AF#1
Writing & Arts
André Fontaine
1926–2005Canadian painter
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Famous people · Saint-Gédéon, Quebec
5 famous people were born in Saint-Gédéon
Articles in 6 languages make the Canadian painter André Fontaine the best known. Behind the leader come Marie-Lise Pilote and Charles Sagalane. Between 1946 and 1969, 3 were born, the most of any period. The biggest group are writers and artists: 2.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
André Fontaine
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1890
Polycarpe Moreau
Youngest
1968
Charles Sagalane
Most common field
Writing & Arts
2 people
What stands out about Saint-Gédéon’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Saint-Gédéon’s famous people were born
Writing & ArtsFilm, TV & StageMusicNotable
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Saint-Gédéon
MP#2
Film, TV & Stage
Marie-Lise Pilote
born 1964Canadian television presenter
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
CS#3
Writing & Arts
Charles Sagalane
born 1968Quebec poet
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for
What Saint-Gédéon is known for
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Saint-Gédéon
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Alma, at 48.
Questions about famous people from Saint-Gédéon
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Gédéon?
André Fontaine (Canadian painter) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Marie-Lise Pilote and Charles Sagalane.
What is Saint-Gédéon known for?
40% here, set against 12% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Gédéon?
Polycarpe Moreau, born in 1890. The youngest on the list was born in 1968.
Who counts as from Saint-Gédéon?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Saint-Gédéon’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?
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 (2)
- Marc-André Bédard: Simon Villeneuve, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Zachary Roy: A Disappearing Act, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).