Photo: Michael Santschi · Public domainSainte-Sabine has no famous person on record yet
Farnham, 5 km off, can claim 19 famous people, the best known Yves Rodier. The longest list of any town in Quebec belongs to Montréal, with 5,278. Only Montréal outnumbers Québec in Quebec, whose list holds 1,179 names. In Quebec, 605 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Sainte-Sabine’s municipal boundary, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Sainte-Sabine with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Sainte-Sabine
The best known from each town within 20 km of Sainte-Sabine, with how many people each has.
Farnham · 5 kmYves Rodier & 18 moreLDHenryville · 18 kmLouis Philippe Demers & 10 more
Bedford · 14 kmCecil Hart & 7 moreAMAnge-Gardien · 14 kmAzilda Marchand & 4 more
Saint-Alexandre · 9 kmAlex Surprenant & 2 moreMGSainte-Brigide-d'Iberville · 10 kmMarcel Gagnon & 2 more
Mont-Saint-Grégoire · 16 kmAndré Bessette & 1 moreGBSainte-Anne-de-Sabrevois · 18 kmGérard BessetteQuestions about famous people from Sainte-Sabine
Who counts as from Sainte-Sabine?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Sainte-Sabine’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?
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)
- Yves Rodier: G.Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecil Hart: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Surprenant: Longbomb, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- André Bessette: Frère Denis, c.s.c., 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).