GG#1
Politics & Law
Gabriel-Yvan Gagnon
born 1951Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: OgreBot · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Forestville, Quebec
Forestville is the birthplace of 4 famous people
The best known is the Canadian politician Gabriel-Yvan Gagnon, with articles in 2 languages. Second and third on the list are Jennifer Tremblay and Camille Bouchard. For every 10,000 residents there are 14.1 on the list, well above the typical Quebec town’s 6.1. The biggest group are writers and artists: 3.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Gabriel-Yvan Gagnon
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1951
Gabriel-Yvan Gagnon
Youngest
1973
Jennifer Tremblay
Most common field
Writing & Arts
3 people
The best known
Born in Forestville
Counted by languages, Gabriel-Yvan Gagnon is ahead of Jennifer Tremblay and Camille Bouchard: 2, 2 and 1.
JT#2
Writing & Arts
Jennifer Tremblay
born 1973Canadian writer
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
CB#3
Writing & Arts
Camille Bouchard
born 1955Canadian writer
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Through the years
When Forestville’s famous people were born
Writing & ArtsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Forestville is known for
Compared with the usual town, writers and artists are the most over-represented field, at 6.3 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Questions about famous people from Forestville
Who is the most famous person from Forestville?
The top name is Gabriel-Yvan Gagnon (Canadian politician), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Jennifer Tremblay and Camille Bouchard.
What is Forestville known for?
They make up 75% here, compared with 12% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Forestville?
The earliest is Gabriel-Yvan Gagnon, born in 1951, and the latest birth listed is 1973.
Who counts as from Forestville?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Forestville’s 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.
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).