#1Film, TV & Stage
Derek Harvie
born 1971Canadian television producer
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Deep River, Ontario
5 famous people call Deep River their birthplace
Most widely known is Derek Harvie, the Canadian television producer, with articles in 4 languages. The Canadian Squash player Samantha Cornett ranks second, ahead of Clifford Jackman. More than half were born since 1970, 3 in all. For every 10,000 residents the town has 11.5, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Derek Harvie
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1951
Brian Bourns
Youngest
1991
Samantha Cornett
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Deep River’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1970s, at 1.
Politics & LawFilm, TV & StageSportsWriting & Arts
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Deep River
The three are covered in 4, 4 and 3 languages: Derek Harvie, Samantha Cornett and Clifford Jackman.
#1
#2Sports
Samantha Cornett
born 1991Canadian Squash player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
CJ#3
Politics & Law
Clifford Jackman
born 1980Canadian lawyer
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Deep River is known for
Share of Deep River’s famous people in each field.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Deep River
The other 2 span the years 1951 to 1965.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Deep River
Who is the most famous person from Deep River?
Derek Harvie (Canadian television producer) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Samantha Cornett and Clifford Jackman.
What is Deep River known for?
40% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Deep River?
Brian Bourns, from 1951; the most recent birth on the list is from 1991.
Who counts as from Deep River?
Born inside Deep River’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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)
- Derek Harvie: Dkharvie, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Samantha Cornett: Scornett91, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).