#1Politics & Law
Dwight Ball
born 1957Canadian politician
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Deer Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador
The 2 famous people born in Deer Lake, led by Dwight Ball
The best known is the Canadian politician Dwight Ball, with articles in 10 languages. The other is Darren Langdon, the Canadian ice hockey player. Over 14 years of births, the list goes from Dwight Ball (1957) to Darren Langdon (1971). The longest list of any town in Newfoundland and Labrador belongs to St. John's, with 267.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Dwight Ball
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1957
Dwight Ball
Youngest
1971
Darren Langdon
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Deer Lake
#1DL#2
Sports
Darren Langdon
born 1971Canadian ice hockey player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Deer Lake is known for
Leaders are the most numerous, 1 of them.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Questions about famous people from Deer Lake
Who is the most famous person from Deer Lake?
The top name is Dwight Ball (Canadian politician), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Darren Langdon.
What is Deer Lake known for?
Here the share is 50%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Deer Lake?
The earliest is Dwight Ball, born in 1957, and the latest birth listed is 1971.
Who counts as from Deer Lake?
The list takes people born within Deer Lake’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known 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 (1)
- Dwight Ball: DwightBall.jpg : Dover1958 derivative work: Tholden28, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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