#1Sports
Garven Metusala
born 1999Haitian-Canadian soccer player
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Terrebonne, Quebec
42 famous people from Terrebonne, many of them leaders
The best known is the Haitian-Canadian soccer player Garven Metusala, with articles in 17 languages. 21 of them were born before Confederation, the first Joseph Beauchamp in 1739. Before Confederation, 21 were born, the most of any period. The list is still growing: 13 were born since 1970.
Born here
42
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Garven Metusala
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1739
Joseph Beauchamp
Youngest
2006
Olivier Rioux
Most common field
Politics & Law
21 people
What stands out about Terrebonne’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Terrebonne is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 2.3 times as common.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Through the years
When Terrebonne’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1990s, with 6 people born in that decade.
Politics & LawSportsMusicFilm, TV & StageFaithWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineBusinessNotable
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Terrebonne
The three are covered in 17, 12 and 10 languages: Garven Metusala, Maria Anna Blondin and Catherine Brunet.
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#2Faith
Maria Anna Blondin
1809–1890Canadian Catholic nun and teacher, blessed
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
CB#3
Film, TV & Stage
Catherine Brunet
born 1990Québécois actress
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Terrebonne
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Mascouche has the most on record, with 15.
ÉMMascouche · 4 kmÉmilie Mondor & 14 moreJDSainte-Anne-des-Plaines · 12 kmJonathan Delisle & 9 moreÉTLorraine · 10 kmÉdouard Therriault & 3 moreJBSaint-Vincent-de-Paul · 12 kmJoseph Brunet & 2 more
Rivière-des-Prairies · 11 kmJoseph-François Armand & 1 moreAPSaint-François · 8 kmAugustin Perrault
Bois-des-Filion · 9 kmMaud Cohen
Rivière-des-Prairies · 11 kmJoseph-François Armand & 1 moreAPSaint-François · 8 kmAugustin PerraultBois-des-Filion · 9 kmMaud CohenQuestions about famous people from Terrebonne
Who is the most famous person from Terrebonne?
The top name is Garven Metusala (haitian-Canadian soccer player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Maria Anna Blondin and Catherine Brunet.
How many famous people were born in Terrebonne?
Wikidata places 57 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Terrebonne known for?
50% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Terrebonne?
Joseph Beauchamp (1739). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2006.
Who counts as from Terrebonne?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Terrebonne’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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 (22)
- Garven Metusala: John Jacques, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maria Anna Blondin: Archives générales de la Congrégation des Soeurs de Sainte-Anne, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis-Olivier Taillon: Aegidius Fauteux, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Olivier Rioux: The White House, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alphonse Desjardins: Notman & Sandham, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marc Dupré: Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rodolphe Forget: Not mentioned in the source, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Nicholson Gibbs: William Notman / Henry Sandham, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Judith Jasmin: Conrad Poirier, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis-Joseph Forget: William Notman, 1893, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis-Rodrigue Masson: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Woobens Pacius: Cold, Indrid, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- François Xavier Matthieu: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Philippe Maillet: Tori Hartman, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sylvain Lacombe: Veilleux79, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph-Balsora Turgeon: BiblioArchives / LibraryArchives from Canada, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Léon Adolphe Chauvin: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jay Scøtt: LouisEricG, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- JiCi Lauzon: Pierrette Ménard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis Labrèche-Viger: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph-François Armand: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maud Cohen: Bull-Doser, 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).