#1Music
Aline Chrétien
1936–2020Canadian political spouse
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Saint-Boniface, Quebec
Saint-Boniface is the birthplace of 2 famous people
At the top of the list is the Canadian political spouse Aline Chrétien, covered in 6 languages. The other is Luc Gélinas, the Canadian journalist. The neighbour with the longest list is Shawinigan, 11 km away: 95, led by Jean Chrétien. From Aline Chrétien in 1936 to Luc Gélinas in 1967, the births cover 31 years.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Aline Chrétien
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1936
Aline Chrétien
Youngest
1967
Luc Gélinas
Most common field
Music
1 person
The best known
Born in Saint-Boniface
#1#2Writing & Arts
Luc Gélinas
born 1967Canadian journalist
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for
What Saint-Boniface is known for
1 of them work in Music, the biggest field.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Shawinigan · 11 kmJean Chrétien & 94 moreEGSaint-Barnabé · 13 kmEmma Gendron & 3 more
Saint-Étienne-des-Grès · 8 kmJosée Bournival & 1 moreFPSaint-Élie-de-Caxton · 9 kmFred Pellerin & 1 more
Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel · 11 kmJacques Plante & 1 moreABSaint-Paulin · 17 kmAdélard Bellemare & 1 moreJDCharette · 8 kmJean-Paul DiamondQuestions about famous people from Saint-Boniface
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Boniface?
Aline Chrétien (Canadian political spouse) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Luc Gélinas.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Boniface?
Wikidata has 4 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Saint-Boniface known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 6% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Boniface?
The earliest is Aline Chrétien, born in 1936, and the latest birth listed is 1967.
Who counts as from Saint-Boniface?
The list takes people born within Saint-Boniface’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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)
- Aline Chrétien: Jean_and_Aline_Chretien.jpg : Presidential Press and Information Office derivative work: Jbarta, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Luc Gélinas: Bibliothèques de Montréal, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean Chrétien: Michael Ignatieff, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Josée Bournival: Bournij4, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).