#1Music
Avril Lavigne
born 1984Canadian singer-songwriter
138 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Belleville, Ontario
Avril Lavigne and 113 more famous people were born in Belleville
Avril Lavigne, the Canadian singer-songwriter, has articles in 138 languages. Second and third on the list are Bobby Hull and Brett Hull. Born in 1816, Lewis Wallbridge is the first name on record, and Hallie Clarke, born in 2004, the most recent. The largest group, 33, was born since 1970.
Born here
114
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Avril Lavigne
138 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1816
Lewis Wallbridge
Youngest
2004
Hallie Clarke
Most common field
Sports
51 people
What stands out about Belleville’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Belleville
Athletes take two of the three places.
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#3Sports
Brett Hull
born 1964Canadian-American ice hockey player
26 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Belleville’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1960s come out on top, with 13 births.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsNotableFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineMusicMilitaryBusiness
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Belleville is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 51 of them.
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 Belleville
The rest number 111, with 49 athletes among them.
Brian Orser
born 1961Canadian former professional figure skater; Canadian figure skating coach
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James Bertram Collip
1892–1965Canadian biochemist, part of group that isolated insulin
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
Wallace Havelock Robb
1888–1976Canadian poet and naturalist (b. 1888, d. 1976)
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No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Picton’s, at 41 names.
Questions about famous people from Belleville
Who is the most famous person from Belleville?
Avril Lavigne (Canadian singer-songwriter) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Bobby Hull and Brett Hull.
How many famous people were born in Belleville?
Wikidata counts 151 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Belleville known for?
They make up 45% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Belleville?
Lewis Wallbridge, born in 1816. The youngest on the list was born in 2004.
Who counts as from Belleville?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Belleville’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
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 (42)
- Avril Lavigne: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brett Hull: Johnmaxmena2, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Farley Mowat: Tabercil, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Orser: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lee Aaron: Jerry Fielden (user Slugguitar), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Raycroft: Josh & Sara from Seattle, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dennis Hull: Chicago Blackhawks / National Hockey League, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Bertram Collip: Scrapbook compiled by Barbara Collip-Wyatt FAIR USE: Use of, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Shaw: mark6mauno, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Cooke: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Cousins: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brad Richardson: Jshecket, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lauren Ash: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dan Bain: Henry Welford, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ellie Harvie: Lee Snowden, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Laviolette: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rick Green: Christophe95, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Norm Maracle: I am, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Trennt Michaud: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dickie Boon: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ed Westfall: Dan4th Nicholas from Cambridge, MA, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Derek Smith: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marianne Ackerman: Marianne Ackerman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Boyd: Detroit Free Press, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rick Meagher: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Murray Rankin: Foreen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stevie Cameron: Ross Fraser, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Amanda Wilkinson: Tabercil, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lewis Wallbridge: William Sawyer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bruce Shorts: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eric Manlow: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Frederick Lister: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Armstrong Six: Dtada, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Ernest Osborne: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kristin Clarke: MrCurlingGuy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ritch Workman: Florida House of Representatives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Barton Northrup: Unknown author , publisher: Montreal Perrault Print. Co, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Templeton: Matthews, James Skitt, Major, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dave Smith: Legislative Assembly of Ontario, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gena Branscombe: The Year book of Canadian art. 1912/13., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jayna Hefford: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hockeymedia, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Clifford Maracle: Misterlobat, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).