PG#1
Politics & Law
Pierre Godin
born 1947Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: David Wilson · CC BY 2.0Famous people · Petit-Rocher, New Brunswick
3 famous people were born in Petit-Rocher
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian politician Pierre Godin. William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon and Jean-Cléo Godin follow. Of its neighbours, Bathurst, 18 km away, lists the most: 30, Natasha St-Pier first. Born in 1877, William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon is the first name on record, and Pierre Godin, born in 1947, the most recent.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Pierre Godin
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1877
William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon
Youngest
1947
Pierre Godin
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Petit-Rocher
WT#2
Politics & Law
William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon
1877–1969Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JG#3
Writing & Arts
Jean-Cléo Godin
1936–2019Canadian writer and university professor
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for
What Petit-Rocher is known for
2 of them work in Politics & Law, the biggest field.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 4.
Questions about famous people from Petit-Rocher
Who is the most famous person from Petit-Rocher?
Pierre Godin (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon and Jean-Cléo Godin.
What is Petit-Rocher known for?
67% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Petit-Rocher?
William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon (1877). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1947.
Who counts as from Petit-Rocher?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Petit-Rocher’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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 (1)
- Natasha St-Pier: Ronny Martin Junnilainen, 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).