#1Sports
Mavrik Bourque
born 2002Canadian ice hockey player
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Plessisville, Quebec
Of the 17 famous people born in Plessisville, an unusual share are writers and artists
The best known is the Canadian ice hockey player Mavrik Bourque, with articles in 9 languages. Between 1946 and 1969, 6 were born, the most of any period. Narcisse-Édouard Cormier (1847) and Mavrik Bourque (2002) mark the two ends of the list. Fewer than a quarter of the 605 towns in Quebec with famous people list more.
Born here
17
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mavrik Bourque
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1847
Narcisse-Édouard Cormier
Youngest
2002
Mavrik Bourque
Most common field
Writing & Arts
6 people
What stands out about Plessisville’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Plessisville is known for
Set against the usual town, writers and artists come out 2.9 times as common.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Through the years
When Plessisville’s famous people were born
Writing & ArtsPolitics & LawFaithMusicSportsScience & MedicineNotable
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Plessisville
Counted by languages, Mavrik Bourque is ahead of Pierre-André Fournier and Monique Gagnon-Tremblay: 9, 9 and 4.
#1
#2Faith
Pierre-André Fournier
1943–2015Canadian Catholic prelate
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Monique Gagnon-Tremblay
born 1940Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Everyone else born in Plessisville
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Princeville has the most on record, with 12.
Questions about famous people from Plessisville
Who is the most famous person from Plessisville?
Mavrik Bourque (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Pierre-André Fournier and Monique Gagnon-Tremblay.
How many famous people were born in Plessisville?
Wikidata places 24 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Plessisville known for?
They make up 35% here, compared with 12% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Plessisville?
Narcisse-Édouard Cormier (1847). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2002.
Who counts as from Plessisville?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Plessisville’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list. Plessisville is also the name of another municipality in Quebec: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “Plessisville”, so the other place can’t be ruled out.
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 (8)
- Mavrik Bourque: Cass, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre-André Fournier: Guillaumesoucyross, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Monique Gagnon-Tremblay: Montreal_CG_Parker_Protocol_Visit_Québec_City_(2).jpg : US Mission Canada derivative work: FishInWater, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard: Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Normand Rousseau: Normand Rousseau, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Deslauriers: viveletheatre (samuel), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Édouard Richard: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- François-Théodore Savoie: Unknown author , Published by Montreal Perrault Print. Co, 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).