MA#1
Business
Margaret Jean Anderson
1915–2003Canadian businesswoman and politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: ...some guy · CC BY 2.0Famous people · Alnwick, New Brunswick
2 famous people call Alnwick their birthplace
Articles in 5 languages make the Canadian businesswoman and politician Margaret Jean Anderson the best known. One more name completes the list: William Stafford Anderson. For more famous names, Neguac is 5 km away: its list has 8, led by Carmel Robichaud. The oldest name on the list belongs to William Stafford Anderson, born in 1884, the newest to Margaret Jean Anderson, born in 1915.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Margaret Jean Anderson
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1884
William Stafford Anderson
Youngest
1915
Margaret Jean Anderson
Most common field
Business
1 person
The best known
Born in Alnwick
WA#2
Politics & Law
William Stafford Anderson
1884–1980Canadian politician (188401980) of New Brunswick, Canada
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Alnwick is known for
1 of them work in Business, the biggest field.
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Questions about famous people from Alnwick
Who is the most famous person from Alnwick?
Margaret Jean Anderson (Canadian businesswoman and politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come William Stafford Anderson.
How many famous people were born in Alnwick?
Wikidata counts 6 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Alnwick known for?
They make up 50% here, compared with 2% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Alnwick?
The earliest is William Stafford Anderson, born in 1884, and the latest birth listed is 1915.
Who counts as from Alnwick?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Alnwick’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
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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