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Famous people · Blainville, Quebec
Of the 11 famous people born in Blainville, an unusual share are athletes
Joliane Melançon, the Canadian judoka, is the most widely known, written about in 9 languages. Second and third on the list are Pierre Dagenais and Daniel Audette. More than half were born since 1970, 11 in all. The list comes to 1.8 for every 10,000 residents, below the 6.1 of the typical town in Quebec.
Born here
11
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Joliane Melançon
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1972
Marc Savard
Youngest
2001
Sam Poulin
Most common field
Sports
9 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Blainville’s famous people were born
The 1980s top the chart, with 3 births in the decade.
SportsFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Blainville is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 2.2 times as common.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Blainville
The three best known are all athletes.
#2Sports
Pierre Dagenais
born 1978Canadian ice hockey player
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Daniel Audette
born 1996Canadian ice hockey player
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Blainville
Another 8, the earliest born in 1972.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Mirabel has the most people on record, 38 of them.
Mirabel · 6 kmPaul Sauvé & 37 more
Saint-Eustache · 12 kmAlexis Lafrenière & 36 more
Sainte-Thérèse · 4 kmJoseph-Adolphe Chapleau & 19 moreJDSainte-Anne-des-Plaines · 11 kmJonathan Delisle & 9 moreGMBoisbriand · 7 kmGabriel Maillé & 4 moreÉTLorraine · 6 kmÉdouard Therriault & 3 more
Sainte-Rose · 10 kmJoseph-Aldric Ouimet & 3 moreJRRosemère · 7 kmJean-Yves Roy & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Blainville
Who is the most famous person from Blainville?
The top name is Joliane Melançon (Canadian judoka), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Pierre Dagenais and Daniel Audette.
How many famous people were born in Blainville?
17 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Blainville known for?
82% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Blainville?
The earliest is Marc Savard, born in 1972, and the latest birth listed is 2001.
Who counts as from Blainville?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Blainville’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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (7)
- Pierre Dagenais: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Audette: 5of7, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cristophe Beaulieu: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Sauvé: Blank & Stoller Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexis Lafrenière: Tlop2000, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau: William Notman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph-Aldric Ouimet: Unknown author, 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).