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Tim Horton
1930–1974Canadian ice hockey player and businessman
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Cochrane, Ontario
The 6 famous people born in Cochrane, led by Tim Horton
Articles in 18 languages make the Canadian ice hockey player and businessman Tim Horton the best known. Deborah Ellis is second and Ralph Stewart third. 4 of them were born between 1914 and 1945, more than in any other period. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 10.1 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Tim Horton
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1911
John Carrère
Youngest
1960
Deborah Ellis
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Cochrane
The three are covered in 18, 17 and 3 languages: Tim Horton, Deborah Ellis and Ralph Stewart.
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Politics & Law
Ralph Stewart
1929–2004Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Cochrane’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1930s than in any other decade: 2.
Politics & LawWriting & ArtsSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Cochrane is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as leaders, at 2.3 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 Cochrane
Still to come: 3 more, from 1911 to 1940.
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Questions about famous people from Cochrane
Who is the most famous person from Cochrane?
Tim Horton (Canadian ice hockey player and businessman) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Deborah Ellis and Ralph Stewart.
How many famous people were born in Cochrane?
Of the 7 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Cochrane known for?
Here the share is 50%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Cochrane?
The earliest is John Carrère, born in 1911, and the latest birth listed is 1960.
Who counts as from Cochrane?
The list takes people born within Cochrane’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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 (2)
- Tim Horton: Arnie Lee ( Arnielee ), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Deborah Ellis: colemama, CC BY-SA 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).