Gaston Blanquart
1877–1962French musicologist and flautist
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Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · CC BY 1.0At the top of the list is the French musicologist and flautist Gaston Blanquart, covered in 5 languages. The next two names are Cécile Gallez and André Pavie. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 4.1, close to the 3.2 of the typical Nord town. Only 56 of the 279 towns in Nord with anyone on record list more.
Counted by languages, Gaston Blanquart is ahead of Cécile Gallez and André Pavie: 5, 4 and 1.
French musicologist and flautist
French politician
French politician
The 1870s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The largest field is Politics & Law, with 2 people.
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The other 2 span the years 1889 to 1926.
French architect and Resistance fighter
No one matches both filters.
Close by, the fullest list is Valenciennes’, at 202 names.
Valenciennes · 3 miAntoine Watteau & 201 more
Anzin · 1 miLouis Thiétard & 15 more
Saint-Saulve · 3 miMarion Rousse & 15 more
Trith-Saint-Léger · 4 miDaniel Leclercq & 6 more
Wallers · 4 miÉdouard Wojciak & 5 more
Bruay-sur-l'Escaut · 2 miHenri Martel & 1 moreLGHérin · 3 miLéon Guéry & 1 morePLEscautpont · 3 miPatrick Leroy & 1 moreGaston Blanquart (French musicologist and flautist) is the best known by our measure: 5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Cécile Gallez and André Pavie.
5 people born in Raismes 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: 2 of the 5. That is 40% of the town’s list, against 24% across French towns.
André Pavie, born in 1866. The youngest on the list was born in 1936.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Raismes 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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