Robert G. L. Waite
1919–1999Canadian historian
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Photo: Daver112 · CC BY 3.0Articles in 7 languages make the Canadian historian Robert G. L. Waite the best known. Close behind are Bill Robinson and Blair Davidson. The list runs from James Newman, born in 1903, to Tristan Mullin, born in 1996. 3 of them are athletes, more than in any other field.
Two of the three are athletes.
Canadian historian
Canadian ice hockey centreman, born 1921
Canadian ice hockey player
More were born in the 1910s than in any other decade: 2.
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.3 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
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By our measure the best known is Robert G. L. Waite (Canadian historian); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Bill Robinson and Blair Davidson.
50% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
James Newman, born in 1903. The youngest on the list was born in 1996.
Born inside Cartwright-Roblin’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) 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.
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.
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