#1Famous people · Collingwood, Ontario
30 famous people were born in Collingwood, more of them athletes than in most towns
Reg Noble, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 12 languages. The next two names are Lynn Johnston and Darryl Sly. The largest group, 9, was born since 1970. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 10.6 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
30
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Reg Noble
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1860
Alexander Ferguson
Youngest
2001
Michaela Gosselin
Most common field
Sports
18 people
What stands out about Collingwood’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Collingwood’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1940s, with 5 people born in that decade.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsNotableBusinessMusic
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Collingwood is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.6 times as common.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
The best known
Born in Collingwood
#1
#2Writing & Arts
Lynn Johnston
born 1947Canadian cartoonist
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
DS#3
Everyone
Everyone else born in Collingwood
27 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 3.
Questions about famous people from Collingwood
Who is the most famous person from Collingwood?
By our measure the best known is Reg Noble (Canadian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Lynn Johnston and Darryl Sly.
How many famous people were born in Collingwood?
Wikidata places 44 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Collingwood known for?
That is 60% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Collingwood?
Alexander Ferguson, born in 1860. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
Who counts as from Collingwood?
The list takes people born within Collingwood’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?
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 (12)
- Reg Noble: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lynn Johnston: mackbrad, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stacey Dales: Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary-Margaret McMahon: Stephanie Clark, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret Robertson Watt: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Megan Lane: Ikmo-ned, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Morey Doner: Cold, Indrid, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Norah M. Holland: Photographer unattributed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Collins: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Whalen: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Josh Godfrey: Bridget Samuels, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tyler Brown: TheAHL, 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).