Photo: Normand Lemieux · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Saint-Claude is on the famous people list yet
Just 19 km away, Val-des-Sources’ list holds 16 names, Julie Lemieux the best known. 605 towns in Quebec have at least one famous person on record. Montréal has the most of any town in Quebec: 5,278. Second in Quebec is Québec (1,179 names), behind only Montréal.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Saint-Claude’s municipal boundary and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Saint-Claude as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Saint-Claude
Richmond · 18 kmSylvain Lefebvre & 6 moreIBMelbourne · 19 kmIsabelle Brasseur & 3 moreCSVal-Joli · 3 kmChristian Savoie
Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton · 12 kmEdmund William TobinTCCleveland · 18 kmThomas CleeveBRAscot Corner · 20 kmBernadette RenaudQuestions about famous people from Saint-Claude
Who counts as from Saint-Claude?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Saint-Claude’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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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).
Photo credits (2)
- Sylvain Lefebvre: Håkan Dahlström, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edmund William Tobin: Unknown author , publisher: Montreal Perrault Print. Co, 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).