#1Sports
Marie-Philip Poulin
born 1991Canadian ice hockey player
24 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Beauceville, Quebec
Leaders stand out among the 14 famous people born in Beauceville
The best known is the Canadian ice hockey player Marie-Philip Poulin, with articles in 24 languages. William Chapman is second and Jean Blanchet third. Fewer than a quarter of the 605 towns in Quebec with famous people list more. 2 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
14
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Marie-Philip Poulin
24 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1841
Augustin Duval
Youngest
1991
Marie-Philip Poulin
Most common field
Politics & Law
6 people
What stands out about Beauceville’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Beauceville is known for
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Through the years
When Beauceville’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1940s, with 3 births.
Politics & LawSportsWriting & ArtsNotableFilm, TV & StageFaithScience & Medicine
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Beauceville
#1
#2
#3Politics & Law
Jean Blanchet
1843–1908Canadian lawyer, judge and politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Beauceville
Of the other 11, 5 are leaders.
Mario Bolduc
born 1953Film, TV & StageWikipedia (French) ↗
Madeleine Doyon-Ferland
1912–1978Professor of folklore and ethnology at Laval University
Science & MedicineWikipedia (French) ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Saint-Georges leads the towns around it, with 29 names.
Saint-Georges · 14 kmMaxime Bernier & 28 more
Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce · 12 kmJunior Lessard & 7 moreLLSaint-Victor · 13 kmLuc Lacourcière & 5 moreDBSaint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne · 17 kmDominic Bellavance & 5 morePBSaint-Benoît-Labre · 17 kmPaul Busque & 3 moreDLSaint-Benjamin · 14 kmDaniel Lessard & 2 moreAANotre-Dame-des-Pins · 7 kmAntony AuclairLVSaint-Frédéric · 18 kmLouis-Albert VachonQuestions about famous people from Beauceville
Who is the most famous person from Beauceville?
Marie-Philip Poulin (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come William Chapman and Jean Blanchet.
How many famous people were born in Beauceville?
Wikidata counts 25 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Beauceville known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 22%; here, 43%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Beauceville?
Augustin Duval, from 1841; the most recent birth on the list is from 1991.
Who counts as from Beauceville?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Beauceville’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 (8)
- Marie-Philip Poulin: Rh723, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Chapman: CreatorCochrane, William, 1831-1898 CreatorHopkins, J. Castell (John Castell), 1864-1923 PublisherBrantford, Ont. : Bradley, Garretson & Co., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean Blanchet: William Cochrane (1831-1898) and John Castell Hopkins (1864-1923), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henri-René Renault: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeanne St. Laurent: National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada / C-023281, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kévin Cloutier: Fabien Perissinotto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maxime Bernier: Yan Parisien, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Junior Lessard: Saruwine, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).