AT#1
Sports
Alex Tanguay
born 1979Canadian ice hockey player
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Mario Roy · CC BY 3.0Famous people · Sainte-Justine, Quebec
The 6 famous people born in Sainte-Justine, led by Alex Tanguay
Most widely known is Alex Tanguay, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 14 languages. 3 of them were born between 1914 and 1945, more than in any other period. More are writers and artists than anything else, 3 in all. The first birth on record is Marius Cayouette’s, in 1904, and the last Alex Tanguay’s, in 1979.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Alex Tanguay
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1904
Marius Cayouette
Youngest
1979
Alex Tanguay
Most common field
Writing & Arts
3 people
The best known
Born in Sainte-Justine
Two of the three are writers and artists.
RC#2
Writing & Arts
Roch Carrier
born 1937French Canadian writer and librarian
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
LL#3
Writing & Arts
Laurier Lacroix
born 1947Canadian art historian
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Sainte-Justine’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1930s, at 2.
Writing & ArtsSportsPolitics & LawMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Sainte-Justine is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as writers and artists, at 4.2 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Sainte-Justine
3 more, from 1904 to 1931.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Lac-Etchemin, with 5.
Questions about famous people from Sainte-Justine
Who is the most famous person from Sainte-Justine?
By our measure the best known is Alex Tanguay (Canadian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Roch Carrier and Laurier Lacroix.
How many famous people were born in Sainte-Justine?
Wikidata has 10 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Sainte-Justine known for?
Here the share is 50%; across Canadian towns it is 12%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Sainte-Justine?
The earliest is Marius Cayouette, born in 1904, and the latest birth listed is 1979.
Who counts as from Sainte-Justine?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Sainte-Justine’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (1)
- Marie-Michèle Gagnon: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).