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Becky Kellar-Duke
born 1975Canadian women's ice hockey player
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Caledonia, Ontario
Caledonia counts 43 famous people, first among them Becky Kellar-Duke
Articles in 14 languages make the Canadian women's ice hockey player Becky Kellar-Duke the best known. The next two names are Cameron Talbot and Carl Reid. The earliest on the list is George Henry Martin Johnson, born in 1816, and the youngest Andrew Campbell, born in 1988. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 7.7 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
43
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Becky Kellar-Duke
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1816
George Henry Martin Johnson
Youngest
1988
Andrew Campbell
Most common field
Politics & Law
13 people
The best known
Born in Caledonia
Becky Kellar-Duke, Cameron Talbot and Carl Reid are written about in 14, 14 and 9 languages.
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Cameron Talbot
born 1987Canadian ice hockey player
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Through the years
When Caledonia’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1870s, with 8 people born in that decade.
Politics & LawSportsWriting & ArtsNotableBusinessScience & MedicineFaithFilm, TV & StageMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Caledonia is known for
Business people stand out most, at 3.4 times the usual share.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Caledonia
40 more, 13 of them leaders.
John Strickler Martin
1875–1931Politician, 1919-1931 Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament representing Norfolk South and then Norfolk
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Moses Carpenter
1854–1889Native American who died in England whose repatriation generated controversy in 2008
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Questions about famous people from Caledonia
Who is the most famous person from Caledonia?
Becky Kellar-Duke (Canadian women's ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Cameron Talbot and Carl Reid.
How many famous people were born in Caledonia?
Of the 58 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Caledonia known for?
That is 30% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Caledonia?
The earliest is George Henry Martin Johnson, born in 1816, and the latest birth listed is 1988.
Who counts as from Caledonia?
The list takes people born within Caledonia’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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 (16)
- Becky Kellar-Duke: Krista Windsor, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cameron Talbot: Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Campbell: Sarah Connors, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Byron Edmund Walker: The original uploader was YUL89YYZ at English Wikipedia ., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Cotton: Detroit Free Press, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- André Fauteux: 1997, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jimmy Herbert: The Boston Globe, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Hedden: Ross Bonander, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Wilson MacDonald: Photographer unattributed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Earl Catherwood: Arthur Roy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Balfour Ker: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Henry Martin Johnson: Hale, Horatio (collector), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James W. McCarter: The original uploader was Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) at English Wikipedia ., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret Amelia Corlis: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Helen Alice Kinnear: Law Society of Upper Canada Archives from Canada, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Allan: Frank Teskey, 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).