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Famous people · Charlemagne, Quebec
Charlemagne, birthplace of Céline Dion and 7 more famous people
162 languages have an article about the French Canadian singer Céline Dion. Sylvain Marcel and Benoît Sauvageau follow. Between 1946 and 1969, 4 were born, the most of any period. Per head, the list is long: 11.9 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Quebec has 6.1.
Born here
8
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Céline Dion
162 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1875
Paul-Arthur Séguin
Youngest
1970
Daniel Gauthier
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
What stands out about Charlemagne’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Charlemagne
The three are covered in 162, 6 and 4 languages: Céline Dion, Sylvain Marcel and Benoît Sauvageau.
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Politics & Law
Benoît Sauvageau
1963–2006Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Charlemagne’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1960s come out on top, with 3 births.
Politics & LawSportsMusicFilm, TV & Stage
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Charlemagne is known for
Leaders stand out most, at 1.7 times the usual share.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Charlemagne
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Repentigny has the longest list next door: 51.
SPRepentigny · 5 kmSamuel Piette & 50 more
Terrebonne · 14 kmGarven Metusala & 41 more
Varennes · 7 kmMarguerite d'Youville & 27 more
Verchères · 12 kmCalixa Lavallée & 24 moreÉMMascouche · 10 kmÉmilie Mondor & 14 more
Pointe-aux-Trembles · 7 kmJulien Gauthier & 6 more
Rivière-des-Prairies · 9 kmJoseph-François Armand & 1 moreAPSaint-François · 10 kmAugustin Perrault
Terrebonne · 14 kmGarven Metusala & 41 moreVarennes · 7 kmMarguerite d'Youville & 27 moreVerchères · 12 kmCalixa Lavallée & 24 moreÉMMascouche · 10 kmÉmilie Mondor & 14 morePointe-aux-Trembles · 7 kmJulien Gauthier & 6 moreRivière-des-Prairies · 9 kmJoseph-François Armand & 1 moreAPSaint-François · 10 kmAugustin PerraultQuestions about famous people from Charlemagne
Who is the most famous person from Charlemagne?
Céline Dion (french Canadian singer) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Sylvain Marcel and Benoît Sauvageau.
How many famous people were born in Charlemagne?
Count on the list: 8, each born in Charlemagne according to Wikidata and an English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata places 11 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Charlemagne known for?
38% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Charlemagne?
Paul-Arthur Séguin, born in 1875. The youngest on the list was born in 1970.
Who counts as from Charlemagne?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Charlemagne’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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 (7)
- Carl Kendall: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Camille Laurin: Jean Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Garven Metusala: John Jacques, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marguerite d'Youville: James Duncan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Calixa Lavallée: L'Opinion publique Vol. 4, no 11, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Julien Gauthier: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph-François Armand: William James Topley, Public domain, 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).