#1Sports
Kevin Lowe
born 1959Canadian ice hockey defenceman
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Lachute, Quebec
25 famous people from Lachute, many of them leaders
The best known is the Canadian ice hockey defenceman Kevin Lowe, with articles in 12 languages. Arthur Philemon Coleman, the Canadian geologist, comes second, with Denis Hamel third. For every 10,000 residents there are 16.2 on the list, well above the typical Quebec town’s 6.1. 8 of them were born before Confederation, the first Robert Greenshields Meikle in 1830.
Born here
25
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Kevin Lowe
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1830
Robert Greenshields Meikle
Youngest
1977
Denis Hamel
Most common field
Politics & Law
13 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Lachute is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is leaders, at 2.4 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Through the years
When Lachute’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1850s than in any other decade: 5.
Politics & LawSportsFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineMusicMilitary
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Lachute
Two of the three are athletes.
#1
#2Science & Medicine
Arthur Philemon Coleman
1852–1939Canadian geologist
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Everyone
Everyone else born in Lachute
Still to come: 22 more, from 1830 to 1967.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Rigaud leads the towns around it, with 18 names.
Questions about famous people from Lachute
Who is the most famous person from Lachute?
The top name is Kevin Lowe (Canadian ice hockey defenceman), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Arthur Philemon Coleman and Denis Hamel.
How many famous people were born in Lachute?
Wikidata places 33 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Lachute known for?
52% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lachute?
Robert Greenshields Meikle, born in 1830. The youngest on the list was born in 1977.
Who counts as from Lachute?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Lachute’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?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (12)
- Kevin Lowe: LoweNicholsMandel.jpg : Mack Male derivative work: Connormah, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Philemon Coleman: University of Toronto. Department of Publicity, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Denis Hamel: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thain Wendell MacDowell: Elliot & Fry (Photographer), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathaniel Boyd: William Cochrane (1831-1898) and John Castell Hopkins (1864-1923), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wesley Fletcher Orr: Pittaway, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Paulson: Jamie McCaffrey from Ottawa, Canada; cropped by Graham11, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- François Rozon: Borisrozon, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Amanda Walsh: CanadiansAbroadLA, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Archibald McDonald: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Abbott: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Rogers: Unknown author, 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).