JC#1
Politics & Law
Joe Comartin
born 1947Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Lakeshore, Ontario
6 famous people were born in Lakeshore from 1869 to 1997
At the top of the list is the Canadian politician Joe Comartin, covered in 4 languages. Behind the leader come Oliver James Wilcox and Drew Desjarlais. Joe Comartin was born in 1947. 2 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Joe Comartin
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1869
Oliver James Wilcox
Youngest
1997
Drew Desjarlais
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Lakeshore
Leaders take two of the three places.
OW#2
Politics & Law
Oliver James Wilcox
1869–1917Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Drew Desjarlais
born 1997American gridiron football player
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Lakeshore’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1940s, with 1 births.
Politics & LawSports
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Lakeshore is known for
Leaders stand out most, at 2.3 times the usual share.
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 Lakeshore
The other 3 span the years 1887 to 1989.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Tecumseh leads the towns around it, with 5 names.
Questions about famous people from Lakeshore
Who is the most famous person from Lakeshore?
Joe Comartin (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Oliver James Wilcox and Drew Desjarlais.
How many famous people were born in Lakeshore?
Wikidata places 15 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Lakeshore known for?
They make up 50% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lakeshore?
Oliver James Wilcox (1869). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1997.
Who counts as from Lakeshore?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Lakeshore’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?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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 (1)
- Drew Desjarlais: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 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).