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Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Chapleau, Ontario
Chapleau is the birthplace of 8 famous people
Most widely known is Ron Schock, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 6 languages. Floyd Curry is second and Jason Ward third. The largest group, 4, was born between 1914 and 1945. The biggest group are athletes: 4.
Born here
8
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ron Schock
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1912
Adélard Lafrance
Youngest
1979
Jason Ward
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Chapleau
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Through the years
When Chapleau’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1940s, at 3.
SportsPolitics & LawMilitaryWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Chapleau is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.3 times.
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 Chapleau
Another 5, the earliest born in 1912.
Shirley Fletcher Horn
born 1940Cree Canadian university chancellor and community leader
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No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Chapleau
Who is the most famous person from Chapleau?
The top name is Ron Schock (Canadian ice hockey player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Floyd Curry and Jason Ward.
How many famous people were born in Chapleau?
Wikidata has 9 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Chapleau known for?
50% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Chapleau?
The earliest is Adélard Lafrance, born in 1912, and the latest birth listed is 1979.
Who counts as from Chapleau?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Chapleau’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’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?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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.
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).