DB#1
Sports
Daryl Boyle
born 1987Canadian ice hockey player
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Rod Lafond · CC BY 3.0Famous people · Sparwood, British Columbia
Sparwood counts 2 famous people, first among them Daryl Boyle
Articles in 13 languages make the Canadian ice hockey player Daryl Boyle the best known. The only other name is the Canadian ice hockey player Gordon Turlick. Go 18 km to Electoral Area A, East Kootenay and the list grows to 3, with Stanford Smith at the top. Born in 1939, Gordon Turlick is the first name on record, and Daryl Boyle, born in 1987, the most recent.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Daryl Boyle
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1939
Gordon Turlick
Youngest
1987
Daryl Boyle
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Sparwood
GT#2
Sports
Gordon Turlick
born 1939Canadian ice hockey player
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Questions about famous people from Sparwood
Who is the most famous person from Sparwood?
The top name is Daryl Boyle (Canadian ice hockey player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Gordon Turlick.
How many famous people were born in Sparwood?
Wikidata places 4 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Sparwood known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 100%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Sparwood?
Gordon Turlick, from 1939; the most recent birth on the list is from 1987.
Who counts as from Sparwood?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Sparwood’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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.
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