YL#1
Politics & Law
Yves Lessard
born 1943Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Barraute, Quebec
Barraute is the birthplace of 3 famous people
Yves Lessard, the Canadian politician, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. Second place goes to the quebec personality from the world of the arts Diane Auger, third to Jeanne-Mance Delisle. Births span 1939 to 1956, from Jeanne-Mance Delisle to Diane Auger. The Quebec lists hold names for 605 towns.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Yves Lessard
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1939
Jeanne-Mance Delisle
Youngest
1956
Diane Auger
Most common field
Writing & Arts
2 people
The best known
Born in Barraute
Writers and artists take two of the three places.
DA#2
Writing & Arts
Diane Auger
born 1956Quebec personality from the world of the arts
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
JD#3
Writing & Arts
Jeanne-Mance Delisle
born 1939Playwright working in Quebec
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Barraute is known for
2 of them work in Writing & Arts, the biggest field.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Questions about famous people from Barraute
Who is the most famous person from Barraute?
Yves Lessard (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Diane Auger and Jeanne-Mance Delisle.
What is Barraute known for?
67% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 12%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Barraute?
Jeanne-Mance Delisle, born in 1939. The youngest on the list was born in 1956.
Who counts as from Barraute?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Barraute’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
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.
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).