JD#1
Politics & Law
Joseph Miville Dechene
1879–1962Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Chambord, Quebec
4 famous people call Chambord their birthplace
Most widely known is Joseph Miville Dechene, the Canadian politician, with articles in 3 languages. The next two names are Gérard Doré and Joseph-Georges Gauthier. From Joseph Miville Dechene to Paul Menard, the births on the list run from 1879 to 1952. No town in Quebec lists more than Montréal, with 5,278.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Joseph Miville Dechene
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1879
Joseph Miville Dechene
Youngest
1952
Paul Menard
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Chambord
The three are covered in 3, 2 and 1 languages: Joseph Miville Dechene, Gérard Doré and Joseph-Georges Gauthier.
GD#2
Military
Gérard Doré
1927–1944Canadian military personnel
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
JG#3
Politics & Law
Joseph-Georges Gauthier
1918–1978Canadian politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Through the years
When Chambord’s famous people were born
The 1870s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
Politics & LawMilitarySports
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Chambord is known for
Politics & Law leads the fields, with 2 people.
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 Chambord
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Roberval: 26.
Questions about famous people from Chambord
Who is the most famous person from Chambord?
The top name is Joseph Miville Dechene (Canadian politician), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Gérard Doré and Joseph-Georges Gauthier.
How many famous people were born in Chambord?
Wikidata counts 6 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Chambord known for?
They make up 50% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Chambord?
Joseph Miville Dechene (1879). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1952.
Who counts as from Chambord?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Chambord’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?
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)
- Marianne St-Gelais: TofflerAnn, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marc-André Bédard: Simon Villeneuve, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).