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Photo: Tango7174 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador
2 famous people call Paradise their birthplace
The best known is the Canadian ice hockey player Sarah Davis, with articles in 3 languages. The list has one more: the Canadian model and fashion designer Nicole Williams English. The neighbour with the longest list is St. John's, 10 km away: 267, led by Percy Hynes White. The first birth on record is Nicole Williams English’s, in 1983, and the last Sarah Davis’, in 1992.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Sarah Davis
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1983
Nicole Williams English
Youngest
1992
Sarah Davis
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Paradise
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Film, TV & Stage
Nicole Williams English
born 1983Canadian model and fashion designer
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Paradise is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 1 of them.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
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Questions about famous people from Paradise
Who is the most famous person from Paradise?
Sarah Davis (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Nicole Williams English.
How many famous people were born in Paradise?
4 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Paradise known for?
Here the share is 50%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Paradise?
Nicole Williams English (1983). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Paradise?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Paradise’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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 (3)
- Percy Hynes White: Raboe001, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Lee: Saruwine, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ken McDonald: Dover1958, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).