MC#1
Sports
Marcel Cousineau
born 1973Canadian ice hockey player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: MatildaMars · CC0Famous people · Delson, Quebec
2 famous people call Delson their birthplace
Marcel Cousineau, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. The other is Roxane Bruneau, the Canadian singer. For more famous names, La Prairie is 7 km away: its list has 23, led by Maxime Fortunus. The oldest name on the list belongs to Marcel Cousineau, born in 1973, the newest to Roxane Bruneau, born in 1991.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Marcel Cousineau
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1973
Marcel Cousineau
Youngest
1991
Roxane Bruneau
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Delson
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Known for
What Delson is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 1 people.
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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Famous people from the towns next door
La Prairie · 7 kmMaxime Fortunus & 22 moreMCSaint-Constant · 3 kmMelissa Citrini-Beaulieu & 15 more
Saint-Philippe · 6 kmPierre-Adolphe Pinsoneault & 13 moreABSaint-Mathieu · 8 kmAbraham Bernard & 3 more
Sainte-Catherine · 2 kmCarl Ouellet & 1 moreNTCandiac · 3 kmNicholas Tremblay & 1 moreSCVille-Émard · 9 kmSylvain Chicoine & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Delson
Who is the most famous person from Delson?
By our measure the best known is Marcel Cousineau (Canadian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Roxane Bruneau.
How many famous people were born in Delson?
Wikidata counts 3 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Delson known for?
50% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Delson?
Marcel Cousineau, from 1973; the most recent birth on the list is from 1991.
Who counts as from Delson?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Delson’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off 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 (3)
- Maxime Fortunus: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre-Adolphe Pinsoneault: Fauteux, Aegidius, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Carl Ouellet: Tabercil, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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