#1Sports
Claude Julien
born 1960Canadian ice hockey player and coach
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Blind River, Ontario
5 famous people come from Blind River, Claude Julien the best known
Claude Julien, the Canadian ice hockey player and coach, is the most widely known, written about in 14 languages. Second place goes to the Canadian ice hockey player Bob Dupuis, third to Brent St. Denis. The largest group, 5, was born between 1946 and 1969. For every 10,000 residents the town has 13.5, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Claude Julien
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1950
Brent St. Denis
Youngest
1960
Claude Julien
Most common field
Sports
3 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Blind River’s famous people were born
The 1950s top the chart, with 4 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & Law
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Blind River
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Politics & Law
Brent St. Denis
born 1950Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Blind River is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.6 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.
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Everyone else born in Blind River
Another 2, the earliest born in 1951.
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Questions about famous people from Blind River
Who is the most famous person from Blind River?
Claude Julien (Canadian ice hockey player and coach) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Bob Dupuis and Brent St. Denis.
How many famous people were born in Blind River?
7 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Blind River known for?
60% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Blind River?
Brent St. Denis, from 1950; the most recent birth on the list is from 1960.
Who counts as from Blind River?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Blind River’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?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (1)
- Claude Julien: Dan4th Nicholas from Cambridge, MA, USA, CC BY 2.0, 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).