#1Sports
Marcelo Flores
born 2003Canadian association football player
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Georgetown, Ontario
The 39 famous people born in Georgetown, led by Marcelo Flores
Most widely known is Marcelo Flores, the Canadian association football player, with articles in 19 languages. The next two names are Robert Maillet and William Ross. 18 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. The first birth on record is Robert Walter’s, in 1841, and the last Tatiana Flores’, in 2005.
Born here
39
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Marcelo Flores
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1841
Robert Walter
Youngest
2005
Tatiana Flores
Most common field
Sports
21 people
What stands out about Georgetown’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Georgetown’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1960s come out on top, with 6 births.
SportsPolitics & LawNotableWriting & ArtsBusinessScience & MedicineMilitaryMusic
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Georgetown
The three best known are all athletes.
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#2Sports
Robert Maillet
born 1969Canadian professional wrestler and actor
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
WR#3
Known for
What Georgetown is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as business people, at 3.7 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
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Everyone else born in Georgetown
Here are 36 more, born from 1841 to 2005.
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Questions about famous people from Georgetown
Who is the most famous person from Georgetown?
By our measure the best known is Marcelo Flores (Canadian association football player); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Robert Maillet and William Ross.
How many famous people were born in Georgetown?
Wikidata has 49 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Georgetown known for?
Here the share is 54%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Georgetown?
Robert Walter, from 1841; the most recent birth on the list is from 2005.
Who counts as from Georgetown?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Georgetown’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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 (23)
- Marcelo Flores: TheSoccerBoy, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Maillet: Tabercil, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason Dickinson: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah Fillier: Rh723, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tatiana Flores: Josuemtz2004, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Goldham: Detroit Red Wings / NHL, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Karl Clark: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Beth Underhill: Tsaag Valren, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jake Holden: Robert Thivierge, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- W. Stewart Wallace: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Cummins: Wwongbc, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- MacKenzie Entwistle: Jenn G from Seattle, WA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur A. C. Moore: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Taras: Urban Mixer (Raj Taneja), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Wycliffe Lowes Forster: Melvin Ormond Hammond (1876 – 1934), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Holmes: Michael from Calgary, AB, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Trent Cull: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Knoepfli: Fanny Schertzer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- PJ Haarsma: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Walter: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Chisholm: Unknown author , Published by Montreal Perrault Print. Co, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Donald Mann: Unknown; supplied to author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Roaf Barber: 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).