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Politics & Law
Laurier Lévesque
1929–2005Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people · Saint-Jacques, New Brunswick
Saint-Jacques has one famous person on record
The Canadian politician Laurier Lévesque was born in 1929. Their birth falls between 1914 and 1945. 2 languages have an article about them. Of its neighbours, Edmundston, 8 km away, lists the most: 38, Roch Voisine first.
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Laurier Lévesque
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
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1929
Laurier Lévesque
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Politics & Law
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Questions about famous people from Saint-Jacques
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Jacques?
Laurier Lévesque (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Jacques?
Count on the list: 1, each born in Saint-Jacques according to Wikidata and an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Saint-Jacques known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 1. They make up 100% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Saint-Jacques?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Saint-Jacques’ 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.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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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- Roch Voisine: XIIIfromTOKYO, 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).