#1Music
Roch Voisine
born 1963Canadian singer-songwriter
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Edmundston, New Brunswick
Of the 38 famous people born in Edmundston, an unusual share are writers and artists
Most widely known is Roch Voisine, the Canadian singer-songwriter, with articles in 15 languages. Gérard Dionne, the Canadian Roman Catholic bishop, comes second, with Shawn Sawyer third. 17 of them were born between 1914 and 1945, more than in any other period. The list comes to 20.9 for every 10,000 residents, against 8.7 in the typical town in New Brunswick.
Born here
38
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Roch Voisine
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1837
Lévite Thériault
Youngest
1992
Kevin Gagne
Most common field
Politics & Law
12 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Edmundston is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is writers and artists, at 2.4 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Edmundston’s famous people were born
The 1950s saw the most births of any decade: 7.
Politics & LawWriting & ArtsSportsMusicFaithScience & MedicineMilitaryNotableFilm, TV & Stage
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Edmundston
#1GD#2
Faith
Gérard Dionne
1919–2020Canadian Roman Catholic bishop
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Everyone
Everyone else born in Edmundston
The rest number 35, with 12 leaders among them.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, only Saint-Jacques has someone listed.
Questions about famous people from Edmundston
Who is the most famous person from Edmundston?
By our measure the best known is Roch Voisine (Canadian singer-songwriter); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Gérard Dionne and Shawn Sawyer.
How many famous people were born in Edmundston?
Wikidata counts 62 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Edmundston known for?
That is 32% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Edmundston?
Lévite Thériault (1837). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Edmundston?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Edmundston’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (11)
- Roch Voisine: XIIIfromTOKYO, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shawn Sawyer: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cédrick Desjardins: davidgsteadman, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anne-Marie Sirois: Marc-Xavier Bones LeBlanc, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Gagne: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lévite Thériault: non spécifié, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ty LaForest: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques Savoie: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michel Gagné: Michelcarrier1, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Pichette: JeanPichette, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sébastien Bérubé: David Arsenault (Captimedia), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).