PG#1
Politics & Law
Paul-Étienne Grandbois
1846–1907Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Mercier, Quebec
3 famous people were born in Mercier
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian politician Paul-Étienne Grandbois. Behind the leader come Côme-Séraphin Cherrier and Édouard Laberge. Vieux-Lachine - Saint-Pierre, 15 km off, can claim 90 famous people, the best known Saul Bellow. For its size the list is short: 1.9 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.1 in the typical Quebec town.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Paul-Étienne Grandbois
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1829
Édouard Laberge
Youngest
1848
Côme-Séraphin Cherrier
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Mercier
#2Politics & Law
Côme-Séraphin Cherrier
1848–1912Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
ÉL#3
Politics & Law
Édouard Laberge
1829–1883Canadian politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
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Famous people from the towns next door
Vieux-Lachine - Saint-Pierre · 15 kmSaul Bellow & 89 more
Châteauguay · 5 kmVanessa Gilles & 24 moreDJKahnawake · 9 kmDevery Jacobs & 18 moreRJBeauharnois · 11 kmRhené Jaque & 15 moreMCSaint-Constant · 14 kmMelissa Citrini-Beaulieu & 15 more
Saint-Rémi · 11 kmJohn Garand & 10 more
Dorval · 14 kmJason Demers & 9 moreDBSainte-Martine · 8 kmDenis Brière & 8 moreQuestions about famous people from Mercier
Who is the most famous person from Mercier?
Paul-Étienne Grandbois (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Côme-Séraphin Cherrier and Édouard Laberge.
How many famous people were born in Mercier?
Wikidata places 4 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Mercier known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 22%; here, 100%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mercier?
Édouard Laberge, from 1829; the most recent birth on the list is from 1848.
Who counts as from Mercier?
The list takes people born within Mercier’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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (5)
- Côme-Séraphin Cherrier: Chs. Desautels Succ. d'Archambault, Montréal, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Saul Bellow: Photograph by Jeff Lowenthal. Published by Viking Press., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Vanessa Gilles: Taylor Vincent, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Garand: NPS Photo, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason Demers: Hockeyfreak2001, 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).