Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.0No one from Shannon is on the famous people list yet
Loretteville, 12 km away, has 14 on its list, the best known Myriam Bédard. Across Quebec, the lists cover 605 towns. No town in Quebec lists more than Montréal, with 5,278. After Montréal, the next longest list in Quebec is Québec’s, with 1,179.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Shannon’s municipal boundary and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Shannon as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Shannon
L'Ancienne-Lorette · 16 kmPatrice Bergeron & 13 moreMGWendake · 12 kmMax Gros-Louis & 5 moreJMSainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier · 8 kmJacques Marcotte & 1 moreJCLac-Saint-Charles · 11 kmJean-Philippe Chabot
Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier · 11 kmMarc-André BédardKBSaint-Émile · 14 kmKevin Bizier
Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides · 15 kmPascal NormandQuestions about famous people from Shannon
Who counts as from Shannon?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Shannon’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
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 (3)
- Patrice Bergeron: Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marc-André Bédard: Mef.ellingen, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pascal Normand: Pascal Normand, 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).