Photo: Veillg1 · CC0No famous person from Lac-aux-Sables yet, but Sainte-Thècle next door has 6
In all of Quebec, the famous people on record come from 605 towns. The longest list of any town in Quebec belongs to Montréal, with 5,278. Québec comes next in Quebec, behind Montréal, with 1,179 names. The best known born in Sainte-Thècle is Éric Bédard.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Lac-aux-Sables’s municipal boundary and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Lac-aux-Sables for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Lac-aux-Sables
Questions about famous people from Lac-aux-Sables
Who counts as from Lac-aux-Sables?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Lac-aux-Sables’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
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.
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).