MR#1
Politics & Law
Marcel-Claude Roy
1936–2018Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Laval-des-Rapides, Laval
4 famous people call Laval-des-Rapides their birthplace
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian politician Marcel-Claude Roy. Second place goes to the Canadian politician Rhéal Fortin, third to Gilles Vaillancourt. The list runs from Jeannine Vanier, born in 1929, to Rhéal Fortin, born in 1970. For its size the list is short: 1 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.1 in the typical Quebec town.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Marcel-Claude Roy
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1929
Jeannine Vanier
Youngest
1970
Rhéal Fortin
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Laval-des-Rapides
All three are leaders.
#2Politics & Law
Rhéal Fortin
born 1970Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
GV#3
Politics & Law
Gilles Vaillancourt
born 1941Canadian mayor
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Laval-des-Rapides’s famous people were born
The 1930s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
Politics & LawMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Laval-des-Rapides is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is leaders, at 3.4 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Laval-des-Rapides
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Chomedey’s, at 5 names.
Questions about famous people from Laval-des-Rapides
Who is the most famous person from Laval-des-Rapides?
Marcel-Claude Roy (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Rhéal Fortin and Gilles Vaillancourt.
What is Laval-des-Rapides known for?
That is 75% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Laval-des-Rapides?
The earliest is Jeannine Vanier, born in 1929, and the latest birth listed is 1970.
Who counts as from Laval-des-Rapides?
The list takes people born within Laval-des-Rapides’ neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.
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 (2)
- Rhéal Fortin: Nevmar, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Laurent-Olivier David: H. Larin, 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).