#1Georges Lafosse
1843–1880French caricaturist (1843-1880)
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Most widely known is Georges Lafosse, the French caricaturist, with articles in 3 languages. The French politician Jean Guilloteaux ranks second, ahead of Charles Léon Méry. The largest group, 4, was born between the Revolution and the Second Empire. Georges Lafosse was born in 1843.
Two of the three are writers and artists.
#1French caricaturist (1843-1880)
#2French politician (1865–1949)
French painter
The 1860s top the chart, with 3 births in the decade.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Compared with the usual town, writers and artists are the most over-represented field, at 2 times.
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A further 3 follow, born between 1869 and 1951.

No one matches both filters.
Around it, Rueil-Malmaison has the most people on record, 39 of them.
Rueil-Malmaison · 2 miJean Dujardin & 38 more
Chatou · 2 miGeorges Mandel & 32 moreNALe Chesnay-Rocquencourt · 3 miNicolas Anelka & 21 more
Le Vésinet · 2 miJean-Louis Barrault & 9 more
La Celle-Saint-Cloud · 1 miHilaire Belloc & 7 more
Marly-le-Roi · 2 miAndré Theuriet & 7 more
Garches · 3 miDaniel Prévost & 5 more
Louveciennes · 1 miMiguel Zamacoïs & 4 moreGeorges Lafosse (French caricaturist (1843-1880)) is the best known by our measure: 3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Jean Guilloteaux and Charles Léon Méry.
6 people born in Bougival 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, writers and artists: 3 of the 6. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 25% across French towns.
Georges Lafosse, born in 1843. The youngest on the list was born in 1951.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Bougival 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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