#13 famous people call Beaumont their birthplace
Most widely known is Noah Gregor, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 8 languages. Brett Ponich is second and Hector Goudreau third. Born in 1950, Hector Goudreau is the first name on record, and Noah Gregor, born in 1998, the most recent. For every 10,000 residents the town has 1.1, while at least half the towns in Alberta list nobody born there.
Born in Beaumont
#1
#2Brett Ponich
born 1991Canadian ice hockey defenceman
Hector Goudreau
born 1950Canadian politician
What Beaumont is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 2 people.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Questions about famous people from Beaumont
Who is the most famous person from Beaumont?
By our measure the best known is Noah Gregor (Canadian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Brett Ponich and Hector Goudreau.
What is Beaumont known for?
67% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Beaumont?
Hector Goudreau, from 1950; the most recent birth on the list is from 1998.
Who counts as from Beaumont?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Beaumont’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?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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 (2)
- Noah Gregor: Jenn G, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brett Ponich: KC Gale, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).