RQ#1
Science & Medicine
Rémi Quirion
born 1955Canadian neuropsychiatrist
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Lac-Drolet, Quebec
Lac-Drolet is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Most widely known is Rémi Quirion, the Canadian neuropsychiatrist, with articles in 3 languages. The list has one more: the Canadian actor and radio host Peter MacLeod. Rémi Quirion, born in 1955, is the earliest name and Peter MacLeod, born in 1969, the latest. The neighbour with the longest list is Lac-Mégantic, 18 km away: 9, led by Nelly Arcan.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Rémi Quirion
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1955
Rémi Quirion
Youngest
1969
Peter MacLeod
Most common field
Science & Medicine
1 person
The best known
Born in Lac-Drolet
PM#2
Film, TV & Stage
Peter MacLeod
born 1969Canadian actor and radio host
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for
What Lac-Drolet is known for
Share of Lac-Drolet’s famous people in each field.
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Questions about famous people from Lac-Drolet
Who is the most famous person from Lac-Drolet?
By our measure the best known is Rémi Quirion (Canadian neuropsychiatrist); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Peter MacLeod.
What is Lac-Drolet known for?
50% here, set against 5% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lac-Drolet?
Rémi Quirion, from 1955; the most recent birth on the list is from 1969.
Who counts as from Lac-Drolet?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Lac-Drolet’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’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?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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)
- Nelly Arcan: JLEG21, 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).