Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people from Roxton
Acton Vale, 11 km off, can claim 10 famous people, the best known Serge Lemoyne. Of the famous people on record, none was born in Roxton. 605 of the towns in Quebec list at least one person. No town in Quebec lists more than Montréal, with 5,278.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Roxton’s municipal boundary, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Roxton who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Roxton
Towns around it with someone on record: 7.
Roxton Pond · 12 kmAndrew Ranger & 4 moreJBValcourt · 19 kmJoseph-Armand Bombardier & 2 moreABRoxton Falls · 3 kmAndré Bachand & 1 moreARSaint-Joachim-de-Shefford · 10 kmArmand RussellJCSaint-Valérien-de-Milton · 12 kmJean-Paul CabanaDBSaint-Théodore-d'Acton · 18 kmDidier BochatayQuestions about famous people from Roxton
Who counts as from Roxton?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Roxton’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
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 (1)
- Andrew Ranger: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).