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Photo: ALAN SCHMIERER · CC0Famous people · Torbay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Torbay is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Articles in 3 languages make the Canadian politician Jack Byrne the best known. The other is Nicholas Codner, the Canadian curler. Within 11 km, St. John's lists the most: 267, with Percy Hynes White first. Over 55 years of births, the list goes from Jack Byrne (1951) to Nicholas Codner (2006).
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jack Byrne
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1951
Jack Byrne
Youngest
2006
Nicholas Codner
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Torbay
NC#2
Known for
What Torbay is known for
The field with the most names is Politics & Law: 1.
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 Torbay
Who is the most famous person from Torbay?
Jack Byrne (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Nicholas Codner.
What is Torbay known for?
Here the share is 50%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Torbay?
Jack Byrne, born in 1951. The youngest on the list was born in 2006.
Who counts as from Torbay?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Torbay’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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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 (2)
- Percy Hynes White: Raboe001, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Lee: Saruwine, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).