#1Famous people · Verchères, Quebec
25 famous people from Verchères, many of them leaders
The best known is the Canadian composer Calixa Lavallée, with articles in 20 languages. Close behind are Ludger Duvernay and Pierre-Étienne Fortin. Most were born before Confederation: 19 of them. 19 of them were born before Confederation, the first Madeleine de Verchères in 1678.
Born here
25
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Calixa Lavallée
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1678
Madeleine de Verchères
Youngest
1957
Pierre Moreau
Most common field
Politics & Law
18 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Verchères is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is soldiers and sailors, at 7.9 times.
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 Verchères’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1830s than in any other ten years, 5 in all.
Politics & LawMilitaryNotableMusicScience & Medicine
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Verchères
Leaders take two of the three places.
#1
#2Politics & Law
Ludger Duvernay
1799–1852Canadian politician
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Pierre-Étienne Fortin
1823–1888Canadian politician
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Verchères
22 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Towns around it with someone on record: 8.
SPRepentigny · 7 kmSamuel Piette & 50 more
L'Assomption · 10 kmSebastien Toutant & 37 more
Varennes · 12 kmMarguerite d'Youville & 27 more
Lavaltrie · 13 kmMarie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté & 8 moreGCSaint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu · 14 kmGeorge-Étienne Cartier & 8 more
Contrecoeur · 14 kmJoseph Edmond Marcile & 8 more
Saint-Sulpice · 6 kmJacques Rougeau & 7 moreCDCharlemagne · 12 kmCéline Dion & 7 more
L'Assomption · 10 kmSebastien Toutant & 37 moreVarennes · 12 kmMarguerite d'Youville & 27 moreLavaltrie · 13 kmMarie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté & 8 moreGCSaint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu · 14 kmGeorge-Étienne Cartier & 8 moreContrecoeur · 14 kmJoseph Edmond Marcile & 8 moreSaint-Sulpice · 6 kmJacques Rougeau & 7 moreCDCharlemagne · 12 kmCéline Dion & 7 moreQuestions about famous people from Verchères
Who is the most famous person from Verchères?
Calixa Lavallée (Canadian composer) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Ludger Duvernay and Pierre-Étienne Fortin.
How many famous people were born in Verchères?
Wikidata counts 27 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Verchères known for?
72% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Verchères?
Madeleine de Verchères (1678). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1957.
Who counts as from Verchères?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Verchères’ 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?
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 (20)
- Calixa Lavallée: L'Opinion publique Vol. 4, no 11, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ludger Duvernay: Jeangagnon, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre-Étienne Fortin: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Baptiste Rolland: Société d'histoire de la Rivière-du-Nord - P001 - Fonds Rolland Inc., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Madeleine de Verchères: Gerald Sinclair Hayward (1845-1926), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre Moreau: FRE1991DDIE, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Carmel Laporte: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pio H. Laporte: New Brunswick, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- François Coulon de Villiers: J.E. Livernois, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hercule Dupré: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maximilien Globensky: Photographer unknown, c1883. Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Roy-Audy, c. 1812, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre Amiot: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre Bachand: Jules-Isaïe Benoît, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- François-Xavier Malhiot: Frederick William Lock, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Félix Messier: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sebastien Toutant: Letartean, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marguerite d'Youville: James Duncan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté: Sister Marie Perras, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Edmond Marcile: Unknown author , Published by Montreal Perrault Print. Co, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacques Rougeau: George Napolitano, 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).