#1Famous people · Saint-Alexandre, Quebec
3 famous people call Saint-Alexandre their birthplace
Articles in 7 languages make the Canadian soccer player Alex Surprenant the best known. Behind the leader come Jean-Paul Bergeron and J.-Armand Ménard. The neighbour with the longest list is Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, 15 km away: 101, led by Jacques Villeneuve. Per head, the list is long: 11.2 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Quebec has 6.1.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Alex Surprenant
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1905
J.-Armand Ménard
Youngest
1989
Alex Surprenant
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Saint-Alexandre
#1JB#2
Science & Medicine
Jean-Paul Bergeron
born 1947Canadian mathematician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JM#3
Politics & Law
J.-Armand Ménard
1905–1973Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Saint-Alexandre is known for
1 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu · 15 kmJacques Villeneuve & 100 more
Farnham · 13 kmYves Rodier & 18 moreLDHenryville · 11 kmLouis Philippe Demers & 10 more
Bedford · 17 kmCecil Hart & 7 moreMGSainte-Brigide-d'Iberville · 10 kmMarcel Gagnon & 2 more
Mont-Saint-Grégoire · 12 kmAndré Bessette & 1 moreGBSainte-Anne-de-Sabrevois · 9 kmGérard BessetteGTSaint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu · 14 kmGeorges-Émery TremblayQuestions about famous people from Saint-Alexandre
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Alexandre?
Alex Surprenant (Canadian soccer player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Jean-Paul Bergeron and J.-Armand Ménard.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Alexandre?
Wikidata places 5 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Saint-Alexandre known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 33%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Alexandre?
The earliest is J.-Armand Ménard, born in 1905, and the latest birth listed is 1989.
Who counts as from Saint-Alexandre?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Saint-Alexandre’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?
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 (5)
- Alex Surprenant: Longbomb, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques Villeneuve: Rhonda Liberman, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Yves Rodier: G.Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecil Hart: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- André Bessette: Frère Denis, c.s.c., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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