GM#1
Film, TV & Stage
Gabriel Maillé
born 1995Canadian film and television actor
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Boisbriand, Quebec
5 famous people were born in Boisbriand
Going by the number of languages that write about them, the Canadian film and television actor Gabriel Maillé is the best known. Second and third on the list are Chris Ortiz and Frédérique Dufort. Most were born since 1970: 5 of them. The first birth on record is Isabelle Gagné’s, in 1970, and the last Chris Ortiz’s, in 2001.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Gabriel Maillé
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1970
Isabelle Gagné
Youngest
2001
Chris Ortiz
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Boisbriand’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1990s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
Film, TV & StageSportsWriting & Arts
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Boisbriand
Two of the three are performers.
CO#2
#3Film, TV & Stage
Frédérique Dufort
born 1995Canadian actress
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for
What Boisbriand is known for
Share of Boisbriand’s famous people in each field.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Boisbriand
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Saint-Eustache has the most people on record, 37 of them.
Saint-Eustache · 6 kmAlexis Lafrenière & 36 more
Sainte-Thérèse · 3 kmJoseph-Adolphe Chapleau & 19 moreJMBlainville · 7 kmJoliane Melançon & 10 more
Sainte-Rose · 5 kmJoseph-Aldric Ouimet & 3 moreÉTLorraine · 8 kmÉdouard Therriault & 3 moreJRRosemère · 5 kmJean-Yves Roy & 2 more
Deux-Montagnes · 9 kmAlain Laframboise & 2 more
Bois-des-Filion · 9 kmMaud CohenQuestions about famous people from Boisbriand
Who is the most famous person from Boisbriand?
The top name is Gabriel Maillé (Canadian film and television actor), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Chris Ortiz and Frédérique Dufort.
How many famous people were born in Boisbriand?
Wikidata places 9 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Boisbriand known for?
That is 40% of the town’s list, against 10% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Boisbriand?
Isabelle Gagné, from 1970; the most recent birth on the list is from 2001.
Who counts as from Boisbriand?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Boisbriand’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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 (7)
- Frédérique Dufort: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Isabelle Gagné: Isabelle Gagné, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
- Alain Laframboise: Alain Laframboise, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maud Cohen: Bull-Doser, 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).