ML#1
Sports
Marianne Limpert
born 1972Canadian swimmer, Olympic silver medallist
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: TOBound · Public domainFamous people · Matagami, Quebec
Matagami is the birthplace of 2 famous people
With articles in 13 languages, Marianne Limpert is the most widely known. The list has one more: the Canadian film director Rafaël Ouellet. Marianne Limpert (1972) and Rafaël Ouellet (1974) mark the two ends of the list. The longest list of any town in Quebec belongs to Montréal, with 5,278.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Marianne Limpert
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1972
Marianne Limpert
Youngest
1974
Rafaël Ouellet
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Matagami
RO#2
Film, TV & Stage
Rafaël Ouellet
born 1974Canadian film director
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Matagami is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 1 people.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Questions about famous people from Matagami
Who is the most famous person from Matagami?
Marianne Limpert (Canadian swimmer, Olympic silver medallist) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Rafaël Ouellet.
What is Matagami known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 50%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Matagami?
Marianne Limpert, born in 1972. The youngest on the list was born in 1974.
Who counts as from Matagami?
The list takes people born within Matagami’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?
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.
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