#1Famous people · Roxton Pond, Quebec
From 1865 to 1986, Roxton Pond was the birthplace of 5 famous people
Most widely known is Andrew Ranger, the Canadian racecar driver, with articles in 9 languages. The next two names are Jacob Nicol and Gabriel Cusson. The list’s best known name, Andrew Ranger, dates from 1986. For every 10,000 residents there are 10.2 on the list, well above the typical Quebec town’s 6.1.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Andrew Ranger
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1865
William Stephen Bullock
Youngest
1986
Andrew Ranger
Most common field
Music
2 people
What stands out about Roxton Pond’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Roxton Pond’s famous people were born
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Roxton Pond
#1
#2Politics & Law
Jacob Nicol
1876–1958Canadian politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
GC#3
Known for
What Roxton Pond is known for
Share of Roxton Pond’s famous people in each field.
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Everyone else born in Roxton Pond
2 more names, born between 1865 and 1984.
William Stephen Bullock
1865–1936Canadian Baptist minister, businessman, and politician
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Who is the most famous person from Roxton Pond?
The top name is Andrew Ranger (Canadian racecar driver), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Jacob Nicol and Gabriel Cusson.
How many famous people were born in Roxton Pond?
Of the 8 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Roxton Pond known for?
They make up 40% here, compared with 6% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Roxton Pond?
The earliest is William Stephen Bullock, born in 1865, and the latest birth listed is 1986.
Who counts as from Roxton Pond?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Roxton Pond’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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 (6)
- Andrew Ranger: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacob Nicol: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marie-Ève Janvier: FriseIntense, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Palmer Cox: Nahl Brothers, Artists, San Francisco, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Claude Fournier: Buzzsleeper, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Edward Martin: Aegidius Fauteux, 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).