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Jacques Martin
born 1952Canadian ice hockey coach
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Famous people · Rockland, Ontario
Of the 16 famous people born in Rockland, an unusual share are athletes
Articles in 7 languages make the Canadian ice hockey coach Jacques Martin the best known. The Canadian ice hockey player Serge Payer ranks second, ahead of Huguette Labelle. From Arthur Desrosiers to Maxime Filion, the births on the list run from 1884 to 2003. The list is still growing: 5 were born since 1970.
Born here
16
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jacques Martin
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1884
Arthur Desrosiers
Youngest
2003
Maxime Filion
Most common field
Sports
11 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Rockland is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.8 times as common.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Through the years
When Rockland’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2 births.
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Rockland
Two of the three are athletes.
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Huguette Labelle
born 1939Canadian civil servant
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Rockland
Of the other 13, 9 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 6.
Questions about famous people from Rockland
Who is the most famous person from Rockland?
By our measure the best known is Jacques Martin (Canadian ice hockey coach); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Serge Payer and Huguette Labelle.
How many famous people were born in Rockland?
Wikidata places 23 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Rockland known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 69%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rockland?
Arthur Desrosiers, born in 1884. The youngest on the list was born in 2003.
Who counts as from Rockland?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Rockland’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
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 (12)
- Jacques Martin: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Serge Payer: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Huguette Labelle: World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maxime Filion: Makelevi, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gabrielle Goulet: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sammy Godin: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hector Dallaire: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Nicolas Carrière: DoubleBlue, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bernard Lonergan: BCLonergan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Érik Bédard: Keith Allison on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Benoît Pouliot: Maniacduhockey, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Guy Lafleur: 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).