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Photo: Franky-Doo-Dy · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · La Minerve, Quebec
2 famous people were born in La Minerve
At the top of the list is the quebecois singer-songwriter Paul Piché, covered in 6 languages. The other is Rémi Sainte-Marie, the Canadian archbishop. Rivière-Rouge, 18 km off, can claim 4 famous people, the best known Jacqueline Gareau. From Rémi Sainte-Marie to Paul Piché, the births on the list run from 1938 to 1953.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Paul Piché
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1938
Rémi Sainte-Marie
Youngest
1953
Paul Piché
Most common field
Music
1 person
The best known
Born in La Minerve
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Known for
What La Minerve is known for
Share of La Minerve’s famous people in each field.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Questions about famous people from La Minerve
Who is the most famous person from La Minerve?
By our measure the best known is Paul Piché (quebecois singer-songwriter); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Rémi Sainte-Marie.
How many famous people were born in La Minerve?
Wikidata places 3 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is La Minerve known for?
50% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 6%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from La Minerve?
Rémi Sainte-Marie, born in 1938. The youngest on the list was born in 1953.
Who counts as from La Minerve?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside La Minerve’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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 (1)
- Jacqueline Gareau: Gianina Lindsey, 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).