#1Sports
Nate DiCasmirro
born 1978American-born Italian ice hockey player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Atikokan, Ontario
3 famous people call Atikokan their birthplace
Nate DiCasmirro, the American-Born Italian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 6 languages. Close behind are Gary Sampson and Sarah Campbell. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 10.7 for every 10,000 residents. The earliest on the list is Gary Sampson, born in 1959, and the youngest Sarah Campbell, born in 1982.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Nate DiCasmirro
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1959
Gary Sampson
Youngest
1982
Sarah Campbell
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Atikokan
Nate DiCasmirro, Gary Sampson and Sarah Campbell are written about in 6, 5 and 2 languages.
#1GS#2
Sports
Gary Sampson
born 1959American ice hockey player
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
SC#3
Politics & Law
Sarah Campbell
born 1982Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Atikokan is known for
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
Questions about famous people from Atikokan
Who is the most famous person from Atikokan?
By our measure the best known is Nate DiCasmirro (American-born Italian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Gary Sampson and Sarah Campbell.
How many famous people were born in Atikokan?
Wikidata counts 5 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Atikokan known for?
Here the share is 67%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Atikokan?
The earliest is Gary Sampson, born in 1959, and the latest birth listed is 1982.
Who counts as from Atikokan?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Atikokan’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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 (1)
- Nate DiCasmirro: Ailura, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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