Marie-Louise Bouglé
1883–1936French feminist (1883-1936)
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Photo: Giogo · CC BY-SA 4.0Articles in 5 languages make the French feminist Marie-Louise Bouglé the best known. The French politician and engineer Pierre Loysel ranks second, ahead of Pierre Louis Pinel. Réjane Lecamus, born in 1977, is the youngest, and Pierre Loysel, born in 1751, the first on record. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 8, close to the 5.9 of the typical Manche town.
All three are leaders.
French feminist (1883-1936)
French politician and engineer (1751-1813)
French politician (1761-1838)
Count by decade and the 1880s come out on top, with 1 births.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 3.2 times.
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.
The neighbour with the most names is Avranches, at 37.
Avranches · 11 miJean-Luc Ponty & 36 more
Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët · 11 miMikaël Cherel & 14 moreRDVal-Couesnon · 8 miRené Desfontaines & 5 moreELLouvigné-du-Désert · 11 miEugène Letendre & 4 moreJHMaen Roch · 8 miJean Honoré & 3 moreJTDucey-Les Chéris · 7 miJean-Pierre Tizon & 2 moreMFIsigny-le-Buat · 10 miMadeleine FoisilMarie-Louise Bouglé (French feminist (1883-1936)) is the best known by our measure: 5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Pierre Loysel and Pierre Louis Pinel.
4 people born in Saint-James 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: 3 of the 4. That is 75% of the town’s list, against 24% across French towns.
Pierre Loysel, born in 1751. The youngest on the list was born in 1977.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Saint-James 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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