#1Sports
Brock McGinn
born 1994Canadian ice hockey player
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Famous people · Fergus, Ontario
Fergus counts 40 famous people, first among them Brock McGinn
Brock McGinn, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 10 languages. Second and third on the list are Mary Rutnam and Tye McGinn. Fewer than a quarter of the 386 towns in Ontario with famous people list more. The oldest name on the list belongs to William A. Paterson, born in 1838, the newest to Brock McGinn, born in 1994.
Born here
40
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Brock McGinn
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1838
William A. Paterson
Youngest
1994
Brock McGinn
Most common field
Sports
14 people
What stands out about Fergus’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Fergus’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1870s, with 4 people born in that decade.
SportsPolitics & LawNotableScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsFaithBusiness
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Fergus
#1MR#2
Science & Medicine
Mary Rutnam
1873–1962Canadian doctor, gynecologist, and suffragist
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TM#3
Known for
What Fergus is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as scientists and doctors, at 1.6 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Fergus
The other 37 span the years 1838 to 1993.
Hugh Watt
1841–1914Canadian physician and political figure in British Columbia
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Questions about famous people from Fergus
Who is the most famous person from Fergus?
Brock McGinn (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Mary Rutnam and Tye McGinn.
How many famous people were born in Fergus?
Wikidata places 49 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Fergus known for?
They make up 35% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Fergus?
William A. Paterson (1838). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1994.
Who counts as from Fergus?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Fergus’ 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?
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (15)
- Brock McGinn: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bert Lindsay: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie McGinn: 5of7, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sitara Hewitt: Sitarahewitt, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Kirk Clarke: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wilfred McDonald: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ted Arnott: Laurelrusswurm, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Joseph Powers: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Armytage: Herbert Welfond, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean Dow: United Church of Canada/ Victoria University Archives, 79.001P/1609 by permission of The United Church of Canada /Victoria University Archives, Toronoto, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Greg Weadick: Dave Cournoyer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Grassick: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Orton Grain: Cochrane, William, 1831-1898, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William A. Paterson: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Kirkpatrick McNaught: Unknown author, Public domain, 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).