GC#1
Business
Gaston Clermont
1913–2005Liberal Party member of the Canadian House of Commons
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Baelzvuv · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Chomedey, Laval
Chomedey’s famous people span 191 years: 5 births from 1774 to 1965
Best known of all is Gaston Clermont, written about in 4 languages. Behind the leader come Pierre Creamer and François Tassé. The list reaches back to François Tassé, born in 1774, one of 2 born before Confederation. For its size the list is short: 0.6 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.1 in the typical Quebec town.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Gaston Clermont
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1774
François Tassé
Youngest
1965
Julie Daigneault
Most common field
Sports
2 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Chomedey’s famous people were born
The 1910s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Chomedey
PC#2
Sports
Pierre Creamer
born 1944Canadian ice hockey coach
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
FT#3
Politics & Law
François Tassé
1774–1832Canadian politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Chomedey is known for
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
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Everyone else born in Chomedey
Another 2, the earliest born in 1825.
Julie Daigneault
born 1965Canadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, Pan American Games bronze medallist
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Questions about famous people from Chomedey
Who is the most famous person from Chomedey?
The top name is Gaston Clermont (Liberal Party member of the Canadian House of Commons), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Pierre Creamer and François Tassé.
How many famous people were born in Chomedey?
Wikidata has 12 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Chomedey known for?
40% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Chomedey?
The earliest is François Tassé, born in 1774, and the latest birth listed is 1965.
Who counts as from Chomedey?
Born inside Chomedey’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed in it.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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.
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).