Hervé Lord
born 1958Canadian ice sledge hockey player
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Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.0Most widely known is Hervé Lord, the Canadian ice sledge hockey player, with articles in 4 languages. The Canadian politician Lise Bourgault ranks second, ahead of Joseph Bilodeau. Births span 1900 to 1958, from Joseph Bilodeau to Hervé Lord. The longest list in Quebec is Montréal’s, with 5,278 names.
Canadian ice sledge hockey player
Canadian politician
Canadian politician
2 of them work in Politics & Law, the biggest field.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
By our measure the best known is Hervé Lord (Canadian ice sledge hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Lise Bourgault and Joseph Bilodeau.
67% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Joseph Bilodeau, born in 1900. The youngest on the list was born in 1958.
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Saint-Pamphile’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.
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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.
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