AM#1
Science & Medicine
Azilda Marchand
1918–2010Canadian educator and women's rights activist
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Ange-Gardien, Quebec
5 famous people were born in Ange-Gardien
Most widely known is Azilda Marchand, the Canadian educator and women's rights activist, with articles in 4 languages. The Canadian politician Hector Authier ranks second, ahead of Laurent Barré. For every 10,000 residents there are 16.1 on the list, well above the typical Quebec town’s 6.1. Mélanie Maynard, born in 1972, is the youngest, and Hector Authier, born in 1881, the first on record.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Azilda Marchand
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1881
Hector Authier
Youngest
1972
Mélanie Maynard
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
What stands out about Ange-Gardien’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Ange-Gardien’s famous people were born
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One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Ange-Gardien
Two of the three are leaders.
HA#2
Politics & Law
Hector Authier
1881–1971Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Laurent Barré
1886–1964Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Ange-Gardien is known for
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Everyone else born in Ange-Gardien
Here are 2 more, born from 1960 to 1972.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Granby, with 69.
Granby · 16 kmPalmer Cox & 68 more
Farnham · 9 kmYves Rodier & 18 more
Saint-Pie · 17 kmJérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne & 4 moreMGSainte-Brigide-d'Iberville · 12 kmMarcel Gagnon & 2 moreASSaint-Paul-d'Abbotsford · 8 kmAlexandre SauretteLNSaint-Césaire · 9 kmLouis-Paul NeveuHCSaint-Alphonse-de-Granby · 12 kmHector ChoquetteABSainte-Angèle-de-Monnoir · 14 kmAnnette BellavanceQuestions about famous people from Ange-Gardien
Who is the most famous person from Ange-Gardien?
By our measure the best known is Azilda Marchand (Canadian educator and women's rights activist); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Hector Authier and Laurent Barré.
How many famous people were born in Ange-Gardien?
Wikidata places 10 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Ange-Gardien known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 22%; here, 40%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ange-Gardien?
Hector Authier (1881). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1972.
Who counts as from Ange-Gardien?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Ange-Gardien’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?
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 (5)
- Laurent Barré: Jules-Isaïe Benoît, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mélanie Maynard: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Palmer Cox: Nahl Brothers, Artists, San Francisco, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Yves Rodier: G.Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne: Presby Elite Studio, Sherbrooke, Public domain, 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).