#1Carter Verhaeghe
born 1995Canadian ice hockey player
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
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.
The busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2 births.
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
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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.
The other 6 span the years 1870 to 2000.



No one matches both filters.
Close by, Burlington counts 108 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
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.
Of the 12 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
33% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 2%.
George Davidson Grant (1870). At the other end, the youngest was born in 2000.
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.
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).
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).