LS#1
Sports
Louis Sleigher
born 1958Canadian ice hockey player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Nouvelle, Quebec
Nouvelle is the birthplace of 5 famous people
Most widely known is Louis Sleigher, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 4 languages. Close behind are Élie Fallu and Jules Bélanger. From Jean-Louis Lévesque to Louis Sleigher, the births on the list run from 1911 to 1958. Leaders make up the largest group, 2 of them.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Louis Sleigher
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1911
Jean-Louis Lévesque
Youngest
1958
Louis Sleigher
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Nouvelle
ÉF#2
JB#3
Science & Medicine
Jules Bélanger
1929–2021Canadian teacher
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Nouvelle’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1 births.
Politics & LawSportsScience & MedicineBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Nouvelle is known for
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Nouvelle
2 more, from 1911 to 1947.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Dalhousie has the most on record, with 16.
Questions about famous people from Nouvelle
Who is the most famous person from Nouvelle?
Louis Sleigher (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Élie Fallu and Jules Bélanger.
How many famous people were born in Nouvelle?
Of the 8 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Nouvelle known for?
That is 40% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Nouvelle?
The earliest is Jean-Louis Lévesque, born in 1911, and the latest birth listed is 1958.
Who counts as from Nouvelle?
The list takes people born within Nouvelle’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 (1)
- Ken Scott: Alan Langford, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).