#1Politics & Law
Jean Chrétien
born 1934Prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003
64 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Shawinigan, Quebec
Of the 95 famous people born in Shawinigan, an unusual share are writers and artists
Jean Chrétien leads the list, covered in 64 languages. Second and third on the list are Allyn Ann McLerie and Marcel Pronovost. 38 of them were born between 1946 and 1969, more than in any other period. The earliest on the list is Russ Blinco, born in 1906, and the youngest Liliane Gagnon, born in 2002.
Born here
95
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jean Chrétien
64 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1906
Russ Blinco
Youngest
2002
Liliane Gagnon
Most common field
Sports
25 people
What stands out about Shawinigan’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Shawinigan
#1
#2Film, TV & Stage
Allyn Ann McLerie
1926–2018American actress, singer and dancer
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Marcel Pronovost
1930–2015Canadian ice hockey player and coach
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Shawinigan is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as writers and artists, at 2.2 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Through the years
When Shawinigan’s famous people were born
The 1940s saw the most births of any decade: 23.
SportsWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineMusicFaithNotable
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Shawinigan
Another 92, 25 of them writers and artists.
Adrienne Choquette
1915–1973Canadian journalist, short story writer and writer
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
Claude St-Jean
born 1954NotableWikipedia (French) ↗
Michèle Auger
1963–2018Biophysicist, researcher and professor at Université Laval
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Saint-Maurice counts 7 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
ÉLSaint-Maurice · 19 kmÉric Laplante & 6 moreMTSaint-Narcisse · 19 kmMarcel Trudel & 3 more
Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel · 11 kmJacques Plante & 1 more
Saint-Boniface · 11 kmAline Chrétien & 1 more
Saint-Étienne-des-Grès · 16 kmJosée Bournival & 1 moreFPSaint-Élie-de-Caxton · 20 kmFred Pellerin & 1 morePCHérouxville · 12 kmPaul CrêteJDCharette · 19 kmJean-Paul Diamond
Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel · 11 kmJacques Plante & 1 moreSaint-Boniface · 11 kmAline Chrétien & 1 moreSaint-Étienne-des-Grès · 16 kmJosée Bournival & 1 moreFPSaint-Élie-de-Caxton · 20 kmFred Pellerin & 1 morePCHérouxville · 12 kmPaul CrêteJDCharette · 19 kmJean-Paul DiamondQuestions about famous people from Shawinigan
Who is the most famous person from Shawinigan?
Jean Chrétien (prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Allyn Ann McLerie and Marcel Pronovost.
How many famous people were born in Shawinigan?
Wikidata places 143 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Shawinigan known for?
That is 26% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Shawinigan?
Russ Blinco (1906). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2002.
Who counts as from Shawinigan?
The list takes people born within Shawinigan’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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 (34)
- Jean Chrétien: Michael Ignatieff, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Allyn Ann McLerie: CBS Television, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marcel Pronovost: TGC-Topps Gum Cards, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Louise Forestier: Pierre5018, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rudolf Raff: VRosei, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anabelle Langlois: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Martin Gélinas: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Genest: Richard Phipps, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Russ Blinco: Russ_Blinco.jpg : Unknown derivative work: GoAvs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean Pronovost: Panini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michaël Bournival: Hugh Lee from Edmonton Alberta, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Muffy Calder: Miguel Nacenta, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Yves Lafontaine: Trazom 1971, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gérard Lamy: GenealogieQuebec, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jonathan Bellemare: TaraO, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sylvain Cossette: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- François Blais: More veggies, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maurice Bellemare: Photo G.P.R./ La Presse/ Archival by La Presse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Raymond Chrétien: US Embassy Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stéphane Julien: Kiel83, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denis Trudel: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Donald Martel: LouisRoyQc, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- François Ricard: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Isabelle Courteau: Cyberdependant, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Guy Trépanier: Gilles Dufresne, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ariane Gélinas: David Arsenault (Captimedia), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques Gauthier: Jacques Gauthier, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-François Bastien: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Louise Lacoursière: Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michel Audy: Yource, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Renée Gagnon: Alice Rivard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques Plante: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Aline Chrétien: Jean_and_Aline_Chretien.jpg : Presidential Press and Information Office derivative work: Jbarta, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Josée Bournival: Bournij4, 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).