AG#1
Politics & Law
Aurélien Gill
1933–2015Canadian politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Vintotal · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Mashteuiatsh, Quebec
5 famous people call Mashteuiatsh their birthplace
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian politician Aurélien Gill. Bernard Cleary is second and Marie-Andrée Gill third. Most were born between 1914 and 1945: 3 of them. Born in 1926, Carmen Gill-Casavant is the first name on record, and Marie-Andrée Gill, born in 1986, the most recent.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Aurélien Gill
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1926
Carmen Gill-Casavant
Youngest
1986
Marie-Andrée Gill
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
What stands out about Mashteuiatsh’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Mashteuiatsh’s famous people were born
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Mashteuiatsh
Leaders take two of the three places.
BC#2
Politics & Law
Bernard Cleary
1937–2020Canadian politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
MG#3
Writing & Arts
Marie-Andrée Gill
born 1986Canadian poet
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Mashteuiatsh is known for
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Everyone else born in Mashteuiatsh
2 more, from 1926 to 1979.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Roberval, with 26.
Questions about famous people from Mashteuiatsh
Who is the most famous person from Mashteuiatsh?
Aurélien Gill (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Bernard Cleary and Marie-Andrée Gill.
How many famous people were born in Mashteuiatsh?
Wikidata has 12 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Mashteuiatsh known for?
40% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mashteuiatsh?
The earliest is Carmen Gill-Casavant, born in 1926, and the latest birth listed is 1986.
Who counts as from Mashteuiatsh?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Mashteuiatsh’s reserve lands (the reserve’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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)
- Marianne St-Gelais: TofflerAnn, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- François Girard: Peter Kudlacz, CC BY 2.0, 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).