#1Business
Elias Disney
1859–1941Canadian entrepreneur, father of Roy Disney and Walt Disney
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Morris-Turnberry, Ontario
Morris-Turnberry counts 3 famous people, first among them Elias Disney
Best known of all is Elias Disney, written about in 11 languages. William Robert Rutledge and Adolf Lehmann follow. A short trip away, Wingham (6 km) counts 20 famous people, Alice Munro among them. Born in 1859, Elias Disney is the first name on record, and William Robert Rutledge, born in 1866, the most recent.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Elias Disney
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1859
Elias Disney
Youngest
1866
William Robert Rutledge
Most common field
Business
1 person
The best known
Born in Morris-Turnberry
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Politics & Law
William Robert Rutledge
1866–1948He was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1928 to 1933 from the electoral district of Burnaby, a member of the Conservative Party
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Science & Medicine
Adolf Lehmann
1863–1937Agricultural chemist from Canada
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Morris-Turnberry is known for
The largest field is Business, with 1 people.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
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Questions about famous people from Morris-Turnberry
Who is the most famous person from Morris-Turnberry?
Elias Disney (Canadian entrepreneur, father of Roy Disney and Walt Disney) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come William Robert Rutledge and Adolf Lehmann.
How many famous people were born in Morris-Turnberry?
Wikidata has 6 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Morris-Turnberry known for?
That is 33% of the town’s list, against 2% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Morris-Turnberry?
Elias Disney, born in 1859. The youngest on the list was born in 1866.
Who counts as from Morris-Turnberry?
The list takes people born within Morris-Turnberry’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?
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 (4)
- Elias Disney: K10wnsta, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Adolf Lehmann: Photographer unknown; Ontario Agriculture College, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alice Munro: MacDowell, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George M. Young: Harris & Ewing, 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).