Photo: Coastal Elite from Halifax, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Upper Lachine has made the famous people list yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Westmount, 3 km away: 18, led by Caroline Rhea. The longest list of any town in Quebec belongs to Montréal, with 5,278. After Montréal, the next longest list in Quebec is Québec’s, with 1,179. Across Quebec, 605 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Upper Lachine’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Wikidata has yet to record a birth in Upper Lachine for anyone with an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Upper Lachine
Questions about famous people from Upper Lachine
Who counts as from Upper Lachine?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Upper Lachine’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), 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. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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 (3)
- Caroline Rhea: Mremoji, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Shatner: Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 4.0, 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).