#1Faith
Peter Joseph Hundt
born 1956Canadian Catholic bishop
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Hanover, Ontario
6 famous people were born in Hanover
At the top of the list is the Canadian Catholic bishop Peter Joseph Hundt, covered in 7 languages. Second place goes to the Canadian politician Eric Winkler, third to Ray Edwards. Over 102 years of births, the list goes from Alexander Maitland Stephen (1882) to Ryan Bester (1984). Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 6.9 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Peter Joseph Hundt
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1882
Alexander Maitland Stephen
Youngest
1984
Ryan Bester
Most common field
Sports
2 people
What stands out about Hanover’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Hanover’s famous people were born
The 1950s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
SportsWriting & ArtsFaithPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Hanover
#1EW#2
Politics & Law
Eric Winkler
1920–1995Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
RE#3
Known for
What Hanover is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 2.
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 Hanover
3 more names, born between 1882 and 1984.
Alexander Maitland Stephen
1882–1942Canadian poet and author who served in World War One
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Durham has the most on record: 14.
Questions about famous people from Hanover
Who is the most famous person from Hanover?
Peter Joseph Hundt (Canadian Catholic bishop) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Eric Winkler and Ray Edwards.
What is Hanover known for?
33% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Hanover?
The earliest is Alexander Maitland Stephen, born in 1882, and the latest birth listed is 1984.
Who counts as from Hanover?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Hanover’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?
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 (3)
- Peter Joseph Hundt: Basilica Heritage Foundation, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexander Maitland Stephen: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Diefenbaker: White House Photo Office, 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).