#1Famous people · Arnprior, Ontario
Of the 9 famous people born in Arnprior, an unusual share are athletes
At the top of the list is the Canadian soccer player Evan Milward, covered in 5 languages. Born in 1848, James Hartney is the first name on record, and Nolan MacMillan, born in 1990, the most recent. The list is still growing: 3 were born since 1970. For every 10,000 residents the town has 7.9, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Evan Milward
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1848
James Hartney
Youngest
1990
Nolan MacMillan
Most common field
Sports
8 people
What stands out about Arnprior’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Arnprior is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 2.3 times the usual share.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Through the years
When Arnprior’s famous people were born
The 1980s saw the most births of any decade: 2.
SportsPolitics & Law
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Arnprior
#1RP#2
Sports
Randy Pierce
born 1957Canadian ice hockey player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
WC#3
Everyone
Everyone else born in Arnprior
6 more names, born between 1848 and 1990.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
McNab/Braeside has the longest list next door, one name.
Questions about famous people from Arnprior
Who is the most famous person from Arnprior?
Evan Milward (Canadian soccer player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Randy Pierce and Will Colbert.
How many famous people were born in Arnprior?
Wikidata counts 14 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Arnprior known for?
They make up 89% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Arnprior?
James Hartney (1848). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1990.
Who counts as from Arnprior?
Born inside Arnprior’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
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 (4)
- Evan Milward: Djuradj Vujcic, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Hartney: Cochrane, William, 1831-1898, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nolan MacMillan: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James C. Willson: 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).