EG#1
Film, TV & Stage
Emma Gendron
1897–1952French-Canadian screenwriter, playwright, and journalist
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people · Saint-Barnabé, Quebec
4 famous people call Saint-Barnabé their birthplace
Emma Gendron is the best known, going by the number of languages that write about them. Close behind are Marcel J. Mélançon and Léonide-Nestor-Arthur Ricard. From Léonide-Nestor-Arthur Ricard to Marcel J. Mélançon, the births on the list run from 1882 to 1938. In all of Quebec, the famous people on record come from 605 towns.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Emma Gendron
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1882
Léonide-Nestor-Arthur Ricard
Youngest
1938
Marcel J. Mélançon
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 person
The best known
Born in Saint-Barnabé
Counted by languages, Emma Gendron is ahead of Marcel J. Mélançon and Léonide-Nestor-Arthur Ricard: 4, 4 and 2.
MM#2
Writing & Arts
Marcel J. Mélançon
1938–2026Canadian philosopher
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
LR#3
Politics & Law
Léonide-Nestor-Arthur Ricard
1882–1924Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Saint-Barnabé’s famous people were born
Film, TV & StageWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawScience & Medicine
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Saint-Barnabé is known for
Film, TV & Stage leads the fields, with 1 people.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
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Everyone else born in Saint-Barnabé
1 more, best known first.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Louiseville has the most people on record, 29 of them.
Louiseville · 16 kmJacques Ferron & 28 more
Yamachiche · 10 kmAram J. Pothier & 18 more
Saint-Étienne-des-Grès · 7 kmJosée Bournival & 1 more
Saint-Boniface · 13 kmAline Chrétien & 1 moreFPSaint-Élie-de-Caxton · 14 kmFred Pellerin & 1 moreABSaint-Paulin · 15 kmAdélard Bellemare & 1 more
Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel · 17 kmJacques Plante & 1 moreJDCharette · 9 kmJean-Paul DiamondQuestions about famous people from Saint-Barnabé
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Barnabé?
Emma Gendron (french-Canadian screenwriter, playwright, and journalist) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Marcel J. Mélançon and Léonide-Nestor-Arthur Ricard.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Barnabé?
Wikidata counts 5 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Saint-Barnabé known for?
25% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 10%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Barnabé?
Léonide-Nestor-Arthur Ricard (1882). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1938.
Who counts as from Saint-Barnabé?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Saint-Barnabé’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?
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 (5)
- Jacques Ferron: Jules Rochon, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aram J. Pothier: Creator:William Cushing Loring 1879-1959, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Josée Bournival: Bournij4, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aline Chrétien: Jean_and_Aline_Chretien.jpg : Presidential Press and Information Office derivative work: Jbarta, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques Plante: Unknown author, 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).