#1Film, TV & Stage
Jacques Drouin
1943–2021Pinscreen animator
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Mont-Joli, Quebec
Writers and artists stand out among the 20 famous people born in Mont-Joli
At the top of the list is the pinscreen animator Jacques Drouin, covered in 8 languages. Second and third on the list are Gervais Rioux and Maurice Lamontagne. The largest group, 9, was born between 1914 and 1945. The list comes to 30.8 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.1 in the typical town in Quebec.
Born here
20
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jacques Drouin
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1905
Roméo Gagné
Youngest
1975
Érick d'Orion
Most common field
Politics & Law
7 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Mont-Joli is known for
Mont-Joli has 1.7× the usual share of writers and artists.
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 Mont-Joli
#1
#2ML#3
Politics & Law
Maurice Lamontagne
1917–1983Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Mont-Joli’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1910s than in any other decade: 5.
Politics & LawWriting & ArtsFilm, TV & StageSportsMilitaryScience & MedicineMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Mont-Joli
17 more, from 1905 to 1975.
Lana St-Cyr
1927–1986Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
Micheline Carrier
1944–2019Canadian teacher, journalist, essayist and publisher
Science & MedicineWikipedia (French) ↗
Zenon Saint-Laurent
1912–2005SportsWikipedia (French) ↗
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 3.
Questions about famous people from Mont-Joli
Who is the most famous person from Mont-Joli?
The top name is Jacques Drouin (pinscreen animator), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Gervais Rioux and Maurice Lamontagne.
How many famous people were born in Mont-Joli?
Of the 32 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Mont-Joli known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 22%; here, 35%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mont-Joli?
The earliest is Roméo Gagné, born in 1905, and the latest birth listed is 1975.
Who counts as from Mont-Joli?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Mont-Joli’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?
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 (5)
- Jacques Drouin: Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gervais Rioux: Claudineargon18, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lana St-Cyr: No photographer named in original source., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre Labrie: Eric Gélinas, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Érick d'Orion: Erick.dorion, 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).