#1Sports
Ryan O'Reilly
born 1991Canadian ice hockey player
22 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Clinton, Ontario
Clinton’s famous people span 122 years: 10 births from 1869 to 1991
The best known is the Canadian ice hockey player Ryan O'Reilly, with articles in 22 languages. The largest group, 4, was born since 1970. The list’s best known name, Ryan O'Reilly, dates from 1991. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 12 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
10
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ryan O'Reilly
22 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1869
Lydia Kingsmill Commander
Youngest
1991
Ryan O'Reilly
Most common field
Sports
3 people
What stands out about Clinton’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Clinton’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1980s, at 2.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineNotable
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
The best known
Born in Clinton
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1
#2Sports
Matt Dalton
born 1986Canadian-South Korean ice hockey goaltender
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
S#3
Known for
What Clinton is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is leaders, at 1.4 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Clinton
Of the other 7, 3 are leaders.
Lydia Kingsmill Commander
1869–1940Canadian-born journalist, minister, and activist
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Goderich has the most people on record, 27 of them.
Questions about famous people from Clinton
Who is the most famous person from Clinton?
Ryan O'Reilly (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Matt Dalton and Seth.
How many famous people were born in Clinton?
Wikidata counts 15 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Clinton known for?
They make up 30% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Clinton?
Lydia Kingsmill Commander, born in 1869. The youngest on the list was born in 1991.
Who counts as from Clinton?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Clinton’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (4)
- Ryan O'Reilly: Fanny Schertzer, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Dalton: ウィ貴公子, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carol Mitchell: Cszmurlo, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lydia Kingsmill Commander: Unknown photographer, 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).