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Famous people · Laurier-Station, Quebec

Laurier-Station counts 3 famous people, first among them David Desharnais

David Desharnais, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 13 languages. Close behind are Laurent Beaudoin and Sam Breton. Go 18 km to Neuville and the list grows to 10, with François-Réal Angers at the top. The list runs from Laurent Beaudoin, born in 1938, to Sam Breton, born in 1989.

#1 best knownDavid DesharnaisSports · born 1986
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Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
David Desharnais
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1938
Laurent Beaudoin
Youngest
1989
Sam Breton
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known

Born in Laurier-Station

David Desharnais#1
Sports

David Desharnais

born 1986

Canadian ice hockey player

13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
LB#2
Business

Laurent Beaudoin

born 1938

Canadian businessman

3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for

What Laurier-Station is known for

Share of Laurier-Station’s famous people in each field.

Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.

Next door

Famous people from the towns next door

The best known from each town within 20 km of Laurier-Station, with how many people each has.

Questions about famous people from Laurier-Station

Who is the most famous person from Laurier-Station?

By our measure the best known is David Desharnais (Canadian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Laurent Beaudoin and Sam Breton.

How many famous people were born in Laurier-Station?

Wikidata places 4 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.

What is Laurier-Station known for?

33% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.

Who is the earliest-born famous person from Laurier-Station?

Laurent Beaudoin (1938). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1989.

Who counts as from Laurier-Station?

Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Laurier-Station’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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (5)

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).