#1Sports
Alex Pietrangelo
born 1990Canadian ice hockey player
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · King, Ontario
23 famous people were born in King, more of them leaders than in most towns
Articles in 20 languages make the Canadian ice hockey player Alex Pietrangelo the best known. 11 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. Only 81 of the 386 towns in Ontario with anyone on record list more. Henry Scholfield, born in 1866, is the earliest name and Zayne Parekh, born in 2006, the latest.
Born here
23
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Alex Pietrangelo
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1866
Henry Scholfield
Youngest
2006
Zayne Parekh
Most common field
Sports
11 people
What stands out about King’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When King’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other ten years, 5 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsMusicFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What King is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 1.8 times as common.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
The best known
Born in King
#1
#2Sports
Rosie MacLennan
born 1988Canadian trampoline gymnast
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Daniel Carcillo
born 1985Canadian ice hockey player
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in King
George Stewart Henry
1871–1958Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario, farmer and lawyer
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Henry Scholfield
1866–1935Canadian Conservative politician of the early 20th century
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Richmond Hill lists the most people: 63.
Questions about famous people from King
Who is the most famous person from King?
Alex Pietrangelo (Canadian ice hockey player) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Rosie MacLennan and Daniel Carcillo.
How many famous people were born in King?
Wikidata places 25 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is King known for?
That is 48% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from King?
The earliest is Henry Scholfield, born in 1866, and the latest birth listed is 2006.
Who counts as from King?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside King’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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 (13)
- Alex Pietrangelo: Johnmaxmena2, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rosie MacLennan: Madchester at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Carcillo: David Kindler from Oak Park, United States, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Boynton: Hockeybroad, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Stewart Henry: Lyonde, L., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brandon Burlon: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jon Brooks: Canadianredbird, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Ballard: Michael Ballard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Celebre: Abi Skipp, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Shortill: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Connor McDavid: Connor Mah, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Nembhard: Steve Cheng, Bruin Report Online, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook: Unknown author, 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).