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Politics & Law
Fernand Grenier
1927–1988Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Harfang · CC BY 3.0Famous people · Nantes, Quebec
Nantes has one famous person on record
In 1927, the Canadian politician Fernand Grenier was born. That places their birth between 1914 and 1945. Readers can find them written up in 3 languages. Lac-Mégantic, 4 km off, can claim 9 famous people, the best known Nelly Arcan.
Born here
1
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Best known
Fernand Grenier
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1927
Fernand Grenier
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Nantes
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Questions about famous people from Nantes
Who is the most famous person from Nantes?
The top name is Fernand Grenier (Canadian politician), going by Wikipedia coverage.
How many famous people were born in Nantes?
For Nantes the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Nantes known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 1. Here the share is 100%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who counts as from Nantes?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Nantes’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (1)
- Nelly Arcan: JLEG21, 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).