#1Sports
Marie-Michèle Gagnon
born 1989Canadian alpine skier
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Lac-Etchemin, Quebec
Lac-Etchemin counts 5 famous people, first among them Marie-Michèle Gagnon
Articles in 13 languages make the Canadian alpine skier Marie-Michèle Gagnon the best known. The next two names are Denis Bernard and Joseph-Damase Bégin. 3 of them are leaders, more than in any other field. Over 107 years of births, the list goes from Ernest Ouellet (1882) to Marie-Michèle Gagnon (1989).
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Marie-Michèle Gagnon
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1882
Ernest Ouellet
Youngest
1989
Marie-Michèle Gagnon
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
What stands out about Lac-Etchemin’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Lac-Etchemin’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1950s, at 2.
Politics & LawSportsFilm, TV & Stage
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Lac-Etchemin
#1
#2Film, TV & Stage
Denis Bernard
born 1957Canadian film, television and theater actor and producer
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Joseph-Damase Bégin
1900–1977Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Lac-Etchemin is known for
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 2.7 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
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Everyone else born in Lac-Etchemin
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Sainte-Justine’s, at 6 names.
Questions about famous people from Lac-Etchemin
Who is the most famous person from Lac-Etchemin?
The top name is Marie-Michèle Gagnon (Canadian alpine skier), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Denis Bernard and Joseph-Damase Bégin.
How many famous people were born in Lac-Etchemin?
Wikidata has 7 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Lac-Etchemin known for?
60% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lac-Etchemin?
Ernest Ouellet (1882). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1989.
Who counts as from Lac-Etchemin?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Lac-Etchemin’s 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?
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 (4)
- Marie-Michèle Gagnon: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denis Bernard: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph-Damase Bégin: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ernest Ouellet: J. E. Livernois Ltée, 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).