ÉB#1
Sports
Éric Bédard
born 1976Canadian short-track speed skater
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Veillg1 · CC0Famous people · Sainte-Thècle, Quebec
Leaders stand out among the 6 famous people born in Sainte-Thècle
Articles in 15 languages make the Canadian short-track speed skater Éric Bédard the best known. The largest group, 3, was born between 1914 and 1945. Over 56 years of births, the list goes from Gérard Perron (1920) to Éric Bédard (1976). The longest list of any town in Quebec belongs to Montréal, with 5,278.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Éric Bédard
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1920
Gérard Perron
Youngest
1976
Éric Bédard
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Sainte-Thècle is known for
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Born in Sainte-Thècle
YR#2
Science & Medicine
Yvon Rivard
born 1945Canadian professor and writer
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
CT#3
Politics & Law
Claude Tessier
1943–2010Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Sainte-Thècle’s famous people were born
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Sainte-Thècle
Still to come: 3 more, from 1920 to 1964.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Saint-Tite leads the towns around it, with 12 names.
Questions about famous people from Sainte-Thècle
Who is the most famous person from Sainte-Thècle?
The top name is Éric Bédard (Canadian short-track speed skater), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Yvon Rivard and Claude Tessier.
How many famous people were born in Sainte-Thècle?
Wikidata places 8 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Sainte-Thècle known for?
67% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Sainte-Thècle?
The earliest is Gérard Perron, born in 1920, and the latest birth listed is 1976.
Who counts as from Sainte-Thècle?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Sainte-Thècle’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?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (1)
- Gratien Gélinas: Paul, Henri, 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).