#1Jean-Pierre Romeu
born 1948French rugby union player
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Articles in 6 languages make the French rugby union player Jean-Pierre Romeu the best known. 4 of them were born in the Belle Époque, more than in any other period. For every 10,000 residents there are 10.9 on the list, well above the typical Pyrénées-Orientales town’s 3.8. Jean-Pierre Romeu, the best known, was born in 1948.
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1French rugby union player
#2French sculptor (1873-1952)
#3French rugby union player
The 1900s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 1.4 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Of the other 6, 3 are leaders.




No one matches both filters.
Close by, the fullest list is Ille-sur-Têt’s, at 11 names.
Ille-sur-Têt · 7 miJoseph-Sébastien Pons & 10 more
Millas · 5 miGaudérique Roget & 5 more
Saint-Féliu-d'Avall · 3 miErnest Camo & 3 more
Bages · 7 miJean-Pierre Serre & 3 morePBPézilla-la-Rivière · 5 miPaul Bergue & 2 moreJLPonteilla · 3 miJoseph de Lacroix & 1 more
Le Soler · 4 miJoseph Bonafont & 1 more
Canohès · 4 miRichard MilianJean-Pierre Romeu (French rugby union player) is the best known by our measure: 6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Gustave Violet and Eugène Ribère.
9 people born in Thuir have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 12 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, writers and artists: 3 of the 9. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 25% across French towns.
Joseph Sauveur Jacques Graffan, born in 1757. The youngest on the list was born in 1948.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Thuir 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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From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations, how many Wikipedia and sister-site articles cover each person) and French and English Wikipedia (each person’s articles confirm the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are matched to the commune by INSEE code and its history of mergers (INSEE COG 2026). Ranked by the number of articles. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across French towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the license below (our copy, resized).
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