#1Pierre Bérégovoy
1925–199390th Prime Minister of France (1925-1993)
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With articles in 39 languages, Pierre Bérégovoy is the most widely known. The largest group, 8, was born between 1914 and 1969. Walter Shnorkell, born in 1962, is the youngest, and Henry Barbet, born in 1789, the first on record. Only 10 of the 173 towns in Seine-Maritime with anyone on record list more.
Languages with an article: 39 for Pierre Bérégovoy, 11 for Alfred Louis Delattre, 8 for Didier Notheaux.
#190th Prime Minister of France (1925-1993)
#2French archaeologist (1850–1932)
French footballer (1948–2021)
No decade has more births than the 1850s, at 3.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The field furthest above the usual share is scientists and doctors, at 2.6 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The rest number 13, with 4 writers and artists among them.




No one matches both filters.
Close by, the fullest list is Rouen’s, at 654 names.
Rouen · 3 miGustave Flaubert & 653 moreJAMont-Saint-Aignan · 1 miJacques Anquetil & 79 morePRLe Petit-Quevilly · 3 miPatrice Rio & 14 moreRASotteville-lès-Rouen · 4 miRené Alix & 9 more
Canteleu · 1 miHenri Barbet de Jouy & 7 moreAPMaromme · 1 miAimable Pélissier & 6 moreCNNotre-Dame-de-Bondeville · 1 miChristian NourrichardCGLe Grand-Quevilly · 4 miClaude GermonPierre Bérégovoy (90th Prime Minister of France (1925-1993)) is the best known by our measure: 39 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Alfred Louis Delattre and Didier Notheaux.
16 people born in Déville-lès-Rouen have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 21 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: 4 of the 16. That is 25% of the town’s list, against 25% across French towns.
Henry Barbet, born in 1789. The youngest on the list was born in 1962.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Déville-lès-Rouen 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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