#1Politics & Law
Agnes Macphail
1890–1954Canadian politician and activist
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Dundalk, Ontario
Agnes Macphail tops a list of 4 famous people born in Dundalk
Articles in 18 languages make the Canadian politician and activist Agnes Macphail the best known. James Beck Swanston and Mac Phillips follow. Over 28 years of births, the list goes from James Beck Swanston (1878) to Wilfred Lockhart (1906). More are leaders than anything else, 3 in all.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Agnes Macphail
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1878
James Beck Swanston
Youngest
1906
Wilfred Lockhart
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Dundalk
Counted by languages, Agnes Macphail is ahead of James Beck Swanston and Mac Phillips: 18, 2 and 2.
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Politics & Law
James Beck Swanston
1878–1957Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
MP#3
Politics & Law
Mac Phillips
1889–1963Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Dundalk’s famous people were born
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Dundalk is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 3.4 times as common.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Grey Highlands has the longest list next door: 9.
Questions about famous people from Dundalk
Who is the most famous person from Dundalk?
Agnes Macphail (Canadian politician and activist) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come James Beck Swanston and Mac Phillips.
How many famous people were born in Dundalk?
6 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Dundalk known for?
That is 75% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Dundalk?
James Beck Swanston, born in 1878. The youngest on the list was born in 1906.
Who counts as from Dundalk?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Dundalk’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?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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)
- Agnes Macphail: Yousuf Karsh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Neil: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).