#1Famous people · Wickham, Quebec
Edward P. Doherty is the only name on the Wickham list
The union Army officer Edward P. Doherty was born in 1838. Their birth falls before Confederation. 2 languages have an article about them. Drummondville, 13 km away, has 93 on its list, the best known Karine Vanasse.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Edward P. Doherty
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1838
Edward P. Doherty
Most common field
Military
1 person
The best known
Born in Wickham
#1Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Drummondville · 13 kmKarine Vanasse & 92 moreSLActon Vale · 14 kmSerge Lemoyne & 9 more
Saint-Germain-de-Grantham · 11 kmMarie Rose Ferron & 4 moreLBSaint-Eugène · 14 kmLucien Brouillard & 3 moreFMDurham-Sud · 19 kmFrancis McCrea & 2 moreHDL'Avenir · 15 kmHenry Thomas Duffy & 1 moreULSainte-Hélène-de-Bagot · 18 kmUrbain Ledoux & 1 moreDBSaint-Théodore-d'Acton · 8 kmDidier BochatayQuestions about famous people from Wickham
Who is the most famous person from Wickham?
Edward P. Doherty (union Army officer) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them.
How many famous people were born in Wickham?
Born in Wickham and confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article: 1.
What is Wickham known for?
soldiers and sailors lead the list, with 1 of 1. 100% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 2%.
Who counts as from Wickham?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Wickham’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?
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 (3)
- Edward P. Doherty: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Karine Vanasse: Gaelle Leroyer, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marie Rose Ferron: Catholic Web, 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).