EH#1
Politics & Law
Emmett Matthew Hall
1898–1995Canadian jurist and civil liberties advocate
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Saint-Colomban, Quebec
Saint-Colomban has one famous person on record
In 1898, the Canadian jurist and civil liberties advocate Emmett Matthew Hall was born. That places their birth between Confederation and 1913. Readers can find them written up in 3 languages. The nearest list is in Saint-Jérôme, 8 km away: 70 names, starting with Jonathan Huberdeau.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Emmett Matthew Hall
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1898
Emmett Matthew Hall
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Saint-Colomban
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Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 8.
Saint-Jérôme · 8 kmJonathan Huberdeau & 69 more
Mirabel · 15 kmPaul Sauvé & 37 moreJMBlainville · 20 kmJoliane Melançon & 10 moreALPrévost · 13 kmAnouk Leblanc-Boucher & 5 moreBASainte-Sophie · 16 kmBrent Aubin & 1 moreJBSainte-Anne-des-Lacs · 13 kmJacques Beauséjour
Gore · 13 kmRobert RogersFASaint-Sauveur · 18 kmFrédéric AllardQuestions about famous people from Saint-Colomban
Who is the most famous person from Saint-Colomban?
By our measure the best known is Emmett Matthew Hall (Canadian jurist and civil liberties advocate); the spotlight above gives the details.
How many famous people were born in Saint-Colomban?
For Saint-Colomban the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Saint-Colomban known for?
Of the 1 on the list, 1 are leaders. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Saint-Colomban?
The list takes people born within Saint-Colomban’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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)
- Jonathan Huberdeau: Hugh Lee from Edmonton Alberta, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Sauvé: Blank & Stoller Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Rogers: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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