#1Politics & Law
Wilfred Curtis
1893–1977Royal Canadian air force officer
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Havelock, Ontario
3 famous people were born in Havelock
The best known is the Royal Canadian air force officer Wilfred Curtis, with articles in 4 languages. Elmer Buchanan, the Canadian politician, comes second, with Tom Jamieson third. Within 16 km, Campbellford lists the most: 21, with Escott Reid first. For every 10,000 residents the town has 5.3, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Wilfred Curtis
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1893
Wilfred Curtis
Youngest
1946
Elmer Buchanan
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Havelock
Leaders take two of the three places.
#1EB#2
Politics & Law
Elmer Buchanan
born 1946Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
TJ#3
Sports
Tom Jamieson
1926–1993Canadian ice hockey player
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Havelock is known for
The largest field is Politics & Law, with 2 people.
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 Havelock
Who is the most famous person from Havelock?
Wilfred Curtis (Royal Canadian air force officer) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Elmer Buchanan and Tom Jamieson.
What is Havelock known for?
67% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Havelock?
Wilfred Curtis, from 1893; the most recent birth on the list is from 1946.
Who counts as from Havelock?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Havelock’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?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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 (3)
- Wilfred Curtis: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Escott Reid: Renate Patzek, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Henry Cooney: Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, 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).