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Politics & Law
J. Earl McEwen
1911–2004Canadian politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Central Frontenac, Ontario
Central Frontenac has one famous person on record
J. Earl McEwen, the Canadian politician, was born in 1911. Their birth falls between Confederation and 1913. One language has an article about them so far. 386 of the towns in Ontario list at least one person.
Born here
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Best known
J. Earl McEwen
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1911
J. Earl McEwen
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Central Frontenac
Questions about famous people from Central Frontenac
Who is the most famous person from Central Frontenac?
J. Earl McEwen (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them.
How many famous people were born in Central Frontenac?
For Central Frontenac the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article. Of the 2 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Central Frontenac known for?
Mostly leaders: 1 of the 1 people listed. They make up 100% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Central Frontenac?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Central Frontenac’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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.
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