#1Film, TV & Stage
Nina Arsenault
born 1974Canadian actress
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Beamsville, Ontario
Most of the 15 famous people born in Beamsville came into the world since 1970
Nina Arsenault, the Canadian actress, is the most widely known, written about in 9 languages. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 5.3 for every 10,000 residents. Born in 1846, Moses F. Rittenhouse is the first name on record, and Sam Oosterhoff, born in 1997, the most recent. 5 of them are athletes, more than in any other field.
Born here
15
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Nina Arsenault
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1846
Moses F. Rittenhouse
Youngest
1997
Sam Oosterhoff
Most common field
Sports
5 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Beamsville’s famous people were born
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Born in Beamsville
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Military
John Chayka
born 1989General manager of the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL)
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
PL#3
Sports
Paul Laus
born 1970Canadian ice hockey defenceman
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Beamsville is known for
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Everyone else born in Beamsville
12 more, 4 of them athletes.
James Alexander Paton
1885–1946Member of Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, St. Catharines has the most on record, with 202.
Questions about famous people from Beamsville
Who is the most famous person from Beamsville?
Nina Arsenault (Canadian actress) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come John Chayka and Paul Laus.
How many famous people were born in Beamsville?
Wikidata has 21 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Beamsville known for?
33% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Beamsville?
Moses F. Rittenhouse, born in 1846. The youngest on the list was born in 1997.
Who counts as from Beamsville?
Born inside Beamsville’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?
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 (9)
- Nina Arsenault: Nancy Paiva from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Locke: George Freeland (Toronto firm), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sam Oosterhoff: Tavis Nembhard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Moses F. Rittenhouse: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Andrewes: Legislative Assembly of Ontario, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Linda Evangelista: jusez from Hong Kong, China, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tonya Verbeek: Madchester at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gordon Shrum: Simon Fraser University - Communications & Marketing, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- E. D. Smith: The Perrault Printing Co., 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).