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Writing & Arts
Denis Lebrun
1944–1966Canadian poet, storyteller and singer-songwriter
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
Photo: Jeff dumais · CC BY 3.0Famous people · Albanel, Quebec
A single famous person was born in Albanel: Denis Lebrun
Denis Lebrun came into the world in 1944. That places their birth between 1914 and 1945. 2 languages have an article about them. Within 14 km, Dolbeau-Mistassini lists the most: 19, with Sylvain Gagnon first.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Denis Lebrun
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1944
Denis Lebrun
Most common field
Writing & Arts
1 person
The best known
Born in Albanel
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Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 3.
Questions about famous people from Albanel
Who is the most famous person from Albanel?
Denis Lebrun (Canadian poet, storyteller and singer-songwriter) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Albanel?
Count on the list: 1, each born in Albanel according to Wikidata and an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Albanel known for?
The largest group is writers and artists, 1 in all out of 1. 100% here, set against 12% for Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Albanel?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Albanel’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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 (1)
- Jean-Louis Roy: Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).