#1Film, TV & Stage
Amanda Walsh
born 1981Canadian actress
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Rigaud, Quebec
18 famous people were born in Rigaud, more of them leaders than in most towns
Amanda Walsh, the Canadian actress, is the most widely known, written about in 13 languages. Before Confederation, 8 were born, the most of any period. The list reaches back to Jean-Baptiste Mongenais, born in 1803, one of 8 born before Confederation. Only 71 of the 605 towns in Quebec with anyone on record list more.
Born here
18
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Amanda Walsh
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1803
Jean-Baptiste Mongenais
Youngest
1985
Philip Saint-Onge
Most common field
Politics & Law
10 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Rigaud is known for
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 2.5 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Through the years
When Rigaud’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1920s, at 3.
Politics & LawWriting & ArtsFilm, TV & StageMusicNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Rigaud
Counted by languages, Amanda Walsh is ahead of Maxim Roy and Julien Hébert: 13, 12 and 6.
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#2
#3Writing & Arts
Julien Hébert
1917–1994Canadian designer
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Rigaud
15 more names, born between 1803 and 1985.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Lachute has the most people on record, 25 of them.
Lachute · 20 kmKevin Lowe & 24 more
Hudson · 12 kmJean-Paul L'Allier & 6 more
East Hawkesbury · 15 kmArchibald McDonald & 5 more
Oka · 18 kmOvide Charlebois & 5 moreALSainte-Marthe · 9 kmAlcide Laurin & 4 more
Saint-André-d'Argenteuil · 11 kmJohn Abbott & 4 moreABSaint-Clet · 16 kmAugustin Bourbonnais & 4 moreARSaint-Placide · 9 kmAdolphe-Basile Routhier & 3 moreQuestions about famous people from Rigaud
Who is the most famous person from Rigaud?
The top name is Amanda Walsh (Canadian actress), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Maxim Roy and Julien Hébert.
How many famous people were born in Rigaud?
Wikidata places 24 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Rigaud known for?
56% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rigaud?
The earliest is Jean-Baptiste Mongenais, born in 1803, and the latest birth listed is 1985.
Who counts as from Rigaud?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Rigaud’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), 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.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (11)
- Amanda Walsh: CanadiansAbroadLA, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maxim Roy: Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Julien Hébert: Sagax32, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Gédéon Horace Bergeron: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michel Faubert: Pierre5018, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elzéar Sabourin: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Lowe: LoweNicholsMandel.jpg : Mack Male derivative work: Connormah, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Paul L'Allier: Simon Villeneuve, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Archibald McDonald: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ovide Charlebois: Église catholique, 1936, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Abbott: William James Topley, 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).