RL#1
Business
Rhéal Leroux
born 1949French-Canadian entrepreneur
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Photo: Veillg1 · CC0Famous people · Casselman, Ontario
2 famous people call Casselman their birthplace
Most widely known is Rhéal Leroux, the French-Canadian entrepreneur, with an article in one language. The other is Sifu Patrick Marcil, the Canadian mixed martial arts and Lethwei coach. Embrun, 17 km off, can claim 9 famous people, the best known Harold Hume. Born in 1949, Rhéal Leroux is the first name on record, and Sifu Patrick Marcil, born in 1975, the most recent.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Rhéal Leroux
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1949
Rhéal Leroux
Youngest
1975
Sifu Patrick Marcil
Most common field
Business
1 person
The best known
Born in Casselman
SM#2
Sports
Sifu Patrick Marcil
born 1975Canadian mixed martial arts and Lethwei coach
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Casselman is known for
Business leads the fields, with 1 people.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Casselman, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Casselman
Who is the most famous person from Casselman?
Rhéal Leroux (french-Canadian entrepreneur) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Sifu Patrick Marcil.
How many famous people were born in Casselman?
Wikidata places 3 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Casselman known for?
50% here, set against 2% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Casselman?
The earliest is Rhéal Leroux, born in 1949, and the latest birth listed is 1975.
Who counts as from Casselman?
Born inside Casselman’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
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 (2)
- Harold Hume: University of Florida Digital Collections, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Royal Galipeau: Fingerbarrel, CC BY 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).