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Famous people · Bay Roberts, Newfoundland and Labrador
Bay Roberts’ famous people span 113 years: 5 births from 1872 to 1985
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian writer David French. Second place goes to the Canadian ice hockey player Brandon Roach, third to Eric Dawe. The list comes to 7.8 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador, at 6.1. David French was born in 1939.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
David French
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1872
William H. Cave
Youngest
1985
Brandon Roach
Most common field
Business
2 people
The best known
Born in Bay Roberts
David French, Brandon Roach and Eric Dawe are written about in 5, 2 and 1 languages.
BR#2
Sports
Brandon Roach
born 1985Canadian ice hockey player
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
ED#3
Business
Eric Dawe
1921–2015Canadian businessman and politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Bay Roberts’s famous people were born
The 1930s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
BusinessWriting & ArtsSportsFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Bay Roberts is known for
Business leads the fields, with 2 people.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Bay Roberts
2 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Towns around it with someone on record: 4.
Questions about famous people from Bay Roberts
Who is the most famous person from Bay Roberts?
David French (Canadian writer) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Brandon Roach and Eric Dawe.
How many famous people were born in Bay Roberts?
Wikidata places 6 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Bay Roberts known for?
They make up 40% here, compared with 2% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bay Roberts?
The earliest is William H. Cave, born in 1872, and the latest birth listed is 1985.
Who counts as from Bay Roberts?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Bay Roberts’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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).
Photo credits (3)
- William H. Cave: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Cleary: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Korab: Bjarte Hetland, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
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).