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Photo: KDBelliveau · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Burin, Newfoundland and Labrador
The 5 famous people born in Burin, led by Anna Lambe
At the top of the list is the Canadian actress Anna Lambe, covered in 10 languages. Kathy Dunderdale is second and Mark Browne third. Births span 1892 to 2000, from John T. Cheeseman to Anna Lambe. The biggest group are leaders: 4.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Anna Lambe
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1892
John T. Cheeseman
Youngest
2000
Anna Lambe
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
What stands out about Burin’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Burin’s famous people were born
More were born in the 2000s than in any other decade: 1.
Politics & LawFilm, TV & Stage
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Burin
Two of the three are leaders.
KD#2
Politics & Law
Kathy Dunderdale
born 1952Canadian politician
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
MB#3
Politics & Law
Mark Browne
born 1993Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Burin is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 3.6 times as common.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Burin
2 more names, born between 1892 and 1935.
No one matches both filters.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Burin
Who is the most famous person from Burin?
By our measure the best known is Anna Lambe (Canadian actress); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Kathy Dunderdale and Mark Browne.
What is Burin known for?
They make up 80% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Burin?
John T. Cheeseman, born in 1892. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Burin?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Burin’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?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (1)
- Kaetlyn Osmond: David W. Carmichael, CC BY 3.0, 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).