Photo: Paul Vincent Dimaranan · CC BY 3.0No famous person yet from Carling
A short trip away, Parry Sound (17 km) counts 23 famous people, Bobby Orr among them. The longest list in Ontario is Toronto’s, with 4,724 names. Only Toronto outnumbers Ottawa in Ontario, whose list holds 1,194 names. 386 towns across Ontario can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Carling’s municipal boundary, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Carling yet.
Famous people born near Carling
Questions about famous people from Carling
Who counts as from Carling?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Carling’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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)
- Bobby Orr: Aaron Frutman, 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).