CL#1
Sports
Chris Lyness
born 1980Canadian ice hockey player
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
Photo: Parcours riverain - Ville de Montréal from Canada · CC BY 2.0Famous people · Baie-D'Urfé, Quebec
Baie-D'Urfé has one famous person on record
The Canadian ice hockey player Chris Lyness was born in 1980. 3 languages have an article about them. Go 9 km to Pointe-Claire and the list grows to 40, with Mike Matheson at the top. Across Quebec, 605 towns list someone born there.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Chris Lyness
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1980
Chris Lyness
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Baie-D'Urfé
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Pointe-Claire · 9 kmMike Matheson & 39 more
Kirkland · 5 kmJames Pantemis & 7 moreBSL'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève · 9 kmBob Sauvé & 7 moreALSainte-Anne-de-Bellevue · 3 kmAlfred Lépine & 6 moreMVBeaconsfield · 4 kmMia Vallée & 5 more
Pierrefonds-Ouest · 7 kmMylène Farmer & 5 moreMLL'Île-Perrot · 4 kmMarc Lalonde & 4 moreJWNotre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot · 3 kmJaylyn WrightQuestions about famous people from Baie-D'Urfé
Who is the most famous person from Baie-D'Urfé?
The top name is Chris Lyness (Canadian ice hockey player), going by Wikipedia coverage.
How many famous people were born in Baie-D'Urfé?
Born in Baie-D'Urfé and confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article: 1. Wikidata places 2 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Baie-D'Urfé known for?
Of the 1 on the list, 1 are athletes. 100% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Baie-D'Urfé?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Baie-D'Urfé’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on 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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (3)
- Mike Matheson: Jenn G, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Pantemis: Joe Peacock, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mylène Farmer: Boydu90, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).