Marcel Ourdouillié
1913–1962French footballer (1913-1962)
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Photo: Nul presse · CC BY-SA 4.0The best known is the French footballer Marcel Ourdouillié, with articles in 8 languages. Roger Boury is second and Pierre-Louis Leclerc third. Per head, the list is long: 4.6 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Pas-de-Calais has 2.3. Athletes make up the largest group, 2 of them.
Athletes take two of the three places.
French footballer (1913-1962)
French association football player (1925-2010)
Roman Catholic archbishop
The 1910s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
The longest list nearby is Auchel’s, with 15.
Lillers · 4 miHenri Leconte & 6 moreODMerville · 8 miOdette Duriez & 4 more
Cauchy-à-la-Tour · 8 miPhilippe Pétain & 2 more
Saint-Venant · 3 miCharles-Louis-Félix Franchot & 1 moreJRBurbure · 6 miJean Réveillon & 1 moreOCMorbecque · 6 miOmer CapelleMarcel Ourdouillié (French footballer (1913-1962)) is the best known by our measure: 8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Roger Boury and Pierre-Louis Leclerc.
4 people born in Isbergues have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 8 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.
Pierre-Louis Leclerc, born in 1905. The youngest on the list was born in 1933.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Isbergues 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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