#1Writing & Arts
Palmer Cox
1840–1924Canadian illustrator and author
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Granby, Quebec
Musicians stand out among the 69 famous people born in Granby
At the top of the list is the Canadian illustrator and author Palmer Cox, covered in 10 languages. Second and third on the list are Antoine Bertrand and Denis Gougeon. Since 1970, 26 were born, the most of any period. Born in 1834, Philip K. Gleed is the first name on record, and Félix Pigeon, born in 2002, the most recent.
Born here
69
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Palmer Cox
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1834
Philip K. Gleed
Youngest
2002
Félix Pigeon
Most common field
Sports
18 people
What stands out about Granby’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Granby’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1950s, at 15.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsMusicFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineNotableFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Granby is known for
Granby has 2× the usual share of musicians.
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 Granby
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#3Everyone
Everyone else born in Granby
Another 66, 18 of them athletes.
Jessica Harnois
born 1979NotableWikipedia (French) ↗
Miro Belzil
born 1993Film, TV & StageWikipedia (French) ↗
Yes McCan
born 1989NotableWikipedia (French) ↗
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Waterloo has the most on record, with 12.
Waterloo · 18 kmClaude Fournier & 11 more
Roxton Pond · 10 kmAndrew Ranger & 4 moreAMAnge-Gardien · 16 kmAzilda Marchand & 4 more
Saint-Pie · 17 kmJérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne & 4 moreFLBromont · 12 kmFrançois Lapierre & 3 more
Shefford · 10 kmJohn Edward Martin & 1 moreHCSaint-Alphonse-de-Granby · 9 kmHector ChoquetteASSaint-Paul-d'Abbotsford · 12 kmAlexandre SauretteQuestions about famous people from Granby
Who is the most famous person from Granby?
Palmer Cox (Canadian illustrator and author) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Antoine Bertrand and Denis Gougeon.
How many famous people were born in Granby?
Wikidata counts 108 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Granby known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 26%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Granby?
The earliest is Philip K. Gleed, born in 1834, and the latest birth listed is 2002.
Who counts as from Granby?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Granby’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (24)
- Palmer Cox: Nahl Brothers, Artists, San Francisco, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Antoine Bertrand: TVA Nouvelles, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denis Gougeon: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jan Alston: Fanny Schertzer, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Madeleine Arbour: Maurice Perron, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nicolas Blanchard: RangerRick, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Nevsky: Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre-Luc Dusseault: PLDusseault, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexandre Baril: Mimipome, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret: Gyorgyi Galik, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Guy Ménard: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Felix Hackett: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip K. Gleed: William Hartley Jeffrey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah-Maude Beauchesne: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Guillaume Beauregard: Hroyer Hugo Royer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian Lafrenière: Erbvdat, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Isabel Meighen: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Harnois: MarieveI, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Laurent Pilon: Émilie Tournevache, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Zoé Boivin: Lilcyborg, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Claude Fournier: Buzzsleeper, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Ranger: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne: Presby Elite Studio, Sherbrooke, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Edward Martin: Aegidius Fauteux, 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).