Photo: Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people born near Witless Bay
Of its neighbours, Division No. 1, Subdivision U, 10 km away, lists the most: 4, Joel Thomas Hynes first. No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Witless Bay. St. John's has the most of any town in Newfoundland and Labrador: 267. Only St. John's outnumbers Corner Brook in Newfoundland and Labrador, whose list holds 28 names.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Witless Bay’s municipal boundary and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Witless Bay with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Witless Bay
Questions about famous people from Witless Bay
Who counts as from Witless Bay?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Witless Bay’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
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.
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).