#1Roger Lemerre
born 1941French football player and manager
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The best known is the French football player and manager Roger Lemerre, with articles in 33 languages. The French bicycle racer Charles Rouxel ranks second, ahead of Jacques Delarue. 4 of them were born before the Revolution, the first Jean-Louis Charles Guesnon-Deschamps in 1763. More are soldiers and sailors than anything else, 3 in all.
More of them were born in the 1940s than in any other ten years, 3 in all.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Ranked by languages covered: Roger Lemerre with 33, then Charles Rouxel with 11 and Jacques Delarue with 5.
#1French football player and manager
#2French policeman and historian (1919-2014)
The field furthest above the usual share is soldiers and sailors, at 9.1 times.
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Another 5, 3 of them soldiers and sailors.


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Cherbourg-en-Cotentin leads the towns around it, with 178 names.
Roger Lemerre (French football player and manager) is the best known by our measure: 33 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Charles Rouxel and Jacques Delarue.
8 people born in Bricquebec-en-Cotentin have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 11 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, soldiers and sailors: 3 of the 8. That is 38% of the town’s list, against 4% across French towns.
Jean-Louis Charles Guesnon-Deschamps, born in 1763. The youngest on the list was born in 1948.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Bricquebec-en-Cotentin 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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