#1Famous people · Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador
Harbour Grace’s famous people span 161 years: 6 births from 1818 to 1979
Jamie Korab, the curler, is the most widely known, written about in 13 languages. Close behind are Thomas George Roddick and John Fox. Most were born before Confederation: 3 of them. 3 of them were born before Confederation, the first John Fox in 1818.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jamie Korab
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1818
John Fox
Youngest
1979
Jamie Korab
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Harbour Grace’s famous people were born
The 1970s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
Politics & LawBusinessSportsWriting & Arts
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Harbour Grace
Counted by languages, Jamie Korab is ahead of Thomas George Roddick and John Fox: 13, 3 and 2.
#1
#2Politics & Law
Thomas George Roddick
1846–1923Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JF#3
Business
John Fox
1818–1871Canadian merchant and political figure in Newfoundland
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Harbour Grace is known for
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Harbour Grace
Still to come: 3 more, from 1852 to 1880.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Carbonear has the most on record, with 17.
Questions about famous people from Harbour Grace
Who is the most famous person from Harbour Grace?
The top name is Jamie Korab (curler), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Thomas George Roddick and John Fox.
How many famous people were born in Harbour Grace?
Wikidata places 11 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Harbour Grace known for?
They make up 33% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Harbour Grace?
John Fox, from 1818; the most recent birth on the list is from 1979.
Who counts as from Harbour Grace?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Harbour Grace’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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 (4)
- Jamie Korab: Bjarte Hetland, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas George Roddick: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Shannon Munn: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Cleary: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, 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).