AT#1
Writing & Arts
Adrien Thério
1925–2003Canadian writer
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Saint-Modeste, Quebec
Saint-Modeste is the birthplace of 2 famous people
An article in one language makes the Canadian writer Adrien Thério the best known so far. The only other name is the Canadian Catholic priest Antoine-Philippe Bérubé. The nearest list is in Rivière-du-Loup, 11 km away: 47 names, starting with Guillaume Bastille. Adrien Thério, born in 1925, is the youngest, and Antoine-Philippe Bérubé, born in 1856, the first on record.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Adrien Thério
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1856
Antoine-Philippe Bérubé
Youngest
1925
Adrien Thério
Most common field
Writing & Arts
1 person
The best known
Born in Saint-Modeste
AB#2
Faith
Antoine-Philippe Bérubé
1856–1913Canadian Catholic priest
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Known for
What Saint-Modeste is known for
Writers and artists are the most numerous, 1 of them.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Rivière-du-Loup · 11 kmGuillaume Bastille & 46 moreGDSaint-Arsène · 14 kmGeorges Dionne & 4 moreMDCacouna · 14 kmMario Dumont & 4 moreMASaint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup · 17 kmMarcel Aubut & 2 moreJMSaint-Antonin · 7 kmJoseph-Enoil Michaud & 1 moreJBNotre-Dame-du-Portage · 16 kmJoseph Gaspard BoucherQuestions about famous people from Saint-Modeste
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Modeste?
Adrien Thério (Canadian writer) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Antoine-Philippe Bérubé.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Modeste?
Wikidata places 5 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Saint-Modeste known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 12%; here, 50%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Modeste?
Antoine-Philippe Bérubé, from 1856; the most recent birth on the list is from 1925.
Who counts as from Saint-Modeste?
The list takes people born within Saint-Modeste’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?
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 (1)
- Guillaume Bastille: Beth Rand, 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).