Guest, Sign inJoin
Famous people · Waterdown, Hamilton

Most of the 9 famous people born in Waterdown came into the world between Confederation and 1913

Going by the number of languages that write about them, the Canadian ice hockey player Carter Verhaeghe is the best known. Close behind are Alexander Ingram Fisher and Bill Ricker. 3 of them were born since 1970. For every 10,000 residents the town has 3.8, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.

#1 best knownCarter VerhaegheSports · born 1995
+5more
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Carter Verhaeghe
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1870
George Davidson Grant
Youngest
2000
Morgan McAslan
Most common field
Military
3 people

What stands out about Waterdown’s famous people

★ What stands out · Through the years

When Waterdown’s famous people were born

The busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2 births.

Before ConfederationConfederation to the Great WarThe world warsPostwar yearsSince 19701850190019502000Alexander Ingram FisherCarter VerhaegheBill Ricker
MilitarySportsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineMusic

One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.

The best known

Born in Waterdown

Carter Verhaeghe#1
Sports

Carter Verhaeghe

born 1995

Canadian ice hockey player

9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
AF#2
Politics & Law

Alexander Ingram Fisher

1875–1943

Canadian politician

4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
BR#3
Science & Medicine

Bill Ricker

1908–2001

Canadian scientist

4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for

What Waterdown is known for

Compared with the usual town, soldiers and sailors are the most over-represented field, at 21.9 times.

For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.

Everyone

Everyone else born in Waterdown

The other 6 span the years 1870 to 2000.

Leo Clarke

Leo Clarke

1892–1916

Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross

DM

Douglas McGregor

1895–1953

Canadian aviator

George Davidson Grant

George Davidson Grant

1870–1915

Canadian politician

Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
BT

Barbara Thornborrow

born 1951

Canadian military personnel

Next door

Famous people from the towns next door

Close by, Burlington counts 108 famous people, the most of its neighbours.

Questions about famous people from Waterdown

Who is the most famous person from Waterdown?

Carter Verhaeghe (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Alexander Ingram Fisher and Bill Ricker.

How many famous people were born in Waterdown?

Of the 12 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.

What is Waterdown known for?

33% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 2%.

Who is the earliest-born famous person from Waterdown?

George Davidson Grant (1870). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2000.

Who counts as from Waterdown?

Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Waterdown’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out. 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?

The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.

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 (7)

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).