TR#1
Politics & Law
Théogène Ricard
1909–2006Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Challwa · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Saint-Guillaume, Quebec
2 famous people were born in Saint-Guillaume
The best known is the Canadian politician Théogène Ricard, with articles in 4 languages. One more name completes the list: Jean-Noël Pontbriand. Go 18 km to Yamaska and the list grows to 6, with Armand Mondou at the top. From Théogène Ricard in 1909 to Jean-Noël Pontbriand in 1933, the births cover 24 years.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Théogène Ricard
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1909
Théogène Ricard
Youngest
1933
Jean-Noël Pontbriand
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Saint-Guillaume
JP#2
Science & Medicine
Jean-Noël Pontbriand
born 1933Professor of creative writing at Laval University and poet
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for
What Saint-Guillaume is known for
Leaders are the most numerous, 1 of them.
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Questions about famous people from Saint-Guillaume
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Guillaume?
Théogène Ricard (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Jean-Noël Pontbriand.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Guillaume?
5 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Saint-Guillaume known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Guillaume?
The earliest is Théogène Ricard, born in 1909, and the latest birth listed is 1933.
Who counts as from Saint-Guillaume?
The list takes people born within Saint-Guillaume’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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 (1)
- Marie Rose Ferron: Catholic Web, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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