Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people from Machin
No entry yet names Machin as a birthplace. Just 14 km away, Kenora, Unorganized’s list holds 2 names, Richard Wagamese the best known. 386 towns in Ontario have at least one famous person on record. The longest list of any town in Ontario belongs to Toronto, with 4,724.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Machin’s municipal boundary and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Machin who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Machin
Questions about famous people from Machin
Who counts as from Machin?
The list takes people born within Machin’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes.
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 (1)
- Richard Wagamese: Dan Harasymchuk, 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).