#1Faith
Raymond Gravel
1952–2014Canadian Québécois Roman Catholic priest and politician
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Saint-Damien, Quebec
3 famous people were born in Saint-Damien
With articles in 9 languages, Raymond Gravel is the most widely known. Close behind are Maximilien Boucher and Sœur Anne-Félicité. Go 15 km to Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon and the list grows to 8, with Gordon Bertie at the top. The list comes to 11.7 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.1 in the typical town in Quebec.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Raymond Gravel
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1890
Sœur Anne-Félicité
Youngest
1952
Raymond Gravel
Most common field
Faith
1 person
The best known
Born in Saint-Damien
Counted by languages, Raymond Gravel is ahead of Maximilien Boucher and Sœur Anne-Félicité: 9, 1 and 1.
#1#2Writing & Arts
Maximilien Boucher
1918–1975Canadian art of sculpture
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
#3Known for
What Saint-Damien is known for
Share of Saint-Damien’s famous people in each field.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
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Questions about famous people from Saint-Damien
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Damien?
By our measure the best known is Raymond Gravel (Canadian Québécois Roman Catholic priest and politician); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Maximilien Boucher and Sœur Anne-Félicité.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Damien?
7 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Saint-Damien known for?
33% here, set against 1% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Damien?
Sœur Anne-Félicité, born in 1890. The youngest on the list was born in 1952.
Who counts as from Saint-Damien?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Saint-Damien’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
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 (6)
- Raymond Gravel: Louperivois, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maximilien Boucher: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sœur Anne-Félicité: PhilippeDugas, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gordon Bertie: UPI, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marcel Masse: Photographe de la Ville de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, dans le cadre de sa mission ; scan par Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Guy Chevrette: Bouchecl, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).