#1Film, TV & Stage
Viviane Audet
born 1981Canadian actor and singer
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Maria, Quebec
Maria’s famous people span 1,003 years: 10 births from 1000 to 2003
Viviane Audet, the Canadian actor and singer, is the most widely known, written about in 5 languages. For every 10,000 residents there are 36.1 on the list, well above the typical Quebec town’s 6.1. The list’s best known name, Viviane Audet, dates from 1981. Only 122 of the 605 towns in Quebec with anyone on record list more.
Born here
10
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Viviane Audet
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1000
Irvin Blais
Youngest
2003
William Roussy
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
3 people
What stands out about Maria’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Maria’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1960s, with 2 people born in that decade.
Film, TV & StageSportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Maria
#1
#2Politics & Law
Nathalie Normandeau
born 1968Deputy premier and member of the National Assembly of Quebec
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JG#3
Politics & Law
Jean-François Guité
1852–1917Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Maria is known for
Compared with the usual town, performers are the most over-represented field, at 3.1 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Maria
Another 7, 3 of them athletes.
Pierre-Paul Savoie
1955–2021Canadian dancer, choreographer and theatre director
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Carleton-sur-Mer has the longest list next door: 13.
Questions about famous people from Maria
Who is the most famous person from Maria?
The top name is Viviane Audet (Canadian actor and singer), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Nathalie Normandeau and Jean-François Guité.
How many famous people were born in Maria?
Wikidata places 18 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Maria known for?
That is 30% of the town’s list, against 10% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Maria?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Maria’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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 (5)
- Viviane Audet: Viviane Audet, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathalie Normandeau: Couillard_et_Normandeau.jpg : François Thivierge derivative work: — Riba, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre-Paul Savoie: Rolline Laporte, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Irvin Blais: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- François Bourque: Christian Jansky ( Tschaensky ), CC BY-SA 2.5, 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).