#113 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.
Born in Sillery
Two of the three are leaders.
#1
#2Charles Gavan Power
1888–1968Politician and ice hockey player
#3Evan John Price
1840–1899Canadian politician
When Sillery’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1880s come out on top, with 5 births.
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
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 else born in Sillery
10 more, 3 of them athletes.







No one matches both filters.
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)
- Joe Malone: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Gavan Power: Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Evan John Price: Jules-Isaïe Benoît, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hal Hicks: Detroit Free Press, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Edward Burstall: William Orpen, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Power: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Power: Unknown author , Published by Montreal Perrault Print. Co, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe Power: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Evan Price: Tirée de The Storied Province of Quebec vol. 3 (1931), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Gerard Power: Unknown author, Public domain, 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
- Irma LeVasseur: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec P655,S2,SS6,D8, 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).



