#1Famous people · Amos, Quebec
35 famous people were born in Amos, more of them writers and artists than in most towns
Karol-Ann Canuel, the Canadian cyclist, is the most widely known, written about in 16 languages. 15 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. From Réal Caouette to Charles-Étienne Chrétien, the births on the list run from 1917 to 1999. Fewer than a quarter of the 605 towns in Quebec with famous people list more.
Born here
35
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Karol-Ann Canuel
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1917
Réal Caouette
Youngest
1999
Charles-Étienne Chrétien
Most common field
Sports
13 people
What stands out about Amos’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Amos’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1980s, with 8 births.
SportsWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageFaithMilitary
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Amos is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as writers and artists, at 2.1 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Amos
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1
#2Sports
Nicolas Roy
born 1997Canadian ice hockey player
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
RÉ#3
Faith
Roger Ébacher
born 1936Canadian Catholic archbishop
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Amos
32 more names, born between 1917 and 1999.
Marilyse Hamelin
born 1980Quebec writer, essayist, journalist, chronicler, TV Host, lecturer
Writing & ArtsWikipedia (French) ↗
Benoit-Beaudry Gourd
born 1949Writing & ArtsWikipedia (French) ↗
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Amos
Who is the most famous person from Amos?
Karol-Ann Canuel (Canadian cyclist) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Nicolas Roy and Roger Ébacher.
How many famous people were born in Amos?
Wikidata places 45 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Amos known for?
They make up 37% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Amos?
Réal Caouette, from 1917; the most recent birth on the list is from 1999.
Who counts as from Amos?
Born inside Amos’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (19)
- Karol-Ann Canuel: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nicolas Roy: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fanny Britt: Dorothée Jones, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Guillaume Lefebvre: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keven Lacombe: Thomas Ducroquet, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Michel Ménard: Earl Andrew, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles-Étienne Chrétien: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Édith Cochrane: Aude Vanlathem, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Marc Lemay: Marc-Olivier Thibault, photographe. Photo de Marc Lemay avocat, prise en 2019., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret McCain: Cephas, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mathieu Roy: Tthaas, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierrick Naud: Letartean, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Réal Caouette: Arthur Roy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marc-Antoine Soucy: Flowizm ..., CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Élizabeth Turgeon: Elizabethturgeon2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marilyse Hamelin: More veggies, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Benoit-Beaudry Gourd: OSRAT - Photographe: Annie Boudreau, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gaétan Breton: The original uploader was Yanik Crépeau at French Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 1.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Martin Guérin: Béatriz Mediavilla, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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