#1Vincent Gérard
born 1986French handball player
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The best known is the French handball player Vincent Gérard, with articles in 26 languages. Jean Pormanove, the French streamer, comes second, with Jean Poulmaire third. For every 10,000 residents the town has 2.7, while at least half the towns in Moselle list nobody born there. The earliest on the list is Jean Poulmaire, born in 1773, and the youngest Vincent Gérard, born in 1986.
Languages with an article: 26 for Vincent Gérard, 15 for Jean Pormanove, 1 for Jean Poulmaire.
#1French handball player
#2French streamer (1979–2025)
French politician
More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The largest field is Politics & Law, with 1 people.
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1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Metz has the longest list next door: 434.
Metz · 3 miPaul Verlaine & 433 moreKSMontigny-lès-Metz · 4 miKiliann Sildillia & 11 more
Longeville-lès-Metz · 2 miLudovic Obraniak & 7 moreJHArs-sur-Moselle · 6 miJean-Louis Heinrich & 5 more
Le Ban-Saint-Martin · 2 miVictor Zvunka & 3 more
Scy-Chazelles · 3 miPierre-Dominique Bazaine & 1 moreVBMarange-Silvange · 5 miVincent Bracigliano & 1 moreFPTalange · 6 miFrancis Piasecki & 1 moreVincent Gérard (French handball player) is the best known by our measure: 26 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Jean Pormanove and Jean Poulmaire.
4 people born in Woippy have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 9 people here; the rest aren’t listed because an article names somewhere else or no town, or a check couldn’t be completed.
Jean Poulmaire, born in 1773. The youngest on the list was born in 1986.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Woippy 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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