Melvin Bard
born 2000French association football player
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Articles in 19 languages make the French association football player Melvin Bard the best known. 9 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. From Achille de Jouffroy to Erawan Garnier, the births on the list run from 1785 to 2006. The list comes to 5.6 for every 10,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical town in Rhône.
Athletes stand out most, at 3.7 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
More of them were born in the 1990s than in any other ten years, 5 in all.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
All three are athletes.
French association football player
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Of the towns around it, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon has the most on record: 27.
Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon · 3 miAlexis Carrel & 26 moreMGLyon 4e · 2 miMaurice Gardès & 23 moreWTassin-la-Demi-Lune · 1 miWoodkid & 16 more
Lyon 1er · 3 miVictor Goybet & 13 more
Dardilly · 3 miJean-Marie Vianney & 2 more
Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d'Or · 2 miLaurent Bonnevay & 1 moreMTFrancheville · 3 miMaurice Thuilière & 1 more
Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or · 1 miFrédéric DugoujonMelvin Bard (French association football player) is the best known by our measure: 19 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Alexis Jandard and Erawan Garnier.
10 people born in Écully have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 22 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: 7 of the 10. That is 70% of the town’s list, against 19% across French towns.
Achille de Jouffroy, born in 1785. The youngest on the list was born in 2006.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Écully 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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