#1Film, TV & Stage
Jim Carrey
born 1962Canadian-American actor and comedian
127 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Newmarket, Ontario
Of the 67 famous people born in Newmarket, none is better known than Jim Carrey
127 languages have an article about the Canadian-American actor and comedian Jim Carrey. More than half were born since 1970, 42 in all. From Featherston Osler to Denver Barkey, the births on the list run from 1838 to 2005. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 7 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
67
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jim Carrey
127 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1838
Featherston Osler
Youngest
2005
Denver Barkey
Most common field
Sports
40 people
What stands out about Newmarket’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Newmarket
The three are covered in 127, 20 and 19 languages: Jim Carrey, Mazo de la Roche and Elvis Stojko.
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Writing & Arts
Mazo de la Roche
1879–1961Canadian writer
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Through the years
When Newmarket’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other ten years, 16 in all.
SportsFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineMusicNotableFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Newmarket is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.6 times as common.
The usual town is the share across everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Newmarket
The other 64 span the years 1838 to 2005.
Jan Dowling
born 1980Canadian-American college golfer, professional golfer, college golf coach
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Muriel Irwin MacDonald
1867–1918Canadian-born American newspaper and magazine editor
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 6.
Questions about famous people from Newmarket
Who is the most famous person from Newmarket?
The top name is Jim Carrey (Canadian-American actor and comedian), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Mazo de la Roche and Elvis Stojko.
How many famous people were born in Newmarket?
Wikidata has 89 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Newmarket known for?
That is 60% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Newmarket?
The earliest is Featherston Osler, born in 1838, and the latest birth listed is 2005.
Who counts as from Newmarket?
The list takes people born within Newmarket’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 (32)
- Jim Carrey: SHOWTIME, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elvis Stojko: Brad Hunter at https://www.flickr.com/photos/bradhuntersplanetcaravan/, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marcel de Jong: Tfcfan10, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Elliott: Dan4th (Dan4th Nicholas), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Markus Thormeyer: CBC Sports, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lawrence Hill: Nigel Dickson ; copyright: Lawrence Hill (work for hire), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Quinton Byfield: Ryan Tanner, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Jackson: Jeff Hitchcock from Vancouver, BC, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Belinda Stronach: Toby myrs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Travis Dermott: Nick Barden, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kurtis Gabriel: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Liam Draxl: Samuel Colmar, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David DiPlacido: Robin Glover, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hannah Georgas: Tabercil, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harrison Reed: Weatherman05071, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathan Ingham: Hayden Schiff from Cincinnati, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hobie Kitchen: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Max Ferrari: John Jacques, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Oulahen: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Victoria Pickett: Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Donald Davis: United Press International, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Justin Soryal: Benjamin Reed, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ken Rose: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Danielle Hanus: JD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Galloway: Matt_Galloway_November_2011_(1).jpg : Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung from Berlin, Deutschland derivative work: Skeezix1000, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michelle LaVallee: CristoCalderon, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Allan Pyne: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Connor McDavid: Connor Mah, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Nembhard: Steve Cheng, Bruin Report Online, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Pietrangelo: Johnmaxmena2, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keith Acton: Connor Mah, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Pulford: Ralston-Purina Company, maker of Chex cereals, 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).