#1Sports
Jamie Johnson
born 1982Canadian ice hockey player
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Forest, Ontario
4 famous people were born in Forest
Most widely known is Jamie Johnson, the Canadian ice hockey player, with articles in 7 languages. Bill Lochead and Jesse Pickard Tripp follow. For every 10,000 residents the town has 3.1, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there. Born in 1883, Jesse Pickard Tripp is the first name on record, and Jamie Johnson, born in 1982, the most recent.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jamie Johnson
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1883
Jesse Pickard Tripp
Youngest
1982
Jamie Johnson
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Forest
#1BL#2
Sports
Bill Lochead
born 1954Canadian ice hockey player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JT#3
Politics & Law
Jesse Pickard Tripp
1883–1971Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Forest’s famous people were born
The 1980s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & Law
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Forest is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 2 times.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Forest
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Count of the towns around it with a famous name listed: 1.
Questions about famous people from Forest
Who is the most famous person from Forest?
The top name is Jamie Johnson (Canadian ice hockey player), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Bill Lochead and Jesse Pickard Tripp.
What is Forest known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 75%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Forest?
Jesse Pickard Tripp, from 1883; the most recent birth on the list is from 1982.
Who counts as from Forest?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Forest’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (1)
- Jamie Johnson: TheAHL, CC BY 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).