Pierre-Antoine Herwyn de Nevèle
1753–1824French politician
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Photo: User:LimoWreck · CC BY 2.5The best known is the French politician Pierre-Antoine Herwyn de Nevèle, with articles in 3 languages. Auguste Outters, the French architect, comes second, with Alphonse Outters third. For every 10,000 residents there are 10.1 on the list, well above the typical Nord town’s 3.2. Only 67 of the 279 towns in Nord with anyone on record list more.
Ranked by languages covered: Pierre-Antoine Herwyn de Nevèle with 3, then Auguste Outters with 2 and Alphonse Outters with 1.
French politician
French architect (1821-1892)
French politician (1849–2000)
The 1750s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
No other field is as far above the usual share as leaders, 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.
French politician (1751-1820)
No one matches both filters.
Nearby, Dunkerque has the most on record, with 148.
Dunkerque · 10 miKristina Mladenovic & 147 more
Bergues · 7 miCharles Pacôme & 18 more
Ghyvelde · 5 miFrédéric Jansoone & 3 moreBCCoudekerque-Branche · 9 miBarthélémy Chinenyeze & 3 moreEFBray-Dunes · 7 miEmmanuelle Farcy & 1 more
Leffrinckoucke · 8 miMichel Hidalgo & 1 more
Wormhout · 8 miAlbert Plécy & 1 more
Cappelle-la-Grande · 9 miAlain Vasseur & 1 morePierre-Antoine Herwyn de Nevèle (French politician) is the best known by our measure: 3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Auguste Outters and Alphonse Outters.
4 people born in Hondschoote 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.
Among its famous people, leaders: 3 of the 4. That is 75% of the town’s list, against 24% across French towns.
Louis Philippe Winoc Schadet, born in 1751. The youngest on the list was born in 1849.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Hondschoote 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.
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).
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