GG#1
Sports
Gilles Gilbert
1949–2023Canadian ice hockey player
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Metalex · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Saint-Esprit, Quebec
9 famous people from Saint-Esprit, many of them leaders
Going by the number of languages that write about them, the Canadian ice hockey player Gilles Gilbert is the best known. The largest group, 3, was born between Confederation and 1913. David Arthur Lafortune (1848) and Julien Brouillette (1986) mark the two ends of the list. Fewer than a quarter of the 605 towns in Quebec with famous people list more.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Gilles Gilbert
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1848
David Arthur Lafortune
Youngest
1986
Julien Brouillette
Most common field
Politics & Law
5 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Saint-Esprit is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 2.5 times as common.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
The best known
Born in Saint-Esprit
Counted by languages, Gilles Gilbert is ahead of Luc Brisson and Julien Brouillette: 9, 8 and 7.
LB#2
Science & Medicine
Luc Brisson
born 1946Canadian scholar
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JB#3
Sports
Julien Brouillette
born 1986Canadian ice hockey defenceman
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Saint-Esprit’s famous people were born
The 1940s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
Politics & LawSportsScience & Medicine
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Saint-Esprit
The other 6 span the years 1848 to 1923.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Towns around it with someone on record: 8.
Saint-Jacques · 10 kmBernard Landry & 14 moreÉMMascouche · 18 kmÉmilie Mondor & 14 more
Saint-Lin--Laurentides · 9 kmWilfrid Laurier & 8 more
L'Épiphanie · 14 kmAntoine Dufour & 6 moreJJRawdon · 18 kmJean-Paul Jeannotte & 6 more
Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan · 8 kmLise Thibault & 4 moreRGSaint-Liguori · 14 kmRoger Gaudet & 3 moreLMSaint-Alexis · 6 kmLaurent Mailhot & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Saint-Esprit
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Esprit?
Gilles Gilbert (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Luc Brisson and Julien Brouillette.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Esprit?
Wikidata places 10 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Saint-Esprit known for?
They make up 56% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Esprit?
David Arthur Lafortune (1848). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1986.
Who counts as from Saint-Esprit?
Born inside Saint-Esprit’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (4)
- Bernard Landry: MisterAD1984, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Wilfrid Laurier: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Antoine Dufour: Dandon TRJ, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lise Thibault: Montrealais 07:15, 3 November 2006 (UTC), CC BY-SA 2.5, 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).