MT#1
Writing & Arts
Marcel Trudel
1917–2011Canadian historian
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Saint-Narcisse, Quebec
4 famous people were born in Saint-Narcisse
The best known is the Canadian historian Marcel Trudel, with articles in 5 languages. Second place goes to the Canadian journalist Aurore Dessureault-Descôteaux, third to Marcel Hamelin. Over 28 years of births, the list goes from Marcel Trudel (1917) to Réjean Bonenfant (1945). More are writers and artists than anything else, 4 in all.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Marcel Trudel
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1917
Marcel Trudel
Youngest
1945
Réjean Bonenfant
Most common field
Writing & Arts
4 people
The best known
Born in Saint-Narcisse
The three best known are all writers and artists.
AD#2
Writing & Arts
Aurore Dessureault-Descôteaux
1926–2015Canadian journalist
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
MH#3
Writing & Arts
Marcel Hamelin
born 1937Canadian historian
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Saint-Narcisse’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1910s, at 1.
Writing & Arts
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Saint-Narcisse
1 more, best known first.
Réjean Bonenfant
1945–2022Quebec essayist, novelist and short story writer
Writing & ArtsWikipedia (French) ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Shawinigan has the most on record, with 95.
Shawinigan · 19 kmJean Chrétien & 94 more
Saint-Tite · 19 kmGratien Gélinas & 11 moreFCSainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan · 8 kmFrançois-Xavier Cloutier & 10 moreJMChamplain · 16 kmJean Marchand & 10 moreHBBatiscan · 19 kmHervé-Edgar Brunelle & 9 moreÉLSaint-Maurice · 13 kmÉric Laplante & 6 moreJCSaint-Stanislas · 7 kmJoseph-Alphida Crête & 1 more
Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel · 19 kmJacques Plante & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Saint-Narcisse
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Narcisse?
By our measure the best known is Marcel Trudel (Canadian historian); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Aurore Dessureault-Descôteaux and Marcel Hamelin.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Narcisse?
Wikidata places 10 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Saint-Narcisse known for?
Here the share is 100%; across Canadian towns it is 12%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Narcisse?
Marcel Trudel (1917). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1945.
Who counts as from Saint-Narcisse?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Saint-Narcisse’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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)
- Jean Chrétien: Michael Ignatieff, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gratien Gélinas: Paul, Henri, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques Plante: 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).