#1Famous people · Grand Valley, Ontario
From 1876 to 1989, Grand Valley was the birthplace of 2 famous people
Jeremy Wick, the Canadian ice hockey player, is the most widely known, written about in 5 languages. The list has one more: the Canadian politician Thomas Miller. Nearby, Orangeville, 17 km away, lists 42, led by Edge. The longest list of any town in Ontario belongs to Toronto, with 4,724.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jeremy Wick
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1876
Thomas Miller
Youngest
1989
Jeremy Wick
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Grand Valley
#1#2Politics & Law
Thomas Miller
1876–1945Canadian politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Grand Valley is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 1 people.
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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Questions about famous people from Grand Valley
Who is the most famous person from Grand Valley?
Jeremy Wick (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Thomas Miller.
How many famous people were born in Grand Valley?
3 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Grand Valley known for?
50% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Grand Valley?
Thomas Miller (1876). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1989.
Who counts as from Grand Valley?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Grand Valley’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?
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 (3)
- Jeremy Wick: Fabien Perissinotto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Miller: Government of Saskatchewan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edge: zuko1312, 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).