Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainNo famous person born in Amherst is listed yet
Of its neighbours, Mont-Tremblant, 19 km away, lists the most: 11, Simon Plouffe first. 605 towns across Quebec can name a famous person born there. The longest list in Quebec is Montréal’s, with 5,278 names. Behind Montréal, the runner-up in Quebec is Québec, at 1,179.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Amherst’s municipal boundary, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Amherst for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Amherst
Questions about famous people from Amherst
Who counts as from Amherst?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Amherst’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
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 (1)
- Simon Plouffe: Plouffe, 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).