#1Sports
Sylvain Lefebvre
born 1967Canadian ice hockey player
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Richmond, Quebec
Richmond is the birthplace of 7 famous people
Most widely known is Sylvain Lefebvre, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 8 languages. Chantal Cadieux, the playwright working in Quebec, comes second, with Gabriel Charpentier third. The largest group, 4, was born between 1946 and 1969. From Guy D'Artois to Chantal Cadieux, the births on the list run from 1917 to 1967.
Born here
7
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Sylvain Lefebvre
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1917
Guy D'Artois
Youngest
1967
Chantal Cadieux
Most common field
Sports
2 people
What stands out about Richmond’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Richmond’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
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Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Richmond
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Writing & Arts
Chantal Cadieux
born 1967Playwright working in Quebec
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
GC#3
Music
Gabriel Charpentier
1925–2019Canadian composer and lyricist
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for
What Richmond is known for
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
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Everyone else born in Richmond
Another 4, the earliest born in 1917.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Danville · 18 kmKate Campbell Hurd-Mead & 11 moreAPWindsor · 15 kmAnnie Perreault & 9 moreIBMelbourne · 3 kmIsabelle Brasseur & 3 moreFMDurham-Sud · 14 kmFrancis McCrea & 2 moreMHSaint-Félix-de-Kingsey · 15 kmMaria Louisa Trenholm Hidden & 1 moreHDL'Avenir · 17 kmHenry Thomas Duffy & 1 moreTCCleveland · 3 kmThomas Cleeve
Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton · 16 kmEdmund William TobinQuestions about famous people from Richmond
Who is the most famous person from Richmond?
Sylvain Lefebvre (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Chantal Cadieux and Gabriel Charpentier.
How many famous people were born in Richmond?
Wikidata places 14 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Richmond known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 29%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Richmond?
Guy D'Artois, from 1917; the most recent birth on the list is from 1967.
Who counts as from Richmond?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Richmond’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) 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.
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 (4)
- Sylvain Lefebvre: Håkan Dahlström, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sylvie Massicotte: Véro Boncompagni, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edmund William Tobin: Unknown author , publisher: Montreal Perrault Print. Co, Public domain, 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).