#1Sports
Jason Demers
born 1988Canadian ice hockey player
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Dorval, Quebec
Athletes stand out among the 10 famous people born in Dorval
Articles in 16 languages make the Canadian ice hockey player Jason Demers the best known. More than half were born since 1970, 8 in all. Only 122 of the 605 towns in Quebec with anyone on record list more. The list runs from Jean Lauzon, born in 1953, to Dillon Fournier, born in 1994.
Born here
10
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jason Demers
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1953
Jean Lauzon
Youngest
1994
Dillon Fournier
Most common field
Sports
7 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Dorval’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1990s, with 4 people born in that decade.
SportsMusicScience & MedicineWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Dorval is known for
Dorval has 1.8× the usual share of athletes.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
The best known
Born in Dorval
Athletes take two of the three places.
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#2Sports
Brent Lakatos
born 1980Canadian wheelchair racer
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Music
Geneviève Racette
born 1990Canadian folk singer-songwriter from Montreal
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Dorval
The rest number 7, with 5 athletes among them.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
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Du College/Hodge · 8 kmRay Bourque & 17 moreTBDollard-Des Ormeaux · 7 kmThérèse Brisson & 3 moreCSCôte-Saint-Luc · 7 kmCy Strulovitch & 1 more
Montréal-Ouest · 8 kmStuart McLeanQuestions about famous people from Dorval
Who is the most famous person from Dorval?
Jason Demers (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Brent Lakatos and Geneviève Racette.
How many famous people were born in Dorval?
Wikidata places 14 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Dorval known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 70%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Dorval?
The earliest is Jean Lauzon, born in 1953, and the latest birth listed is 1994.
Who counts as from Dorval?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Dorval’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
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 (10)
- Jason Demers: Hockeyfreak2001, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brent Lakatos: Clément Bucco-Lechat, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Geneviève Racette: Desjardins.v, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bianca Della Porta: Bon hein, alors euh..., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dolph Schluter: thecinnamonteal, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean Lauzon: Jean Lauzon, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Saul Bellow: Photograph by Jeff Lowenthal. Published by Viking Press., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Matheson: Jenn G, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ray Bourque: Ravenswing, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stuart McLean: Alana Elliott, CC BY 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).