Manon Basseville
born 1998French cyclist
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Manon Basseville, the French cyclist, is the most widely known, written about in 3 languages. The French painter Eugène Benjamin Selmy ranks second, ahead of Fernand Méry. Per head, the list is long: 7.4 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Hérault has 1.7. Only 9 of the 124 towns in Hérault with anyone on record list more.

By how many languages cover them, Manon Basseville comes first (3), then Eugène Benjamin Selmy (2) and Fernand Méry (2).
French cyclist
French painter (1874-1945)
French veterinarian and writer
The 1990s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Set against the usual town, writers and artists come out 1.7 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
A further 4 follow, born between 1813 and 1955.

French historian and military officer (1833-1897)
No one matches both filters.
Of the towns nearby, Pézenas lists the most people: 27.
Lodève · 9 miGeorges Auric & 14 moreDCCaux · 9 miDom Bédos de Celles & 4 more
Gignac · 6 miMichel Marie Claparède & 3 more
Saint-André-de-Sangonis · 4 miJoseph Boussinesq & 2 moreHHPaulhan · 6 miHervé Harant & 1 morePDMontagnac · 11 miPaula Delsol & 1 moreManon Basseville (French cyclist) is the best known by our measure: 3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Eugène Benjamin Selmy and Fernand Méry.
7 people born in Clermont-l'Hérault have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 14 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, writers and artists: 3 of the 7. That is 43% of the town’s list, against 25% across French towns.
Jean-Antoine Peyrottes, born in 1813. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Clermont-l'Hérault 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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