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Daniel Brière
born 1977Canadian ice hockey player
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Gatineau
Musicians stand out among the 58 famous people born in Gatineau
Articles in 16 languages make the Canadian ice hockey player Daniel Brière the best known. Most were born since 1970: 37 of them. The list comes to 1.9 for every 10,000 residents, below the 6.1 of the typical town in Quebec. Only 21 of the 605 towns in Quebec with anyone on record list more.
Born here
58
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Daniel Brière
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1905
Stanley Stanyar
Youngest
2003
Mélodie Collard
Most common field
Sports
31 people
What stands out about Gatineau’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Gatineau’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1990s than in any other ten years, 15 in all.
SportsMusicPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsNotableScience & Medicine
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Gatineau is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is musicians, at 2.1 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 Gatineau
All three are athletes.
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Alexandre R. Picard
born 1985Canadian ice hockey defenceman
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Gatineau
The other 55 span the years 1930 to 2003.
Janice Nadeau
born 1977Canadian Illustrator, art director and animation director
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
Geneviève Leclerc
born 1983Film, TV & StageWikipedia (French) ↗
Julien Vallée
born 1983Writing & ArtsWikipedia (French) ↗
Phil G. Smith
born 1991MusicWikipedia (French) ↗
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 4.
Questions about famous people from Gatineau
Who is the most famous person from Gatineau?
Daniel Brière (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Stanley Stanyar and Alexandre R. Picard.
How many famous people were born in Gatineau?
86 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Gatineau known for?
They make up 53% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Gatineau?
Stanley Stanyar, born in 1905. The youngest on the list was born in 2003.
Who counts as from Gatineau?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Gatineau’s city limits (the city’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed in it.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (27)
- Daniel Brière: Andrea Shives, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexandre R. Picard: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dave Leduc: Lethwei Master, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Audrey Leduc: Daieuxetdailleurs, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eva Avila: EPhotoS, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Evil Uno: shstrng, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hendrix Lapierre: All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marc-André Barriault: MM-eh, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Steve Martins: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Éric Deslauriers: IcE MaN, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Françoise Boivin: Boussole.ca, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Janice Nadeau: Lea-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Martin Giroux: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Laurence Nerbonne: Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Demers: Votre pseudonyme ici, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Labine: Boilje01, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stefan Karajovanovic: Djuradj Vujcic, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Champagne: Brandon Ly, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mélodie Collard: Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexandre Désilets: Pierre5018, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chloé Bourgeois: NormalNormand, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mathieu Gagnon: Benj05, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrice Bélanger: MercureB, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Geneviève Leclerc: Jean-Francois Lemire/Shoot Studio, Montreal, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Lanois: Juan Manuel Parra, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eric Gelinas: Lisa Gansky, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denis Savard: Unknown author, 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).