Coordinates: 50°35′58″N 3°04′28″E / 50.5994°N 3.0744°E / 50.5994; 3.0744

Faches-Thumesnil is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

It is a suburb south of Lille and forms part of the Urban Community of Lille Métropole.

Faches Thumesnil is twinned with the market town of St.Neots in Cambridgeshire, England, and with the town of Naousa, Greece.

Rio Antonio Zoba Mavuba (born at sea 8 March 1984) is a footballer for Lille and France, and was born at sea.

Mavuba's father was Mafuila "Ricky" Mavuba (nicknamed The Black Sorcerer), a footballer, who appeared at the 1974 World Cup for Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) national football team, while Rio Antonio's mother was an Angolan national.

He was born on board of a boat in international waters, during the period of the civil war. Mavuba has stated that his passport does not have a nationality on it; it just reads "born at sea", however, as he grew up in France he considers himself French . He received French nationality in September 2004.

Mavuba's mother died when he was two, and his father when he was just 14 years old. He threw himself into football to help deal with his grief. After breaking through from the reserve team, the youngster made his debut for Bordeaux against Olympique Lyonnais, in January 2004. From that moment on, he would become a mainstay in the team, eventually leading to his international debut with France.

Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) is an American jazz musician. He studied film at the University of Southern California for two years before embarking on a music career. After becoming a session player in the early '90s and leading his own quartet, he released his first solo album, From There to Here, in 1998. His most recent album, Songs from the Chateau, was released 2011 by Candid. Eastwood plays acoustic and electric as well as double bass. He is the son of filmmaker and actor Clint Eastwood.

Eastwood comes from a musical family, as explained in an October 27, 2006, from The Independent:

It comes as little surprise, then, that music was a prominent fixture in the Eastwood home. According to his biography with Hopper Management, Eastwood grew up listening to records by jazz legends such as Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, and the Stan Kenton Big Band with his parents, both jazz lovers. Eastwood attended the Monterey Jazz Festival numerous times with his parents, as well. "One advantage of having a famous father was I got to go backstage", Eastwood explained in an interview conducted by stepmother Dina Ruiz Eastwood. "I met a lot of artists, greats like Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan. Looking back on that, I can see how much the musicians I met there influenced my career."