#1Science & Medicine
Harold Hume
1875–1965American university professor, horticulturalist
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Embrun, Ontario
Embrun is the birthplace of 9 famous people
With articles in 6 languages, Harold Hume is the most widely known. Véronic DiCaire is second and Jean-Serge Brisson third. 3 of them were born since 1970. More are leaders than anything else, 3 in all.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Harold Hume
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1875
Harold Hume
Youngest
2000
Jonathan Pitre
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
What stands out about Embrun’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Embrun’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1890s than in any other decade: 2.
Politics & LawSportsScience & MedicineMusicMilitaryNotable
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Embrun
#1
#2Music
Véronic DiCaire
born 1976Canadian singer and humorist
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JB#3
Politics & Law
Jean-Serge Brisson
born 1954Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Embrun is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 1.5 times as common.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Embrun
Jonathan Pitre
2000–2018Canadian with a rare genetic mutation called recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
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Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Embrun
Who is the most famous person from Embrun?
Harold Hume (American university professor, horticulturalist) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Véronic DiCaire and Jean-Serge Brisson.
How many famous people were born in Embrun?
Wikidata places 11 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Embrun known for?
33% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Embrun?
Harold Hume (1875). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Embrun?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Embrun’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 (5)
- Harold Hume: University of Florida Digital Collections, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Véronic DiCaire: Anirudh Koul, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre Lemieux: US Embassy Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Érik Bédard: Keith Allison on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).