AG#1
Writing & Arts
Alain Grandbois
1900–1975Canadian writer
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Saint-Casimir, Quebec
Saint-Casimir counts 4 famous people, first among them Alain Grandbois
At the top of the list is the Canadian writer Alain Grandbois, covered in 10 languages. Close behind are Albert Gervais and René Matte. Leaders make up the largest group, 3 of them. René Matte, born in 1935, is the youngest, and Alain Grandbois, born in 1900, the first on record.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Alain Grandbois
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1900
Alain Grandbois
Youngest
1935
René Matte
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Saint-Casimir
Leaders take two of the three places.
AG#2
Politics & Law
Albert Gervais
1922–1989Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
RM#3
Through the years
When Saint-Casimir’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1900s, at 2.
Politics & LawWriting & Arts
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Saint-Casimir is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is leaders, at 3.4 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Saint-Casimir
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, with 19.
Questions about famous people from Saint-Casimir
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Casimir?
Alain Grandbois (Canadian writer) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Albert Gervais and René Matte.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Casimir?
Wikidata places 9 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Saint-Casimir known for?
Here the share is 75%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Casimir?
Alain Grandbois, born in 1900. The youngest on the list was born in 1935.
Who counts as from Saint-Casimir?
The list takes people born within Saint-Casimir’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 (1)
- Chantal Petitclerc: 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).