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Famous people · La Pocatière, Quebec
9 famous people were born in La Pocatière, more of them leaders than in most towns
At the top of the list is the Canadian judoka Marylise Lévesque, covered in 7 languages. 3 of them were born since 1970. The largest group, 5, was born between 1914 and 1945. The list comes to 21.4 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.1 in the typical town in Quebec.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Marylise Lévesque
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1922
Guy Bernier
Youngest
1988
Dany Massé
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
What stands out about La Pocatière’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What La Pocatière is known for
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 2 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Through the years
When La Pocatière’s famous people were born
Politics & LawSportsWriting & ArtsBusinessFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in La Pocatière
BG#2
Politics & Law
Bernard Généreux
born 1962Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
HA#3
Politics & Law
Hélène Alarie
1941–2023Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in La Pocatière
6 more, from 1922 to 1988.
No one matches both filters.
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Questions about famous people from La Pocatière
Who is the most famous person from La Pocatière?
By our measure the best known is Marylise Lévesque (Canadian judoka); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Bernard Généreux and Hélène Alarie.
How many famous people were born in La Pocatière?
Wikidata has 15 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is La Pocatière known for?
Here the share is 44%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from La Pocatière?
The earliest is Guy Bernier, born in 1922, and the latest birth listed is 1988.
Who counts as from La Pocatière?
The list takes people born within La Pocatière’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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 (1)
- Jean-François Caron: Audrée Wilhelmy, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).