#1Sports
Cedric Paquette
born 1993Canadian ice hockey player
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Gaspé, Quebec
24 famous people come from Gaspé, Cedric Paquette the best known
Most widely known is Cedric Paquette, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 11 languages. Since 1970, 10 were born, the most of any period. The oldest name on the list belongs to Edward O'Hara, born in 1767, the newest to Pier-André Côté, born in 1997. The list comes to 15.5 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.1 in the typical town in Quebec.
Born here
24
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Cedric Paquette
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1767
Edward O'Hara
Youngest
1997
Pier-André Côté
Most common field
Sports
10 people
What stands out about Gaspé’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Gaspé’s famous people were born
The 1980s top the chart, with 4 births in the decade.
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One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
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Born in Gaspé
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What Gaspé is known for
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Everyone else born in Gaspé
21 more, from 1767 to 1990.
Louise Déry
born 1955Professor of museology and art theory, curator of contemporary art, gallery director
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Questions about famous people from Gaspé
Who is the most famous person from Gaspé?
Cedric Paquette (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Pier-André Côté and Laurence Jalbert.
How many famous people were born in Gaspé?
Wikidata has 40 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Gaspé known for?
They make up 42% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Gaspé?
Edward O'Hara (1767). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1997.
Who counts as from Gaspé?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Gaspé’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 (9)
- Cedric Paquette: Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Laurence Jalbert: Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pascal Trépanier: BKLuis, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters: https://search.canbarchives.ca/photograph-album-1961-radley-walters, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christian Larrivée: Jonas Mikkelsen, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Horace Gaul: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Philippe Morin: Stefanie Kovacevic . Tigersplayer at de.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lemesurier: Livernois, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maurice Joncas: Marc Veillet, Public domain, 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).