#1Sports
Dave Smith
born 1968Canadian ice hockey player and coach
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Mount Forest, Ontario
16 famous people from Mount Forest, many of them leaders
The best known is the Canadian ice hockey player and coach Dave Smith, with articles in 4 languages. Second and third on the list are Rae Luckock and Charles Evans. Most were born between Confederation and 1913: 10 of them. 3 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
16
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Dave Smith
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1852
William Henry Cushing
Youngest
1984
Jamie Rooney
Most common field
Politics & Law
13 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Mount Forest is known for
Mount Forest has 3.7× the usual share of leaders.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
The best known
Born in Mount Forest
#1
#2Politics & Law
Rae Luckock
1893–1972Canadian politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
CE#3
Politics & Law
Charles Evans
1882–1947Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Mount Forest’s famous people were born
Politics & LawNotableSports
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Mount Forest
The other 13 span the years 1852 to 1984.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Drayton has the most on record, with 5.
Questions about famous people from Mount Forest
Who is the most famous person from Mount Forest?
Dave Smith (Canadian ice hockey player and coach) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Rae Luckock and Charles Evans.
How many famous people were born in Mount Forest?
Of the 24 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Mount Forest known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 22%; here, 81%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mount Forest?
William Henry Cushing (1852). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1984.
Who counts as from Mount Forest?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Mount Forest’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
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 (7)
- Dave Smith: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rae Luckock: Speaker of the Ontario Legislative Assembly, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Albert McGuire: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Harris: Laurelrusswurm, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Norman Platt Lambert: Arthur Roy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Henry Cushing: William_Henry_Cushing.jpg : Unknown derivative work: NativeForeigner, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roger Martin: World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).