JG#1
Politics & Law
Joseph Godbout
1850–1923Canadian politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Lambton, Quebec
Lambton is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Articles in 5 languages make the Canadian politician Joseph Godbout the best known. Second and third on the list are Arthur Godbout and Louis-Napoléon Audet. From Joseph Godbout to Henri-Louis Gagnon, the births on the list run from 1850 to 1881. 3 of them are leaders, more than in any other field.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Joseph Godbout
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1850
Joseph Godbout
Youngest
1881
Henri-Louis Gagnon
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Lambton
Counted by languages, Joseph Godbout is ahead of Arthur Godbout and Louis-Napoléon Audet: 5, 4 and 2.
AG#2
Politics & Law
Arthur Godbout
1872–1932Canadian politician and judge
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
LA#3
Writing & Arts
Louis-Napoléon Audet
1881–1971Canadian architect
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
Through the years
When Lambton’s famous people were born
Politics & LawWriting & Arts
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Lambton is known for
Lambton has 3.4× the usual share of leaders.
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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Questions about famous people from Lambton
Who is the most famous person from Lambton?
Joseph Godbout (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Arthur Godbout and Louis-Napoléon Audet.
How many famous people were born in Lambton?
Of the 10 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Lambton known for?
They make up 75% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lambton?
Joseph Godbout, from 1850; the most recent birth on the list is from 1881.
Who counts as from Lambton?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Lambton’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?
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).