Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Carignan has yet to put a famous person on the list
A short trip away, Nouveau Greenfield Park (11 km) counts 32 famous people, Maxime Crépeau among them. No town in Quebec lists more than Montréal, with 5,278. After Montréal, the next longest list in Quebec is Québec’s, with 1,179. The Quebec lists hold names for 605 towns.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Carignan’s municipal boundary and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Carignan for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Carignan
Chambly · 3 kmEmma Albani & 28 moreAPSaint-Bruno-de-Montarville · 9 kmAlice Philbert & 8 more
Brossard · 11 kmOlivier Occéan & 8 moreHBIberville · 8 kmHugo Belanger & 5 moreJRRichelieu · 7 kmJérémy Roy & 4 moreMOSaint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu · 6 kmMarcel Ostiguy & 3 more
Saint-Basile-le-Grand · 9 kmGabriella LabergeQuestions about famous people from Carignan
Who counts as from Carignan?
The list takes people born within Carignan’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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 (3)
- Emma Albani: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Olivier Occéan: Илья Хохлов, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gabriella Laberge: Mara Lafontan, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).