Jean-Baptiste-Irénée Callot
1814–1875French Catholic priest
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Articles in 5 languages make the French Catholic priest Jean-Baptiste-Irénée Callot the best known. Jean-Baptiste Pressavin and Joseph Frantz follow. The list’s best known name, Jean-Baptiste-Irénée Callot, dates from 1814. Leaders make up the largest group, 2 of them.
Counted by languages, Jean-Baptiste-Irénée Callot is ahead of Jean-Baptiste Pressavin and Joseph Frantz: 5, 3 and 3.
French Catholic priest
French politician
French WWI pilot (1890-1979)
No decade has more births than the 1810s, at 1.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Leaders are the most numerous, 2 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The other 3 span the years 1912 to 1953.
No one matches both filters.
Of the towns nearby, Belleville-en-Beaujolais lists the most people: 10.
Belleville-en-Beaujolais · 8 miFranck Durix & 9 moreJPSaint-Georges-de-Reneins · 9 miJean Plattard & 3 moreBPMontmerle-sur-Saône · 10 miBenoît Poncet & 2 moreDMSaint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne · 11 miDidier Maufras & 2 moreTCArnas · 11 miTimothé Cognat & 2 moreGDCrêches-sur-Saône · 11 miGeorges Dubœuf & 1 more
La Chapelle-de-Guinchay · 9 miMichel GillibertJean-Baptiste-Irénée Callot (French Catholic priest) is the best known by our measure: 5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Jean-Baptiste Pressavin and Joseph Frantz.
6 people born in Beaujeu have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 13 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 6. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 24% across French towns.
Jean-Baptiste Pressavin, born in 1734. The youngest on the list was born in 1953.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Beaujeu 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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