#1Politics & Law
Royal Galipeau
1947–2018Canadian politician
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Limoges, Ontario
Leaders stand out among the 7 famous people born in Limoges
Most widely known is Royal Galipeau, the Canadian politician, with articles in 8 languages. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 4.6 for every 10,000 residents. The earliest on the list is Arthur H. Taylor, born in 1852, and the youngest Francis Wathier, born in 1984. The longest list of any town in Ontario belongs to Toronto, with 4,724.
Born here
7
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Royal Galipeau
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1852
Arthur H. Taylor
Youngest
1984
Francis Wathier
Most common field
Politics & Law
6 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Limoges is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 3.9 times as common.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Limoges
Taylor in 3.
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#2Sports
Francis Wathier
born 1984Canadian ice hockey player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Arthur H. Taylor
1852–1922American politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Limoges’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1870s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
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Everyone else born in Limoges
The rest number 4, with 4 leaders among them.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Limoges
Who is the most famous person from Limoges?
Royal Galipeau (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Francis Wathier and Arthur H. Taylor.
How many famous people were born in Limoges?
Wikidata has 10 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Limoges known for?
That is 86% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Limoges?
The earliest is Arthur H. Taylor, born in 1852, and the latest birth listed is 1984.
Who counts as from Limoges?
The list takes people born within Limoges’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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 (5)
- Royal Galipeau: Fingerbarrel, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Francis Wathier: Ross Bonander, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur H. Taylor: "The Evansville Courier" (Evansville, IN)., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Albert Cross: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Hume: University of Florida Digital Collections, Public domain, 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).