JL#1
Politics & Law
John Lundrigan
1939–2009Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Ayadm · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador
5 famous people call Upper Island Cove their birthplace
Articles in 2 languages make the Canadian politician John Lundrigan the best known. Second and third on the list are Robert Slaney and Haig Young. More than half were born between 1914 and 1945, 4 in all. The biggest group are leaders: 3.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
John Lundrigan
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1921
Ian Rusted
Youngest
1988
Robert Slaney
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Upper Island Cove
Counted by languages, John Lundrigan is ahead of Robert Slaney and Haig Young: 2, 2 and 1.
RS#2
Sports
Robert Slaney
born 1988Canadian ice hockey player
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
HY#3
Through the years
When Upper Island Cove’s famous people were born
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Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Upper Island Cove is known for
Leaders stand out most, at 2.7 times the usual share.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Upper Island Cove
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Carbonear’s, with 17.
Questions about famous people from Upper Island Cove
Who is the most famous person from Upper Island Cove?
John Lundrigan (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Robert Slaney and Haig Young.
What is Upper Island Cove known for?
60% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Upper Island Cove?
Ian Rusted, from 1921; the most recent birth on the list is from 1988.
Who counts as from Upper Island Cove?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Upper Island Cove’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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 (2)
- Daniel Cleary: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Korab: Bjarte Hetland, CC BY 2.5, 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).