Montréal leads Quebec with 5,278 famous people

Pierre Trudeau (prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Naomi Klein and Norma Shearer.

Wikidata places 8,046 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.

That is 25% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.

Charles le Moyne de Longueuil, Baron de Longueuil, born in 1656. The youngest on the list was born in 2008.

A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Montréal’s city limits (the city’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. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only births recorded in it.

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.