#1Sports
Benoît Pouliot
born 1986Canadian ice hockey player
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Wendover, Ontario
Leaders stand out among the 9 famous people born in Wendover
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian ice hockey player Benoît Pouliot. The Canadian Catholic prelate Joseph Charbonneau ranks second, ahead of Jacques Landriault. Between Confederation and 1913, 6 were born, the most of any period. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 8.3 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Benoît Pouliot
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1875
Alfred Goulet
Youngest
1986
Benoît Pouliot
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Wendover is known for
Leaders stand out most, at 2 times the usual share.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
The best known
Born in Wendover
The three are covered in 9, 8 and 5 languages: Benoît Pouliot, Joseph Charbonneau and Jacques Landriault.
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#2Faith
Joseph Charbonneau
1892–1959Canadian Catholic prelate
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Faith
Jacques Landriault
1921–2017Roman Catholic Bishop
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Wendover’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1880s, with 3 births.
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Everyone else born in Wendover
Here are 6 more, born from 1875 to 1943.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Towns around it with someone on record: 4.
Questions about famous people from Wendover
Who is the most famous person from Wendover?
Benoît Pouliot (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Joseph Charbonneau and Jacques Landriault.
How many famous people were born in Wendover?
Wikidata counts 12 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Wendover known for?
That is 44% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Wendover?
Alfred Goulet, born in 1875. The youngest on the list was born in 1986.
Who counts as from Wendover?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Wendover’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?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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)
- Benoît Pouliot: Maniacduhockey, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Charbonneau: Jules Alexander Castonguay, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Yvon Malette: Davidmalette, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques Martin: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 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).