Étienne Fourmont
1683–1745French orientalist
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Photo: Benchaum · CC BY-SA 3.0Étienne Fourmont, the French orientalist, is the most widely known, written about in 13 languages. Second and third on the list are Ginette Pigeon and Claude Lochy. The list’s best known name, Étienne Fourmont, dates from 1683. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 1.3, close to the 1.3 of the typical Val-d'Oise town.
Two of the three are performers.
French orientalist
French actress
French actor
The 1930s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The field with the most names is Film, TV & Stage: 2.
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1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Maisons-Laffitte · 3 miJean Cocteau & 41 moreCConflans-Sainte-Honorine · 2 miCharb & 15 moreLDCormeilles-en-Parisis · 3 miLouis Daguerre & 13 moreJLBeauchamp · 2 miJean Ledoux & 3 more
Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône · 4 miGustave Brochant de Villiers & 3 moreJDTaverny · 3 miJoffre Dumazedier & 2 more
Franconville · 3 miMaurice Dupuis & 1 moreJPBessancourt · 4 miJean-Jacques Philipp & 1 moreÉtienne Fourmont (French orientalist) is the best known by our measure: 13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Ginette Pigeon and Claude Lochy.
4 people born in Herblay-sur-Seine have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 9 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 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 8% across French towns.
Étienne Fourmont, born in 1683. The youngest on the list was born in 1933.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Herblay-sur-Seine 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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