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Alex Dampier
born 1951Canadian hockey player and coach
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Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Nipigon, Ontario
Nipigon has just one famous person to its name: Alex Dampier
The Canadian hockey player and coach Alex Dampier was born in 1951. That places their birth between 1946 and 1969. One language has an article about them so far. Across Ontario, 386 towns list someone born there.
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Alex Dampier
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1951
Alex Dampier
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Nipigon
Questions about famous people from Nipigon
Who is the most famous person from Nipigon?
Alex Dampier (Canadian hockey player and coach) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Nipigon?
The list holds 1 born in Nipigon, each confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Nipigon known for?
Mostly athletes: 1 of the 1 people listed. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Nipigon?
The list takes people born within Nipigon’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?
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.
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).