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Robert Samuel McLaughlin
1871–1972Canadian businessman, philanthropist
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Famous people · Enniskillen, Ontario
5 famous people were born in Enniskillen
Robert Samuel McLaughlin leads the list, covered in 4 languages. The Canadian baseball player Ed Springer ranks second, ahead of Lorne Henderson. The largest group, 3, was born between Confederation and 1913. From John J. McLaughlin in 1865 to Lorne Henderson in 1920, the births cover 55 years.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Robert Samuel McLaughlin
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1865
John J. McLaughlin
Youngest
1920
Lorne Henderson
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Enniskillen
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Politics & Law
Lorne Henderson
1920–2002Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Enniskillen’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1860s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
Politics & LawBusinessSportsScience & Medicine
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Enniskillen is known for
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Questions about famous people from Enniskillen
Who is the most famous person from Enniskillen?
Robert Samuel McLaughlin (Canadian businessman, philanthropist) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Ed Springer and Lorne Henderson.
How many famous people were born in Enniskillen?
Wikidata counts 11 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Enniskillen known for?
They make up 40% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Enniskillen?
John J. McLaughlin (1865). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1920.
Who counts as from Enniskillen?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Enniskillen’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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)
- Robert Samuel McLaughlin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dale Hunter: Tabercil from Canadian, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).