#1Sports
Michael Ryder
born 1980Canadian ice hockey player
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador
8 famous people were born in Bonavista, more of them athletes than in most towns
Most widely known is Michael Ryder, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 14 languages. Second place goes to the Canadian ice hockey player Adam Pardy, third to Rod Snow. The largest group, 5, was born since 1970. For every 10,000 residents there are 24.3 on the list, well above the typical Newfoundland and Labrador town’s 6.1.
Born here
8
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Michael Ryder
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1874
John Abbott
Youngest
1987
Daniel Ryder
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Bonavista’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Bonavista’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1980s, with 4 people born in that decade.
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Bonavista is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.6 times as common.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Bonavista
All three are athletes.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Bonavista
5 more, from 1874 to 1987.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Trinity Bay North has the most on record, with 7.
Questions about famous people from Bonavista
Who is the most famous person from Bonavista?
Michael Ryder (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Adam Pardy and Rod Snow.
What is Bonavista known for?
63% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bonavista?
John Abbott, born in 1874. The youngest on the list was born in 1987.
Who counts as from Bonavista?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Bonavista’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.
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).
Photo credits (4)
- Michael Ryder: Boston_Bruins_-_Savard_Lucic_Ryder.jpg : Dan4th Nicholas from Cambridge, MA, USA derivative work: Leech44, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Pardy: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Ryder: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Sweetland: Keith & Alyssa from Rochester, NY, CC BY 2.0, 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).