FB#1
Politics & Law
France Bonsant
born 1952Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Waterville, Quebec
4 famous people were born in Waterville
Going by the number of languages that write about them, the Canadian politician France Bonsant is the best known. The Canadian dancer Paul-André Fortier ranks second, ahead of Camille Laverdière. From Camille Laverdière to France Bonsant, the births on the list run from 1927 to 1952. Leaders make up the largest group, 2 of them.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
France Bonsant
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1927
Camille Laverdière
Youngest
1952
France Bonsant
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Waterville
PF#2
Film, TV & Stage
Paul-André Fortier
born 1948Canadian dancer
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
CL#3
Science & Medicine
Camille Laverdière
1927–2020University professor of Geography, and poet
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Through the years
When Waterville’s famous people were born
Politics & LawFilm, TV & StageScience & Medicine
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Waterville is known for
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Waterville
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Sherbrooke has the most on record: 240.
Questions about famous people from Waterville
Who is the most famous person from Waterville?
France Bonsant (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Paul-André Fortier and Camille Laverdière.
How many famous people were born in Waterville?
Of the 5 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Waterville known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Waterville?
Camille Laverdière, from 1927; the most recent birth on the list is from 1952.
Who counts as from Waterville?
The list takes people born within Waterville’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?
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 (4)
- Garou: Wojciech Pędzich, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis St. Laurent: George Nakash, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alvin Head Moore: Publisher: Montreal, Lovell, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Ball: Anonymous, 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).