AP#1
Writing & Arts
Ambrose Price
born 1984Canadian interior designer
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Famous people · Fortune, Newfoundland and Labrador
2 famous people were born in Fortune from 1884 to 1984
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian interior designer Ambrose Price. The other is H. B. C. Lake, the Canadian politician. A short trip away, Grand Bank (6 km) counts 12 famous people, Judy Foote among them. Ambrose Price, the best known, was born in 1984.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ambrose Price
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1884
H. B. C. Lake
Youngest
1984
Ambrose Price
Most common field
Writing & Arts
1 person
The best known
Born in Fortune
HL#2
Politics & Law
H. B. C. Lake
1884–1965Canadian politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Fortune is known for
The field with the most names is Writing & Arts: 1.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
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Questions about famous people from Fortune
Who is the most famous person from Fortune?
Ambrose Price (Canadian interior designer) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come H. B. C. Lake.
What is Fortune known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 12% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Fortune?
The earliest is H. B. C. Lake, born in 1884, and the latest birth listed is 1984.
Who counts as from Fortune?
The list takes people born within Fortune’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.
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).