JC#1
Sports
Jonathan Cheechoo
born 1980Canadian ice hockey player
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Factory Island 1, Ontario
4 famous people come from Factory Island 1, Jonathan Cheechoo the best known
Jonathan Cheechoo, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 14 languages. Behind the leader come Jules Koostachin and Lawrence Martin. Over 24 years of births, the list goes from Lawrence Martin (1956) to Jonathan Cheechoo (1980). The longest list of any town in Ontario belongs to Toronto, with 4,724.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jonathan Cheechoo
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1956
Lawrence Martin
Youngest
1980
Jonathan Cheechoo
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Factory Island 1
JK#2
Film, TV & Stage
Jules Koostachin
Cree / Canadian director, actress, screenwriter, and poet
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
LM#3
Politics & Law
Lawrence Martin
born 1956Canadian politician and musician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Factory Island 1 is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 1 people.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
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Everyone else born in Factory Island 1
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Questions about famous people from Factory Island 1
Who is the most famous person from Factory Island 1?
By our measure the best known is Jonathan Cheechoo (Canadian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Jules Koostachin and Lawrence Martin.
How many famous people were born in Factory Island 1?
Wikidata places 6 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Factory Island 1 known for?
25% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Factory Island 1?
The earliest is Lawrence Martin, born in 1956, and the latest birth listed is 1980.
Who counts as from Factory Island 1?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Factory Island 1’s reserve lands (the reserve’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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.
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).