#1Film, TV & Stage
Mary Harron
born 1953Canadian film director
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Famous people · Bracebridge, Ontario
The 23 famous people born in Bracebridge, led by Mary Harron
Mary Harron, the Canadian film director, is the most widely known, written about in 25 languages. Close behind are Ace Bailey and Roger Crozier. 8 of them were born between Confederation and 1913, more than in any other period. From Maurice Dane MacCarthy to Mary Jibb, the births on the list run from 1878 to 2006.
Born here
23
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mary Harron
25 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1878
Maurice Dane MacCarthy
Youngest
2006
Mary Jibb
Most common field
Sports
12 people
What stands out about Bracebridge’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Bracebridge’s famous people were born
The 1900s alone account for 3 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsNotableFilm, TV & StageMilitary
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Bracebridge
#1
#2RC#3
Sports
Roger Crozier
1942–1996Canadian ice hockey player
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Known for
What Bracebridge is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.4 times as common.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Bracebridge
20 more names, born between 1878 and 2006.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Bracebridge
Who is the most famous person from Bracebridge?
The top name is Mary Harron (Canadian film director), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Ace Bailey and Roger Crozier.
How many famous people were born in Bracebridge?
Wikidata counts 29 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Bracebridge known for?
52% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bracebridge?
Maurice Dane MacCarthy (1878). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2006.
Who counts as from Bracebridge?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Bracebridge’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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 (7)
- Mary Harron: Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ace Bailey: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ana Padurariu: CNS Media, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Denniss: Katsheron, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Archie McLean: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Tilker: James R Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Norman Bethune: Credit: Library and Archives Canada/PA-160708 Copyright: Expired, 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).