#1Mr Brainwash
born 1966Paris-born, Los Angeles-based filmmaker and street artist
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Mr Brainwash leads the list, covered in 10 languages. Behind the leader come Marc Macédot and Arnaud Mazzone. The largest group, 5, was born since 1970. The list comes to 1.4 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Val-d'Oise, at 1.3.
The 1980s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Two of the three are athletes.
#1Paris-born, Los Angeles-based filmmaker and street artist
#3French ice hockey player
2 of them work in Film, TV & Stage, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in French towns. Tap a field to see its people.
3 more names, born between 1977 and 2000.
No one matches both filters.
Close by, Saint-Denis counts 102 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Saint-Denis · 3 miJean-Christophe Bahebeck & 101 more
Sarcelles · 1 miWissam Ben Yedder & 58 more
Gonesse · 2 miAxel Disasi & 39 more
Villiers-le-Bel · 2 miMarie-Laure Delie & 12 moreMCStains · 1 miMohamed-Ali Cho & 10 more
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt · 3 miRené Dubos & 5 more
Dugny · 2 miKader Attia & 3 morePDArnouville · 1 miPatricia Demilly & 2 moreMr Brainwash (Paris-born, Los Angeles-based filmmaker and street artist) is the best known by our measure: 10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Marc Macédot and Arnaud Mazzone.
6 people born in Garges-lès-Gonesse have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 7 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, performers: 2 of the 6. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 8% across French towns.
Mr Brainwash, born in 1966. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Garges-lès-Gonesse 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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