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Famous people · Maniwaki, Quebec
The 10 famous people born in Maniwaki, led by Gilles Carle
Most widely known is Gilles Carle, the film director, with articles in 13 languages. The next two names are Gino Odjick and Patrick Brazeau. Between 1946 and 1969, 4 were born, the most of any period. 3 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
10
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Gilles Carle
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1893
Georges-Adélard Auger
Youngest
2000
Claudette L'Heureux
Most common field
Sports
3 people
What stands out about Maniwaki’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Maniwaki’s famous people were born
The 1920s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsFilm, TV & StageNotable
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Maniwaki
GO#2
Sports
Gino Odjick
1970–2023Canadian ice hockey player
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
PB#3
Politics & Law
Patrick Brazeau
born 1974Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Maniwaki is known for
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 1.4 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Maniwaki
Still to come: 7 more, from 1893 to 2000.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Maniwaki
Who is the most famous person from Maniwaki?
The top name is Gilles Carle (film director), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Gino Odjick and Patrick Brazeau.
How many famous people were born in Maniwaki?
Wikidata places 14 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Maniwaki known for?
Here the share is 30%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Maniwaki?
Georges-Adélard Auger, from 1893; the most recent birth on the list is from 2000.
Who counts as from Maniwaki?
The list takes people born within Maniwaki’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), 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.
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 (1)
- Céline Lafrance: Simon Dumas, 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).