sombreuil and Léon Maier.
5 people born in Ensisheim 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, musicians: 1 of the 5. That is 20% of the town’s list, against 4% across French towns.
Charles François de Virot de Sombreuil, born in 1723. The youngest on the list was born in 1952.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Ensisheim 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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