#1Sports
Mathieu Garon
born 1978Canadian ice hockey player
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Chandler, Quebec
15 famous people from Chandler, many of them musicians
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey player Mathieu Garon, covered in 13 languages. Second and third on the list are La Bolduc and Diane Lebouthillier. 6 of them were born between 1914 and 1945, more than in any other period. Per head, the list is long: 20.5 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Quebec has 6.1.
Born here
15
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mathieu Garon
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1889
James McIsaac
Youngest
1995
Flora Gionest-Roussy
Most common field
Politics & Law
6 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Chandler is known for
Compared with the usual town, musicians are the most over-represented field, at 4.7 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Chandler
#1
#2Music
La Bolduc
1894–1941French Canadian singer and musician
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Diane Lebouthillier
born 1959Canadian politician
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Chandler’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1930s come out on top, with 3 births.
Politics & LawMusicSportsWriting & ArtsFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Chandler
12 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Grande-Rivière has the most on record, with 4.
Questions about famous people from Chandler
Who is the most famous person from Chandler?
Mathieu Garon (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come La Bolduc and Diane Lebouthillier.
How many famous people were born in Chandler?
Wikidata has 20 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Chandler known for?
They make up 40% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Chandler?
The earliest is James McIsaac, born in 1889, and the latest birth listed is 1995.
Who counts as from Chandler?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Chandler’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
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 (6)
- Mathieu Garon: 5of7, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- La Bolduc: Famous Studio, Montréal, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Diane Lebouthillier: Gab602, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Flora Gionest-Roussy: FloraGionestRoussy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Julie Daraiche: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Daraîche: Jeangagnon, 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).