Eric Young
born 1979Canadian professional wrestler
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Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0The Canadian professional wrestler Eric Young was born in 1979. Readers can find them written up in 22 languages. The neighbour with the longest list is Enniskillen, 20 km away: 5, led by Robert Samuel McLaughlin. Toronto’s 4,724 names make the longest list in Ontario.
Canadian professional wrestler
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Born in Dawn-Euphemia and confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article: 1. 2 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
Of the 1 on the list, 1 are athletes. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Dawn-Euphemia’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
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).
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