#1Sports
Kyle Clifford
born 1991Canadian ice hockey player
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Ayr, Ontario
From 1844 to 1991, Ayr was the birthplace of 7 famous people
Most widely known is Kyle Clifford, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 10 languages. The list reaches back to Edward Alexander Colquhoun, born in 1844, one of 2 born before Confederation. The largest group, 3, was born between Confederation and 1913. For every 10,000 residents the town has 5.4, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
Born here
7
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Kyle Clifford
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1844
Edward Alexander Colquhoun
Youngest
1991
Kyle Clifford
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Ayr
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1
#2Film, TV & Stage
Joseph Kilgour
1863–1933Canadian actor
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
DJ#3
Sports
Don Thomson, Jr.
born 1962Canadian racing driver
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Ayr’s famous people were born
The 1990s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
SportsFilm, TV & StagePolitics & LawWriting & ArtsScience & Medicine
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Ayr is known for
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Ayr
4 more names, born between 1844 and 1904.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Cambridge leads the towns around it, with 103 names.
Questions about famous people from Ayr
Who is the most famous person from Ayr?
Kyle Clifford (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Joseph Kilgour and Don Thomson, Jr..
How many famous people were born in Ayr?
Of the 8 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Ayr known for?
43% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ayr?
Edward Alexander Colquhoun, from 1844; the most recent birth on the list is from 1991.
Who counts as from Ayr?
Born inside Ayr’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?
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.
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 (6)
- Kyle Clifford: Lisa Gansky, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Kilgour: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Albert Henderson: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Syl Apps: Globe and Mail, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Babe Siebert: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Moses Springer: Notman & Fraser, 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).