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Mark Lee
born 1984Canadian professional ice hockey centre
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Famous people · Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador
5 famous people were born in Mount Pearl
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian professional ice hockey centre Mark Lee. Close behind are Bekah Simms and Dave Denine. For its size the list is short: 2.1 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.1 in the typical Newfoundland and Labrador town. Leaders make up the largest group, 2 of them.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mark Lee
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1973
David Cochrane
Youngest
1990
Bekah Simms
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Mount Pearl
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What Mount Pearl is known for
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Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, St. John's has the most people on record, 267 of them.
Questions about famous people from Mount Pearl
Who is the most famous person from Mount Pearl?
Mark Lee (Canadian professional ice hockey centre) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Bekah Simms and Dave Denine.
How many famous people were born in Mount Pearl?
Wikidata counts 6 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Mount Pearl known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 22%; here, 40%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mount Pearl?
David Cochrane, born in 1973. The youngest on the list was born in 1990.
Who counts as from Mount Pearl?
The list takes people born within Mount Pearl’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 (4)
- Mark Lee: Saruwine, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bekah Simms: Ras662, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Percy Hynes White: Raboe001, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ken McDonald: Dover1958, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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