#1Science & Medicine
Jennie Smillie Robertson Daniel Mario Shattenburg
1878–1981Canadian physician and surgeon
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Famous people · Bayfield, Ontario
Bayfield’s famous people span 142 years: 11 births from 1858 to 2000
The best known is the Canadian physician and surgeon Jennie Smillie Robertson Daniel Mario Shattenburg, with articles in 9 languages. Jeremy Welsh and Brad Turner follow. 4 of them were born between Confederation and 1913, more than in any other period. Births since 1970 account for 3 of the names.
Born here
11
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jennie Smillie Robertson Daniel Mario Shattenburg
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1858
William D. Gordon
Youngest
2000
Brad Turner
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Bayfield
#1
#2Sports
Jeremy Welsh
born 1988Canadian ice hockey player
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BT#3
Film, TV & Stage
Brad Turner
born 2000Canadian film director, television director and photographer
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Through the years
When Bayfield’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageFaith
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Bayfield 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.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Bayfield
8 more, from 1858 to 1981.
Louis Alexander MacKay
1901–1982Canadian-American classical philologist and writer
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Mabel Broughton Billett
1892–1964Canadian author (1892-1964), in USA from 1936; of her four detective novels, one has some science elements
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No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Exeter, with 18.
Questions about famous people from Bayfield
Who is the most famous person from Bayfield?
The top name is Jennie Smillie Robertson Daniel Mario Shattenburg (Canadian physician and surgeon), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Jeremy Welsh and Brad Turner.
How many famous people were born in Bayfield?
Wikidata places 13 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Bayfield known for?
That is 27% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bayfield?
William D. Gordon (1858). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Bayfield?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Bayfield’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?
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 (5)
- Jennie Smillie Robertson Daniel Mario Shattenburg: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeremy Welsh: Leech44, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeff Campbell: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William D. Gordon: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harriet Brooks: William Notman and Son, 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).