Barthélémy Chinenyeze
born 1998French volleyball player
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The best known is the French volleyball player Barthélémy Chinenyeze, with articles in 20 languages. The next two names are Estelle Duvin and Aline Carola. Barthélémy Chinenyeze, born in 1998, is the youngest, and Aline Carola, born in 1921, the first on record. For its size the list is short: 1.9 for every 10,000 residents, against 3.2 in the typical Nord town.

Barthélémy Chinenyeze has articles in 20 languages, Estelle Duvin in 7 and Aline Carola in 2.
French volleyball player
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Births peak in the 1990s, with 2 people born in that decade.
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Share of Coudekerque-Branche’s famous people in each field.
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Around it, Dunkerque has the most people on record, 148 of them.
Dunkerque · 1 miKristina Mladenovic & 147 more
Bergues · 4 miCharles Pacôme & 18 more
Grande-Synthe · 4 miLucas Pouille & 15 more
Ghyvelde · 6 miFrédéric Jansoone & 3 morePNHondschoote · 9 miPierre-Antoine Herwyn de Nevèle & 3 more
Bourbourg · 10 miCharles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg & 3 more
Cappelle-la-Grande · 2 miAlain Vasseur & 1 more
Leffrinckoucke · 3 miMichel Hidalgo & 1 moreBarthélémy Chinenyeze (French volleyball player) is the best known by our measure: 20 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Estelle Duvin and Aline Carola.
4 people born in Coudekerque-Branche 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.
Aline Carola, born in 1921. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Coudekerque-Branche 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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