GP#1
Politics & Law
Gaspard Pacaud
1859–1928Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska, Quebec
A single famous person was born in Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska: Gaspard Pacaud
In 1859, the Canadian politician Gaspard Pacaud was born. Their birth falls before Confederation. Articles about them exist in 2 languages. Go 12 km to Victoriaville and the list grows to 59, with Gilbert Perreault at the top.
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Gaspard Pacaud
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
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1859
Gaspard Pacaud
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Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
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Famous people from the towns next door
Victoriaville · 12 kmGilbert Perreault & 58 more
Plessisville · 14 kmMavrik Bourque & 16 more
Princeville · 8 kmÉdouard Richard & 11 moreABSaint-Ferdinand · 19 kmAlex Boissonneault & 4 more
Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska · 12 kmPaul Tourigny
Plessisville · 15 kmFrançois-Théodore SavoieJLSaint-Valère · 19 kmJean LandryQuestions about famous people from Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska?
Gaspard Pacaud (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska?
Born in Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska and confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article: 1.
What is Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska known for?
Of the 1 on the list, 1 are leaders. 100% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who counts as from Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on 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)
- Gilbert Perreault: Engines On, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mavrik Bourque: Cass, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Édouard Richard: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Tourigny: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- François-Théodore Savoie: Unknown author , Published by Montreal Perrault Print. Co, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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