#1Édouard Wojciak
born 1942French association football player
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Édouard Wojciak, the French association football player, is the most widely known, written about in 2 languages. The next two names are Benoît Damien and François Soudan. Most were born between 1914 and 1969: 4 of them. For every 10,000 residents there are 10.7 on the list, well above the typical Nord town’s 3.2.

Édouard Wojciak, Benoît Damien and François Soudan are written about in 2, 1 and 1 languages.
#1French association football player
French university teacher (1848-1934)
French journalist
The 1940s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 2.6 times.
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3 more, 2 of them athletes.
French association football player (1938–2022)
No one matches both filters.
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Édouard Wojciak (French association football player) is the best known by our measure: 2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Benoît Damien and François Soudan.
6 people born in Wallers have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 7 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: 3 of the 6. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 19% across French towns.
Benoît Damien, born in 1848. The youngest on the list was born in 1952.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Wallers 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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