#1Sylvie Bonnet
born 1969French politician (born 1969)
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
At the top of the list is the French politician Sylvie Bonnet, covered in 4 languages. Annick Clouvel and Jean Gapiand follow. For every 10,000 residents there are 2.5 on the list, well above the typical Loire town’s 1.5. Only 17 of the 98 towns in Loire with anyone on record list more.
Leaders take two of the three places.
#1French politician (born 1969)
French athletics competitor
#3French politician (1898-1971)
The 1960s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Share of Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Saint-Priest-en-Jarez leads the towns around it, with 16 names.
Saint-Priest-en-Jarez · 6 miFaouzi Ghoulam & 15 moreGPRoche-la-Molière · 6 miGeorges Peyroche & 5 more
Veauche · 5 miFrançoise Héritier & 2 moreLMSury-le-Comtal · 4 miLouis Martin & 1 moreJCAndrézieux-Bouthéon · 2 miJean-Louis ChazelleBNSaint-Genest-Lerpt · 5 miBlaise NeyretFGSaint-Héand · 6 miFrédéric GirerdSylvie Bonnet (French politician (born 1969)) is the best known by our measure: 4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Annick Clouvel and Jean Gapiand.
4 people born in Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one).
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 24% across French towns.
Jean Gapiand, born in 1898. The youngest on the list was born in 1969.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert 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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Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.