#1Sports
Daniel Cleary
born 1978Canadian ice hockey player
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador
Leaders stand out among the 17 famous people born in Carbonear
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey player Daniel Cleary, covered in 15 languages. Robert William Boyle, the Canadian-British physicist, comes second, with Frank Moores third. Among the 55 towns in Newfoundland and Labrador with famous people on record, the town ranks 3rd. 6 of them were born between 1946 and 1969, more than in any other period.
Born here
17
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Daniel Cleary
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1813
William Gosse
Youngest
1978
Daniel Cleary
Most common field
Politics & Law
9 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Carbonear is known for
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 2.4 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Carbonear
#1
#2Science & Medicine
Robert William Boyle
1883–1955Canadian-British physicist
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
FM#3
Politics & Law
Frank Moores
1933–2005Canadian politician
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Carbonear’s famous people were born
Politics & LawScience & MedicineMusicWriting & ArtsSportsBusiness
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Carbonear
Another 14, the earliest born in 1813.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Carbonear
Who is the most famous person from Carbonear?
Daniel Cleary (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Robert William Boyle and Frank Moores.
How many famous people were born in Carbonear?
21 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Carbonear known for?
That is 53% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Carbonear?
William Gosse (1813). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1978.
Who counts as from Carbonear?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Carbonear’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
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 (8)
- Daniel Cleary: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert William Boyle: File:Pioneers of Submarine Detection.tiff : Amir Manbachi derivative work: נדב ס, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Duane Andrews: ElizPalmer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Duff: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John S. Currie: Srgulliver, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Maddock: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Duff: Unknown author, Public domain, 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).