#1Pauline Parmentier
born 1986French tennis player
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The best known is the French tennis player Pauline Parmentier, with articles in 28 languages. The largest group, 7, was born since 1970. From Réginald Ray to Pauline Crammer, the births on the list run from 1968 to 1991. Fewer than a quarter of the 228 towns in Pas-de-Calais with famous people list more.
Births peak in the 1980s, with 3 people born in that decade.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The three best known are all athletes.
#1French tennis player
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#3Of the other 5, 5 are athletes.


No one matches both filters.
The longest list nearby is Berck’s, with 14.
Pauline Parmentier (French tennis player) is the best known by our measure: 28 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Benjamin Leroy and Matthieu Bataille.
8 people born in Cucq have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 10 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: 8 of the 8. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 19% across French towns.
Réginald Ray, born in 1968. The youngest on the list was born in 1991.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Cucq 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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