#1Famous people · Sainte-Adèle, Quebec
Of the 11 famous people born in Sainte-Adèle, an unusual share are athletes
Maghalie Rochette, the Canadian cyclist, is the most widely known, written about in 7 languages. The Canadian politician and writer Claude-Henri Grignon ranks second, ahead of France D'Amour. 5 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. The list comes to 7.2 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Quebec, at 6.1.
Born here
11
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Maghalie Rochette
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1872
Pierre-Auguste Lafleur
Youngest
1996
Gabriel Gagne
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Sainte-Adèle’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Sainte-Adèle’s famous people were born
The 1990s top the chart, with 3 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & LawMusicBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Sainte-Adèle is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.7 times as common.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Sainte-Adèle
#1
#2Politics & Law
Claude-Henri Grignon
1894–1976Canadian politician and writer
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Music
France D'Amour
born 1964Canadian singer-songwriter
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Sainte-Adèle
Another 8, the earliest born in 1872.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts · 15 kmMikaël Kingsbury & 24 moreALPrévost · 13 kmAnouk Leblanc-Boucher & 5 moreOBMorin-Heights · 10 kmOlivia Bouffard-Nesbitt & 1 moreFASaint-Sauveur · 8 kmFrédéric AllardJCVal-David · 9 kmJosée CharbonneauCCSainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson · 11 kmCharles CharleboisJBSainte-Anne-des-Lacs · 11 kmJacques BeauséjourYVSaint-Hippolyte · 12 kmYannick VeilleuxQuestions about famous people from Sainte-Adèle
Who is the most famous person from Sainte-Adèle?
Maghalie Rochette (Canadian cyclist) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Claude-Henri Grignon and France D'Amour.
How many famous people were born in Sainte-Adèle?
Wikidata counts 14 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Sainte-Adèle known for?
64% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Sainte-Adèle?
The earliest is Pierre-Auguste Lafleur, born in 1872, and the latest birth listed is 1996.
Who counts as from Sainte-Adèle?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Sainte-Adèle’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?
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (6)
- Maghalie Rochette: Ralph Arvesen, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Claude-Henri Grignon: Photo : George Nakash, Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 1971-114 NPC, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- France D'Amour: Pierre5018, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- François Leroux: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gabriel Gagne: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mikaël Kingsbury: Clément Bucco-Lechat, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).