EG#1
Politics & Law
Ellen Gabriel
born 1959Canadian activist
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: P. Davignon · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Kanesatake, Quebec
2 famous people call Kanesatake their birthplace
Ellen Gabriel, the Canadian activist, is the most widely known, written about in 5 languages. The list has one more: the Canadian filmmaker Sonia Boileau. Over 20 years of births, the list goes from Ellen Gabriel (1959) to Sonia Boileau (1979). The neighbour with the longest list is Rigaud, 14 km away: 18, led by Amanda Walsh.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ellen Gabriel
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1959
Ellen Gabriel
Youngest
1979
Sonia Boileau
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Kanesatake
SB#2
Film, TV & Stage
Sonia Boileau
born 1979Canadian filmmaker
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Kanesatake is known for
Share of Kanesatake’s famous people in each field.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Rigaud · 14 kmAmanda Walsh & 17 more
Vaudreuil-Dorion · 11 kmMaxime Deschamps & 11 more
Hudson · 4 kmJean-Paul L'Allier & 6 more
Oka · 4 kmOvide Charlebois & 5 moreARSaint-Placide · 9 kmAdolphe-Basile Routhier & 3 moreJFSaint-Lazare · 9 kmJocelyne FelxMCPointe-Calumet · 11 kmMurphy CooperCLSenneville · 14 kmChantal LégerQuestions about famous people from Kanesatake
Who is the most famous person from Kanesatake?
Ellen Gabriel (Canadian activist) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Sonia Boileau.
What is Kanesatake known for?
50% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Kanesatake?
Ellen Gabriel (1959). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1979.
Who counts as from Kanesatake?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Kanesatake’s reserve lands (the reserve’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.
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 (4)
- Amanda Walsh: CanadiansAbroadLA, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maxime Deschamps: SpiritedMichelle, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Paul L'Allier: Simon Villeneuve, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ovide Charlebois: Église catholique, 1936, 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).