#1Pierre Auguste Roques
1856–1920French Air Force general (1856-1920)
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The best known is the French Air Force general Pierre Auguste Roques, with articles in 11 languages. Between the Revolution and the Second Empire, 3 were born, the most of any period. The first birth on record is Achille Araud’s, in 1847, and the last Emmanuel Maffre-Baugé’s, in 1921. Fewer than a quarter of the 124 towns in Hérault with famous people list more.
Ranked by languages covered: Pierre Auguste Roques with 11, then Achille Maffre de Baugé with 6 and Pierre Deley with 4.
#1French Air Force general (1856-1920)
#2French poet (1855-1928)
French aviator (1893–1981)
More of them were born in the 1850s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Leaders are the most numerous, 2 of them.
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Around it, Sète has the most people on record, 134 of them.
Sète · 9 miGeorges Brassens & 133 moreMSPézenas · 10 miMassimiliano Spinola & 26 more
Agde · 4 miMadame Saqui & 17 more
Mèze · 7 miAndré Miquel & 8 moreJBFlorensac · 4 miJoseph Bonnel & 6 moreJFVias · 6 miJeanne Flourens & 1 moreMTSaint-Thibéry · 7 miMonique Thierry & 1 moreHMMontblanc · 9 miHenri Massal & 1 morePierre Auguste Roques (French Air Force general (1856-1920)) is the best known by our measure: 11 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Achille Maffre de Baugé and Pierre Deley.
6 people born in Marseillan have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 8 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, leaders: 2 of the 6. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 24% across French towns.
Achille Araud, born in 1847. The youngest on the list was born in 1921.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Marseillan 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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