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Famous people · Béchy, Moselle
3 famous people call Béchy their birthplace
At the top of the list is the footballer Patrick Remy, covered in 7 languages. Lucien Becker is second and Clément XV third. For more famous names, Créhange is 11 mi away: its list has 5, led by Jean-Yves Masson. Fewer than a quarter of the 162 towns in Moselle with famous people list more.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Patrick Remy
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1905
Clément XV
Youngest
1954
Patrick Remy
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Béchy
Patrick Remy, Lucien Becker and Clément XV are written about in 7, 3 and 2 languages.
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Writing & Arts
Lucien Becker
1911–1984French poet (1911–1984)
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
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Faith
Clément XV
1905–1974French priest and self-proclaimed pope
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for
What Béchy is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 1 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
3 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Béchy
Who is the most famous person from Béchy?
Patrick Remy (Footballer) is the best known by our measure: 7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Lucien Becker and Clément XV.
How many famous people were born in Béchy?
3 people born in Béchy have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one).
What is Béchy known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 3. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 19% across French towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Béchy?
Clément XV, born in 1905. The youngest on the list was born in 1954.
Who counts as from Béchy?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Béchy 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.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a hospital, a neighbourhood or a wider area, another commune, or missing, or their articles may not name a birthplace. We only list people the sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations, how many Wikipedia and sister-site articles cover each person) and French and English Wikipedia (each person’s articles confirm the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are matched to the commune by INSEE code and its history of mergers (INSEE COG 2026). Ranked by the number of articles. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across French towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the license below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (1)
- Jean-Yves Masson: Theodiscus, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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.