#1Alfred Augustus Stockton
1842–1907Canadian politician
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Alfred Augustus Stockton, the Canadian politician, was born in 1842. That places their birth before Confederation. Articles about them exist in 5 languages. Just 4 km away, Sussex’s list holds 17 names, Christian Meier the best known.

#1Canadian politician
The top name is Alfred Augustus Stockton (Canadian politician), going by Wikipedia coverage.
Count on the list: 1, each born in Studholm according to Wikidata and an English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata places 2 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
The largest group is leaders, 1 in all out of 1. 100% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Studholm’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
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).