#1Science & Medicine
James Naismith
1861–1939Canadian-American coach; inventor of basketball
59 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Almonte, Ontario
14 famous people come from Almonte, James Naismith the best known
James Naismith is the best known, with articles in 59 languages. Close behind are Perianne Jones and Stephen Vincent Ryan. 5 of them were born between 1914 and 1945, more than in any other period. The oldest name on the list belongs to Stephen Vincent Ryan, born in 1825, the newest to Don Vaughan, born in 2000.
Born here
14
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
James Naismith
59 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1825
Stephen Vincent Ryan
Youngest
2000
Don Vaughan
Most common field
Sports
5 people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Almonte
#1
#2Sports
Perianne Jones
born 1985Canadian cross-country skier
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Through the years
When Almonte’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1930s come out on top, with 3 births.
SportsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineFaithFilm, TV & StageNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Almonte is known for
Almonte has 1.3× the usual share of leaders.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Almonte
11 more, 4 of them leaders.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Carleton Place has the most on record: 13.
Questions about famous people from Almonte
Who is the most famous person from Almonte?
James Naismith (Canadian-American coach; inventor of basketball) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Perianne Jones and Stephen Vincent Ryan.
How many famous people were born in Almonte?
Of the 31 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Almonte known for?
36% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Almonte?
The earliest is Stephen Vincent Ryan, born in 1825, and the latest birth listed is 2000.
Who counts as from Almonte?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Almonte’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?
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 (7)
- James Naismith: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Perianne Jones: Cephas, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Vincent Ryan: Anonymous, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William B. Munro: Carl Rudolph Gist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ernest Shipman: Hamilton M. Wright, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edwin McGregor: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Roy Brown: Unknown author, 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).