DJ#1
Film, TV & Stage
Devery Jacobs
born 1993Canadian actress
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Kahnawake, Quebec
Devery Jacobs tops a list of 19 famous people born in Kahnawake
At the top of the list is the Canadian actress Devery Jacobs, covered in 17 languages. The next two names are Mary Two-Axe Earley and Alex Rice. 9 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. Fewer than a quarter of the 605 towns in Quebec with famous people list more.
Born here
19
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Devery Jacobs
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1810
Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher
Youngest
1996
Brooke Stacey
Most common field
Sports
9 people
What stands out about Kahnawake’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Kahnawake’s famous people were born
The 1970s alone account for 4 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsNotable
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Kahnawake
Two of the three are performers.
ME#2
Politics & Law
Mary Two-Axe Earley
1911–1996Kanien’kehá:ka elder, Indigenous Canadian women's rights activist, human rights activist
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
AR#3
Known for
What Kahnawake is known for
Compared with the usual town, performers are the most over-represented field, at 1.6 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Kahnawake
16 more, from 1810 to 1996.
Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer
born 1980Grand Chief of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Vieux-Lachine - Saint-Pierre has the most people on record, 90 of them.
Vieux-Lachine - Saint-Pierre · 6 kmSaul Bellow & 89 more
Châteauguay · 5 kmVanessa Gilles & 24 moreMCSaint-Constant · 8 kmMelissa Citrini-Beaulieu & 15 more
Dorval · 8 kmJason Demers & 9 morePGMercier · 9 kmPaul-Étienne Grandbois & 2 moreCSCôte-Saint-Luc · 10 kmCy Strulovitch & 1 more
Sainte-Catherine · 10 kmCarl Ouellet & 1 more
Montréal-Ouest · 8 kmStuart McLeanQuestions about famous people from Kahnawake
Who is the most famous person from Kahnawake?
The top name is Devery Jacobs (Canadian actress), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Mary Two-Axe Earley and Alex Rice.
How many famous people were born in Kahnawake?
Wikidata places 28 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Kahnawake known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 47%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Kahnawake?
Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher (1810). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1996.
Who counts as from Kahnawake?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Kahnawake’s reserve lands (the reserve’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?
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 (13)
- Waneek Horn-Miller: CBC Sports, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer: Amélanches, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Two Rivers: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Derek White: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Don Eagle: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1931 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice . For further explanation, see Commons, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Skawennati: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brooke Stacey: johnmac612, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dexter Stacey: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Saul Bellow: Photograph by Jeff Lowenthal. Published by Viking Press., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Vanessa Gilles: Taylor Vincent, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason Demers: Hockeyfreak2001, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carl Ouellet: Tabercil, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stuart McLean: Alana Elliott, CC BY 2.0, 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).