#1Science & Medicine
Raymond Lemieux
1920–2000Canadian chemist
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Lac la Biche County, Alberta
Leaders stand out among the 13 famous people born in Lac la Biche County
The best known is the Canadian chemist Raymond Lemieux, with articles in 12 languages. Close behind are Travis Milne and Darren Reid. 6 of them were born between 1946 and 1969, more than in any other period. Born in 1897, Frank Fane is the first name on record, and Travis Milne, born in 1986, the most recent.
Born here
13
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Raymond Lemieux
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1897
Frank Fane
Youngest
1986
Travis Milne
Most common field
Politics & Law
6 people
What stands out about Lac la Biche County’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Lac la Biche County is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 2.1 times as common.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Through the years
When Lac la Biche County’s famous people were born
The 1940s saw the most births of any decade: 4.
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Questions about famous people from Lac la Biche County
Who is the most famous person from Lac la Biche County?
Raymond Lemieux (Canadian chemist) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Travis Milne and Darren Reid.
What is Lac la Biche County known for?
That is 46% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lac la Biche County?
Frank Fane, from 1897; the most recent birth on the list is from 1986.
Who counts as from Lac la Biche County?
The list takes people born within Lac la Biche County’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page at the next refresh.
Birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations and the count of Wikipedia and sister-site articles come from Wikidata (CC0). Each birthplace is checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article, or the French one where English says nothing or has no article; the articles are linked, never quoted. Wikidata’s Statistics Canada code, the place’s name or its point inside the 2021 census outline puts a birth in a town, and a birth given only as a split city stays on that city’s page. Fields are read from the description and occupations, and the list runs by number of articles. “The usual town” is everyone listed across Canadian towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (4)
- Raymond Lemieux: Hyperyoda1065, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Travis Milne: nickon, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Darren Reid: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick LaForge: Mack Male, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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