#1Sports
Mike Matheson
born 1994Canadian ice hockey player
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Pointe-Claire, Quebec
40 famous people from Pointe-Claire, many of them athletes
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey player Mike Matheson, covered in 17 languages. Amanda Brugel, the Canadian actress, comes second, with Lauriane Rougeau third. The largest group, 27, was born since 1970. The list runs from Pierre Saint-Julien, born in 1765, to Aidan McMullan, born in 1997.
Born here
40
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mike Matheson
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1765
Pierre Saint-Julien
Youngest
1997
Aidan McMullan
Most common field
Sports
28 people
What stands out about Pointe-Claire’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Pointe-Claire’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1990s, with 11 people born in that decade.
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsNotable
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Pointe-Claire is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.8 times the usual share.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Pointe-Claire
The three are covered in 17, 16 and 14 languages: Mike Matheson, Amanda Brugel and Lauriane Rougeau.
#1
#2Film, TV & Stage
Amanda Brugel
born 1978Canadian actress
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Lauriane Rougeau
born 1990Canadian ice hockey player
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Pointe-Claire
The rest number 37, with 26 athletes among them.
Jean Boileau
1924–2005NotableWikipedia (French) ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 8.
Dorval · 5 kmJason Demers & 9 more
Kirkland · 5 kmJames Pantemis & 7 moreBSL'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève · 7 kmBob Sauvé & 7 moreMVBeaconsfield · 5 kmMia Vallée & 5 more
Pierrefonds-Ouest · 5 kmMylène Farmer & 5 moreTBDollard-Des Ormeaux · 4 kmThérèse Brisson & 3 moreDBSainte-Dorothée · 8 kmDenyse BenoîtCLBaie-D'Urfé · 9 kmChris LynessQuestions about famous people from Pointe-Claire
Who is the most famous person from Pointe-Claire?
Mike Matheson (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Amanda Brugel and Lauriane Rougeau.
How many famous people were born in Pointe-Claire?
Wikidata places 57 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Pointe-Claire known for?
70% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Pointe-Claire?
Pierre Saint-Julien, from 1765; the most recent birth on the list is from 1997.
Who counts as from Pointe-Claire?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Pointe-Claire’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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 (15)
- Mike Matheson: Jenn G, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Amanda Brugel: Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lauriane Rougeau: BDZ Sports, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Naylor: Maryse St-Georges, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis Leblanc: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dominic Turgeon: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Drew Paris: Alex Micheu Photography from VILLACH, Austria, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tracy Little: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Carl Mallette: TaraO, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kelly Sudia: Bon hein, alors euh..., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Debra DiGiovanni: publicbankla.org, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean Boileau: Claude L. Bernard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason Demers: Hockeyfreak2001, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Pantemis: Joe Peacock, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mylène Farmer: Boydu90, 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).