MG#1
Politics & Law
Max Gros-Louis
1931–2020Canadian politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Pofortin · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Wendake, Quebec
6 famous people were born in Wendake from 1815 to 1982
The best known is the Canadian politician Max Gros-Louis, with articles in 5 languages. Geneviève Pettersen, the Canadian writer and novelist, comes second, with Christine Sioui-Wawanoloath third. The list’s best known name, Max Gros-Louis, dates from 1931. The biggest group are writers and artists: 3.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Max Gros-Louis
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1815
Zacharie Vincent
Youngest
1982
Geneviève Pettersen
Most common field
Writing & Arts
3 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Wendake’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1950s, at 2.
Writing & ArtsScience & MedicinePolitics & Law
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Wendake
Two of the three are writers and artists.
GP#2
Writing & Arts
Geneviève Pettersen
born 1982Canadian writer and novelist
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
CS#3
Writing & Arts
Christine Sioui-Wawanoloath
born 1952Canadian poet, writer, and artist
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Wendake is known for
Wendake has 4.2× the usual share of writers and artists.
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 Wendake
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Loretteville has the most people on record, 14 of them.
Questions about famous people from Wendake
Who is the most famous person from Wendake?
By our measure the best known is Max Gros-Louis (Canadian politician); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Geneviève Pettersen and Christine Sioui-Wawanoloath.
How many famous people were born in Wendake?
Of the 15 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Wendake known for?
They make up 50% here, compared with 12% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Wendake?
Zacharie Vincent, born in 1815. The youngest on the list was born in 1982.
Who counts as from Wendake?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Wendake’s reserve lands (the reserve’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
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 (3)
- Patrice Bergeron: Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pascal Normand: Pascal Normand, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierrette Robitaille: 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).