GD#1
Science & Medicine
Georges Dionne
born 1950Canadian professor of finance
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Nicogag · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Saint-Arsène, Quebec
Saint-Arsène is the birthplace of 5 famous people
The best known is the Canadian professor of finance Georges Dionne, with articles in 4 languages. Léon Dion and Onésiphore Ernest Talbot follow. Before Confederation, 3 were born, the most of any period. As early as 1854, Onésiphore Ernest Talbot was born here, one of 3 born before Confederation.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Georges Dionne
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1854
Onésiphore Ernest Talbot
Youngest
1950
Georges Dionne
Most common field
Science & Medicine
2 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Saint-Arsène’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1850s, with 2 births.
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Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
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Born in Saint-Arsène
LD#2
Science & Medicine
Léon Dion
1922–1997Canadian political scientist
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
OT#3
Politics & Law
Onésiphore Ernest Talbot
1854–1934Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Saint-Arsène is known for
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
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Everyone else born in Saint-Arsène
Another 2, the earliest born in 1858.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Rivière-du-Loup has the most people on record, 47 of them.
Questions about famous people from Saint-Arsène
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Arsène?
Georges Dionne (Canadian professor of finance) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Léon Dion and Onésiphore Ernest Talbot.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Arsène?
Wikidata has 34 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Saint-Arsène known for?
They make up 40% here, compared with 5% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Arsène?
Onésiphore Ernest Talbot, from 1854; the most recent birth on the list is from 1950.
Who counts as from Saint-Arsène?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Saint-Arsène’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?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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).
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- Guillaume Bastille: Beth Rand, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).