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Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Frontenac, Quebec
A single famous person was born in Frontenac: Phil Routcliffe
The Canadian baseball player Phil Routcliffe was born in 1870. That places their birth between Confederation and 1913. Readers can find them written up in one language. Go 5 km to Lac-Mégantic and the list grows to 9, with Nelly Arcan at the top.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Phil Routcliffe
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1870
Phil Routcliffe
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Frontenac
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Frontenac
Who is the most famous person from Frontenac?
Phil Routcliffe (Canadian baseball player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them.
How many famous people were born in Frontenac?
Born in Frontenac and confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article: 1. 2 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Frontenac known for?
Of the 1 on the list, 1 are athletes. 100% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Frontenac?
Born inside Frontenac’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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)
- Nelly Arcan: JLEG21, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).