DC#1
Sports
Dan Cloutier
born 1976Canadian ice hockey player
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Mont-Laurier, Quebec
Of the 20 famous people born in Mont-Laurier, an unusual share are writers and artists
Most widely known is Dan Cloutier, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 12 languages. Bobby Bazini and Jocelyn Lemieux follow. Births since 1970 account for 8 of the names. The list comes to 13.7 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.1 in the typical town in Quebec.
Born here
20
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Dan Cloutier
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1916
Henri Courtemanche
Youngest
1998
Kelly-Ann Nadeau
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Mont-Laurier’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Mont-Laurier’s famous people were born
The 1960s alone account for 6 of the births charted here.
SportsWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawMusicScience & Medicine
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Mont-Laurier is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is musicians, at 2.6 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Mont-Laurier
Athletes take two of the three places.
#2JL#3
Sports
Jocelyn Lemieux
born 1967Canadian ice hockey player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Mont-Laurier
A further 17 follow, born between 1916 and 1998.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Mont-Laurier
Who is the most famous person from Mont-Laurier?
Dan Cloutier (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Bobby Bazini and Jocelyn Lemieux.
How many famous people were born in Mont-Laurier?
Wikidata has 22 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Mont-Laurier known for?
Here the share is 35%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mont-Laurier?
Henri Courtemanche, from 1916; the most recent birth on the list is from 1998.
Who counts as from Mont-Laurier?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Mont-Laurier’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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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 (8)
- Bobby Bazini: Canadian Film Centre, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexandre Rouleau: Deusax, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sylvain Cloutier: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- José Claer: Simon Dumas, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sylvain Pagé: Laurentides1212, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marcel Lajeunesse: Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- René Grignon: Goodmerite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gérard Desjardins: T.V. Little Photo Ottawa, Public domain, 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).