Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person born in Cité-Universitaire is listed yet
Just 3 km away, Plateau’s list holds 28 names, Simon Gagné the best known. Montréal’s 5,278 names make the longest list in Quebec. Second in Quebec is Québec (1,179 names), behind only Montréal. 605 of the towns in Quebec list at least one person.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Cité-Universitaire’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Cité-Universitaire as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Cité-Universitaire
Questions about famous people from Cité-Universitaire
Who counts as from Cité-Universitaire?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Cité-Universitaire’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only births recorded in it.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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 (6)
- 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
- Irma LeVasseur: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec P655,S2,SS6,D8, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierrette Robitaille: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Antoine Valois-Fortier: Mohammad Hassansadeh / Tasnimnews, CC BY 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).