JR#1
Sports
Jim Riley
1895–1969Canadian ice hockey and baseball player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people · Botsford, New Brunswick
4 famous people were born in Botsford
Jim Riley, the Canadian ice hockey and baseball player, is the most widely known, written about in 6 languages. The ice hockey player George Allen ranks second, ahead of Sherman White. More are athletes than anything else, 4 in all. The list runs from Jim Riley, born in 1895, to Sherman White, born in 1923.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jim Riley
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1895
Jim Riley
Youngest
1923
Sherman White
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Botsford
Counted by languages, Jim Riley is ahead of George Allen and Sherman White: 6, 5 and 3.
GA#2
SW#3
Sports
Sherman White
1923–1975Canadian ice hockey player
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Botsford’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1910s, at 2.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Botsford
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Botsford
Who is the most famous person from Botsford?
Jim Riley (Canadian ice hockey and baseball player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come George Allen and Sherman White.
How many famous people were born in Botsford?
5 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Botsford known for?
That is 100% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Botsford?
The earliest is Jim Riley, born in 1895, and the latest birth listed is 1923.
Who counts as from Botsford?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Botsford’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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.
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).