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Famous people · Sillery, Québec

13 famous people were born in Sillery, most of them between Confederation and 1913

Most widely known is Joe Malone, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 11 languages. Charles Gavan Power, the politician and ice hockey player, comes second, with Evan John Price third. Over 126 years of births, the list goes from William Evan Price (1827) to Jacques L'Heureux (1953). The list comes to 9.3 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.1 in the typical town in Quebec.

#1 best knownJoe MaloneSports · 1890–1969
+9more
Born here
13
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Joe Malone
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1827
William Evan Price
Youngest
1953
Jacques L'Heureux
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known

Born in Sillery

Two of the three are leaders.

Joe Malone#1
Sports

Joe Malone

1890–1969

Canadian ice hockey player

11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Charles Gavan Power#2
Politics & Law

Charles Gavan Power

1888–1968

Politician and ice hockey player

7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Evan John Price#3
Politics & Law

Evan John Price

1840–1899

Canadian politician

5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years

When Sillery’s famous people were born

Count by decade and the 1880s come out on top, with 5 births.

Before ConfederationConfederation to the Great WarThe world warsPostwar years185019001950Charles Gavan PowerEvan John PriceHal Hicks
SportsPolitics & LawMilitaryBusinessMusicFilm, TV & StageWriting & Arts

One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.

Known for

What Sillery is known for

Sillery has 1.4× the usual share of leaders.

For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.

Everyone

Everyone else born in Sillery

10 more, 3 of them athletes.

Hal Hicks

Hal Hicks

1900–1965

Canadian ice hockey defenceman

Henry Edward Burstall

Henry Edward Burstall

1870–1945

Canadian general

James Power

James Power

1883–1920

Canadian ice hockey player

William Power

William Power

1849–1920

Canadian politician

Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
Joe Power

Joe Power

1886–1935

Canadian ice hockey player and politician

William Evan Price

William Evan Price

1827–1880

Canadian businessman and politician

William Gerard Power

William Gerard Power

1882–1940

Canadian politician

Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
Next door

Famous people from the towns next door

The neighbour with the most names is Lévis, at 138.

Questions about famous people from Sillery

Who is the most famous person from Sillery?

By our measure the best known is Joe Malone (Canadian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Charles Gavan Power and Evan John Price.

How many famous people were born in Sillery?

Wikidata places 17 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.

What is Sillery known for?

31% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.

Who is the earliest-born famous person from Sillery?

William Evan Price (1827). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1953.

Who counts as from Sillery?

Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Sillery’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. 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 (14)

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).