#1Sports
Bruno Langlois
born 1979Canadian racing cyclist
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Matane, Quebec
Of the 28 famous people born in Matane, an unusual share are performers
The best known is the Canadian racing cyclist Bruno Langlois, with articles in 10 languages. Ève Salvail is second and Nancy Charest third. The largest group, 10, was born between 1946 and 1969. The list runs from Georges Dionne, born in 1876, to Jean-Sébastien Bérubé, born in 1990.
Born here
28
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Bruno Langlois
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1876
Georges Dionne
Youngest
1990
Jean-Sébastien Bérubé
Most common field
Politics & Law
7 people
What stands out about Matane’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Matane’s famous people were born
The 1950s saw the most births of any decade: 6.
Politics & LawSportsFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsMusicMilitaryScience & MedicineBusiness
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Matane is known for
Performers stand out most, at 1.8 times the usual share.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Matane
#1
#2Film, TV & Stage
Ève Salvail
born 1973Canadian actor and model
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Nancy Charest
1959–2014Canadian lawyer and politician
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Matane
Gisèle Bujold
born 1941Writing & ArtsWikipedia (French) ↗
Josélito Michaud
born 1965Canadian television presenter and radio host
Film, TV & StageWikipedia (French) ↗
Nadia Gagné
Writing & ArtsWikipedia (French) ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Saint-Ulric: 3.
Questions about famous people from Matane
Who is the most famous person from Matane?
Bruno Langlois (Canadian racing cyclist) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Ève Salvail and Nancy Charest.
How many famous people were born in Matane?
Wikidata counts 51 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Matane known for?
25% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Matane?
Georges Dionne, from 1876; the most recent birth on the list is from 1990.
Who counts as from Matane?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Matane’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
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 (11)
- Bruno Langlois: Thomas Ducroquet, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ève Salvail: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nancy Charest: Michael Ignatieff . Photo: Greg Kolz., CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rodrigue Tremblay: The original uploader was Carole Jean at French Wikipedia ., CC BY 1.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sonia LeBel: LouisRoyQc, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pascal Bérubé: TVA Nouvelles, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Z. Sirois: Simon Dumas, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Yves Sirois: Jérémy Barande, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Johanne Fournier: Peuc, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Line Arsenault: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nadia Gagné: EmmaSalon, 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).