François Lapierre
born 1941Canadian Catholic bishop
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The best known is the Canadian Catholic bishop François Lapierre, with articles in 6 languages. Claudia Bouvette is second and Christophe Normand third. Births span 1941 to 1995, from François Lapierre to Claudia Bouvette. The list comes to 3.2 for every 10,000 residents, below the 6.1 of the typical town in Quebec.

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The 1990s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
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The field with the most names is Faith: 1.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
1 more, best known first.
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Granby leads the towns around it, with 69 names.
Granby · 12 kmPalmer Cox & 68 moreMPCowansville · 13 kmMax Parrot & 19 more
Waterloo · 12 kmClaude Fournier & 11 more
Lac-Brome · 13 kmLyne Bessette & 7 more
Roxton Pond · 18 kmAndrew Ranger & 4 more
Shefford · 7 kmJohn Edward Martin & 1 more
Dunham · 19 kmGeorge Barnard Baker & 1 moreHCSaint-Alphonse-de-Granby · 9 kmHector ChoquetteBy our measure the best known is François Lapierre (Canadian Catholic bishop); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Claudia Bouvette and Christophe Normand.
Wikidata has 5 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
25% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 1%.
François Lapierre, from 1941; the most recent birth on the list is from 1995.
Born inside Bromont’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
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.
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