MD#1
Politics & Law
Mario Dumont
born 1970Canadian politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Studio Livernois · Public domainFamous people · Cacouna, Quebec
Cacouna’s famous people span 140 years: 5 births from 1830 to 1970
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian politician Mario Dumont. Second place goes to the Canadian politician Élie Mailloux, third to Félix-Alonzo Talbot. 4 of them were born before Confederation, more than in any other period. As early as 1830, Élie Mailloux was born here, one of 4 born before Confederation.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mario Dumont
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1830
Élie Mailloux
Youngest
1970
Mario Dumont
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Cacouna’s famous people were born
The 1860s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Cacouna
All three are leaders.
ÉM#2
Politics & Law
Élie Mailloux
1830–1893Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
FT#3
Politics & Law
Félix-Alonzo Talbot
1860–1915Canadian politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Cacouna is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 3.6 times as common.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
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Everyone else born in Cacouna
2 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Rivière-du-Loup leads the towns around it, with 47 names.
Questions about famous people from Cacouna
Who is the most famous person from Cacouna?
Mario Dumont (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Élie Mailloux and Félix-Alonzo Talbot.
How many famous people were born in Cacouna?
Wikidata counts 27 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Cacouna known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 22%; here, 80%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Cacouna?
Élie Mailloux, born in 1830. The youngest on the list was born in 1970.
Who counts as from Cacouna?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Cacouna’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?
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 (1)
- Guillaume Bastille: Beth Rand, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).