#1Sports
Boone Jenner
born 1993Canadian ice hockey player
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Dorchester, Ontario
Boone Jenner tops a list of 4 famous people born in Dorchester
Articles in 12 languages make the Canadian ice hockey player Boone Jenner the best known. Edward James McMurray and Thomas Kelso Creighton follow. Over 129 years of births, the list goes from William Black Creighton (1864) to Boone Jenner (1993). Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 2.6 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Boone Jenner
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1864
William Black Creighton
Youngest
1993
Boone Jenner
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Dorchester
#1EM#2
Politics & Law
Edward James McMurray
1878–1969Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
TC#3
Politics & Law
Thomas Kelso Creighton
1892–1973Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Dorchester’s famous people were born
The 1990s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
Politics & LawSportsWriting & Arts
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Dorchester is known for
Share of Dorchester’s famous people in each field.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Dorchester
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Ingersoll has the longest list next door: 24.
Questions about famous people from Dorchester
Who is the most famous person from Dorchester?
Boone Jenner (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Edward James McMurray and Thomas Kelso Creighton.
How many famous people were born in Dorchester?
Of the 10 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Dorchester known for?
Here the share is 50%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Dorchester?
William Black Creighton, born in 1864. The youngest on the list was born in 1993.
Who counts as from Dorchester?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Dorchester’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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 (2)
- Boone Jenner: Hugh Lee from Edmonton Alberta, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Glass: William James Topley, 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).