#1Barbara Hannigan
born 1971Canadian operatic soprano
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At the top of the list is the Canadian operatic soprano Barbara Hannigan, covered in 24 languages. Second and third on the list are John Alexander MacDonald and John Wickwire. For more famous names, Enfield is 16 km away: its list has 31, led by Anna Mae Aquash. The list comes to 4.8 for every 10,000 residents, below the 10.9 of the typical town in Nova Scotia.

The three are covered in 24, 1 and 1 languages: Barbara Hannigan, John Alexander MacDonald and John Wickwire.
#1Canadian operatic soprano
Canadian politician from Nova Scotia (unknown–1938)
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Barbara Hannigan (Canadian operatic soprano) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come John Alexander MacDonald and John Wickwire.
Wikidata has 6 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
They make up 67% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
John Wickwire (1899). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1971.
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Dutch Settlement’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), 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. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the births recorded in it.
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.
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