AS#1
Science & Medicine
Alphonse Sormany
1880–1943Canadian physician and politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Red Castle · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Lamèque, New Brunswick
6 famous people were born in Lamèque from 1880 to 1981
Articles in 4 languages make the Canadian physician and politician Alphonse Sormany the best known. The list’s best known name, Alphonse Sormany, dates from 1880. More are writers and artists than anything else, 2 in all. Saint John has the most of any town in New Brunswick: 252.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Alphonse Sormany
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1880
Alphonse Sormany
Youngest
1981
Dominic Noël
Most common field
Writing & Arts
2 people
What stands out about Lamèque’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Lamèque’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1880s, with 1 people born in that decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Lamèque
BJ#2
Politics & Law
Bernard Jean
1925–2012Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
DN#3
Sports
Dominic Noël
born 1981Canadian ice hockey player
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for
What Lamèque is known for
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Everyone else born in Lamèque
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Questions about famous people from Lamèque
Who is the most famous person from Lamèque?
Alphonse Sormany (Canadian physician and politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Bernard Jean and Dominic Noël.
How many famous people were born in Lamèque?
11 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Lamèque known for?
That is 33% of the town’s list, against 12% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lamèque?
The earliest is Alphonse Sormany, born in 1880, and the latest birth listed is 1981.
Who counts as from Lamèque?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Lamèque’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
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).
Photo credits (2)
- Luc Bourdon: Robert Ciavarro, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aldéa Landry: NBLiberalTV Videography and Editing by Jesse Anthony Co-Produced by Alex LeBlanc and Nathan Scott Directed by Alex LeBlanc, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).