#1Sports
Andrew Nembhard
born 2000Canadian basketball player
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Aurora, Ontario
Of the 27 famous people born in Aurora, an unusual share are athletes
At the top of the list is the Canadian basketball player Andrew Nembhard, covered in 18 languages. The largest group, 14, was born since 1970. Only 64 of the 386 towns in Ontario with anyone on record list more. Born in 1822, James Pearson Wells is the first name on record, and Ryan Nembhard, born in 2003, the most recent.
Born here
27
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Andrew Nembhard
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1822
James Pearson Wells
Youngest
2003
Ryan Nembhard
Most common field
Sports
19 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Aurora’s famous people were born
The 1990s alone account for 8 of the births charted here.
SportsScience & MedicinePolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Aurora is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as scientists and doctors, at 2.4 times.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
The best known
Born in Aurora
Two of the three are athletes.
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#2Sports
Robert Thomas
born 1999Canadian ice hockey player
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Science & Medicine
Nicole Forrester
born 1976Canadian high jumper and academic
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Aurora
24 more, 17 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Newmarket leads the towns around it, with 67 names.
Questions about famous people from Aurora
Who is the most famous person from Aurora?
By our measure the best known is Andrew Nembhard (Canadian basketball player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Robert Thomas and Nicole Forrester.
How many famous people were born in Aurora?
Wikidata counts 40 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Aurora known for?
70% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Aurora?
The earliest is James Pearson Wells, born in 1822, and the latest birth listed is 2003.
Who counts as from Aurora?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Aurora’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (17)
- Andrew Nembhard: Steve Cheng, Bruin Report Online, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Thomas: Jfvoll, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nicole Forrester: University of Michigan. News and Information Services, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christine Horne: Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Vanessa Crone: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hap Holmes: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Karl Stewart: Stefanie Kovacevic, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dylan Sikura: CloutsnChara Sports Cards, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bette Stephenson: Legislative Assembly of Ontario, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Tuck: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tyler Sikura: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Garth Gibson: Brian Lucas, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Carrey: SHOWTIME, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Connor McDavid: Connor Mah, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Pietrangelo: Johnmaxmena2, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keith Acton: Connor Mah, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Pulford: Ralston-Purina Company, maker of Chex cereals, 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).