#1Sports
Olivier Occéan
born 1981Canadian association football player
22 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Brossard, Quebec
9 famous people were born in Brossard, more of them athletes than in most towns
Olivier Occéan, the Canadian association football player, is the most widely known, written about in 22 languages. Since 1970, 9 were born, the most of any period. Born in 1973, François Bouchard is the first name on record, and Qadr Spooner, born in 1992, the most recent. For its size the list is short: 0.9 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.1 in the typical Quebec town.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Olivier Occéan
22 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1973
François Bouchard
Youngest
1992
Qadr Spooner
Most common field
Sports
7 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Brossard’s famous people were born
The 1980s top the chart, with 6 births in the decade.
SportsFilm, TV & StageWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Brossard is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 2.1 times the usual share.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Brossard
Two of the three are athletes.
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#2Sports
François Bouchard
born 1973Canadian ice hockey player
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Film, TV & Stage
Stéphanie Lapointe
born 1984Canadian actress
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Brossard
Still to come: 6 more, from 1979 to 1992.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Nouveau Greenfield Park: 32.
Questions about famous people from Brossard
Who is the most famous person from Brossard?
The top name is Olivier Occéan (Canadian association football player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come François Bouchard and Stéphanie Lapointe.
How many famous people were born in Brossard?
Of the 11 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Brossard known for?
Here the share is 78%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Brossard?
The earliest is François Bouchard, born in 1973, and the latest birth listed is 1992.
Who counts as from Brossard?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Brossard’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up at the next 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)
- Olivier Occéan: Илья Хохлов, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- François Bouchard: BKLuis, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stéphanie Lapointe: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alyssa Cecere: Bon hein, alors euh..., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Yannick Tifu: Leech44, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maxime Fortunus: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maxime Talbot: Michael Miller, 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).