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Tours ranks 333rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Glendale, California, Weimar, and Chișinău. Memorable people born in Tours include Honoré de Balzac, Jean Fouquet, and Judith of Bavaria. Memorable people who died in Tours include Anatole France, Jean Fouquet, and Alcuin. Tours has been the birth place of many politicians, and writers and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Tours is located in France.

Tours is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metropolitan area was 516,973. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 797 and 2000, Tours was the birth place of 41 globally memorable people, including Honoré de Balzac, Jean Fouquet, and Judith of Bavaria. Additionaly, 23 globally memorable people have passed away in Tours including Anatole France, Jean Fouquet, and Alcuin.

People Born in Tours

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Most individuals born in present day Tours were politicians (7), writers (6), philosophers (5), painters (3), and noblemen (3),  while most who died were writers (7), politicians (5), religious figures (3), noblemen (3), and painters (1).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Tours, including Bernard Lama, Abdou Diallo, and Sofiane Diop. Whereas, throughout history, politicians have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Tours, including Magdalena of France, Yolande of Valois, and Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 13 globally memorable people born in Tours since 1700.