#1Famous people · Cap-Rouge, Québec
David Veilleux tops a list of 5 famous people born in Cap-Rouge
At the top of the list is the racing cyclist David Veilleux, covered in 16 languages. The Canadian ice hockey player Jonathan Marchessault ranks second, ahead of Chloé Robichaud. Since 1970, 5 were born, the most of any period. The list comes to 2.9 for every 10,000 residents, below the 6.1 of the typical town in Quebec.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
David Veilleux
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1985
Audrée Wilhelmy
Youngest
1990
Jonathan Marchessault
Most common field
Sports
2 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Cap-Rouge’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other ten years, 4 in all.
SportsFilm, TV & StageWriting & Arts
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Cap-Rouge
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1
#2Sports
Jonathan Marchessault
born 1990Canadian ice hockey player
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
CR#3
Film, TV & Stage
Chloé Robichaud
born 1988Canadian screenwriter and film director
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Cap-Rouge is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Cap-Rouge
Another 2, the earliest born in 1985.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Lévis’, with 138.
Questions about famous people from Cap-Rouge
Who is the most famous person from Cap-Rouge?
David Veilleux (racing cyclist) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Jonathan Marchessault and Chloé Robichaud.
How many famous people were born in Cap-Rouge?
Wikidata places 6 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Cap-Rouge known for?
They make up 40% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Cap-Rouge?
Audrée Wilhelmy (1985). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1990.
Who counts as from Cap-Rouge?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Cap-Rouge’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed in it.
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)
- David Veilleux: Mattho69, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jonathan Marchessault: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Audrée Wilhelmy: Audrée Wilhelmy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Hamelin: The original uploader was Krazytea at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Simon Gagné: Sandy Brittingham, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrice Bergeron: Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe Malone: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierrette Robitaille: Bull-Doser, 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).