Raoul Nativel
1897–1958French lawyer and politician
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Most widely known is Raoul Nativel, the French lawyer and politician, with articles in 2 languages. Behind the leader come Soan Arhimann and Yann Rayepin. The list’s best known name, Raoul Nativel, dates from 1897. For its size the list is short: 0.7 for every 10,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Réunion town.

Counted by languages, Raoul Nativel is ahead of Soan Arhimann and Yann Rayepin: 2, 2 and 2.
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More of them were born in the 1890s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
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Around it, Sainte-Marie has the most people on record, 11 of them.
Raoul Nativel (French lawyer and politician) is the best known by our measure: 2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Soan Arhimann and Yann Rayepin.
4 people born in Saint-André have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 13 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 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 24% across French towns.
Louis Alype Dit Pierre-Alype, born in 1846. The youngest on the list was born in 2007.
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