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Danny Syvret
born 1985Canadian ice hockey defenceman
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Colborne, Hamilton
3 famous people were born in Colborne
At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey defenceman Danny Syvret, covered in 8 languages. The next two names are Corey Syvret and John Williams. The first birth on record is John Williams’, in 1977, and the last Corey Syvret’s, in 1989. For every 10,000 residents the town has 4, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Danny Syvret
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1977
John Williams
Youngest
1989
Corey Syvret
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Colborne
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Sports
Corey Syvret
born 1989Canadian ice hockey defenceman
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Central Business Dis has the most on record: 25.
Questions about famous people from Colborne
Who is the most famous person from Colborne?
The top name is Danny Syvret (Canadian ice hockey defenceman), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Corey Syvret and John Williams.
What is Colborne known for?
They make up 100% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Colborne?
John Williams (1977). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1989.
Who counts as from Colborne?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Colborne’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), 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. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the births recorded in it.
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 (3)
- Danny Syvret: Remy Connors, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Elop: luca.sartoni, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Jones: Hill & Adamson, 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).