CT#1
Famous people · Saint-Michel, Quebec
6 famous people from Saint-Michel, many of them leaders
Articles in 5 languages make the Canadian businessman Charles Trudeau the best known. 2 of them were born before Confederation, the first Cyprien Dorris in 1860. The list comes to 16.3 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.1 in the typical town in Quebec. The longest list of any town in Quebec belongs to Montréal, with 5,278.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Charles Trudeau
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1860
Cyprien Dorris
Youngest
1993
Jimmy Oligny
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Saint-Michel is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as leaders, at 3 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Through the years
When Saint-Michel’s famous people were born
Politics & LawBusinessSports
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Saint-Michel
Leaders take two of the three places.
CI#2
Politics & Law
Claire IsaBelle
born 1962Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
CD#3
Politics & Law
Claude Dubois
born 1931Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Saint-Michel
Another 3, the earliest born in 1860.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Saint-Philippe has the most on record: 14.
Saint-Philippe · 15 kmPierre-Adolphe Pinsoneault & 13 more
Saint-Rémi · 4 kmJohn Garand & 10 more
Napierville · 15 kmWilfrid Derome & 9 moreGSSaint-Isidore · 10 kmGeorges St-Pierre & 6 moreCHSaint-Édouard · 5 kmClaude Hamelin & 3 moreABSaint-Mathieu · 9 kmAbraham Bernard & 3 morePGMercier · 15 kmPaul-Étienne Grandbois & 2 moreMDSaint-Jacques-le-Mineur · 13 kmMaxime Daigneault & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Saint-Michel
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Michel?
Charles Trudeau (Canadian businessman) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Claire IsaBelle and Claude Dubois.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Michel?
Wikidata places 7 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Saint-Michel known for?
67% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Michel?
Cyprien Dorris (1860). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1993.
Who counts as from Saint-Michel?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Saint-Michel’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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 (5)
- Cyprien Dorris: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jimmy Oligny: Terry Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre-Adolphe Pinsoneault: Fauteux, Aegidius, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Garand: NPS Photo, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wilfrid Derome: Unknown author, Public domain, 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).