Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Saint-Amable is on the famous people list yet
Boucherville, 12 km away, has 37 on its list, the best known Étienne Desmarteau. The longest list of any town in Quebec belongs to Montréal, with 5,278. Second in Quebec is Québec (1,179 names), behind only Montréal. In Quebec, 605 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Saint-Amable’s municipal boundary and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Saint-Amable as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Saint-Amable
Towns around it with someone on record: 8.
Boucherville · 12 kmÉtienne Desmarteau & 36 more
Varennes · 11 kmMarguerite d'Youville & 27 more
Mont-Saint-Hilaire · 12 kmLouis Boileau-Domingue & 16 more
Beloeil · 10 kmLouis-Philippe Brodeur & 14 moreAPSaint-Bruno-de-Montarville · 13 kmAlice Philbert & 8 moreDMSaint-Marc-sur-Richelieu · 8 kmDominique Mondelet & 5 moreHDSaint-Charles-sur-Richelieu · 9 kmHermas Deslauriers & 4 more
Sainte-Julie · 7 kmCatherine Fournier (Canadian politician) & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Saint-Amable
Who counts as from Saint-Amable?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Saint-Amable’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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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)
- Étienne Desmarteau: Etienne_Desmarteau.jpg : Unknown derivative work: MachoCarioca, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marguerite d'Youville: James Duncan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis Boileau-Domingue: Letartean, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis-Philippe Brodeur: Castonguay, J. Alex (Jules-Alexandre) (1877-1972), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Catherine Fournier (Canadian politician): Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).