BC#1
Politics & Law
Benoît Chabot
1911–2006Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Plaisance, Quebec
Plaisance is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Benoît Chabot, the Canadian politician, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. The other is Pierre Roy, the Canadian politician. The earliest on the list is Benoît Chabot, born in 1911, and the youngest Pierre Roy, born in 1936. Within 14 km, Rockland lists the most: 16, with Jacques Martin first.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Benoît Chabot
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1911
Benoît Chabot
Youngest
1936
Pierre Roy
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Plaisance
PR#2
Politics & Law
Pierre Roy
1936–2025Canadian politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
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Questions about famous people from Plaisance
Who is the most famous person from Plaisance?
Benoît Chabot (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Pierre Roy.
What is Plaisance known for?
That is 100% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Plaisance?
The earliest is Benoît Chabot, born in 1911, and the latest birth listed is 1936.
Who counts as from Plaisance?
The list takes people born within Plaisance’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 (3)
- Jacques Martin: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Benoît Pouliot: Maniacduhockey, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Guy Lafleur: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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