Photo: Erikallen920 · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from St. George's is on the famous people list yet
Stephenville, 15 km away, has 6 on its list, the best known Brian Tobin. In Newfoundland and Labrador, 55 towns have someone on the list. The longest list in Newfoundland and Labrador is St. John's’, with 267 names. Second in Newfoundland and Labrador is Corner Brook (28 names), behind only St. John's.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside St. George's’s municipal boundary, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in St. George's yet.
Famous people born near St. George's
Towns around it with someone on record: 3.
Questions about famous people from St. George's
Who counts as from St. George's?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside St. George's’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
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 (1)
- Brian Tobin: Reardo, Public domain, 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).