#1Étienne Maynaud Bizefranc de Lavaux
1751–1828French politician and military personnel (1751-1828)
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At the top of the list is the French politician and military personnel Étienne Maynaud Bizefranc de Lavaux, covered in 8 languages. Alexandre Dumaine and Adolphe Piot follow. The largest group, 5, was born between 1914 and 1969. The list runs from Matthieu-Nicolas Bertucat, born in 1746, to Caroline Thomas, born in 1991.
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 2.2 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Étienne Maynaud Bizefranc de Lavaux, Alexandre Dumaine and Adolphe Piot are written about in 8, 5 and 4 languages.
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More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other ten years, 3 in all.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Of the other 12, 7 are leaders.



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The neighbour with the most names is Paray-le-Monial, at 21.
Étienne Maynaud Bizefranc de Lavaux (French politician and military personnel (1751-1828)) is the best known by our measure: 8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Alexandre Dumaine and Adolphe Piot.
15 people born in Digoin have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 24 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: 8 of the 15. That is 53% of the town’s list, against 24% across French towns.
Matthieu-Nicolas Bertucat, born in 1746. The youngest on the list was born in 1991.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Digoin 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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