FH#1
Sports
Floyd Hillman
1933–2020Canadian ice hockey defenceman
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Kingsville, Ontario
6 famous people call Kingsville their birthplace
Articles in 5 languages make the Canadian ice hockey defenceman Floyd Hillman the best known. Corbin Watson, the Canadian sledge hockey player, comes second, with Tracey Ramsey third. 3 of them are athletes, more than in any other field. From Ozzie Van Brabant to Corbin Watson, the births on the list run from 1926 to 1987.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Floyd Hillman
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1926
Ozzie Van Brabant
Youngest
1987
Corbin Watson
Most common field
Sports
3 people
What stands out about Kingsville’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Kingsville’s famous people were born
The 1930s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Kingsville
Athletes take two of the three places.
#2Sports
Corbin Watson
born 1987Canadian sledge hockey player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
TR#3
Politics & Law
Tracey Ramsey
born 1971Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Kingsville is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.3 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Kingsville
Here are 3 more, born from 1926 to 1949.
Randy Pettapiece
born 1949Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Leamington, at 28.
Questions about famous people from Kingsville
Who is the most famous person from Kingsville?
Floyd Hillman (Canadian ice hockey defenceman) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Corbin Watson and Tracey Ramsey.
How many famous people were born in Kingsville?
Wikidata counts 10 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Kingsville known for?
50% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Kingsville?
The earliest is Ozzie Van Brabant, born in 1926, and the latest birth listed is 1987.
Who counts as from Kingsville?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Kingsville’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), 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.
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 (4)
- Corbin Watson: Connormah, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Vivian Vanderpuss: DVSROSS, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Randy Pettapiece: Legislative Assembly of Ontario, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elijah McCoy: 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).