JP#1
Politics & Law
Jean-Marie Poitras
1918–2009Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Macamic, Quebec
Macamic is the birthplace of 4 famous people
The best known is the Canadian politician Jean-Marie Poitras, with articles in 3 languages. Andrée Boucher is second and Gilles Lesage third. Per head, the list is long: 14.8 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Quebec has 6.1. More are performers than anything else, 2 in all.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jean-Marie Poitras
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1918
Jean-Marie Poitras
Youngest
1944
Muriel Dutil
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
The best known
Born in Macamic
Counted by languages, Jean-Marie Poitras is ahead of Andrée Boucher and Gilles Lesage: 3, 1 and 1.
AB#2
Film, TV & Stage
Andrée Boucher
1938–2021Canadian actress
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
GL#3
Writing & Arts
Gilles Lesage
born 1934Canadian journalist
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Through the years
When Macamic’s famous people were born
Film, TV & StagePolitics & LawWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Macamic is known for
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Macamic
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Questions about famous people from Macamic
Who is the most famous person from Macamic?
Jean-Marie Poitras (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Andrée Boucher and Gilles Lesage.
How many famous people were born in Macamic?
Wikidata places 6 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Macamic known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 10% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Macamic?
The earliest is Jean-Marie Poitras, born in 1918, and the latest birth listed is 1944.
Who counts as from Macamic?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Macamic’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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 (1)
- Muriel Dutil: Photo prise par Christian Leduc, photographe, lors d'une du Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue à Rouyn-Noranda en octobre 2015., 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).