Georges Berger
1897–1952Olympic gymnast (1897-1952)
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Photo: VVVCFFrance · CC BY-SA 4.0Articles in 14 languages make the Olympic gymnast Georges Berger the best known. The next two names are Roger Degueldre and Lucien Dasselborne. Births span 1873 to 1929, from Lucien Dasselborne to Marcel Martin. Only 67 of the 279 towns in Nord with anyone on record list more.
Georges Berger, Roger Degueldre and Lucien Dasselborne are written about in 14, 8 and 1 languages.
Olympic gymnast (1897-1952)
French foreign legion lieutenant (1925–1962)
Belgian painter (1873-1962)
No decade has more births than the 1920s, at 2.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The largest field is Sports, with 2 people.
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1 more, best known first.
The most names next door are in Maubeuge: 61.
Maubeuge · 1 miBenjamin Pavard & 60 more
Avesnes-sur-Helpe · 10 miEugène Walckiers & 24 moreTSHautmont · 2 miTokia Saïfi & 9 moreJPJeumont · 7 miJean Pattou & 5 moreAPAulnoye-Aymeries · 7 miAntoine Pazur & 3 moreCMFeignies · 3 miChristine Marin & 2 moreCBerlaimont · 8 miChomo & 2 moreCDFerrière-la-Grande · 2 miCatherine Dupont & 1 moreGeorges Berger (Olympic gymnast (1897-1952)) is the best known by our measure: 14 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Roger Degueldre and Lucien Dasselborne.
4 people born in Louvroil 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, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 19% across French towns.
Lucien Dasselborne, born in 1873. The youngest on the list was born in 1929.
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