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Christine Girard
born 1985Canadian weightlifter
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Famous people · Elliot Lake, Ontario
8 famous people from Elliot Lake, many of them athletes
Articles in 19 languages make the Canadian weightlifter Christine Girard the best known. Most were born since 1970: 5 of them. The list runs from Rick Brebant, born in 1964, to Shilo Rousseau, born in 2000. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 6.5 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
8
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Christine Girard
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1964
Rick Brebant
Youngest
2000
Shilo Rousseau
Most common field
Sports
6 people
What stands out about Elliot Lake’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Elliot Lake’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1980s than in any other decade: 3.
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Elliot Lake is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 2 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Elliot Lake
All three are athletes.
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Zack Stortini
born 1985Canadian ice hockey player
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Everyone else born in Elliot Lake
5 more, from 1964 to 2000.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Elliot Lake
Who is the most famous person from Elliot Lake?
Christine Girard (Canadian weightlifter) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Korey Jarvis and Zack Stortini.
How many famous people were born in Elliot Lake?
Wikidata counts 16 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Elliot Lake known for?
Here the share is 75%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Elliot Lake?
Rick Brebant, born in 1964. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Elliot Lake?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Elliot Lake’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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).
Photo credits (4)
- Christine Girard: Hookgrip, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Korey Jarvis: Mohammad Hassansadeh / Tasnimnews, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Zack Stortini: 5of7, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Henry: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, 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).