#1Sports
Melissa Bishop
born 1988Canadian middle-distance runner
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Eganville, Ontario
9 famous people come from Eganville, Melissa Bishop the best known
Melissa Bishop, the Canadian middle-distance runner, is the most widely known, written about in 16 languages. The Canadian ice hockey player Shawn Heins ranks second, ahead of Dale McTavish. For every 10,000 residents the town has 20.8, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there. Births since 1970 account for 3 of the names.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Melissa Bishop
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1877
Martin James Maloney
Youngest
1988
Melissa Bishop
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Eganville’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Eganville’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1970s, with 2 people born in that decade.
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Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Eganville
The three best known are all athletes.
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Dale McTavish
born 1972Canadian ice hockey player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Eganville is known for
Eganville has 1.5× the usual share of leaders.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Questions about famous people from Eganville
Who is the most famous person from Eganville?
By our measure the best known is Melissa Bishop (Canadian middle-distance runner); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Shawn Heins and Dale McTavish.
How many famous people were born in Eganville?
Wikidata counts 10 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Eganville known for?
56% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Eganville?
Martin James Maloney, from 1877; the most recent birth on the list is from 1988.
Who counts as from Eganville?
Born inside Eganville’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?
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 (3)
- Melissa Bishop: Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shawn Heins: Fanny Schertzer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dale McTavish: Tuomas Vitikainen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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