Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0No famous person yet from Lac-Supérieur
Mikaël Kingsbury heads the list in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, 16 km away, which has 25 names. In Quebec, 605 towns have someone on the list. No town in Quebec lists more than Montréal, with 5,278. Second in Quebec is Québec (1,179 names), behind only Montréal.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Lac-Supérieur’s municipal boundary, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Lac-Supérieur for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Lac-Supérieur
Questions about famous people from Lac-Supérieur
Who counts as from Lac-Supérieur?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Lac-Supérieur’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
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 (2)
- Mikaël Kingsbury: Clément Bucco-Lechat, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Simon Plouffe: Plouffe, 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).