#1Film, TV & Stage
Karine Vanasse
born 1983Canadian actress
24 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Drummondville, Quebec
Musicians stand out among the 93 famous people born in Drummondville
The best known is the Canadian actress Karine Vanasse, with articles in 24 languages. The Canadian ice hockey player Marcel Dionne ranks second, ahead of Jessica Dubé. The largest group, 35, was born since 1970. Births span 1846 to 2003, from William John Watts to Rosalie Boissonneault.
Born here
93
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Karine Vanasse
24 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1846
William John Watts
Youngest
2003
Rosalie Boissonneault
Most common field
Sports
36 people
What stands out about Drummondville’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Drummondville’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1970s than in any other ten years, 19 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsFilm, TV & StageMusicScience & MedicineBusinessNotable
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Drummondville is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is musicians, at 1.9 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Drummondville
#1
#2Sports
Marcel Dionne
born 1951Canadian ice hockey player
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Everyone
Everyone else born in Drummondville
Here are 90 more, born from 1846 to 2003.
David Marin
born 1975MusicWikipedia (French) ↗
Pierre-Alexandre Fradet
born 1987Quebec essayist and university professor
Writing & ArtsWikipedia (French) ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Saint-Germain-de-Grantham’s, with 5.
Saint-Germain-de-Grantham · 8 kmMarie Rose Ferron & 4 moreLBSaint-Eugène · 17 kmLucien Brouillard & 3 moreHDL'Avenir · 18 kmHenry Thomas Duffy & 1 moreYLSaint-Cyrille-de-Wendover · 6 kmYvon L'HeureuxGHSaint-Majorique-de-Grantham · 10 kmGilles Hénault
Wickham · 13 kmEdward P. DohertyDBSaint-Théodore-d'Acton · 20 kmDidier BochatayQuestions about famous people from Drummondville
Who is the most famous person from Drummondville?
Karine Vanasse (Canadian actress) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Marcel Dionne and Jessica Dubé.
How many famous people were born in Drummondville?
Of the 134 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Drummondville known for?
They make up 39% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Drummondville?
William John Watts, born in 1846. The youngest on the list was born in 2003.
Who counts as from Drummondville?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Drummondville’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 (39)
- Karine Vanasse: Gaelle Leroyer, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marcel Dionne: New York Rangers / NHL, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Dubé: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Yvan Cournoyer: Horge, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lester Patrick: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Yves-François Blanchet: TVA Nouvelles, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mathieu Perreault: Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nancy Drolet: Oasis2014, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Danick Martel: Jessica, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Luc Pépin: National Film Board of Canada, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Renée Martel: Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- André Joyal: Andrej Bauer, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Cédric Toussaint: Djuradj Vujcic, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rita Letendre: Misterlobat, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Wilfrid Girouard: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Bourret: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Claude Rajotte: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-François Beauchemin: Guerinf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michel Lauzière: Markbellis, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexandre Beaudoin: Freethron, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gabrielle David: Jenn G from Seattle, WA, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kariane Bourassa: TVA Nouvelles, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis Morissette: Montreal.TV, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Louise Bédard: George Krump, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marty Raymond: Roberta F., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick Senécal: Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Steve Laplante: FriseIntense, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexandre Cusson: Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brigitte Boisjoli: Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Marin: Pierre5018, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dowina-Évariste Joyal: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Francine Ruest-Jutras: Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jasmin Gélinas: Benj05, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lois Betteridge: Mary K McIntyre, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mickaël Gouin: Friseintense, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stéphanie Bédard: Chatsam, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William John Watts: Montminy & Cie, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marie Rose Ferron: Catholic Web, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward P. Doherty: Mathew Benjamin Brady, 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).