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Photo: Cephas · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Saint-Émile, Québec
Kevin Bizier, born in 1984, is Saint-Émile’s famous person on record
Kevin Bizier, the Canadian boxer, was born in 1984. Articles about them exist in 4 languages. Within 3 km, Loretteville lists the most: 14, with Myriam Bédard first. Famous people are on record for 605 of the towns in Quebec.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Kevin Bizier
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1984
Kevin Bizier
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Saint-Émile
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Questions about famous people from Saint-Émile
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Émile?
The top name is Kevin Bizier (Canadian boxer), going by Wikipedia coverage.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Émile?
Count on the list: 1, each born in Saint-Émile according to Wikidata and an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Saint-Émile known for?
The largest group is athletes, 1 in all out of 1. Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 100%.
Who counts as from Saint-Émile?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Saint-Émile’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed. 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?
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 (1)
- 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).