JL#1
Politics & Law
Jean Lapointe
1935–2022Canadian politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Photographe inconnu - Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Rimouski · Public domainFamous people · Price, Quebec
Price is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Articles in 5 languages make the Canadian politician Jean Lapointe the best known. The list has one more: the composer Marcelle Deschênes. Go 6 km to Mont-Joli and the list grows to 20, with Jacques Drouin at the top. Jean Lapointe, born in 1935, is the earliest name and Marcelle Deschênes, born in 1939, the latest.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jean Lapointe
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1935
Jean Lapointe
Youngest
1939
Marcelle Deschênes
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Price
MD#2
Known for
What Price is known for
1 of them work in Politics & Law, the biggest field.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Price, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Price
Who is the most famous person from Price?
By our measure the best known is Jean Lapointe (Canadian politician); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Marcelle Deschênes.
How many famous people were born in Price?
Wikidata places 9 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Price known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 22%; here, 50%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Price?
Jean Lapointe, born in 1935. The youngest on the list was born in 1939.
Who counts as from Price?
The list takes people born within Price’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?
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 (1)
- Jacques Drouin: Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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