Jules Crevaux
1847–1882Explorer (1847-1882)
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At the top of the list is the explorer Jules Crevaux, covered in 15 languages. The next two names are Nicolas Marin Thiry and Charles Nicolas Friant. Fewer than a quarter of the 162 towns in Moselle with famous people list more. Soldiers and sailors make up the largest group, 3 of them.
Soldiers and sailors take two of the three places.
Explorer (1847-1882)
French soldier (1769–1827)
French soldier
The 1840s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The field furthest above the usual share is soldiers and sailors, at 18.2 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.
Of the towns nearby, 1 have famous names listed.
Jules Crevaux (Explorer (1847-1882)) is the best known by our measure: 15 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Nicolas Marin Thiry and Charles Nicolas Friant.
4 people born in Lorquin have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 5 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 4. That is 75% of the town’s list, against 4% across French towns.
Jean Théodore Colle, born in 1734. The youngest on the list was born in 1847.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Lorquin 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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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).
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