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Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/72874821@N03/ · CC BY 2.0Famous people · Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador
The Canadian politician H.R.V. Earle is the one famous person from Fogo Island
H.R.V. Earle, the Canadian politician, was born in 1912. That places their birth between Confederation and 1913. Their name appears in an article in one language. Famous people are on record for 55 of the towns in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
H.R.V. Earle
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1912
H.R.V. Earle
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Fogo Island
Questions about famous people from Fogo Island
Who is the most famous person from Fogo Island?
By our measure the best known is H.R.V. Earle (Canadian politician); the spotlight above gives the details.
How many famous people were born in Fogo Island?
The list holds 1 born in Fogo Island, each confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata counts 4 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Fogo Island known for?
Mostly leaders: 1 of the 1 people listed. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Fogo Island?
The list takes people born within Fogo Island’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?
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.
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).