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Famous people · Loretteville, Québec
Of the 14 famous people born in Loretteville, an unusual share are performers
The best known is the Canadian biathlete Myriam Bédard, with articles in 23 languages. Mitsou Gélinas and Geneviève Castrée follow. 7 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. The list comes to 8.9 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Quebec, at 6.1.
Born here
14
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Myriam Bédard
23 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1828
Dominique Racine
Youngest
1992
Élisabeth Paradis
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
4 people
What stands out about Loretteville’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Loretteville is known for
Set against the usual town, performers come out 2.9 times as common.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Through the years
When Loretteville’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1970s, with 4 births.
Film, TV & StageMusicSportsWriting & ArtsNotableFaithPolitics & LawScience & Medicine
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Loretteville
#2Film, TV & Stage
Mitsou Gélinas
born 1970Canadian actor, singer,
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Music
Geneviève Castrée
1981–2016Canadian musician and cartoonist
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Loretteville
11 more, best known first.
Gabrielle Pleau
1920–2000SportsWikipedia (French) ↗
Jean-Marc Boulé
1939–2013Headmaster of Séminaire Saint-François, secondary school in Quebec, Canada
Science & MedicineWikipedia (French) ↗
Noémi Mercier
born 1976Film, TV & StageWikipedia (French) ↗
No one matches both filters.
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Questions about famous people from Loretteville
Who is the most famous person from Loretteville?
Myriam Bédard (Canadian biathlete) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Mitsou Gélinas and Geneviève Castrée.
How many famous people were born in Loretteville?
Wikidata has 26 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Loretteville known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 10%; here, 29%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Loretteville?
Dominique Racine, born in 1828. The youngest on the list was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Loretteville?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Loretteville’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. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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 (9)
- Mitsou Gélinas: proacguy1, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Geneviève Castrée: Photograph by Julio Enriquez ., CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alden Penner: Jessica Nguyen from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dominique Racine: J.E. Livernois Photo, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ludger Bastien: Photo: Michèle Frenette, tiré des Biographies canadiennes-françaises 1926 (BANQ)., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Élisabeth Paradis: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrice Bergeron: Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierrette Robitaille: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pascal Normand: Pascal Normand, 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).