#1Music
Hélène Baillargeon
1916–1997Canadian singer, actor and folklorist
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Saint-Martin, Quebec
4 famous people call Saint-Martin their birthplace
Best known of all is Hélène Baillargeon, written about in 6 languages. Raoul Poulin is second and Georges-Octave Poulin third. 2 of them are leaders, more than in any other field. For every 10,000 residents there are 14.9 on the list, well above the typical Quebec town’s 6.1.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Hélène Baillargeon
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1894
Georges-Octave Poulin
Youngest
1964
Esther Bégin
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Saint-Martin
Leaders take two of the three places.
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Politics & Law
Raoul Poulin
1900–1975Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
GP#3
Politics & Law
Georges-Octave Poulin
1894–1963Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Saint-Martin’s famous people were born
The 1910s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
Politics & LawMusicWriting & Arts
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Saint-Martin is known for
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Saint-Martin
1 more, best known first.
Esther Bégin
born 1964Canadian journalist, television presenter and radio host
Writing & ArtsWikipedia (French) ↗
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Saint-Martin
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Martin?
Hélène Baillargeon (Canadian singer, actor and folklorist) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Raoul Poulin and Georges-Octave Poulin.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Martin?
7 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Saint-Martin known for?
They make up 50% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Martin?
Georges-Octave Poulin, from 1894; the most recent birth on the list is from 1964.
Who counts as from Saint-Martin?
Born inside Saint-Martin’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?
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 (3)
- Hélène Baillargeon: Photographe inconnu, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Esther Bégin: Boréal ; Ewe Aya, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maxime Bernier: Yan Parisien, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).