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Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville, Quebec
One famous person was born in Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville
In 1863, the Canadian strength athlete Louis Cyr was born. That places their birth before Confederation. Articles about them exist in 15 languages. Henryville, 18 km away, has 11 on its list, the best known Louis Philippe Demers.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Louis Cyr
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1863
Louis Cyr
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville, with how many people each has.
LDHenryville · 18 kmLouis Philippe Demers & 10 more
Napierville · 4 kmWilfrid Derome & 9 moreCTSaint-Michel · 15 kmCharles Trudeau & 5 moreCHSaint-Édouard · 10 kmClaude Hamelin & 3 moreFMLacolle · 10 kmFrancis Morice & 3 moreMDSaint-Jacques-le-Mineur · 11 kmMaxime Daigneault & 1 moreTDSaint-Patrice-de-Sherrington · 8 kmThomas Osborne DavisGTSaint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu · 11 kmGeorges-Émery Tremblay
Napierville · 4 kmWilfrid Derome & 9 moreCTSaint-Michel · 15 kmCharles Trudeau & 5 moreCHSaint-Édouard · 10 kmClaude Hamelin & 3 moreFMLacolle · 10 kmFrancis Morice & 3 moreMDSaint-Jacques-le-Mineur · 11 kmMaxime Daigneault & 1 moreTDSaint-Patrice-de-Sherrington · 8 kmThomas Osborne DavisGTSaint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu · 11 kmGeorges-Émery TremblayQuestions about famous people from Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville?
Louis Cyr (Canadian strength athlete) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville?
The list holds 1 born in Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville, each confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata has 5 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville known for?
The largest group is athletes, 1 in all out of 1. 100% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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)
- Wilfrid Derome: 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).