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Famous people · Chibougamau, Quebec
Most of the 12 famous people born in Chibougamau came into the world between 1946 and 1969
The best known is the fencer Sandra Sassine, with articles in 6 languages. Births since 1970 account for 4 of the names. The list comes to 16.5 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.1 in the typical town in Quebec. The earliest on the list is Claude Marcil, born in 1963, and the youngest Sandra Sassine, born in 1979.
Born here
12
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Sandra Sassine
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1963
Claude Marcil
Youngest
1979
Sandra Sassine
Most common field
Sports
5 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Chibougamau’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1960s, with 8 people born in that decade.
SportsFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsMusicPolitics & Law
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Chibougamau
Performers take two of the three places.
#2Film, TV & Stage
Marie-Louise Arsenault
born 1968Canadian film director and radio host
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Known for
What Chibougamau is known for
Compared with the usual town, performers are the most over-represented field, at 2.5 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Chibougamau
Of the other 9, 4 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Chibougamau
Who is the most famous person from Chibougamau?
Sandra Sassine (fencer) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Marie-Louise Arsenault and Peter Miller.
How many famous people were born in Chibougamau?
Wikidata counts 14 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Chibougamau known for?
Here the share is 42%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Chibougamau?
Claude Marcil, born in 1963. The youngest on the list was born in 1979.
Who counts as from Chibougamau?
The list takes people born within Chibougamau’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?
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 (4)
- Marie-Louise Arsenault: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dominique Jolin: Pinkpatsy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Guy Rainville: derivative work: --Riba-- Guy_Rainville_222.jpg : Parti vert du Québec, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pascal Contamine: Bull-Doser, 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).