#1Film, TV & Stage
Caroline Rhea
born 1964Canadian actress
31 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Westmount, Quebec
18 famous people come from Westmount, Caroline Rhea the best known
Articles in 31 languages make the Canadian actress Caroline Rhea the best known. The next two names are Douglas Shearer and Sam Roberts. 7 of them were born between 1946 and 1969, more than in any other period. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 8.8, close to the 6.1 of the typical Quebec town.
Born here
18
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Caroline Rhea
31 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1899
Douglas Shearer
Youngest
1985
Tobias Oriwol
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Westmount’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Westmount’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1950s, at 4.
SportsBusinessFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsMusicPolitics & LawMilitaryScience & Medicine
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Westmount
The three are covered in 31, 14 and 13 languages: Caroline Rhea, Douglas Shearer and Sam Roberts.
#1DS#2
Writing & Arts
Douglas Shearer
1899–1971Canadian sound designer and recording director
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Known for
What Westmount is known for
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Everyone else born in Westmount
The other 15 span the years 1906 to 1985.
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Questions about famous people from Westmount
Who is the most famous person from Westmount?
The top name is Caroline Rhea (Canadian actress), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Douglas Shearer and Sam Roberts.
How many famous people were born in Westmount?
Wikidata places 29 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Westmount known for?
They make up 28% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Westmount?
Douglas Shearer (1899). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1985.
Who counts as from Westmount?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Westmount’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?
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 (6)
- Caroline Rhea: Mremoji, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sam Roberts: Sandy Chase, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Don Getty: Gilbert A. Milne & Co. Ltd., CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kenneth Farmer: The original uploader was YUL89YYZ at English Wikipedia ., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Shatner: Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edmond-Joseph Massicotte: La Presse, 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).