Photo: Velatrix · CC0No one born in Waskaganish has made the famous people list yet
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. 605 of the towns in Quebec list at least one person.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Waskaganish’s municipal boundary, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Waskaganish as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Questions about famous people from Waskaganish
Who counts as from Waskaganish?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Waskaganish’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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.
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).