Photo: P199 · Public domainNo one born in Chalk River has made the famous people list yet
Deep River, 8 km away, has 5 on its list, the best known Derek Harvie. No town in Ontario lists more than Toronto, with 4,724. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto. In Ontario, 386 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Chalk River’s municipal boundary, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Nobody born in Chalk River with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Chalk River
Questions about famous people from Chalk River
Who counts as from Chalk River?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Chalk River’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?
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 (1)
- Derek Harvie: Dkharvie, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).