AR#1
Politics & Law
Adolphe-Basile Routhier
1839–1920Canadian judge, author, lyricist
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Laceoflight Louis-Philippe Rousselle-Brosseau · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Saint-Placide, Quebec
4 famous people come from Saint-Placide, Adolphe-Basile Routhier the best known
Adolphe-Basile Routhier is the best known, with articles in 10 languages. Second and third on the list are Jean-Baptiste Angrignon and Yves Blais. Over 92 years of births, the list goes from Adolphe-Basile Routhier (1839) to Yves Blais (1931). The longest list of any town in Quebec belongs to Montréal, with 5,278.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Adolphe-Basile Routhier
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1839
Adolphe-Basile Routhier
Youngest
1931
Yves Blais
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Saint-Placide
JA#2
Politics & Law
Jean-Baptiste Angrignon
1875–1948Canadian politician/city councillor/Montreal, Quebec.
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
YB#3
Through the years
When Saint-Placide’s famous people were born
The 1830s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
Politics & LawFilm, TV & Stage
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Saint-Placide is known for
Leaders stand out most, at 3.4 times the usual share.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Saint-Placide
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Towns around it with someone on record: 8.
Lachute · 17 kmKevin Lowe & 24 more
Rigaud · 9 kmAmanda Walsh & 17 more
Hudson · 9 kmJean-Paul L'Allier & 6 more
Oka · 12 kmOvide Charlebois & 5 more
Saint-André-d'Argenteuil · 12 kmJohn Abbott & 4 moreALSainte-Marthe · 15 kmAlcide Laurin & 4 moreEGKanesatake · 9 kmEllen Gabriel & 1 moreJFSaint-Lazare · 15 kmJocelyne FelxQuestions about famous people from Saint-Placide
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Placide?
By our measure the best known is Adolphe-Basile Routhier (Canadian judge, author, lyricist); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Jean-Baptiste Angrignon and Yves Blais.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Placide?
5 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Saint-Placide known for?
They make up 75% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Placide?
Adolphe-Basile Routhier (1839). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1931.
Who counts as from Saint-Placide?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Saint-Placide’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (5)
- Kevin Lowe: LoweNicholsMandel.jpg : Mack Male derivative work: Connormah, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Amanda Walsh: CanadiansAbroadLA, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Paul L'Allier: Simon Villeneuve, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ovide Charlebois: Église catholique, 1936, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Abbott: William James Topley, 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).