DL#1
Writing & Arts
Daniel Lessard
born 1947Canadian journalist and television presenter
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Saint-Benjamin, Quebec
Saint-Benjamin is the birthplace of 3 famous people
Daniel Lessard, the Canadian journalist and television presenter, is the most widely known, written about in one language. The Canadian poet Laurence Veilleux ranks second, ahead of Laurier Veilleux. Of its neighbours, Saint-Georges, 15 km away, lists the most: 29, Maxime Bernier first. Born in 1946, Laurier Veilleux is the first name on record, and Laurence Veilleux, born in 1994, the most recent.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Daniel Lessard
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1946
Laurier Veilleux
Youngest
1994
Laurence Veilleux
Most common field
Writing & Arts
3 people
The best known
Born in Saint-Benjamin
All three are writers and artists.
LV#2
Writing & Arts
Laurence Veilleux
born 1994Canadian poet
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
LV#3
Writing & Arts
Laurier Veilleux
born 1946Canadian poet
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
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Questions about famous people from Saint-Benjamin
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Benjamin?
Daniel Lessard (Canadian journalist and television presenter) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Laurence Veilleux and Laurier Veilleux.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Benjamin?
Wikidata places 4 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Saint-Benjamin known for?
100% here, set against 12% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Benjamin?
The earliest is Laurier Veilleux, born in 1946, and the latest birth listed is 1994.
Who counts as from Saint-Benjamin?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Saint-Benjamin’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 (3)
- Maxime Bernier: Yan Parisien, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marie-Philip Poulin: Rh723, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marie-Michèle Gagnon: Krzysztof Golik, 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).