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Charles Connell
1810–1873Canadian politician
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Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people · Northampton, New Brunswick
Charles Connell, born in 1810, is Northampton’s famous person on record
The Canadian politician Charles Connell was born in 1810. Their birth falls before Confederation. Readers can find them written up in 6 languages. A short trip away, Woodstock (8 km) counts 27 famous people, Blaine Higgs among them.
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Charles Connell
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Charles Connell
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Questions about famous people from Northampton
Who is the most famous person from Northampton?
Charles Connell (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Northampton?
For Northampton the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Northampton known for?
The largest group is leaders, 1 in all out of 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Northampton?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Northampton’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?
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
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- Blaine Higgs: New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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