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Politics & Law
LeRoy Washburn
1934–2019Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Wm. Notman & Son · Public domainFamous people · Blackville, New Brunswick
Blackville has one famous person on record
The Canadian politician LeRoy Washburn was born in 1934. Their birth falls between 1914 and 1945. Articles about them exist in 2 languages. Go 16 km to Southesk and the list grows to 2, with Daniel Chaplin at the top.
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LeRoy Washburn
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
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1934
LeRoy Washburn
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Politics & Law
1 person
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Born in Blackville
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Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Blackville, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Blackville
Who is the most famous person from Blackville?
LeRoy Washburn (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them.
How many famous people were born in Blackville?
Count on the list: 1, each born in Blackville according to Wikidata and an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Blackville known for?
The largest group is leaders, 1 in all out of 1. They make up 100% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Blackville?
Born inside Blackville’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.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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.
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).