GV#1
Politics & Law
Georges Villeneuve
1922–2020Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Saint-Prime, Quebec
Saint-Prime is the birthplace of 6 famous people
Articles in 4 languages make the Canadian politician Georges Villeneuve the best known. The largest group, 3, was born between 1914 and 1945. 2 were born in 1970 or later. For every 10,000 residents there are 21.4 on the list, well above the typical Quebec town’s 6.1.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Georges Villeneuve
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1922
Georges Villeneuve
Youngest
1998
Gab Bouchard
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Saint-Prime’s famous people were born
Film, TV & StagePolitics & LawSportsScience & MedicineMusic
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Saint-Prime
GB#2
Sports
Gilles Bilodeau
1955–2008Canadian ice hockey player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Science & Medicine
Karl Allard
born 1976Canadian engineer
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Saint-Prime is known for
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Saint-Prime
3 more names, born between 1928 and 1998.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Roberval leads the towns around it, with 26 names.
Questions about famous people from Saint-Prime
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Prime?
Georges Villeneuve (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Gilles Bilodeau and Karl Allard.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Prime?
Wikidata has 9 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Saint-Prime known for?
33% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 10%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Saint-Prime?
Georges Villeneuve (1922). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Saint-Prime?
Born inside Saint-Prime’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
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 (4)
- Karl Allard: Veilleux79, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gab Bouchard: Jean-Philippe Bujold, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marianne St-Gelais: TofflerAnn, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- François Girard: Peter Kudlacz, CC BY 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).