#1Politics & Law
Aldéa Landry
born 1945Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Shippagan, New Brunswick
Shippagan is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Articles in 4 languages make the Canadian politician Aldéa Landry the best known. Marie-Esther Robichaud is the only other name on the list. Just 3 km away, Lamèque’s list holds 6 names, Alphonse Sormany the best known. Births span 1910 to 1945, from Marie-Esther Robichaud to Aldéa Landry.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Aldéa Landry
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1910
Marie-Esther Robichaud
Youngest
1945
Aldéa Landry
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Shippagan
#1#2Science & Medicine
Marie-Esther Robichaud
1910–2003Canadian teacher, school director and administrator
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for
What Shippagan is known for
Leaders are the most numerous, 1 of them.
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Questions about famous people from Shippagan
Who is the most famous person from Shippagan?
By our measure the best known is Aldéa Landry (Canadian politician); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Marie-Esther Robichaud.
How many famous people were born in Shippagan?
Wikidata places 3 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Shippagan known for?
They make up 50% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Shippagan?
The earliest is Marie-Esther Robichaud, born in 1910, and the latest birth listed is 1945.
Who counts as from Shippagan?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Shippagan’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list. Shippagan is also the name of another municipality in New Brunswick: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “Shippagan”, so the other place can’t be ruled out.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (3)
- 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
- Marie-Esther Robichaud: Anonymous, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Luc Bourdon: Robert Ciavarro, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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