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Douglas Crosby
born 1949Canadian Catholic prelate
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Marathon, Ontario
Marathon is the birthplace of 5 famous people
Douglas Crosby, the Canadian Catholic prelate, is the most widely known, written about in 8 languages. Second and third on the list are Sean Wirtz and Andrew Nerpin. 3 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. For every 10,000 residents the town has 15.5, while at least half the towns in Ontario list nobody born there.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Douglas Crosby
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1949
Douglas Crosby
Youngest
1986
Andrew Nerpin
Most common field
Sports
3 people
What stands out about Marathon’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Marathon’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1970s, with 2 people born in that decade.
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One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
The best known
Born in Marathon
Two of the three are athletes.
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Known for
What Marathon is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.6 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
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Everyone else born in Marathon
Still to come: 2 more, from 1968 to 1974.
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Questions about famous people from Marathon
Who is the most famous person from Marathon?
By our measure the best known is Douglas Crosby (Canadian Catholic prelate); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Sean Wirtz and Andrew Nerpin.
What is Marathon known for?
60% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Marathon?
Douglas Crosby (1949). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1986.
Who counts as from Marathon?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Marathon’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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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)
- Douglas Crosby: JFVoll, 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).