#1Military
Arthur Roy Brown
1893–1944Canadian First World War flying ace
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Carleton Place, Ontario
13 famous people were born in Carleton Place, most of them between Confederation and 1913
At the top of the list is the Canadian First World War flying ace Arthur Roy Brown, covered in 14 languages. For every 10,000 residents the town has 8.8, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there. The biggest group are athletes: 6. The oldest name on the list belongs to Bennett Rosamond, born in 1833, the newest to Shea Guthrie, born in 1987.
Born here
13
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Arthur Roy Brown
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1833
Bennett Rosamond
Youngest
1987
Shea Guthrie
Most common field
Sports
6 people
The best known
Born in Carleton Place
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Film, TV & Stage
Leslie McFarlane
1902–1977Canadian filmmaker and writer
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Bill Phillips
1902–1998Canadian ice hockey player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Carleton Place’s famous people were born
SportsMilitaryPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageBusiness
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Carleton Place is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as soldiers and sailors, at 15.2 times.
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 Carleton Place
10 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Carleton Place
Who is the most famous person from Carleton Place?
Arthur Roy Brown (Canadian First World War flying ace) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Leslie McFarlane and Bill Phillips.
How many famous people were born in Carleton Place?
18 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Carleton Place known for?
46% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Carleton Place?
Bennett Rosamond (1833). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1987.
Who counts as from Carleton Place?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Carleton Place’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?
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 (8)
- Arthur Roy Brown: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bill Phillips: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Stewart: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cooper Smeaton: DigitalImageServices.com (image restoration), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bennett Rosamond: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dave McCann: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Moffat: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Naismith: Unknown author, 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).