RR#1
Sports
Rémi Royer
born 1978Canadian ice hockey defenceman
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Donnacona, Quebec
8 famous people were born in Donnacona
The best known is the Canadian ice hockey defenceman Rémi Royer, with articles in 5 languages. Second and third on the list are Antoine Drolet and Eddy Godin. For every 10,000 residents there are 10.3 on the list, well above the typical Quebec town’s 6.1. 3 of them are athletes, more than in any other field.
Born here
8
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Rémi Royer
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1925
Claude Galarneau
Youngest
1978
Rémi Royer
Most common field
Sports
3 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Donnacona’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1940s, at 4.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsMusic
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Donnacona
Athletes take two of the three places.
AD#2
Politics & Law
Antoine Drolet
born 1940Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
EG#3
Known for
What Donnacona is known for
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Donnacona
5 more, best known first.
Georges-Hébert Germain
1944–2015Canadian journalist, essayist and writer
Writing & ArtsWikipedia (French) ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Deschambault-Grondines’, with 14.
DADeschambault-Grondines · 19 kmDenys Arcand & 13 more
Cap-Santé · 5 kmEsdras Alfred de Saint-Georges & 12 more
Neuville · 11 kmFrançois-Réal Angers & 9 more
Saint-Basile · 12 kmPépé et sa Guitare & 5 more
Sainte-Croix · 7 kmMichel-Édouard Méthot & 4 more
Pont-Rouge · 9 kmKaterine Savard & 4 more
Saint-Apollinaire · 19 kmPhilippe Boucher & 3 moreJKSaint-Antoine-de-Tilly · 13 kmJames King & 2 more
Cap-Santé · 5 kmEsdras Alfred de Saint-Georges & 12 moreNeuville · 11 kmFrançois-Réal Angers & 9 moreSaint-Basile · 12 kmPépé et sa Guitare & 5 moreSainte-Croix · 7 kmMichel-Édouard Méthot & 4 morePont-Rouge · 9 kmKaterine Savard & 4 moreSaint-Apollinaire · 19 kmPhilippe Boucher & 3 moreJKSaint-Antoine-de-Tilly · 13 kmJames King & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Donnacona
Who is the most famous person from Donnacona?
Rémi Royer (Canadian ice hockey defenceman) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Antoine Drolet and Eddy Godin.
How many famous people were born in Donnacona?
Wikidata counts 9 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Donnacona known for?
They make up 38% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Donnacona?
Claude Galarneau, from 1925; the most recent birth on the list is from 1978.
Who counts as from Donnacona?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Donnacona’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?
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)
- Georges-Hébert Germain: Groov3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Esdras Alfred de Saint-Georges: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- François-Réal Angers: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pépé et sa Guitare: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michel-Édouard Méthot: J.E. Livernois, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Katerine Savard: JD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Philippe Boucher: phoch98, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).