Don McCulloch
born 1951Canadian ice hockey defenceman
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0At the top of the list is the Canadian ice hockey defenceman Don McCulloch, covered in 3 languages. The other is John Gray, the Canadian ice hockey player. The earliest on the list is John Gray, born in 1949, and the youngest Don McCulloch, born in 1951. In Ontario, 386 towns have someone on the list.
Canadian ice hockey defenceman
The top name is Don McCulloch (Canadian ice hockey defenceman), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come John Gray.
Wikidata counts 4 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
100% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
John Gray (1949). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1951.
Born inside Little Current’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
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.
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