Photo: Marilyne Lesage · CC BY-SA 3.0Desbiens has yet to put a famous person on the list
For more famous names, Métabetchouan--Lac-à-la-Croix is 6 km away: its list has 6, led by Marc-André Bédard. 605 towns in Quebec have at least one famous person on record. Montréal’s 5,278 names make the longest list in Quebec. Behind Montréal, the runner-up in Quebec is Québec, at 1,179.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Desbiens’s municipal boundary, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Desbiens for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Desbiens
Questions about famous people from Desbiens
Who counts as from Desbiens?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Desbiens’ 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?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (1)
- Marc-André Bédard: Simon Villeneuve, 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).