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Famous people · Saint-Lambert, Quebec
23 famous people were born in Saint-Lambert from 1877 to 1999
At the top of the list is the Canadian soccer player Patrick Leduc, covered in 8 languages. Between Confederation and 1913, 8 were born, the most of any period. Births since 1970 account for 5 of the names. Patrick Leduc was born in 1977.
Born here
23
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Patrick Leduc
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1877
Harold William Hounsfield Riley
Youngest
1999
Caroline Moquin-Joubert
Most common field
Sports
12 people
What stands out about Saint-Lambert’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Saint-Lambert’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other ten years, 4 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsFaithMusicScience & MedicineFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Saint-Lambert
#2Writing & Arts
Arlette Cousture
born 1948Canadian writer
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
MP#3
Faith
Michel Proulx
born 1962Canadian Roman Catholic bishop
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for
What Saint-Lambert is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.4 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Saint-Lambert
Another 20, the earliest born in 1877.
Joseph Jules Jean Jacques Rousseau
1905–1970Canadian explorer and anthropologist
Science & MedicineWikipedia (French) ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nouveau Greenfield Park leads the towns around it, with 32 names.
Questions about famous people from Saint-Lambert
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Lambert?
Patrick Leduc (Canadian soccer player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Arlette Cousture and Michel Proulx.
What is Saint-Lambert known for?
Here the share is 52%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Lambert?
The earliest is Harold William Hounsfield Riley, born in 1877, and the latest birth listed is 1999.
Who counts as from Saint-Lambert?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Saint-Lambert’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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 (7)
- Arlette Cousture: Arlette Cousture, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Phil Stevens: The Boston Globe, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- André Rousseau: Isabellb (Rousseau Metal Inc.), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Archie Hooper: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marianne Verville: Wikimen2017, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold William Hounsfield Riley: McDermid Studio; Sanderson, S. A., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maxime Talbot: Michael Miller, 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).