WG#1
Science & Medicine
William Giauque
1895–1982American chemist
59 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Niagara Falls, Ontario
109 famous people were born in Niagara Falls, more of them athletes than in most towns
The best known is the American chemist William Giauque, with articles in 59 languages. The largest group, 34, was born since 1970. James Thompson Garrow (1843) and Victor Pietrangelo (2002) mark the two ends of the list. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 9.6 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
109
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
William Giauque
59 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1843
James Thompson Garrow
Youngest
2002
Victor Pietrangelo
Most common field
Sports
68 people
What stands out about Niagara Falls’ famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Niagara Falls
#2Music
Deadmau5
born 1981Canadian electronic dance music producer
45 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Music
Vanity
1959–2016Canadian singer, songwriter, model, actress
21 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Niagara Falls’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1980s, with 16 births.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageMusicNotableBusiness
Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
Known for
What Niagara Falls is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.6 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Niagara Falls
Still to come: 106 more, from 1843 to 2002.
Edward Greenspan
1944–2014Canadian lawyer and prolific author of legal volumes
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
Bill Wilkerson
1942–2025Canadian journalist, business executive, and mental health advocate
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to St. Catharines, with 202.
Questions about famous people from Niagara Falls
Who is the most famous person from Niagara Falls?
William Giauque (American chemist) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Deadmau5 and Vanity.
How many famous people were born in Niagara Falls?
Wikidata places 162 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Niagara Falls known for?
62% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Niagara Falls?
James Thompson Garrow, born in 1843. The youngest on the list was born in 2002.
Who counts as from Niagara Falls?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Niagara Falls’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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 (43)
- Deadmau5: Haydn Curtis from New Zealand, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Vanity: Motown Records, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Dancevic: si.robi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Russell Teibert: Wwongbc, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Dallman: Андрей Чудаев, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Haslam: Federico Racchi, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jake Foy: Kyrani Kanavaros, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Nicholson: DoD, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Glumac: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Tibshirani: Tibshirani, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Derek Sanderson: Dan4th Nicholas from Cambridge, MA, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Greenspan: martinscriminalcode, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nelson Mason: TeamCMS, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Guarasci: Mauro_Pinton_e_Peter_Guarasci.JPG : Sars03 derivative work: Sars03, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gillian Robertson: MM-eh, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jennifer Blake: Tabercil, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Johnny Mowers: The Windsor Daily Star, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Van Loan: Estonian Foreign Ministry, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Nathaniel Dett: Unattributed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Terry O'Reilly: Boston Bruins / NHL, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jarrod Skalde: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Bedard: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe Fletcher: Антон Зайцев, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Justin Shugg: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecil de Blaquiere Howard: Marsange , Cecil Howard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Greg Kovacs: Gr84all, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Wiseman: Eurasia Group, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cathy Marie Buchanan: Cathymbuchanan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Agnew: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Geoffrey Ballard: Bradley Jones, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ray Barkwill: Warwick Gastinger, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Irwin: Philcheevers, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Baseggio: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sandro DeAngelis: DanM (Calgary), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah Rotella: Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Urquhart: MarielMarshall, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Thompson Garrow: William Cochrane (1831-1898) and John Castell Hopkins (1864-1923), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Diodati: Sandra Pupatello, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Vince Kerrio: Legislative Assembly of Ontario, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Hill: Toronto History, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Linda Evangelista: jusez from Hong Kong, China, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sabrina D'Angelo: BDZ Sports, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Allan MacNab: Théophile Hamel, 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).