#1Politics & Law
Audrey McLaughlin
born 1936Canadian politician
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Dutton, Ontario
6 famous people were born in Dutton, more of them leaders than in most towns
Most widely known is Audrey McLaughlin, the Canadian politician, with articles in 8 languages. Duncan McArthur and Ellis Wellwood Sifton follow. The largest group, 3, was born between Confederation and 1913. Born in 1818, Leonidas Burwell is the first name on record, and James Dunn, born in 2000, the most recent.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Audrey McLaughlin
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1818
Leonidas Burwell
Youngest
2000
James Dunn
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4 people
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What Dutton is known for
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The best known
Born in Dutton
Audrey McLaughlin, Duncan McArthur and Ellis Wellwood Sifton are written about in 8, 2 and 2 languages.
#1DM#2
Politics & Law
Duncan McArthur
1885–1943Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Military
Ellis Wellwood Sifton
1891–1917Recipient of the Victoria Cross
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Dutton, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Dutton
Who is the most famous person from Dutton?
Audrey McLaughlin (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Duncan McArthur and Ellis Wellwood Sifton.
How many famous people were born in Dutton?
Wikidata places 10 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Dutton known for?
Here the share is 67%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Dutton?
Leonidas Burwell, born in 1818. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Dutton?
The list takes people born within Dutton’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 (4)
- Audrey McLaughlin: Frank Saptel, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ellis Wellwood Sifton: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Kenneth Galbraith: Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. Photographer is unknown., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Justin Azevedo: Craig Michaud at English Wikipedia, CC BY 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).