#1Music
Félix Leclerc
1914–1988Canadian singer-songwriter
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · La Tuque, Quebec
Performers stand out among the 21 famous people born in La Tuque
Félix Leclerc, the Canadian singer-songwriter, is the most widely known, written about in 17 languages. The next two names are Martin Veillette and Marcel Jobin. 8 of them were born between 1914 and 1945, more than in any other period. Over 77 years of births, the list goes from Félix Leclerc (1914) to Rykko Bellemare (1991).
Born here
21
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Best known
Félix Leclerc
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1914
Félix Leclerc
Youngest
1991
Rykko Bellemare
Most common field
Politics & Law
6 people
What stands out about La Tuque’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What La Tuque is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as performers, at 2.4 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Through the years
When La Tuque’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1930s come out on top, with 4 births.
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Born in La Tuque
Counted by languages, Félix Leclerc is ahead of Martin Veillette and Marcel Jobin: 17, 9 and 6.
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#2Faith
Martin Veillette
born 1936Canadian Catholic bishop in Québec
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
MJ#3
Notable
Marcel Jobin
born 1942Canadian athletics competitor
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in La Tuque
Jacques Newashish
born 1958Canadian film actor, filmmaker, painter, and sculptor
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Questions about famous people from La Tuque
Who is the most famous person from La Tuque?
Félix Leclerc (Canadian singer-songwriter) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Martin Veillette and Marcel Jobin.
How many famous people were born in La Tuque?
Of the 29 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is La Tuque known for?
29% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from La Tuque?
Félix Leclerc, from 1914; the most recent birth on the list is from 1991.
Who counts as from La Tuque?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside La Tuque’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?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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 (7)
- Félix Leclerc: National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada / PA-107872. Photographer: Devlin-Belaieff-Jousse., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Martin Veillette: Veillg1, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Steven Guilbeault: UN Biodiversity, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Constant Awashish: Conseil de la Nation Atikamekw, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gaétan Barrette: Center TotalHealth, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dominique Trottier: Primarius11, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mathieu Fortin: Bull-Doser, 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).