Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Gabriel has yet to put a famous person on the list
For more famous names, Saint-Cuthbert is 17 km away: its list has 9, led by Charles Jérémie Coulombe. 605 towns across Quebec can name a famous person born there. The longest list of any town in Quebec belongs to Montréal, with 5,278. After Montréal, the next longest list in Quebec is Québec’s, with 1,179.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Saint-Gabriel’s municipal boundary, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Saint-Gabriel as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Saint-Gabriel
Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon · 3 kmGordon Bertie & 7 moreRDSaint-Félix-de-Valois · 15 kmRéjean Ducharme & 7 moreADSaint-Norbert · 11 kmAzellus Denis & 3 more
Saint-Jean-de-Matha · 14 kmMarcel Masse & 3 more
Saint-Damien · 13 kmRaymond Gravel & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Saint-Gabriel
Who counts as from Saint-Gabriel?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Saint-Gabriel’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
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 (3)
- 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
- Raymond Gravel: Louperivois, 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).