#1Sports
Rusty Crawford
1885–1971Canadian ice hockey player
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Cardinal, Ontario
From 1869 to 1987, Cardinal was the birthplace of 4 famous people
Most widely known is Rusty Crawford, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 9 languages. Eric Selleck and Bernard Munroe Stitt follow. The list’s best known name, Rusty Crawford, dates from 1885. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 5 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Rusty Crawford
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1869
William Sanford Evans
Youngest
1987
Eric Selleck
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Cardinal
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1
#2Sports
Eric Selleck
born 1987Canadian ice hockey player
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
BS#3
Politics & Law
Bernard Munroe Stitt
1880–1942Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Cardinal’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1880s come out on top, with 2 births.
SportsPolitics & Law
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Cardinal is known for
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Cardinal
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Towns around it with someone on record: 3.
Questions about famous people from Cardinal
Who is the most famous person from Cardinal?
Rusty Crawford (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Eric Selleck and Bernard Munroe Stitt.
How many famous people were born in Cardinal?
Wikidata counts 7 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Cardinal known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Cardinal?
William Sanford Evans, born in 1869. The youngest on the list was born in 1987.
Who counts as from Cardinal?
The list takes people born within Cardinal’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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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 (4)
- Rusty Crawford: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eric Selleck: Jessica, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Willard Mack: Studio of Luther S. White, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Leo Boivin: TGC-Topps Gum Cards, 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).