SC#1
Science & Medicine
Shirley Jackson Case
1872–1947Canadian mathematician and theologian
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFamous people · Springfield, New Brunswick
Springfield is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Shirley Jackson Case, the Canadian mathematician and theologian, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. The only other name is the Canadian politician Tammy Scott-Wallace. For more famous names, Hampton is 19 km away: its list has 4, led by John Peters Humphrey. The list’s best known name, Shirley Jackson Case, dates from 1872.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Shirley Jackson Case
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1872
Shirley Jackson Case
Most common field
Science & Medicine
1 person
The best known
Born in Springfield
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Known for
What Springfield is known for
1 of them work in Science & Medicine, the biggest field.
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Questions about famous people from Springfield
Who is the most famous person from Springfield?
Shirley Jackson Case (Canadian mathematician and theologian) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Tammy Scott-Wallace.
How many famous people were born in Springfield?
Wikidata counts 3 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Springfield known for?
Here the share is 50%; across Canadian towns it is 5%.
Who counts as from Springfield?
The list takes people born within Springfield’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (1)
- John Peters Humphrey: Edgar P. Smith [1879-1952], Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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