Kevin Arseneau
born 1985Canadian politician
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most widely known is Kevin Arseneau, the Canadian politician, with articles in 2 languages. Second place goes to the Canadian singer-songwriter Pierre Guitard, third to J. Omer Boudreau. The nearest list is in Bathurst, 16 km away: 30 names, starting with Natasha St-Pier. The list comes to 4.6 for every 10,000 residents, below the 8.7 of the typical town in New Brunswick.

Leaders take two of the three places.
Canadian politician
#2Canadian singer-songwriter
Canadian politician
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Kevin Arseneau (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Pierre Guitard and J. Omer Boudreau.
Wikidata places 17 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
67% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
J. Omer Boudreau, from 1916; the most recent birth on the list is from 1993.
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Beresford’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list. Beresford is also the name of another municipality in New Brunswick: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “Beresford”, so the other place can’t be ruled out.
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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).
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