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Politics & Law
John Powell Noyes
1842–1923Canadian lawyer
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
Photo: Jean-Pierre Guillet · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Potton, Quebec
John Powell Noyes, born in 1842, is Potton’s famous person on record
John Powell Noyes, the Canadian lawyer, was born in 1842. Their birth falls before Confederation. Readers can find them written up in 2 languages. The neighbour with the longest list is Lac-Brome, 20 km away: 8, led by Lyne Bessette.
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John Powell Noyes
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
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1842
John Powell Noyes
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Politics & Law
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Questions about famous people from Potton
Who is the most famous person from Potton?
The top name is John Powell Noyes (Canadian lawyer), going by Wikipedia coverage.
How many famous people were born in Potton?
For Potton the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata has 4 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Potton known for?
Mostly leaders: 1 of the 1 people listed. 100% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Potton?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Potton’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.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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).
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- Lyne Bessette: © James F. Perry, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).