WB#1
Politics & Law
William Alexander Baird
1867–1940Canadian lawyer and politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Laslovarga · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Carlisle, Hamilton
2 famous people were born in Carlisle from 1867 to 1972
The best known is the Canadian lawyer and politician William Alexander Baird, with articles in 3 languages. The list has one more: the Canadian ice hockey player Jeff Daw. The neighbour with the longest list is Burlington, 14 km away: 108, led by Katie Douglas. William Alexander Baird was born in 1867.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
William Alexander Baird
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1867
William Alexander Baird
Youngest
1972
Jeff Daw
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Carlisle
JD#2
Known for
What Carlisle is known for
1 of them work in Politics & Law, the biggest field.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
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Questions about famous people from Carlisle
Who is the most famous person from Carlisle?
By our measure the best known is William Alexander Baird (Canadian lawyer and politician); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Jeff Daw.
What is Carlisle known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 22%; here, 50%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Carlisle?
William Alexander Baird (1867). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1972.
Who counts as from Carlisle?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Carlisle’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), 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. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (4)
- Katie Douglas: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carter Verhaeghe: Arc1294, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Crooks: Notman & Fraser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Danny Syvret: Remy Connors, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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