CP#1
Film, TV & Stage
Clément Perron
1929–1999Canadian film director and screenwriter
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Denisn72sympatico · Public domainFamous people · East Broughton, Quebec
East Broughton is the birthplace of 7 famous people
Articles in 5 languages make the Canadian film director and screenwriter Clément Perron the best known. Tancrède Labbé, born in 1887, is the earliest name and Mario Lessard, born in 1954, the latest. 3 of them are leaders, more than in any other field. No town in Quebec lists more than Montréal, with 5,278.
Born here
7
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Clément Perron
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1887
Tancrède Labbé
Youngest
1954
Mario Lessard
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in East Broughton
ML#2
Sports
Mario Lessard
born 1954Canadian ice hockey player
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
SF#3
Politics & Law
Sarto Fournier
1908–1980Canadian politician (1908–1980); mayor of Montreal, Quebec from 1957 to 1960
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When East Broughton’s famous people were born
The 1920s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
Politics & LawFilm, TV & StageSportsScience & Medicine
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What East Broughton is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as leaders, at 2 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in East Broughton
4 more, best known first.
Roger A. Lessard
1944–2007Physicist, researcher and professor at Université Laval
Science & MedicineWikipedia (French) ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce counts 8 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from East Broughton
Who is the most famous person from East Broughton?
Clément Perron (Canadian film director and screenwriter) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Mario Lessard and Sarto Fournier.
What is East Broughton known for?
They make up 43% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from East Broughton?
Tancrède Labbé, born in 1887. The youngest on the list was born in 1954.
Who counts as from East Broughton?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside East Broughton’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 (1)
- Junior Lessard: Saruwine, 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).